Cinemao Director that Tarantino defines as “The Bob Dylan of the Movies”

Few filmmakers know both about the history of their profession and Tarantino Quentin. With such luggage, the American has always put his influences in evidence in his films.

However, a director had a particularly important impact on his work. Reaches the point that the idol is compared to Bob Dylan.

In a 1993 interview with Filmmaker Magazine (via Far Out Magazine), Tarantine quoted Jean-Luc Godard as an important figure in shaping your view of movies. About the French, he said:

Godard He taught me invention. For me, at the beginning of my career, Godard It was like the Bob Dylan of cinema. There was a sense of creation and joke. He conveyed the idea that if you love enough movies, you are able to make a quality. ”

The admiration of Tarantine put Godard It went beyond your work on the screen. The American even baptized his producer of A Band Apart, a reference to the movie Band (1964), directed by the French.

The film in question is considered a landmark of Nouvelle Vague. Headed by names out of the magazine CAHIERS DU CINEMAthe film movement was responsible for presenting a transgressive view in the late 1950s.

Jean-Luc Godard was critical of Quentin Tarantino

Over the years, the admiration of the director of pulp Fiction and Free django For the Frenchman began to cool. Maybe it has to do the fact that Jean-Luc Godard has criticized it publicly several times. During an interview from 2004 to the magazine Erathe late filmmaker in 2022 spoke the following about Tarantino Quentin:

I find his work null and void. He chose the title of one of my worst movies to name his producer. It doesn’t surprise me at all. ”

The actress MOLLY RINGWALD revealed in an article from 2021 for the New Yorker what Godard – with whom she had worked in King Lear (1987) – He revealed to him in 1995 during a lunch his disgust for pulp Fiction. According to the actress, the filmmaker referred to the winning movie Gold in 1994 as “inactic”.

In 2014, Godard seemed to corroborate the report in an interview with Radio France (via Far Out Magazine) During the cannes festival of that year. When the conversation came to Tarantine At one point, the director only referred to the American as “Faquin”, a French slang to a dishonest person.

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Collaborated: Pedro Hollanda.