Quentin Tarantino made a visit to Cannes this week to advertise a particular screening of the grindhouse traditional “Rolling Thunder” and current the Grand Prix on the pageant’s award ceremony. He took the chance to mirror on his lengthy historical past with the Cannes Film Competition, which helped elevate him into the stratosphere when he gained the Palme d’Or for “Pulp Fiction” in 1994.
Chatting with Deadline, Tarantino recalled the pageant’s considerations in regards to the violence in “Reservoir Canines,” which screened out of competitors at Cannes in 1992. He claims that the pageant added an unprecedented content material warning to each “Reservoir Canines” and “Pulp Fiction” — then stopped utilizing them when European filmmakers like Lars von Trier began matching Tarantino’s shock worth.
“They invented one thing for our screening that they’d by no means carried out earlier than, they put an orange sticker within the ticket that mentioned: This film could also be too violent so that you can watch,” he mentioned. “And so they’d by no means carried out that earlier than and so they ended up placing the identical sticker on ‘Pulp Fiction’ when it performed right here in 1994. After which sooner or later with Lars von Trier they stopped placing the sticker on.”
It stays to be seen whether or not Tarantino’s upcoming final film, “The Film Critic,” can be violent sufficient to require a warning. The director recently explained that the movie can be a fictionalized story about an actual movie critic he used to learn in a pornographic journal when he labored at an grownup movie show.
“All the opposite stuff was too skanky to learn however then there was this porno rag that had a extremely fascinating film web page,” Tarantino mentioned. “He wrote about mainstream motion pictures and he was the second-string critic. I believe he was an excellent critic. He was as cynical as hell. His opinions had been a cross between early Howard Stern and what Travis Bickle could be if he had been a movie critic. Take into consideration Travis’ diary entries.”
He continued: “However the porno rag critic was very, very humorous. He was very impolite, you already know. He cursed. He used racial slurs. However his shit was actually humorous. He was as impolite as hell. He wrote like he was 55 however he was solely in his early to mid-30s. He died in his late 30s. It wasn’t clear for some time however now I’ve carried out some extra analysis and I believe it was it was issues as a result of alcoholism.”
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