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Halloween Unmasked

Young Quentin Goes to the Movies

Halloween Unmasked

The Ringer

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the late ’60s, young Quentin Tarantino saw the surrealistic revenge thriller ‘Point Blank.’ This pioneering genre-buster shares Quentin's ambitions and anxieties, leading to connections that can be drawn straight to his directorial debut, ‘Reservoir Dogs.’ It also reminds him of the film he considers his own undiscovered classic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Were you're nervous that you might not be a good director?

0:03.0

Oh, I was nervous my whole life about that, all right?

0:07.0

About, because I would see, I would see movies that I liked

0:12.0

and I wanted my footage to look like that. A great writer once tried to describe what it's like watching Quentin Tarantino watch a movie.

0:33.0

Here's what she wrote.

0:34.0

His whole face is open to the screen, as though he were receiving communion.

0:38.0

Mouth slightly open, eyes wide,

0:41.0

fist in a sock chin pushing forward, large pale forehead flickering with the film.

0:46.0

That's a beautiful image. Is it true? Let's ask Quentin himself.

0:58.0

So, said the Let's ask Quinton himself. So set the stage for what happens when Quinton Tarantino goes to a movie. Where are you sitting? What do you have with you? Do you like to see movies alone?

1:02.0

Do you like to see them with somebody else?

1:03.5

I like seeing movies by myself and I like seeing them with people.

1:07.8

Depending on the theater, I like to sit within the second or the third row towards the front in the middle.

1:14.0

One of the things I do like about, I've liked about going to the movies alone ever since I was a kid

1:18.7

unless you have your buddies that sit there too, all right?

1:21.0

Is I can just make a beeline right towards there and like usually if you're on a date, you're like, why are we sitting that close?

1:26.4

However, when I'm watching one of my movies, one of my movies with an audience, I'm watching the audience as much as I'm watching the movie.

1:34.0

So I like kind of sitting back so I can see the audience very clearly.

1:37.0

I can see all the backs of the heads and how they react.

1:40.0

And frankly, that's kind of still my attitude when I go to the new Beverly because I kind of I'm watching the movie but I'm also kind of watching how the audience responds to it.

1:49.0

So I like sitting somewhere in the back five or six rows in the back so I can just kind of see how the

1:54.6

audience is reacting to the film. Because when you program the movie in a way it is

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