Quentin Tarantino Is Thinking About Ending His Movie Making Career With “Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood”
It feels like every few years, the headline “Quentin Tarantino Hints At Retiring” squirts up like jizz out of Quentin Tarantino’s tip whenever he gets an alert that there’s a new entry on wikiFeet. In 2016, QT declared that he’d take his final bow as a movie director after his tenth film was made. Then in 2019, while doing promo for his ninth movie, Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood, QT let everyone know that he may be done with directing movies. And just in case we didn’t get it the first five hundred times he said it, QT is back to say that OUATIH would be a good movie to call his last because so many directors end their careers with a pile of cinematic shit. Cut to has-beens everywhere grabbing at QT’s legs while begging him to not go before Travolting their careers back from the dead!
QT’s nine movies include Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2, Grindhouse: Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and OUATIH. And on a recent episode of Pure Cinema Podcast that was devoted to the final films of directors, QT talked about how it’s a rare thing for a director to close the curtain on their career with a movie that doesn’t stain their legacy with a big, chunky, stinky skidmark. via Entertainment Weekly:
“Most guys have horrible last movies,” Tarantino said. “Usually their worst movies are their last movies. And that’s the case for most of the Golden Age directors that ended up making their last movies in the late ’60s and the ’70s, then that ended up being the case for most of the New Hollywood directors who made their last movies in the late ’80s and the ’90s.”
He went on to reference Bonnie & Clyde director Arthur Penn’s career trajectory as a prime example of his point: “The fact that Arthur Penn’s last movie is Penn & Teller Get Killed is, like, a metaphor for how crummy most of the New Hollywood directors’ last, last films were,” he explained. “So, to actually end your career on a decent movie is rare. To end it with, like, a good movie is kind of phenomenal. It’s just rare.”
OUATIH got 10 Oscar nominations and 2 Oscar wins (one for Brad Pitt for Best Supporting Actor and the other for Best Production Design). QT thinks that he’s risking going out with a dingle if he doesn’t end with OUATIH:
“I mean, most directors’ last films are fucking lousy,” Tarantino continued. “It’s making me think that maybe I should not make another movie because I could be really, really happy with dropping the mic on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Last year, 58-year-old QT told Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers that he’s getting too old for this shit and sees directing as a “young man’s game” since cinema is changing. And now that he’s got a kid and a wife, he’s more of a homebody and doesn’t see himself dragging his family off to another country to shoot another movie. So he may just focus on rubbing his creative bone in other ways like writing more books, or by doing a television series or theater project.
Since QT considers his two Kill Bill movies as one, I can see him not counting a third as his last movie, but not sure if Uma Thurman would be down for nearly being killed and abused again. And I’m not sure if the R-rated Star Trek movie he’s talked about doing would be considered his official last movie so that may be great news for tricks who really want to hear Sulu and Spock spit out the fuck word a zillion times. But if OUATIH is really QT’s last and he’s going to do theater stuff instead, then old theatergoing richies better practice clutching their pearls because they’ll definitely clutch their pearls after a sing-songy n-word hits their ears a million times and blood splatters against their face while watching Django Unchained Melody: THE FUCKING MUSICAL FUCKING EXTRAVAGANZA!!!!
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