Quentin Tarantino is one of the most reputed directors in the Hollywood industry, who has given numerous classic hits. His films are known for stylized violence, extended dialogue with excessive use of profanity, and the premise of popular culture. The ace director has given some critically acclaimed films like Django Unchained, Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction, and others. The director is known for his violent movies, however, he draws a moral line at one point.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director reveals his view on cruelty to animals and why he is against it in movies.
Quentin Tarantino is against killing animals in movies
Pulp Fiction fame director Quentin Tarantino is very clear on his stand for no violence towards animals in his movies. The actor disproves cruelty towards animals in films because of the real-life implications of the death of animals.
Tarantino shared that he believes in the make-believe concept of filmmaking. He added that he can tolerate violent scenes involving people but cannot stand violence against animals.
Talking to Variety, the director shared,
“I have a big thing about killing animals in movies. That’s a bridge I can’t cross.”
“Insects too. Unless I’m paying to see some bizarro documentary, I’m not paying to see real death. Part of the way that this all works is that it’s all just make-believe.”
“That’s why I can stand the violent scenes because we’re all just f-cking around. [But] some animal, some dog, some llama, some fly, some rat, doesn’t give a f-ck about your movie. I’d kill a million rats, but I don’t necessarily want to kill one in a movie or see one killed in a movie, because I’m not paying to see real death.”
The director explained that animals are not actors hence harming them for entertainment purposes should be avoided.
Quentin Tarantino chooses to fix reality with violent revenge
In the interview, the director shared that in many of his films, he has rewritten history by giving weapons to marginalized characters to bring about violent revenge. It was evident in his highly acclaimed movies like Inglourious Basterds, Django Unlimited, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and others. The director did it sometimes intentionally, and sometimes the plot led to those revenge scenes.
He shared,
“Kurosawa would do this a lot. He would write himself into a corner and tell his writers to get him out,” he said. When writing “Inglourious Basterds,” he didn’t plan to end with the death of the nazis. “I wrote myself into a corner and said, ‘Now what do I do?’” he said. “Then all of a sudden, the thought just came to me, ‘Just f-cking kill him. Wait, can I do that? Well yeah, it’s my story.’”
“But in the case of ‘Once Upon a Time,’ I wrote that to save Sharon and kill those motherfu-kers.”
Quentin Tarantino also opened up on his upcoming project The Movie Critic. The plot revolves around a film reviewer who works for a pornographic publication.
Source- Variety
