So cracking open the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novel comes with a lot of trepidation: The movie was my favorite film of 2019 - is the book finally going to unravel my appreciation of it the way that its author’s interviews have threatened to do? If you can dish it out, you should be able to take it.Ĭhristopher Nolan: Quentin Tarantino Has a ‘Very Purist’ Approach to Retirement At the very least, if Tarantino can launch such broadsides against Ford, he can withstand criticism about his depiction of Bruce Lee. Frankly, there’s more humanity in almost any one of Ford’s movies than in the entirety of Tarantino’s nine-picture filmography. It’s an especially strange grievance coming from Tarantino, who on multiple occasions over the last decade has argued for the dismissal of John Ford from the canon, via the most ungenerous reading imaginable of the “Stagecoach” filmmaker’s body of work. Does he think the film deserved to be above any criticism at all? It’s an odd complaint, considering how successful the film was: $374.6 million in worldwide box office, critical adoration, 10 Oscar nominations and two wins, including a Best Supporting Actor trophy for Brad Pitt. His beef seems to be with how there was pushback to his depiction of Bruce Lee as a preening loudmouth in the film. A number of unappealing interviews he’s given have threatened to overshadow the launch of his “ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novel adaptation. Quentin Tarantino sure is his own worst enemy these days.
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