Quentin Tarantino is a genius of the 7th art, arguably the most virtuoso filmmaker on earth.
But he is much better with moving images than by painfully lengthening, in writing, all the sequences of his last film.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
was a masterpiece on the big screen;
it loses all lightness on paper.
We find actor Rick Dalton and his understudy Cliff Booth, in longer.
Tarantino repeats in all his interviews that he will soon stop shooting films: it is a disaster for the 7th art, but also for the contemporary novel.
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Indeed, he seeks to rehabilitate a completely vain literary genre, which is the “novelization” of films.
This genre has a peculiarity: not to have given any masterpiece.
Novels adapted to the cinema have produced hundreds of extraordinary films;
films adapted into novels have never produced a single interesting book.
It's weird.
Perhaps there is a reason: the novel arouses images in our
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