The appointment was this Easter Sunday and, although many people were out of town for the Easter holidays, Quentin Tarantino fans did not miss the opportunity to see live to the director who knows the most about cinema.
The Coliseum Theater in Barcelona was the place of pilgrimage where Quentin Tarantino presented his first non-fiction book, cinematic meditations, an entertaining compendium of the 1970s films that would influence his fruitful career years later. After a promotional tour that took him to Los Angeles, New York, London or Paris, it was his turn to visit the Catalan capital.
The public that filled the premises was the most varied. There were families with their teenage children, many foreigners, and even an octogenarian who confessed her love for the Pulp Fiction director to this reporter. “I’ve been following him since he did it street dogs. He is one of my favorite directors,” she commented with a beer in hand.
Euphoria and gratitude
Drinks and popcorn to liven up a show that the use of cell phones is prohibited and which began with thunderous applause as Tarantino, clad in jeans and a white shirt, took the stage to discuss the book with critic Jordi Costa.
“Thank you, thank you for spending Easter Sunday with me. I hope it’s worth it “, he released euphoric in front of a dedicated audience that accompanied him for almost two hours – with intermission included – in a speech that was above all, a declaration of love to the cinema which he saw as a child and which marked the beginning of New Hollywood and the counterculture.
Still gesturing, Quentin Tarantino thanked his single mother for taking him to adult movies when he was just a kid. Other times he went to the rooms accompanied directly by his mother’s boyfriend on duty, mostly black and sporty.
Remembering “Bambi”
“I’ve watched a lot of creepy movies, but that doesn’t mean I enjoyed it, because I knew those images were part of a story.” Of course, if there is one film that has deeply traumatized him, it is Bambi. “He Destroyed many children for decades. I he wasn’t prepared for the forest fire or the death of the fawn’s mother”, explained Tarantino to the laughter of those present.
This was confessed by the man who has never been against explicit violence in his nine works to date. From the next and it is assumed that the last in the filmography of him The Movie Critic has not wanted to advance more than a film critic will deal and will be set in the seventies.
The author of Inglourious Basterds he referenced how much he liked Spanish horror films The residenceby Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, e The Bloody Brideby Vicente Aranda.
And of the two profiles of directors who saved American cinema: “The most anti-establishment group who made the most provocative films” with sam peckinpah in the lead, and the movie brats, those who trained in film schools and to which they belong Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma or Paul Schrader.
And he praised, among others, Shark, The sniper OR Taxi driver with a perfect Robert Deniro. “You see Travis through his eyes and understand the character.”
From his new profession, that of a writer, he hopes to profit by publishing more books. “I will definitely do another one on 80s movies and of the strangers I saw when I was young,” he rejoiced.
And he remembered Floyd, that black bum who became his mentor in 1978 and with whom he loved to chat about movies and music. “I have absorbed all the knowledge of him.” Definitely a Sunday with showman Tarantino that was worth it.
Source: Clarin
