Quentin Tarantino and Brian De Palma are two auteur filmmakers who are not afraid to show a little violence on screen. Together, they're responsible for buckets of blood and mayhem, and for some of the best movies of all time. Any chance to see them sit down and talk about craft is a great one. That's why I love this clip I found about them waxing poetic about violence on screen. Let's dive in. Quentin Tarantino and Brian De Palma on Violence in Film — (@) In the clip, Tarantino talks about a scrapbook he used to keep of Brian De Palma reviews and headlines. And while reading it, he realizes that all of the critics knocking De Palma for years were the same people coming after him. Once he came to that revelation, he came to another: why are filmmakers who deal in violence punished then they do their jobs correctly? De Palma expands on these thoughts, talking about how he and Tarantino are interested in a disappearing cinematic language that makes audiences feel a certain way, and they do those provocative things for engagement. He agrees that when they both engage, they get yelled at. But he thinks the moral uproar over this violence has a lot more to do with capitalism and trying to sell products than it does with whether or not people actually think it's profane. In De Palma's words, "Cinema is a visual medium, and we're interested in terrific visual sequences, and many of...
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