yeah my heart sank when i heard that news (or rumor, rather). I really think that, regardless of the cast, if he did this movie I would stop being a Tarantino fan. I would still like the old stuff but wouldn’t really care what new stuff he does.
I know this post is several months later than the previous posts but I feel i’m going to give my 2 cents the January discussion about Death Proof and whether it was good. I think Death Proof is a great movie. It seems like people forget what it is, it’s Quentin’s take on b-movies. It can’t be fairly compared to Pulp Fiction or Kill Bill because those are A movies and where meant to be so. So it’s easy to write off any flaws of Death Proof, as it’s not supposed to be at the same level of quality of his previous films. The real disappointment is the failure of Grindhouse at the box office, people who weren’t Tarantino or Rodriguez fans just weren’t showing up. So Quentin wouldn’t be feeling down about Death Proof, but about Grindhouse, the collaboration between him and RR that they were so passionate about.
Like someone else brought up in the topic, in Charlie Rose interviews he pointed out that other directors started losing touch after a movie that they’re really passionate about is recieved poorly. He said that after this happens directors tend to release star vehicles for much of the rest of their career. So, if Inglorious bastards stars fucking Tom Hanks, George Clooney and Harrison Ford then fuck… the very thing that Tarantino said about the downfall of other directors will have happened to him.
I doubt that will happen though, because Inglorious Bastards is a project he’s very passionate about and has been planning through most of his directing career and he’s always said he doesn’t look for people on “the list”, but for whoever would be best for the part (which is usually someone off “the list”).
