Quentin Tarantino declares 2019 ‘the last year of movies’ in fiery Hollywood rant
Quentin Tarantino declares 2019 ‘the last year of movies’ in fiery Hollywood rant
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Quentin Tarantino has slammed the state of the film industry during a surprise appearance at Sundance Film Festival. The acclaimed director has been behind the camera for some of the biggest movies around, including Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained – with Leonardo DiCaprio and Jamie Foxx.
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Speaking in a rare interview with Elvis Mitchell at the Elvis Suite, the 61-year-old explained that he is in no hurry to get started on his last project as his focus is currently on writing a play – and spending time with his children. ‘That’s a big f**king deal, pulling [a play] off, and I don’t know if I can. That’s a challenge, a genuine challenge,’ he declared, via Variety, before calling out the way movies are made and released in present day.
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‘But making movies? Well, what the f**k is a movie now? What — something that plays in theaters for a token release for four f**king weeks?. ‘And by the second week you can watch it on television.’. ‘I didn’t get into all this for diminishing returns. I mean, it was bad enough in ‘97. It was bad enough in 2019, and that was the last f**king year of movies,’ he continued.
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‘That was a s**t deal, as far as I was concerned, the fact that it’s gotten drastically worse? It’s a show pony exercise. ‘Now the theatrical release and then in two weeks, you can watch it on this [streamer] and that one. Okay. Theater? You can’t do that. It’s the final frontier.’.
