Since "Django Liberated", the rogue film master Quentin has embarked on the road of no return to Westerns, so that after filming Django in 2012, he began the filming of "Eight Wicked Men" non-stop, and this film is about to hold a small-scale 70mm film version screening in the United States on December 25, the second half of the year. This time shooting "Eight Wicked Men" means a lot to Quentin, in the era of digital cinema, he is one of the few directors who insist on film film, and the use of film to shoot "Eight Wicked Men" is his most responsible and deliberate impulse for the film, and the Eight Wicked Men are also the Western film themes he knows and loves. Admittedly, Quentin is a director who pays homage to the classics and is full of nostalgia.
Recently, in an interview with a magazine, Quentin shared the latest development of "Eight Wicked Men" and his views and experiences on the film, the following are some of the main points of the film international summary.
About The Eight Wicked men and westerns
1. We are only a little bit closer to finishing the shooting of "Eight Wicked Men", and the whole film shooting is nearing the end. I've just finished watching the one-hour version of the film that was already cut. But I'm not saying that the movie is about to end, we started shooting "Eight Wicked Men" non-stop and wanted to make everything perfect, so I want to try to give everyone a more perfect movie.
2. Every time I shoot a movie, I usually finish shooting the film before certain special days. When I was shooting "Falling Dogs," I was desperately trying to finish the film before the Sundance Film Festival opened, while Pulp Fiction, I was in a hurry to attend the Cannes Film Festival. But by the time of The Eight Wicked Men, I didn't feel oppressed by the deadline, and the studios and investors didn't deliberately ask me to shoot the deadline. I felt a creative freedom that I had never felt before.
3. Few people make Westerns now, and Westerns are on the verge of fading. I was very surprised that Django was warmly welcomed by everyone.
4. Of all the genres of cinema, Westerns are undoubtedly the most authentic in reflecting the social realities and values of a particular historical period. Westerns of each era have their own characteristics, Westerns of the 30s have the characteristics of the 30s, Westerns of the 40s are multi-theme dark because of the popularity of film noir, Westerns of the 50s of president Eisenhower are the most brilliant, the whole fifties can be said to be the world of Westerns, and in the 70s, there were many anti-genre Westerns, mainly because of the Watergate incident, the popularity of hippies and nihilism, into the 80s, due to the rise to power of the Reagan administration, Most Westerns bear the imprint of the Reagan era, such as 1985's "Battle of The GreatErnity of WestWardio."
5. Although Westerns always carry the mark of the times, I want "Eight Wicked Men" to be unconventional, whether it is in form or method. I just want to tell the story my own way, even if it seems a bit too hard.
6. Compared with "The Golden Three", which is also set in the Civil War, which downplays racial conflicts, "Eight Wicked Men" directly focuses on the racial contradictions and conflicts behind the civil war, which is also the inevitable brand of the era of this film. Racial equality is a hot topic in today's society, especially with the rise to power of Barack Obama, the first black president in the United States. The 2014 Baltimore and Ferguson incident was also one of the materials for the eight wicked men, appearing in my screenplay and in the wool film.
How to deal with the increasingly critical taste of the audience
1. How the director moves the audience is like how the conductor moves the orchestra.
2. Frankly, I don't think it's a problem for veteran movie fans, but rather the most difficult for ignorant audiences to deal with. But the good news is that with the development of the film industry and the progress of the times, today's movie fans are becoming more and more tasteful, just as the audience in the 70s laughed at the audience in the 60s for being tasteless, and the audience in the 60s laughed at the obsolescence of the audience in the 50s. So the best way to deal with the audience is to cross the limitations of the film era, so that even 20 years later, the audience will appreciate your movie. Pulp Fiction is a classic example of this, and people say of it as "Wow, I've never seen a movie like this before." It turns out that movies can still be made like this."
3. After so many years of experience, I don't care about the audience's somehow nitpicking. I don't make movies to please some people. I think people watch my Liberated Django and Shameless Bastards because they like my movies and are infected by my movies. There's a word called grounding, and I think that's one of the biggest things that audiences get when they watch my movie. Audiences who like me will not say "what is this movie really about", they will love my film theme and will support my way and method of making movies. It's as simple as letting the audience enter the movie.
The current state and future of the film industry
1. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas have both expressed their concerns about the film industry, fearing that the disappearance of certain series of films will have a huge impact on the film industry. I'm an optimist, and I can't imagine them having that kind of concern, and besides, they haven't made these movies. The series of films has been developing well since I was born. Now not only are there series of movies like Transformers, but some older ones such as Planet of the Apes and Bond series are still new. I can't wait to see Guy Ritchie's version of The Secret Agent (based on the TV series of the same name, a classic 105-episode series from 1964 to 1968).
2. The film industry ushered in a great boom in the 30s and 70s of the last century, when movie theaters were always full. But now many people complain that some blockbusters have squeezed the filming space of some small-budget films (referring to independent films), but I don't agree with this. You'll find similar ideas coming out every 6 years. So I don't agree very much with the so-called blockbuster crowding the cinema, and I'm also very optimistic about the prospects of independent films.
Quentin's Fancy Q&A
Q: Do you still insist on writing the script by hand?
A: Let me ask you a question, if you want to write a poem, will you code words on your computer? (Obviously not, for a retro person like Quentin, sticking to a handwritten script is the same as sticking to film))
Q: What are your favorite movies this year?
A: I didn't watch much of the movie this year, I likeDon Agent: Secret Agent Academy, but I prefer It's Behind Me.
Q: Do you have a fresh edge for your favorite movies?
A: Noah Baumbach, he is probably the next Polanski.
Q: Do you make superhero movies?
A: No, I'm fifty years old, and if I were to go back to 20, I might consider it.
Q: Do you have a favorite TV series?
A: The tv series I have watched recently include "Detective in the Line" and "The Romance of Mom and Dad".
Q: Would you make Kill Bill 3?
A: I don't have any plans to do that yet, but anything is possible.
Q: What movies do you like to imitate the most?
A: There are many, such as "Very Suspect", "Eight Heads in a Cloth Bag", and "Two Days in the Valley". But there is a particularly wonderful Hong Kong movie "The Birth of a Word", which I like very much.
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