Quentin Tarantino Talks His Final Movie and Love for Violent Films at Cannes Masterclass

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Sophia Scorziello editor The man who directed a scene so bloody it was filmed in black and white to avoid an NC-17 rating has some qualms with violence in film.

In an hourlong conversation at the Cannes Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino addressed some parts of his book “Cinema Speculation” and he teased his 10th and final film, “The Movie Critic.” As a serious grind-house fanatic, Tarantino discussed the place of violence in his own films and in classics like John Flynn’s “Rolling Thunder” and Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver.” On John Flynn’s “Rolling Thunder” “It was the movie that made me start taking myself seriously as a film critic,” Tarantino said of “Rolling Thunder.” Not that he was writing and publishing reviews on movies, but as he watched the film, he was able to note its nuances and form opinions on them.

The moderators asked Tarantino about why he believed “Rolling Thunder” should have ended with more violence than what was written in Paul Schrader’s screenplay. “Well, I like violent movies,” he said.

But he didn’t just want violence for violence’s sake. “Paul Schrader doesn’t recognize this movie any more than I recognize Oliver Stone’s version of ’Natural Born Killers,'” he said, explaining the pitfalls of Flynn’s direction.