Quentin Tarantino He is one of the most controversial directors in and out of his works. He had already criticized Truffaut a few weeks ago, leaving more than one film enthusiast stunned, and now he has accused superhero cinema and the state of the Seventh Art industry. While stating that he will transition to television, he criticizes him in his podcast The Tarantino Video Archives Podcast next to Roger Avaryformer friend and collaborator with whom he signed the screenplays Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Point-blank Lovewhat we are living in one of the worst periods in the history of Hollywood.
Tarantino believes we live in the worst time in Hollywood
“We are in the worst time in Hollywood history”explains Tarantino, who did not want to criticize Marvel or the tapes of Super heroes, an aspect that I already talked about a few weeks ago and with which I clarified that there were numerous filmmakers who hoped that everything would fail and be over. In the aforementioned podcast, both Avary and Tarantino agree that the current era of Hollywood, in terms of quality productions and films, is only surpassed or equaled by the decade of the 1950s and 1980s.
“While the 80s was probably the time I saw the most movies in my life (at least as far as going to the movies), I think 80s movies are, along with the 50s , the worst time in the history of Hollywood. Only compared to the present time”explains the director, who has already clarified that, although the average quality of the 80s was not very high, it was when he began to describe cinema that marked him, confessing that Pedro Almodvar changed his life forever. “The films that don’t conform, the ones that stand out,” he adds, stating that, somehow, there have been works that have stood out above average.
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The cinema of the 80s is, together with that of the 50s, the worst period in the history of Hollywood. Only with respect to the present time
Is Tarantino right? The 1970s marked a great era in cinema, with an industry reaching considerable maturity, which began to decline in the 1980s as the creative renewal after New Hollywood subsided and the first big modern blockbusters appeared. But in the 1950s, as Tarantino rightly points out, we find ourselves in a rather dark phase due to an element of differentiation: the lack of spectators in theaters with the irruption of televisions in the homes. Do you notice any kind of parallelism with the present tense? Yes, if you change the TVs with the platforms of stream perhaps you understand Tarantino’s criticisms a little better.
