What Quentin Tarantino learned about SUBTEXT when he was younger

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  • Опубликовано: 13 дек 2024

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  • @OutstandingScreenplays
    @OutstandingScreenplays  Год назад +8

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  • @chillimayo2661
    @chillimayo2661 Год назад +441

    "I wanna deal with the robbery"
    *makes a movie about everything but the robbery*

    • @clayjack9969
      @clayjack9969 Год назад +14

      But they are only ever talking about the robbery.

    • @William.Driscoll
      @William.Driscoll Год назад +8

      That unseen, open loop is juicy & compelling in how it piques & sustains curiosity

    • @lithantushelo7932
      @lithantushelo7932 Год назад +18

      I mean hell, everything goes wrong because Mr. White is too attached to Orange to accept the fact that they were set up
      .
      .
      I think Tarantino does Subtext work as a director more than he'd like to admit, I've heard him talk about the subtext of his scenes alot, I think he just doesn't want the subtext to turn into the text itself.

    • @clayjack9969
      @clayjack9969 Год назад +13

      @@lithantushelo7932 that’s a great way to put it. So many artists focus on the “hidden meaning” of their work that it no longer becomes hidden. The Baz Luhrmann Great Gatsby movie is a great example of this. I don’t hate the movie but one of its most annoying aspects is how it explains every theme and metaphor from the book that F. Scott Fitzgerald originally had as fantastic subtext.

    • @o-wolf
      @o-wolf Год назад +2

      ​@@lithantushelo7932the real kicker is QT is actually full of it . He doesn't like being questioned about the subtext in his earlier work because he didn't WRITE any of it.. Avary did.. so whenever ppl ask him about it it reminds him of that &brings attention to the fact that his films without Avary have very little if ANY subtext &are just soulless spectacle &clever set pieces

  • @catchywatchy7086
    @catchywatchy7086 Год назад +183

    This is why his movies are more honest...and rewatchable

    • @panagiotisjevan8975
      @panagiotisjevan8975 Год назад +3

      I wasn’t into any of his movies when I was younger.I only liked pulp fiction and kill bill.But I rewatched them older and I can seriously say he is now my favorite director and I appreciate his movies.

    • @Erynnin
      @Erynnin Год назад +3

      ​@@panagiotisjevan8975 I never liked kill bill until I recently watched them again.

    • @DylanDillpickle
      @DylanDillpickle Год назад

      Hell yah

  • @memelordmarcus
    @memelordmarcus Год назад +202

    My left ear really enjoyed that

  • @amendtheman
    @amendtheman Год назад +45

    This version of his explanation/answer to this question is a little more clear on when that back and forth happened, appreciate this upload love it

  • @Daiblix
    @Daiblix Год назад +241

    "I'm my own boss and you want to give me homework? Get the fuck outta here!" Is what he said.

    • @connorbrennan2920
      @connorbrennan2920 Год назад +2

      Not at all. He doesn’t engage with it because that’s not his process. His work is nuanced and doesn’t necessarily require subtextual criticism cuz it’s already there

    • @Daiblix
      @Daiblix Год назад +4

      @@connorbrennan2920 it was a joke my guy.

  • @avabanana6515
    @avabanana6515 Год назад +15

    Love Tarantino 👍 ❤️

  • @richarddavis2791
    @richarddavis2791 Год назад +4

    This is great. I always wonder if they wrote it so deeply.

  • @BloodSugarS3XMajik
    @BloodSugarS3XMajik Год назад +53

    I hate when outsiders try to tell you how you need to be formulaic with every film. My writing teacher in college told me I can’t write a feature about an antagonist unless he realizes his mistakes in the end. Where I feel so many movies don’t have that and don’t need that. It was really annoying.

    • @obscure.reference
      @obscure.reference Год назад +15

      there are no rules. formats and absolutes are just limitations, not the good kind. don’t cookie cut your writing.

    • @jacksobrooks
      @jacksobrooks Год назад +17

      Yea, that teacher should watch something like No County For Old Men.

    • @ThePsychicFish
      @ThePsychicFish Год назад +6

      Learn the rules then learn how to break them

    • @mecagoenlaluna
      @mecagoenlaluna Год назад +4

      That's why he's teaching and not doing it.

    • @nicolasdazefilms
      @nicolasdazefilms Год назад +2

      No wonder he's a teacher

  • @coldenhonner148
    @coldenhonner148 Год назад +1

    I’ve felt that whenever I get concerned about consciously trying to make my story something (or at least more than what I already intended to say) my creative process grinds to a halt and it gets really boring

  • @DILLIGAFFB
    @DILLIGAFFB Год назад +9

    This explains why so many movies are irritatingly repetitive.
    "I've seen this movie before"
    "It just came out"
    "I know"

  • @hay_bail1
    @hay_bail1 Год назад +6

    That’s pretty great movie advice

  • @Wordfishtrombone
    @Wordfishtrombone 18 дней назад

    The owl curtains and Crane glove are great ambiguous elements to exist. The Batmans can play with them if it makes sense in the story they’re telling

  • @abbeykroeter2352
    @abbeykroeter2352 Год назад +1

    Great stuff from Quentin, once again. Not the first time his hurried thoughts and the editing made me need several rewinds to make sure I kept up with the right pronouns, etc… but great info that isn’t often shared. He’s great and I’m not even a diehard fan, I just like parts of his films (and I think a couple truly are masterpieces) very much.
    Meanwhile, I didn’t know directors need to think “how do I make this my own?”
    Well, obviously some think everything is “theirs” and needs their stamp on it, but films are collaborative art, and if ANYBODY should get the benefit of the doubt of who the film “belongs to” or should get respect for it being “their own”, it should be the writer.. hands down. They get it started. Especially if the story came
    from one writer and it’s not several writers we’re talking about, cobbling changes to somebody’s original idea.

    • @DSprich
      @DSprich Год назад

      I think that, if somebody wrote something for Quentin, gave him some guidelines and nobody tried to make it a Quentin Tarantino film, everyone would say, "That was a Tarantino film." I don't think he could help but have his style rub off on the project.

  • @TheText384
    @TheText384 4 месяца назад

    Everything is designed to take you off course, unless you are wise enough to select what you need and ignore what you don't.

  • @Enderrealmable
    @Enderrealmable Год назад +1

    My left ear loved this

  • @ttacx
    @ttacx Год назад

    Thats awesome

  • @davidlacinski5103
    @davidlacinski5103 Год назад +5

    Tim Roth was the "son" and Harvey Keitel was the "father"?

  • @MelIssa-rb9mq
    @MelIssa-rb9mq 9 месяцев назад

    Kinggggggg🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂👑👑👑👑👑👑👑
    "Fuck Subtext!!" (The soul of QT)

  • @buckleygeneration
    @buckleygeneration Год назад +2

    Didn’t see the full title and thought it said “subtlety”, but then I realised that’s impossible, since we’re talking about Tarantino.
    (This is a joke. I like Tarantino. But he is not a very subtle filmmaker.)

  • @MrJeffrey938
    @MrJeffrey938 Год назад

    Well done, Q.

  • @saturnosiris1221
    @saturnosiris1221 Год назад +3

    QT really is one of the gr8est filmmakers ever. Possibly the best ever.

    • @Opeon1
      @Opeon1 Год назад

      Wouldn't it be more work to type gr8est instead of greatest?

    • @saturnosiris1221
      @saturnosiris1221 Год назад

      @@Opeon1 3 characters or 1? Pretty easy decision

  • @OchiengOneko
    @OchiengOneko Год назад +3

    where is this clip from?

  • @reizii
    @reizii Год назад +1

    Damn is he red

  • @mrduckeatsbread
    @mrduckeatsbread Год назад +4

    I was watching a youtube essay about how once upon a time in Hollywood is seemingly influenced by Tarantino and his relationship with Harvey Weinstein. I doubt tarantino thought twice about it but like he says here the subtext is doing the work. I'm not saying he did write once upon a time about that but its very interesting that theres subtext going on that he doesnt realise

  • @jacksobrooks
    @jacksobrooks Год назад +10

    On the other hand you have Jordan Peele, who works entirely on subtext while the surface level content is busted and neglected.

    • @crotchman
      @crotchman Год назад +1

      i don't see how you can say this when the monster in nope is a direct representation of the subtext of the film. you can't look away from a spectacle, no matter how harmful it is.

  • @AlbertAlbertB.
    @AlbertAlbertB. Год назад

    What about my right ear? Where is it's audio?

  • @MJ-hl1kk
    @MJ-hl1kk 5 месяцев назад

    My most fav film maker ever! WHAT a guy! i really can't make out if he's a misogynist, but if he is one, at least he shows the women taking full and satisfying revenge on the raper, more than I could even imagine, which I cannot say about ANYBODY else, so he deserves full credit for that!

  • @snorlaxcom
    @snorlaxcom Год назад

    My left ear liked this.

  • @thejet22
    @thejet22 Год назад

    I felt deaf there for a second when I only had my right headphone it…

  • @leaffinite2001
    @leaffinite2001 Год назад +1

    This makes sense, because the issue with trying to create intentional subtext is that subtext is found via interpretation, meaning even if you try to add intentional subtext some people wont see it. Just make something thats well made and people will find subtext in it themselves

  • @McLeod2022
    @McLeod2022 Год назад +1

    i wanna tell a gangster story... this man... this man carves deep ... truth is sometimes icky and gross and also glorious in a way that is hard to describe. It is shaking at your core. It is wonder when you didn't see that slamming into you. I Love QT because he doesn't give a dam but he does.

  • @DODGERS-br8tf
    @DODGERS-br8tf Год назад

    LOL GANGSTAH SHIT I want all the smoke 🤘🏼🤘🏼😜

  • @massimogaravoglia9164
    @massimogaravoglia9164 Год назад

    💪

  • @studionomans
    @studionomans Год назад

    was this supposed to emulate what it's like to be the cop from reservoir dogs? with only the left ear?

  • @godofspacetime333
    @godofspacetime333 Год назад +1

    Some artists are just more analytical in their approach and some operate more on intuition. Neither is wrong.

  • @wuzi7049
    @wuzi7049 Год назад

    Compartmentalization is better than complete ignorance.

  • @michaelelliott1212
    @michaelelliott1212 Год назад

    Tarantino is talk-ZZZZZZZZ

  • @meerakrishnamurthy1094
    @meerakrishnamurthy1094 7 месяцев назад

    Subtext: fk subtext

  • @jamesstovich9724
    @jamesstovich9724 Год назад

    And then I realized. I don't need to hear him. Blab blab

  • @talkingshadow
    @talkingshadow Год назад

    Sounds a bit weird specially that it's about reservoir dogs because of how the movie was copied from that I think south Korean movie.
    I'm not attacking him, just thinking about the sub text and (roots) how can that be something you find out about if it wasn't entirely your from the beginning.. a bit confusing to be honest

    • @markmauk8231
      @markmauk8231 Год назад +1

      not a copy

    • @talkingshadow
      @talkingshadow Год назад

      @@markmauk8231 yea I forgot it was just the only last 10 minutes of city on fire 😅

  • @Jaxxxz1356
    @Jaxxxz1356 2 месяца назад

    I know writer's who use subtext and they're all cowards

  • @MovieBuffConnorJamieson
    @MovieBuffConnorJamieson Год назад +17

    Love him but maybe that's why his movies fail to reach a certain emotional depth

    • @pearljohnson4365
      @pearljohnson4365 Год назад +1

      Maybe it wasn’t meant to be. Sometimes, less fluff more buff 💪. Not every movie has to be pretty.

    • @RedFloyd469
      @RedFloyd469 Год назад +7

      I'd say django unchained, the hateful eight (to a degree) and definitely Kill Bill, have great emotional depth. From the apprentice/mentor bond that forms between django and the dentist on the one hand and between kiddo and pai mei/bill on the other, to the loss of beatrix's child (in her mind) there are a lot of bonds that are "deeper" than just superficial stuff.
      Tarantino knows he wants to make fun movies, but he also knows that if you don't have an emotional foundation for your work, the audience won't be invested.
      You can call that subtext if you want, but buzzwords aside, it just means you need to give your stories something more gripping than just blood, guts, bullets and blades. You need heart. And I'd say there's plenty of heart in his best films.

    • @MovieBuffConnorJamieson
      @MovieBuffConnorJamieson Год назад +4

      @@RedFloyd469 I agree he can reach it to an extent. But for me what separates tarentino from the true S-Tier greats like Scorsese the coens PTA is that focus on aesthetics. No one makes "cinema" like Tarantino (except maybe James Cameron) but you watch Goodfellas or there will be blood and there's just so much meat there. Inglorious basterds got close but there's that next level he could still dig to

    • @pansepot1490
      @pansepot1490 Год назад +4

      I don’t see why people expect emotional depth when the director is open that what he’s interested in is “Pulp Fiction”.

    • @taliamason7986
      @taliamason7986 Год назад

      The thing is they aren't supposed to. It's never really been his intention to actually try and reach a certain emotional depth like Coppola, Scorsese, PTA, Hal Ashby, Tarkovsky, Wim Wenders, Fassbinder, David Lynch or even Satoshi Kon if you love anime films beyond Studio Ghibli. He just lets it happen naturally like his idols (Sergio Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Brian De Palma, Howard Hawks, Samuel Fueller) and how it was always done in Old Hollywood unless it was melodrama. It can work both ways.

  • @johnscott7195
    @johnscott7195 Год назад

    Bloodbaths and violence..that's his MO..

  • @galeforce69420
    @galeforce69420 Год назад

    Why only left channel audio

  • @Highkingofgondor
    @Highkingofgondor Год назад +1

    Give me the text, never the subtext-Penn Jillette

  • @paulcready7093
    @paulcready7093 Год назад

    It’s not deeper at all, not even slightly 😂