The more you know about other movies, the more it can inform your movie. I watch at least one movie a day. I wish I kept better track, but for me, movies are the gateway to telling my stories. I like to see how other people tackled their worlds, and I like to try to emulate the story beats I think could make my work better. And lots of great filmmakers agree with me... which makes me feel smart. In fact, in a 1994 interview with Empire magazine, Tarantino once said: “I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it—if my work has anything it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together…. I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don’t do homages." Well, now that it's out in the open, let's talk about how well Tarantino steals. He took the plot for The Dirty Dozen and turned it into a very different masterpiece in Inglorious Basterds. But this is not a thing he developed in his later years. He did it to begin his career when he repurposed ideas from City on Fire for Reservoir Dogs. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 5 November, 2020