S U N DA N C E Q U E N T I N
K I D,
TA R A N T I N O ‘S
U N D E N I A B L E . S E T T L ES,
H OW
U N C HAI N E D
M AV E R I C K ,
B U T
W I L L
T E L L S
W H E N
QT
B E
LWLI ES
S E A RC H E R,
I N FLU E N C E T H E
S H O OT I N G
R E M E M B E R E D? A B O U T
O N
H I S
T H E
Q U ES T
O U T L AW, C I N E M A S TO PS M A N FO R
S H E R I FF... H A S
A N D W H O
B E E N
T H E S H OT
D US T DJAN G O
C I N E- I M M O RTA L I T Y.
ne... two... three seconds. It‘s the
That kid will be 50 in a few months. He still picks
thing you least expect to come out of
the movies first. It‘s just that now the movies have
Quentin Tarantino‘s mouth: nothing.
become his Disneyland. “I am living a dream,” he
The question that‘s stopped him in
agrees. “I am ridicuously lucky. That boy who made
his tracks is the question we always
Reservoir Dogs wanted the life I live. I don‘t have to
ask. The only question that matters, really. Turn to the
pinch myself to wake up. I‘m doing it. It‘s a great
back page and take a look at his answer.
feeling. You know, I‘ve got a really nice house. And
Tarantino loves movies. He loves watching them. He loves reading about them. He loves writing about
every once in a while I walk around that nice house and I think, ‘Wow, my imagination bought this.‘”
them. He loves making them. And maybe most of all, he loves talking about them. But ask him to explain why – what is it you love about movies? – and the most
It‘s two decades since Reservoir Dogs saw a
famous motormouth in movieland has to stop and think.
29-year-old Tarantino swagger into our cinematic
always
consciousness – in slo-mo, with a kicky soundtrack
been my favourite artform, and favourite form of
behind him – and grip greatness between his teeth.
entertainment, since I was a little boy,” he tells
But with the enfant terrible of cine-cool on the brink of
LWLies. “If somebody was going to give me a cool
a half century and his Spaghetti Western riff Django
day where I could do whatever I wanted, usually
Unchained hitting cinemas, it‘s time for reflection.
“It‘s
funny,
because
movies
have
I would pick some R-rated movie that I couldn‘t
“Oh god, you get to 20 years and you can‘t help
see on my own. I was actually given that choice
but get reflective,” he says. “But now it seems like
once by an aunt: Disneyland? Magic Mountain?
the whole industry is building up around that. I‘m
‘I want to go see Blazing Saddles. And you‘ve
starting to get lifetime achievement awards, they‘re
got to take me to see Blazing Saddles!‘ They were
coming out with a big boxset of my movies and
like, ‘I can‘t believe that kid. He picked the movies
critical retrospectives of the work done so far... So
over Disneyland...‘”
it‘s all making me reflective about everything.”
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