Italian Composer Ennio Morricone: I'll Never Work With Tarantino Again

Tarantino said in an interview, he would rather stop making films than shooting digital.
So when film stock gets Unobtanium soon, the problem gets solved automatically.
 
At the risk of being ridiculed; Django was terrible. If you can't produce a quality film then you fall back on excessive and misplaced violence.
 
People rave about Django Unchained but I though it was just a flick among many. Liked the 1966 Django better and it's true to the spaghetti western style.
 
Postmaster said:
Tarantino said in an interview, he would rather stop making films than shooting digital.
So when film stock gets Unobtanium soon, the problem gets solved automatically.
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Q.T. is gonna sound silly in a few years as digital cinematography continues to improve and edge closer to looking like film (obviously depending on expertise of cinematographer and crew... like Deakins on Skyfall for example). Digital cinema cameras like the Ikonoshop already seem to point towards a more positive trend in terms of displaying that lovely organic "film" look. I'd be surprised if that trend doesn't continue. Not with every camera, but then again why should it? More choices and variety is a positive thing for all the people out there making movies.

Also, will motion picture film become completely extinct before Tarantino retires from filmmaking or just gets too old to direct? For big famous celluloid loving directors like Spielberg, Nolan, and Tarantino film will likely be an option long enough to sustain their creative whims.
 
Paul Hudson said:
At the risk of being ridiculed; Django was terrible. If you can't produce a quality film then you fall back on excessive and misplaced violence.
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What if your goal is to make a homage to films with excessive and misplaced violence? Can you by definition not make a quality film then?

I liked DJANGO a lot, and thought it was very well made. My only beef is that if it had opened with a scene at the slave market where Django and Broomhilda were separated, and Candie and the Brittle brothers had been introduced there as well, the rest of the film would have had more emotional resonance.
The screenplay opens with a brief "spaghetti western style flashback" of the slave market, but I don't remember it from the film.

Ennio Morricone is one of the great composers of cinema but didn't he say exactly the same thing after Inglorious Basterds?
 
Tarantino makes pastiches, cutting up other works of art and reassembling them his own way. I can see how one of the artists whose work is frequently being cut-up and reassembled by Tarantino would get annoyed by that.
 
Nektonic said:
Q.T. is gonna sound silly in a few years as digital cinematography continues to improve and edge closer to looking like film (obviously depending on expertise of cinematographer and crew... like Deakins on Skyfall for example). Digital cinema cameras like the Ikonoshop already seem to point towards a more positive trend in terms of displaying that lovely organic "film" look. I'd be surprised if that trend doesn't continue. Not with every camera, but then again why should it? More choices and variety is a positive thing for all the people out there making movies.

Also, will motion picture film become completely extinct before Tarantino retires from filmmaking or just gets too old to direct? For big famous celluloid loving directors like Spielberg, Nolan, and Tarantino film will likely be an option long enough to sustain their creative whims.
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From what i've seen in interviews with QT, I don't think his distaste for digital has anything to do with the image quality or how closely it resembles the aesthetic of film. Don't forget that QT is a movie purist, as much of a cinephile as any director out there. He believes in the mystique of celluloid, and I don't think anything is going to convince him otherwise. He doesn't seem like the type of person to change his mind on anything.

And besides, he has already stated more than once that he currently plans to stop after 10 features, which would mean two more films. He's already working on Kill Bill 3, so then one more film after that...he will likely be "retiring" in ~5 years. Film will definitely still be around in 5 years.


As for the Ennio Morricone thing, while I personally think Morricone is the greatest film composer ever, I have to disagree with him. Sure, QT's music choice's are sometimes odd, or unexpected, but I think that's what makes them brilliant. I thought Django was an extraordinary film, and the music was one of the big reasons.
 
I don't hate Tarantino but I do think he's overrated. I generally like his films, mostly. At some point during each of them except maybe the seamless Pulp Fiction (the one he'll never top) and to a lesser extent Reservoir Dogs he pushes you out of his films with his immaturity as a filmmaker and his personal bull. I don't think he can top these films ever again due to his sense of self-importance since being validated. I don't hold it against him, he's not the first to perform best under the motivation of proving oneself. Most of his films have enough good elements to get me through to the end (although I have never been able to finish Kill Bill in half a dozen attempts).

His films are saved by good actors and good music which get you through the bits where he can't help himself. He has vignettes of pure brilliance buried in a miasma of fanboy/film student self pleasure. In fact vignettes are his particular talent, above and beyond his lauded dialogue 'cool' and musical taste. Inglorious Basterds which I initially hated has grown on me over repeated enforced and accidental viewings for it's two or three moments of cinema gold. The mini-film interrogation at the start is one of the most intense pieces of film I have ever witnessed (who to get the credit?) which the rest of the film seemingly mocks, perhaps afraid to live up to it. But after watching the intro you have to finish the film for the payoff at the end, even though much of what follows is less engaging.

All that said, however you feel about the way he borrows the talents of others or otherwise goes about his business, he doesn't really offend me. More the pedestal his rabid fans put him on. But maybe that's my problem. I personally place him at exactly the same level as his buddy, Rodrieguez (who I have slightly more respect for, primarily for how he plays the game). In that context I enjoy his work.
 
Ooops, didn't mention the OP. I think Ennio is more than entitled to complain as an artist and completely within his rights to not work with him again. But it doesn't matter to the film. For the audience all that matters is what ends up on the screen and how it affects them. Someone getting their feelings hurt, having their artistic integrity mauled, directors driving actors to breakdowns etc is all behind the scenes. Sometimes it results in outcomes that could not be achieved otherwise, sometimes the end result is in spite of the director being a class one a-hole. But other than as gossip none of these behind the scenes animosities matter to the finished product (although they do matter to those involved).
 
Batutta said:
Tarantino makes pastiches, cutting up other works of art and reassembling them his own way. I can see how one of the artists whose work is frequently being cut-up and reassembled by Tarantino would get annoyed by that.
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Exactly, pastiche and hodge-podge. I'm still astonished Morricone ever agreed to work with him.
 
Who in the F is "Italian Composer Ennio Morricone: I'll Never Work With Tarantino Again
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" Who cares? Who the F is this idiot? Jeeez. You work; you get paid; end of story. Right?
 
Gord.T said:
Who in the F is "Italian Composer Ennio Morricone: I'll Never Work With Tarantino Again
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" Who cares? Who the F is this idiot? Jeeez. You work; you get paid; end of story. Right?
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Dude, you have no clue what you're talking about.
 
Tarantino's eclectic taste in music and his choice of where, when, and how to use tracks and cues is something I've always felt was one of his strengths as a filmmaker. As a result, I really liked Django. But I can totally see why Morricone wouldn't want to collaborate further with Tarantino, the guy is kind of a nut job and that's just normally, nevermind how he must get when he knows what he wants and how to get it in terms of his filmmaking.
 
I think Tarantino would be awesome to hang out with. I haven't been a fan of his movies for years. They don't all have to be 3 hours long Quentin.
 
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