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January 26, 2007
Quentin does what Quentin does: in the third person
Grindhouse gets the Sunday NYTimes treatment from Whitney Joiner, who speaks to directorial duo Robert Rodriguez about Planet Terror and Quentin Tarantino about Death Proof. Much lurid detail about the 1970s exploitation tribute, plus a de rigeur Tarantino quote. The theatrical versions will have missing reels, in a tribute to the chopped-up prints of the crappy movies that the director of Jackie Brown loves and collects. "My whole thing is to play with the audience," Tarantino tells the Times. "I guarantee you, when it pops up 'Missing Reel,' the entire theater is going to scream. They might very well be screaming my name: 'Quentin, you bastard! We hate you!" In the piece, Tarantino avers that the movie has "some of the best dialouge I've ever written in my life"; he sent it to Bob Dylan, who he thought might "appreciate the wordplay," but hasn't heard back. [My own encounter with Q3 was during interviews for Jackie Brown, when Tarantino told me, "All this time there was all these articles, what's Quentin doing, what's Quentin doing, when's Quentin gonna do something else? Well, Quentin was writing, okay? Quentin was doing what Quentin does, all right?"]
Posted by Ray Pride at January 26, 2007 11:59 AM
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