This guys such a dork with his "I'm only making 10 movies" nonsense.
He's on record for not wanting to be some 'past it' director or 'tarnishing' his precious reputation. Get over yourself! Every movie has it's fans.
I have so much more respect for directors who churn movies out like clockwork. For the love of it.
We didn't want it to be his last film, either.
How do you get around that? Well...
...BY NOT MAKING IT YOUR LAST FILM.
QT certainly seems to have "boxed himself in" with his contention that a lot of great directors ran out of gas in their final 10 to 20 years of making films as "old men."
It is TRUE that in "the Golden Age," directors like John Ford, Howard Hawks, Frank Capra, Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock seemed to inevitably decline with their movies looking like the works of "old men."
But those men were born in the early 20th Century and were subject to bodies that didn't last as long as today and health care and exercise regimens not in existence as of today. Also Ford and Hitchcock were heavy drinkers.
Hitchcock, by the way, made one of his best pictures and got a hit two movies from the end: Frenzy in 1972.
Anyway, QT's "backwards look" at Hitchcock, Wilder, Ford and Hawks doesn't work so well with Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood(as a director) or Martin Scorsese. Those guys are all in good health and going strong in their 70s, 80's and 90s.
Or is QT right after all? Despite their Oscar nominations, Scorsese's The Irishman and Killer of the Flower Moon are considered very overlong movies(versus Taxi Driver and Raging Bull) and not up to par with Scorsese's classics. Spielberg in some ways "tapped out" with Saving Private Ryan and has made a lot of flops since then. The director whose movies EVERYBODY used to see now makes movies that BARELY ANYBODY SEES.
So maybe QT is still right.
No matter. All he's done by cutting himself off at 10 movies is to let the world know of all these other possible QT movies that will never be made, including a Star Trek movie and a Kill Bill sequel. He's leaving a lot on the table. It feels like a cheat.
I think the dynamics change as you get older. QT is getting older but I wouldn't say he's OLD old yet, he's only 62. I think some of where he's coming from is that he wants to use his final decades to focus on other aspirations, like writing novels and theatrical plays. I don't think anyone has a problem with that, but the "10 movies only" thing has made his 'retirement' seem pretty ridiculous. I think it would be far more reasonable for QT say he was done "for now", write some books and a play or two, then return after a decade with another great film idea.
Scorsese is one of the few directors who I think have been the mold of old directors making bad movies (I think The Irishman, Silence, and Killers are amongst his best works) and Spielberg, R. Scott, Eastwood, and Hitchcock all made at least a few good movies in their 70's
Maybe now time to dust off the Trek script
https://moviechat.org/tt7713358/Untitled-Quentin-Tarantino-Star-Trek-Project/5feb3fbd61fb8d413a388fa4/What-kind-of-stuff-did-do-you-expect-from-Tarantinos-Trek
It's so dumb. He's obsessed with the idea of ten great films (ten by fudging the numbers) and hasn't realised that different films appeal to different people and opinions on films change over time. He's in a position where he can make whatever he wants and it will get funded and people will watch it. He should be beyond caring about awards or box office or what people think. He can do passion projects like this, films that push boundaries, experimental films, anything. Instead he seems to be fixated on having a perfect legacy to the point of ruining his legacy because it's become all a bit too safe.
shareIt's so dumb. He's obsessed with the idea of ten great films (ten by fudging the numbers)
I think he's going to fudge it again somehow when his next film is forgettable or he will be too obsessed with getting if perfect that he’ll never do it.
shareIkr, in a recent interview Ridley Scott was asked about this and he was laughing at the ridiculousness of Quentin saying hes doing 10 and done and quitting at like age 60. he was like there's no way he won't make more movies lol
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