Quentin Tarantino

I don't think the interview was for the news, I think it would have been for one of C4s film preview shows they do every so often for film releases.
 
BunnyKillBot said:
Um, because it is? Publicity? Have you not noticed when celebs have a new work coming out they tour the media circuit, appearing on random shows in random places, it's entirely to publish their work.
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yes.... and these celebs cant expect to only get the questions they want with the person conducting the interview bowing down before them and massaging their egos?

Its for the channel four news channel not a movie review program which is probably why the questioning was steered towards that angle and maybe whoever organised the interviews shoulod have avoided anything news related.

Just watched the graham norton bit on iplayer and he comes across as a much more likeable guy in a friendly playful atmosphere
 
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Everyone knows his films are violent, but they are so over the top its like comic book violence which is what makes it so much fun. People try and get a rise out of him as its good TV nothing more.
 
I'm glad he didn't get up and leave and throw a big hissy fit like many other hollywood actors/directors possibly would have. I agree with him though - He must be absolutely sick of answering the question about movie and real life violence - it's been talked about to death.
 
I'm completely on Tarantino's side, he's answered this question over and over the same way. Getting him to say the same things he's always said in order to report it again as new information is just crap journalism. Only recently he said:

In an interview with the US radio network NPR last week, the director claimed there was no link between movie violence and real violence and that the issue was a distraction from the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut. "I think it's disrespectful to the memory of the people who died to talk about movies," he said. "Obviously the issue is gun control and mental health."
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Which is spot on imo. For Guru-Murthy to then say that Tarantino "lost it" during the interview is completely disrespectful, he kept pushing him and he kept, rightly, refusing to answer. He was within his rights to just walk out.
 
arknor said:
yes.... and these celebs cant expect to only get the questions they want with the person conducting the interview bowing down before them and massaging their egos?

Its for the channel four news channel not a movie review program which is probably why the questioning was steered towards that angle and maybe whoever organised the interviews shoulod have avoided anything news related.

Just watched the graham norton bit on iplayer and he comes across as a much more likeable guy in a friendly playful atmosphere
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They can, because that's the deal they strike to get the interview.

The promotion team negotiates with the show, or briefs the interviewer what they are prepared to answer, or not answer the shown decides whether it will make interesting TV and then if there is enough viewer interest for the deal to be struck.
The channel four guy there tried the same techniques he would use to interview a politician rather than someone on a promo gig, and its produced a bit of a car crash.
 
The interviewer comes across as a bit clueless and out of his depth to be honest, but he was obviously sent along to provoke a reaction.

It crossed my mind last night that Tarantino has always had a reputation for producing violent films but up to and including Jackie Brown his films aren't particularly violent. Seems odd to me but I guess it stems from him being generally outspoken on the subject.
 
One More Solo said:
The interviewer comes across as a bit clueless and out of his depth to be honest, but he was obviously sent along to provoke a reaction.

It crossed my mind last night that Tarantino has always had a reputation for producing violent films but up to and including Jackie Brown his films aren't particularly violent. Seems odd to me but I guess it stems from him being generally outspoken on the subject.
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If you accept that what Tarentino does is just make stylised tributes to different genres then his movies are not terribly violent at all, he doesn't do violence for violence sake and its usually fairly comical, great geysers of blood spouting out everywhere of huge bloody explosions.

They just parody the violence already out there.
 
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