The appointment was this Easter Sunday and, despite the fact that many people were out of town for the Easter holidays, Quentin Tarantino fans did not miss the opportunity to see the director
who knows the most about cinema
live .
The Coliseum theater in Barcelona was the place of pilgrimage where Quentin Tarantino presented his first non-fiction book,
Film Meditations
, an entertaining compendium of the films of the '70s that would influence his fruitful career years later.
After a promotional tour that has taken him through Los Angeles, New York, London or Paris, it was his turn to visit the Catalan capital.
The public that filled the premises was the most diverse.
There were families with her teenage children, many foreigners and even an octogenarian who has professed to this chronicler her love for the director of Pulp Fiction.
"I've been following him since he made
Perros de la calle
.
He is one of my favorite directors ”, she commented with a beer in her hand.
Quentin Tarantino thanks his mother for taking him to the movies as a child, to see movies for adults.
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Euphoria and gratitude
Drinks and popcorn to liven up a show that
prohibited the use of mobile phones
and which started with loud applause when Tarantino, dressed in jeans and a white shirt, went on stage to talk about the book with the critic Jordi Costa.
“Thank you, thank you for spending Easter Sunday with me.
I hope it's worth it", he released euphorically before a dedicated audience that accompanied him for almost two hours –with intermission included– in a talk that was, above all,
a declaration of love for the cinema
that he saw as a child and that marked the beginning of the New Hollywood and the counterculture.
Without stopping gesticulating, Quentin Tarantino thanked his single mother for taking him to see adult movies when he was just a child.
Other times he went to the rooms directly accompanied by the boyfriend on duty of his mother, most of them black and athletes.
The memory of "Bambi"
"I watched a lot of disturbing movies, but that doesn't mean I had a bad time, because I knew those images were part of a story."
Of course, if there is a film that deeply traumatized him, it is Bambi.
“It has destroyed many children for decades.
I
was not prepared for the forest fire or the death of the mother of the fawn
, ”Tarantino explained to the laughter of those present.
Bambi, the Disney movie that traumatized Quentin Tarantino.
It was confessed by the man who has never been averse to explicit violence in his nine works to date.
From the next and it is assumed that the last of his filmography, The Movie Critic, has not wanted to advance more than that it will deal with a film critic and will be set in the seventies.
The author of
Inglourious Basterds
referred to how much he liked the Spanish horror films
La residencia
, by Chicho Ibáñez Serrador, and
La novia ensangrentada
, by Vicente Aranda.
And of the two profiles of filmmakers who have saved American cinema: "The most anti-establishment group that made the most provocative films" with
Sam Peckinpah
at the helm, and the movie brats, the one who trained in film schools and from whom
Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma or Paul Schrader
are part of it
.
And he has praised, among others,
Jaws
,
The Sniper
or
Taxi Driver
with a perfect
Robert De Niro
.
"You see Travis through his eyes and you understand the character."
From his new profession, that of a writer, he hopes to profit by publishing more books.
“
Surely I will do another one about the eighties films
and about the foreign ones that I saw when I was young”, he encouraged himself.
And he remembered Floyd, that black bum who became his mentor in 1978 and with whom he loved to chat about movies and music.
"I soaked up all the knowledge of him."
Definitely, a Sunday with the showman Tarantino that was worth it.
Source: La Vanguardia / Astrid Meseguer
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