Tarantino's next movie
I want an homage to the films of Jean Renoir, mostly because I know he’s a big fan and I see a lot of Renoir’s style (however different it may be from the final product) in his work. They both use fairly minimalist shots that manage to embrace a sense of the personality of each character within them.
Hey, if you’re a big Tarantino fan, you should check out the films of Seijun Suzuki (1, 2), as he is a HUGE influence on both the Coens and Tarantino. Films like Miller’s Crossing and Reservoir Dogs owe him a great amount of credit, especially in the case of Suzuki’s film, “Branded to Kill”: http://www.criterion.com/films/576-branded-to-kill. Plus, 4 of his films, including the one I just mentioned, are on Netflix Instant Play.
I’d like to see him tackle a genre and minimize the obvious visual homages to other films. it would be nice to see if he can handle a drama that doesn’t rely upon gimmicks to drive the narrative.
He might as well try a musical.
He already did a spaghetti western. It’s called INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS.
I don’t want him to do any more. He’s done enough.
i’d like to see him do something without any hint of comedy
that “southern” about slaves that was in talks i want to see . Samuel L. Jackson or Denzel Washington would
be cool in the lead, Brandon T. Jackson, Mike Epps, John Witherspoon, Don Curry, Dick Gregory too would be perfect for Tarantinos foul mouthed dialogue.
I’d like to see him do a Yakuza film.
return to the crime genre and make a gangster picture- rise and fall
wasn’t Kill Bill vol.1 partially yakuza film?
I guess I mean something more along the lines of Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction. Something that takes itself a little bit more seriously.
Okay. If we’re going to go in that direction (re: taking things seriously), then I do have something to offer. I would like for Tarantino to, the next time he has such a tense, suspenseful, dramatic, and disturbing story for a movie like he did with Shoshanna and Hans Landa hunting each other through German-occupied France, that he not throw the opportunity for possibly his greatest work away by forcing his b-movie sensibilities to be stapled in as completely unnecessary, idiotic, asshole caricatures running around the woods hooting and hollering and bashing heads in. What I want to see Tarantino do, considering people’s admiration of his dialog and the control he does have over tension in a scene, is to make a straight-laced drama. I know he can do it, I know that may not be what he wants to do, but I still feel it would be the best thing for him to achieve.
Edit: just for clarification, by “straight-laced drama” I don’t mean making a nice slow melodrama, I mean cutting the Basterd fat and leaving the Shoshanna/Landa meat. It can still have his sensibilities, humor, and everything else that makes him good, just non-sensical (and not even committed to) giallo titles over an anachronistic score inserted into a useless scene that introduced characters that never should have been a part of the story just because he’s Tarantino and that’s what we expect of him. Same movie, less Pitts, just a few scenes to be adjusted for continuity and you’re gold—a probable but never-extant masterpiece, oh well, tata, at least we get an interesting burning set piece at the end.
—PolarisDiB
I know he’s making Kill Bill Vol. 3, but he wants it to come out in 2014.
I don’t know what it’s about, but I’d wager a guess Vernita Green’s daughter comes after her for revenge.
i saw someone mentioned a spaghetti western… here’s a still from SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO with Tarantino in an awkward role…
I’d like to see a return to a character-driven, real world adult issues oriented crime drama like he made with Jackie Brown. That is a fabulous movie, and it’d be nice for him (and for me) if he could produce an intelligent, not overly-stylized, mature drama like that again.
As long as the script is good and there are some laughs I’ll watch practically anything he releases. He is like the “Hitchcock” of exploitation.
Last I heard, he wanted to do a movie about the underground railroad in the style of the western. It makes me wonder how he is going to handle it. All of his movies so far have been about people sitting around talking about popular culture, even Inglourious Basterds which was set in Nazi-occupied France. Will there be slave-runners rhapsodizing about Mark Twain and “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?
I think his point in Basterds was to make a movie that both Germans and Jews could find interest and entertaining at the same time. I think he wanted to do the same thing about racism because riducule often works better. Racists won’t watch it but non-racists on either side will laugh and be entertained. I don’t think we’ll see a “Schindler’s List” from Tarantino in this lifetime and I’m okay with that.
SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO – he did look awkward didn’t he, I had fun with this movie :):)
He’s mad about Ozploitation, maybe he’ll come downunder with a great script 
@ Brady thanks for that info I really like learning about who influenced who…will check it out
a genre film about slavery sounds very cool. I don’t think it was done ever before.
“I mean cutting the Basterd fat and leaving the Shoshanna/Landa meat. It can still have his sensibilities, humor, and everything else that makes him good”.
I agree with just about everything you said about the movie Polaris. The Basterds material within the movie was all on a spectrum of okay at best (maybe one very funny moments…the half-assed Italian accents) to distractingly cringe-worthy at worst. The real crime being that the material it distracted from was actually some of the best I’ve ever seen from any director. In spite of its numerous crappy digressions (mercifully they were usually brief), the whole experience still landed in the top of my list for last year’s viewings. Like, ARMY OF SHADOWS good.
The contrast between Tarantino’s incredibly failed comedic moments and his apparent mastery of dramatic tension was quite surprising to me, but still made me positively re-evaluate his abilities and potential, which I’d never really thought twice about beforehand. Then I finally got around to watching JACKIE BROWN. And it ruled. So, yeah, whether it stems from just bad judgement, a lack of confidence, or most likely a much more smart-alecky sensibility than mine, I really hope Tarantino at some point makes a drama in which he plays it straighter.
I hope the next movie he does he films all of the script, cause for basterds he left some good shit out and I was peeved when I saw it in theaters and some stuff was missing
outside of a Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer western I would rather he not do anything or do something uncharacteristic (since his bloated genre films are 10 times duller than the films they ape) like a kid’s movie or a rom com
All these suggestions sound as appealing as Godard making an action film.
I would love a Godard action film
he was a big fan of Cannon action films (Missing in Action in particular)
^That needs a citation, Den, in order for me to believe you.
Yeah, I’m sorry but the vast majority of these suggestions are asking Tarantino to remove everything that makes him the director who he is so he can ‘prove’ to them that he’s a good director based on their standards/tastes. The only thing I would really care to see would be for him to tackle the other genre movies like Science Fiction or Romance or a Musical. Hell, he’d probably combine all of those three.
I want him to do an original movie musical.
Malik,
I understand what you’re saying, and to a degree I agree.
However, when you compare Pulp Fiction to Inglourious Basterds ….
Sorry. Let me restart.
When I compare Pulp Fiction to Inglourious Basterds, I see a former movie that had Tarantino’s sensibilities on display with a world, characters, storyline, dialog, and direction that all supported each other and worked. In other words, though made out of pop culture and obscure references, filled with his typical characters, having his deranged sensibilities, and so on, it still worked entirely on its own as a self-sustained movie that in no way requires referent to Tarantino’s presence behind the camera or b-movie appeal. When I look at Inglourious Basterds, I don’t think the Basterds themselves even fit into the very movie that’s ostensibly titled after them! And when you see that the exact same movie has a very Tarantino sensibilitied, but vastly more important, suspenseful, engaging story at its core (my opinions of course), I wish Tarantino didn’t get in the way of what Tarantino is capable of. I do not consider that holding him up to a non-Tarantino, derivitive standard of “correct filmmaking”, I consider that holding him up to a standard of making movies we’re actually supposed to enjoy too, not just him.
In other words, Pulp Fiction was a great joke that had us all laughing and enjoying ourselves. Inglourious Basterds was a joke where Tarantino laughed while we watched. This is the direction he’s been trending since Kill Bill (which over time I’m beginning to feel should have been his last directly homage pastiche film, until he went back to doing what he did before, integrating his sensibilities), and one day I sort of wonder if he’s going to laugh, notice that we’re not in on the joke, and either get upset with us for not “getting it” or assume it’s because we’re stupid. You know what I’m saying?
—PolarisDiB
SuperAndyBenge
What do you think quentins next movie will be about and what genre should he delv into next, I would love to see a spaghetti western, that would be awesome, thoughts please!!