At the meeting dedicated to Quentin Tarantino during the Cannes Film Festival (and which we will report in detail on in the next few days), director John Flynn presented Rolling Thunder to the public and discussed this film, his films and much more American cinema of this period, in an extension of the critical discourses contained in his essay Cinema Speculation.
Speaking about his films, at one point he revealed the origin of two very important and debated endings to his filmography that have to do with the recurring theme of characters avenging reality. The question was where does the need to get his characters to do something to fix the story, like Django does, like Shosanna does in the finale of , come from Inglourious Basterds or how it happens Once upon a time in Hollywood:
I don’t think it’s a necessity. In the case of Inglourious Basterds From the start I didn’t think I wanted Hitler dead. That wasn’t the plan. The idea was: let’s lead the mission and when we’re in the theater… and then I thought about it and it worked! Better than I thought! “That might be okay,” I said to myself. “How do I do that?” I didn’t want there to be a double… I didn’t want them to take him out the back, that would be shit… So I did what Kurosawa did in Hidden Fortress, him wrote himself in a corner of the movie and then he took off. Listening to music in the middle of the night and thinking about what the hell I should do, it suddenly occurred to me, “Just kill him!” Just fucking kill him.
It can? I can do it? Sure, I can, that’s my story, I can do whatever I want! I don’t know if it’s a good idea, but I definitely can. Really. So I took out a piece of paper and wrote, “Just Fucking Kill Him.”
I put it on the bedside table and went to sleep. The next morning I woke up and looked at it and thought it was a good idea.
Instead, as Tarantino specified, is the case of Once upon a time in Hollywood it was different:
In this movie, I really did my best to save Sharon from these assholes and make her go to the wrong house. Damn wrong!
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