Tarantino attacks the cinema of the 50s, the 80s and the current one, affirming that they are the worst cinematographic periods in history.
The The Video Archives podcast who share Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary (screenwriter of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ and ‘Pulp Fiction’) is a mine of filmic knowledge, as it could not be less, and of film (re)discoveries. In his last program, dedicated to the 1983 Bob Fosse film ‘Star 80’, Tarantino attacked the best films of the 80s and, incidentally, against current cinema.
“Although the 1980s was the time when I probably saw more movies in my life than ever before, at least when it came to going to the movies, I think that the cinema of the 80s is, along with the 50s, the worst era in the history of Hollywood. That’s not counting the current era!“
Still, Tarantino says that times with so many “trash movies” give an advantage to “those who do not conform, those who stand out from the rest.” An example of what he means would be ‘Top Gun Maverick’, which Tarantino recently praised, or Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’. “They put on a real movie show, the kind I almost thought I’d never see again. It was fantastic.”
Curiously, the decades Tarantino refers to are closely linked to popular cinema and nostalgia. Many films of the 80s were characterized by trying to recover the essence of the films that their directors lived in their childhood, in the 50s, and the eighties revival has spent several years (perhaps more than 10) crushing the entire audiovisual panorama in the present. Instead, Tarantino has revealed on countless occasions his preference for the decade of the 70s and his best films, with a lot of difference over the others.
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