Quentin Tarantino Interview Special

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Here's a lovely little treat to bring 2021 to a close (or see 2022 in with a bang): a lengthy interview special in which Chris Hewitt sits down (in an actual hotel room; this was actually our first in-person interview since the pandemic began) with the legendary Quentin Tarantino for an in-depth chat about Tarantino's decision to turn Once Upon A Time In Hollywood into a novel, his creative process, his relationship with his characters, his future plans, and much, much more. So, sit down, set aside an hour and change, and enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Eward and welcome to the final Empire Podcast of 2021.
0:20.7	Or the first of 2022, depending on when you listen to this, either way, what a way to go
0:25.3	out or what a way to go in because this is an in-depth interview special with the one
0:32.4	the only Quentin Tarantino, which is apt as I started the year with an epic Quentin Tarantino
0:40.1	podcast, in which he and I sat down with Edgar Wright and talked, well, they talked, I mainly listened
0:46.2	about British cinema. So it makes sense to end this year with Tarantino, a lovely pair of QT
0:53.7	podcast bookends, if you will. And bookends are also apt as this podcast is mainly dedicated to
1:00.8	an in-depth discussion of Tarantino's first book as a writer of prose, which is a novelization
1:08.5	of his Oscar-winning screenplay for once upon a time in Hollywood. If you've read that book and
1:13.9	I would strongly suggest that you do before listening to this because even though it's not a
1:18.4	spoiler special per se, we do talk about some plot developments in great detail. And if you've
1:24.3	read the book, then you'll know that it's not just simply a copy and paste job, but it is an
1:28.8	elaboration on an expansion of the movie, shifting key scenes around adding tons of new material,
1:35.9	ended up using plenty of depth and shade to scenes from the movie, answering plenty of questions
1:41.2	raised by the film. So if you want to know, for example, whether Cliff Booth really did kill his
1:47.9	wife, the book and so on, definitively. So this interview, which took place in a London hotel room
1:54.5	in September the day after Tarantino had taken part in an onstage Q&A at the Alexander Palace
2:00.3	with Kim Newman. This interview talks about all that stuff, as well as Tarantino's creative process,
2:06.7	his compassion for his characters and the way that runs throughout his career, his plans for more
2:12.0	works set in and around this world and much, much more. Again, it's not a spoiler special per se,
2:18.4	but we do go into spoiler-proof details around some of his films and the fates of some of his
2:22.9	characters. Some of those films are reservoir dogs, pulp fiction, true romance,
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