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BUSAN, South Korea – At the 18th Busan International Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino said he was afraid to make any film about a serial killer, because such a production would “reveal my sickness far too much.”
“The planet Earth couldn’t handle my serial-killer movie,” said the 50-year-old American screenwriter-director who has a long history of ultra-violence in his films – from “Reservoir Dogs” (1992), with its difficult-to-watch torture scene, to breakthrough box-office smash “Pulp Fiction” (1995) up to “Django Unchained” (2012).
“Pulp Fiction” and “Django Unchained” won each for Tarantino an Academy Award for best original screenplay.
Tarantino, who’s also a renowned cineaste, made a surprise visit at the Busan film festival on Friday, October 11 – the first time this aficionado of Asian cinema was attending the region’s largest cinematic gathering.
He took to the stage alongside Korean director Bong Joon-ho for an open talk lasting just over an hour in front of about 1,500 fans.
Genre to genre
In a rambling, expansive, and entertaining exchange, the filmmaker explained why he had jumped from genre to genre throughout his career – from gangster movies to World War II adventures to Westerns.
“When I make a film I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit,” said Tarantino. “I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them.
“I consider myself a student of cinema. It’s almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.”
Tarantino was full of praise for Bong, whose apocalyptic English-language thriller “Snowpiercer” has been a $60-million box-office smash in South Korea and is being lined up for a global release.
“Bong has that thing that the 1970s [Steven] Spielberg had in that he can do many different types of stories but there is always this level of comedy and entertainment that is there,” he said, adding that even Bong’s “The Host” (2006), about a toxic monster, had “wonderful human moments.”
The festival comes to a close Saturday, October 12. – Rappler.com
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