Quentin Tarantino has been making the rounds of international press in support of his “Cinema Speculation” book tour. Most recently, he gave an interview to the Spanish publication Diari ARA in which he discussed how one of his only box office flops undermined his faith as a film director.
That disaster would be Quentin Tarantino‘s stuntman action-thriller “Death Proof,” which starred Kurt Russell and was released in the United States as a part of the movie “Grindhouse.”
Planet Terror, written by Robert Rodriguez, constituted the other half. In comparison, the standalone release of “Death Proof” only brought in $30 million from global markets while the “Grindhouse” release brought in $25 million.
According to an interview that Tarantino gave to a publication, he said, “I have been fortunate enough to write stories that have connected with many people, and this has allowed me to practice my art without the restrictions that most filmmakers have.”
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“Now, a strange thing happened: for a time I was getting a lot of project proposals, until the studios ended up thinking that I do my stories, and it wasn’t worth the effort.”
“Now, a curious thing happened: for a while I was getting a lot of project proposals. But after the movie ‘Death Proof,’ which didn’t do well at the box office and was a bit of a blow to my confidence, I started getting proposals again.
“They must have thought, ‘Perhaps now he’s touched and his temper has gone down, now is the time,'” Tarantino continued. “Perhaps now he’s touched and his temper has gone down, now is the time.”
“And there’s absolutely no problem with making movies that Hollywood commissions you to make. They consistently presented me with exciting opportunities to work on. On the other hand, I chose to reinvest in myself by making the film “Inglourious Basterds.”
The director stated in an interview with Empire magazine in 2021 that he had overestimated the excitement that audiences would have for a double feature release such as “Grindhouse.”
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Tarantino was quoted as saying at the time, “With ‘Grindhouse,’ I think me and Robert just felt that people had a little more of a concept of the history of double features and exploitation movies,” “No, they didn’t,” we said. At all.
They had no clue what the hell they were looking at on the screen. What we were doing meant absolutely nothing to them in any way, shape, or form. Clearly, this was a situation in which one had a bit too much coolness for school.
However, with regard to the film that is currently being shown in England, I believe that people have accepted it well.
During his conversation with Diari ARA, the director brought up the fact that his films do not contain any scenes depicting sexual activity or nudity. There isn’t a lot of sexual content in Tarantino’s body of work, with the exception of “Jackie Brown,” which features Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda making out.
Tarantino once remarked, “It’s true, sex is not a part of my vision of cinema,” and he meant it. “And the honest fact is that, in real life, it is difficult to film sex scenes because everyone is so nervous.
And even if it was even a little bit difficult to do it in the past, it is considerably more difficult to do it now. I would have included a sexual encounter in the story if it had ever been necessary to do so for the plot, but up to this point, it hasn’t been required.”
In “The Movie Critic,” which will be Tarantino’s tenth and final feature film directed, the director is planning on getting production underway in the fall. Tarantino has stated that the movie will focus on a male film critic, despite persistent reports to the contrary that the 1970s-set picture was motivated by Pauline Kael, who was a film critic at the time.
