Quentin Tarantino's Western movie "Django Unchained"

yeah but still, dude's been out of the game

wikipedia says men in black 3, bad boys 3 and some pharaoh movie are on his plate tho

he's busy being a dad, just enjoying taking his kids to school in the morning

doubt very much that will smith will agree to be in a tarantino movie

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:01 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

tarantino is more comfortable with the n-word than smith for one thing

― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:01 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

great point. there's also the fact that will smith has his people rewrite any movie he's in; nobody rewrites tarantino. plus the role is for a SLAVE which i doubt he'll be comfy with.

he does seem to like money though, and has he been in any $$$$$$ pictures lately?

― iatee, Tuesday, May 10, 2011 12:04 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

you'd be amazed by how much money even shit like Seven Pounds makes

there's also the fact that will smith has his people rewrite any movie he's in; nobody rewrites tarantino.

think tarantino surrenders final cut & considers comments from his producers?, iirc. according to jon rosenbaum i think.

he does seem to like money though, and has he been in any $$$$$$ pictures lately?

What are we considering "lately?" I Am Legend was 2007 and made over $250 million + in the US alone. Hancock made over half a billion worldwide, and Seven Pounds made over $160 million on a budget a third of that. Since then he's been exec-producing his kids' careers and getting good return on his investment.

tarantino really surrenders final cut? that's surprising. i can believe that he'd take comments, but not that he'd let will smith steamroll him.

I'd be willing to bet that Tarantino has had more plastic surgery than Will Smith. Which is weird since looking good isn't even Tarantino's job.

this was from a long & convoluted description of 'what constitutes indepedent filmmaking', with the eventual criterion being owning your own prints. it's a while since i read this (in rosenbaum's (great) dead man book?, perhaps?), so don't take it as gospel, but it seemed sorta persuasive at the time.

during a Q&A for Grindhouse, someone asked Tarantino about Biskind's Down & Dirty Pictures bk and he made a point, unprompted, of v v strongly refuting the claim that he ever let the Weinstein bros have ANY input into his scripts.

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Hi Sarah

Thank you for your very lovley letter. It's the best letter I've gotten all year long. I'm glad you loved "Dusk", it was one of my favrote times making a movie. And I feel my best performance so far. It's cool to hear a girl into horror flicks.

Rock on Sarah!!

Do you know about Itallion horror film maker Mario Bava? He did Blood and Black Lace, Black Sunday and Black Sabbith. He's one of my favrotes. I read your letter to Mira, she loved it too. Write me anytime. I can't wait for you to get your hands on a camera too.

With all my love

(Signed)

P.S. Sarah, since you liked Dusk so much, coming out soon is a movie we did about the making of "Dusk" called "Full Tilt Boogie". It shows how much fun we had. I hope you like it.

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<3

idgi

a girl named sarah wrote him a fan letter abt 'dusk til dawn'

that is his response

right

problem solved.

also included

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maybe I should have clarified that idgi - do you think these are funny or something?

no, i just think they're sweet.

quentin otm abt mario bava

do you think these are FUNNY or something, BIG HOOS??

Movie Prediction: Characters have a long conversation about something esoteric. Then someone dies creatively. Then a comic book style spaghetti western montage. Rinse and repeat

*dies creatively*

definitely going to a barefooted woman riding a horse at some point.

someone gonna be a taboo kind of evil at some point

maybe necrophilia

he'll really never run out of shit movies to quasi-remake or room to disappear further up his own asshole

because his asshole

it so so big

^dialogue from Chinese washerwoman character in Django Unchained

as a handwriting nerd I find QT's handwriting just a tad disturbing ...

but also might just be "dude who has been writing on computer/typewriters for most of adult life" lol

i sort of assumed it was "dude writing an excitable letter in the style of a 13 year old girl"

nah his handwriting always looks like that (and his writing always reads like that)

Found the script online and am reading away. Crazy - but so was the IG script I thought and the final film stuck fairly close to it. All I gotta say at this juncture is - would be shocked n' amazed if Will Smith actually signs on to do this as written. The "yessuh"'s, etc are the least of it.

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^^ Will's trailer in NYC

oh

people kept saying 'will smith's trailer' and i thought they meant a preview for a film

i was so confused

crosspost

http://www.movieline.com/2011/05/he-was-my-favorite-actor-quentin-tarantino-all-star-line-up-honor-sidney-poitier.php

Well then:

What is surprising is that DiCaprio is in talks for a supporting role in Tarantino's slavery revenge tale, "Django Unchained," a really, really despicable role. The part, according to press reports, is for Calvin Candie, the plantation owner and slave proprietor who gets his jollies out of watching slaves fight to the death and has no problem beating his own when they don't follow orders.

calvin candie is such a great name

and has no problem beating his own

always wanted to watch DiCaprio beating his own tbh

toboggahn?

tubbath?

tabouleh?

you ah doooly appointed fightin slaves

loll

his "boston" wasn't so far from georgia actually, was it

@yogoldsmith
Jeff Goldsmith
Will Smith is out! Inside sources tell me that Tarantino has chosen Oscar winner @iamjamiefoxx to play Django! #fb

well then

def more tolerable

does jamie foxx know he's been chosen?

def more tolerable

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sb'd u 4 this

tarantino does a lot of great things in the movie but there are just enough structural and conceptual flaws to make this kind of 2nd-rate. maybe his worst film? but still not a bad one, really.

death proof is different -- it isn't a failure by any means, it's just unambitious. i enjoyed it.

http://www.hollywood.com/news/movies/48656235/quentin-tarantino-says-next-movie-more-like-jackie-brown-why-that-s-a-great-idea

Kinda weird to give Tarantino credit for Jackie Brown's characters without even mentioning Elmore Leonard.

Yeah, wtf? Elmore Leonard >>>>> Quentin Tarantino.

I like Tarantino, but most of the greatness of Jackie Brown came from the pages of Rum Punch.

I tried to watch this for a second time the other night and... I just couldn't do it. I couldn't even make it past the first half hour. A real failure, this one. The characters just don't work, there's no tension, there's no narrative drive, it just kinda aimlessly ambles from one flaccid scene to the next, hoping that we find the Nazi Dentist's hamminess amusing enough to sustain interest. makes me sad.

i'm not quite that hard on it, but it is probably his worst film, barring possibly death proof (i can make a case for DP being not that bad, though).

the biggest problem here is structural, i think -- i can justify the two endings in the abstract, but in practice the film just loses a ton of momentum at a certain point and everything after it feels awkward and unconvincing.

i do think it has the best use of jim croce in a film (or possibly anywhere), though.

well what other uses of Jim Croce are there

more than you probably wish to know

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0188321/

oh actually i forgot that like most things in tarantino movies, the use of "i got a name" doubles as a film reference, to the rather good "last american hero" starring a young and very beautiful jeff bridges.

I tried watching it last night for the first time. I didn't get past the first hour, found the way he used the iconography of slavery for cheap emotional cues unbelievably crass. He seems disengaged from the characters beyond their florid tics. When the Klan starts quibbling over eyeholes like it's a scene from bizarro Seinfeld, I was like "fuck this shit."

Blazing Saddles surely.