Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
Luc Besson claims he gave Quentin Tarantino idea to retire after 10 movies
nme.comLuc Besson has claimed he gave Quentin Tarantino the idea to retire after 10 movies.Tarantino’s next movie, The Movie Critic, is expected to be his last.
The director has long spoken about his desire to retire after his tenth movie.In an interview on The Discourse Podcast (via The Playlist and IndieWire), Besson claimed that Tarantino got the idea to retire after 10 films from him.While Besson did not stick to his plan – his film DogMan that premiered in 2023 was his 21st – he claims Tarantino used it as a blueprint for his own career.“What’s funny is that I said that to Tarantino a long time ago…So, he copied me.
No, I was honest when I said that. I said that after [I’d made] like six or seven movies. And it was a way for me to concentrate and say, ‘If I have only 10 bullets, I have to be careful with the last three.’”He said he come up with the idea because while he would be offered lucrative films plans, he felt many of them would stifle him creatively.He continued: “Because at this time, Hollywood, there was lots of sirens coming to me saying, ‘Here’s the script,’ and the projects that they proposed to me were not bad, but it was sequels — it was the Hollywood machine.
And they propose with a lot of money.“I don’t want to. I want to stay myself, how to stay pure. So I need to find a way to resist the sirens of these mermaids.
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