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They read the program and hear a synopsis and that’s it, so it’s understandable that at a film festival that maybe this is not what they want to see and they have to leave,” Tarantino said.Īnd, considering the content of the movie (it was barred from home video until 1995 in the UK), there were plenty of walkouts.Īt one screening, Tarantino counted 33 walkouts in the middle of Mr Blonde’s iconic torture scene. “At a film festival screening sometimes people don’t know what they’re about to see. Reservoir Dogs became a hit after its premiere at Sundance Film Festival but that didn’t necessarily mean it was a hit at other festivals. The novel version of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which is not quite a “novelization,” hits stores on June 29th.IT’S been a whopping 25 years since Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs hit cinemas and the cast have reunited to reminisce about the cult classic.Īctors Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi and writer-director-actor Quentin Tarantino all got together at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival to remember how the dark heist became such a hit and reveal little known facts about the movie. You can watch the Maher-Tarantino debate in the video above. As Ruben from I Think You Should Leave would say, I think it’s a good idea, and I stand by. After all, he’d be in the same company as such luminaries as Hitchcock, Ford, Ozu, Hawks, and Michael Mann. In other words, not only should Tarantino not retire, he should remake the one that started it all, showing how much he’s changed by dramatically reworking it, maybe even losing some of the iconic bits (the ear scene, “K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the ’70s”), just for fun. Takedown, six years later, into no less than Heat.
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And Michael Mann expanded his 1989 TV movie L.A. Tarantino favorite Howard Hawks remade the screwball Ball of Fire as the musical A Song is Born. In 1959, Yasujiro Ozu remade 1934’s The Story of Floating Weeds as, simply, Floating Weeds, and 1932’s I Was Born, But… as Good Morning. John Ford turned his 1934 Will Rogers vehicle Judge Priest into 1953’s The Sun Shines Bright. Hitchcock redid The Man Who Knew Too Much, in 19. Plenty of great filmmakers have remade their own movies. “I have actually considered doing a remake of Reservoir Dogs as my last movie,” he said, laughing. When Maher asked him if he thought he could make it even better, he replied that the movie, released in 1992, was “a captured-time-in-a-moment kind of thing.” He then dropped a big reveal. “If you were making Reservoir Dogs tomorrow, would you make the exact same movie?” Maher asked him. Maher, in trying to convince him that he was still evolving as a film director, asked him about his debut feature. Maybe - who knows! - it even made him change his mind.īut there was one tidbit Tarantino squeezed in at the end of their debate - one idea it doesn’t seem he’d ever made public before. On Friday, to promote his new novel version of the film, Bill Maher did his best to talk him out of this, and given that the normally hyper-articulate Tarantino was left stammering, flinging off excuses his host quickly debunked. Recently he’s teased that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, his ninth, could be his swan song. At one point he swore he’d only make ten movies. But there’s one promise he’s seemed adamant about keeping: He wants to retire from filmmaking early. Quentin Tarantino is infamous for promising things he never delivers.