Neal Damiano
@NealD · 3:16
Happy birthday Quentin Tarantino. Posing this question is he an overhyped film hack or brilliant cinema auteur? What are your favorite films of his?
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Hello, everybody. It's Neil D. Back again with another film segment on Film Talk. Today is one of my favorite directors birthdays, Quentin Jerome Tarantino. So I thought I would pose this question. Is Quentin Tarantino an overhyped sensationalized film hack who copies other directors, or is he hack, hack, hack, hack, hack, hack, hack, hack, hack, hack, hack or brilliant cinema auteur? What has been a debate for many years in the film community?
If you look at his latest movie, The Last Bunch Upon A Time in Hollywood, I was fortunate enough to watch it in his theater, the one that he has in La and the whole ambience set up in that theater and posters and everything out there, it really delivers to the whole experience of filmmaking. And then if you watch the whole movie, you watch the end of it, that whole cathartic experience that you get at the end, it's something only he could deliver
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 1:33
Brad Pitt DiCaprio. What was that? Margarobi. Yeah. So I was so excited about that movie, but it was just nasty. I didn't like it. I didn't like it really. Frankly, I didn't like it
But so much of my opinion about movies is because I was exposed to Tarantino's filmmaking at a pretty early age, so I have to give him credit for that. I do think my favorite film of his is in Glorious Bastards, followed by Reservoir Dogs, but I feel like I'm honestly kind of nitpicking. I love the both of them just so much
So I also want to post an image of what the poster looks like for the theater. So when you go, one theater maybe holds like 100 people. And Quentin Tarantino does meet and greets there. He does midnight screenings. So I went and I saw Pulp Fiction at midnight there. When I was in high school, I went and saw the premiere of Mystery Team, which was Donald Glover's movie Childish Gambino
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 0:16
God. Now I feel bad for you. Oh, no, you just. You literally are someone who's going to Tarantino. I mean, you are someone about Tarantino. That was that happened? Could Lord
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 2:20
I mean, you look at the stars that are in the movie, and you're, like, wondering what he could have achieved with those stars. And what has he done, really? But that's just me, in my opinion. And I completely respect yours. So it's okay. We can agree to disagree. And there's no problem with that. Let's just agree to disagree with on that. But like I said, I love these movies. I've always loved this movie
Or maybe I would have had a very different cinematic experience if I had gone into the movie without that context. So I don't know if you are watching it as completely clean slate or you are watching it with expecting certain things to happen in the movie because it changes the movie for you completely. So just my two cent for me. I think knowing that context made a whole lot more special to me, then it might have otherwise
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 0:45
True. True. Very true. That could be one of the reasons why, yes. I don't know the history, the background of it. Like I said, I'm not a movie buff. Like, you guys are more into documentaries and TV series. I get a lot. I don't get a lot of time to actually watch movies. So, yeah. What do you expect from a doctor? Really? That's my routine. That's how I live
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:47
I think people were expecting a typical Tarantino film where mostly he's known for Seventies references and homages and savvy, witty, clever dialogue and pop culture references. This was a timepiece, and Tarantino wanted to capture that time in Hollywood, and for the most part, I think he nailed it
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:33
I really enjoyed that one, but his whole line of work, even his story in Four Rooms, which is kind of a rip of Hitchcock episode. But I did like his story in there with The Gamblers and just some of the other work he's done too. I just think he's a super talented guy and he's just so influential and I think we feel the same way about him. So I'm glad you enjoy his movies as much as I do
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 1:44
I know one at Con, the one the Palm Dior, which is definitely deserving. But yeah, it just was very innovative. And it's one of my favorite Tarantino films I recently saw a few years ago at the Yale Humanities Center for the Yale Film Society, and I enjoyed it just as much as the first time I saw it. It's just a really clever film, and the vignettes in it are fantastic
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:21
They can't get over the fact that, yeah, he does pay homage to a lot of directors that he's fans of. Some people may say copies, but I say it's heavily influenced by he does tend to do that. But every director is influenced by another director and uses it in their film making. That's a part of the filmmaking process. We all have our influences, and he's known for dialogue, but that's his style of filmmaking
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:25
It's one of my all time favorite series. I can watch it again and again and once upon a time in Hollywood. So I watched it without the context. But I went then I came back and read upon Wikipedia about the background of what he was referring to. And once I read that then, as I thought through the movie, it just completely settled in me. And I was like, oh, my God, he was just brilliant. He was just brilliant
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 1:36
You pretty much nailed it, brother. This is exactly what I was trying to say yesterday, and I have got nothing against the movie or the way it was directed or it was just I was maybe you know, what I said was I'm not a movie buff like you guys, I don't go into the details of in depth, like all the in depth analysis that goes into the movies and making of it
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:01
Hi Suda. I appreciate the feedback. Yeah. Tarantino is a student of film. He's probably one of the most knowledgeable people on this Earth in cinema. The man knows his craft, and it comes through in his films. And his influences come through majorly in all of his films. And the Kill Bill series is definitely influenced by the Saturday matinee Kungfu flicks on Saturday Mornings, The Drunken Master, The Express, those kind of films shine through
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