If I say that Quentin Tarantino is God’s greatest gift to movie-making, I will not be exaggerating.
He is an angel sent to save so many things and to give a new form to many older faces. Tarantino is not just a director, he is a writer as well and an excellent one at that. His films have a strong visual appeal and at the same time his dialogs are nothing less than literature.
Tarantino has made us remember the B-Class that has always entertained us and has always gone unacknowledged. He has given us not only immortal characters but different immortal worlds that one desperately wants to visit.
There is no other man in film-making business that is so open to new ideas and presents them so well.
He is coherent in his own way but when you oblige him to be coherent, he says “Coherence, What’s that shit?” But in the end once again what you get is a masterpiece.
The cinematography of his films is such that you get hypnotized just as you get hypnotized by McDonald’s logo when you are really hungry. It gives his films a tasty feeling as if you were not watching a movie but eating the “Big Kahuna Burger”.
Just like his films are homage to older genres, he is homage to Hollywood itself.
This is a good idea, profiling directors of note. But I take exception to the statement you made earlier (Oliver Stone post), that films are the directors work. Firstly because the director is one of a huge crew, while the writer is the solitary founthead. Secondly, present day studio film-making, around the world, dictates the movies and not the director. The cncept of the 'auteur' in cinema, a director who is like the author, is all but dead. I cannot distinguish one directors films from another's anymore. People like Tarantino and Stone (I follow the earlier, but have not been able to follow much of the latter) are auteurs, but they are a handful.
ReplyDeleteIn a way, maybe that's why I was disappointed with Inglorious, because i felt it didn't have enough in it that announces loud and clear "This is a Tarantino work". But that's just my selfish expectation as a viewer.
I agree with you that these masters are very few, but they are still there and I had to think a lot to start. These few are the ones who are worth writing about. Others are just nothing. Although, I still maintain that Tarantino's best work remains Inglourious. But that again can be just my selfish opinion as a viewer :)
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