I will become a director. What are we filming? A vivid erotic fantasy in which a group of normal but interesting and emotionally stable people show up, reliably, to a weekly tabletop RPG night.
The public doesn't know how much they want escapist entertainment about escapism. It's fresh, it's meta, it's a billion dollars in the bank.
Totally unfilmable though. Drat.
Do the actors need to be emotionally stable and have any experience with real tabletop RPG or can I sign up?
I've been trying to figure out how to get friends to commit. I think a good thing to try would be to get people to commit for, say, 4 sessions over two months. Enough for a small story arc. Then renew after that. Much easier to get buy in (or just schedule four dates right away) rather than commit to a specific day every other week belonging to them potentially forever, especially when some friends may live far away or have varying schedules.
Start off with a one-shot. Premade characters, simple mission, no witnesses.
They eventually ask for another, so you run a second one with a cliffhanger ending. They ask for a follow-up. The hooks are in.
Nah, I wanna do something more episodic. 90% self contained episodes with small tie ins between them that can be summarized quickly.
I applaud that, actually. Serialisation is like gravity, nobody should applaud when the writer gives in to it.
Just know that if your players aren't onboard with that, it'll be difficult to maintain.
Actually the story goes different. There was no foot tequila scene planned, but Salma Hayek improvised it. It's possible that with this scene, Salma Hayek started it all for Tarantino and his feet obsession
Did she know or did she just guess lucky? Or, did she unleash a kink? No kink shaming. Let the man love feet. Just not mine.
Let's take this up a notch.
I want to take your feet and there is little you can do about it
Speaking of feet, in my last movie, there was this new assistant director who was only there for a day and we spent that whole day shooting the "heels touch the ground" scene. Of course, we used the footage for the movie, but it's so weird that nobody seem to know who he is, and he never showed up on set again.
But now that I think about it, he DOES kind of look like Tarantino...
Stellar work btw! You really made me believe that your heels actually WERE touching the ground!
Esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Elise Robbie is pretty good at acting.
Now if only she can win an Oscar instead of you know, Wikifeet. (Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew. Ew.)
Tarantino will just make some of the best movies you ever watched just to film someone's feet or say the nword.
I don't know if the actress is underage, but she's supposed to be "jail bait" in the movie.
He loves to go on about the differences between directors and writer-directors.
Seems pretty obvious from here, Mr. Tarantino
I wonder how many times he could have gone "And then she makes me suck her feet again" in the script before someone intervened.
Dusk Till Dawn is amazing because for like an hour it's just a kinda normal hostage/crime movie, then it's very suddenly vampires
Feel like he's no more problematic than he always has been. Watching all the Chappelles of the world aging poorly, Tarantino has said some surprisingly progressive shit in my minimal biased experience
I might just be in denial, but I've always felt like Tarantino's problematicity was overblown
People are concerned or outraged again in the name of someone else. In this case Salma Hayek. Usually using that she tells the story of how uncomfortable she felt, leaving out the fact that she felt uncomfortable because of the snake. Not this.
I mean do you blame the guy? It's Salma Hayek. It's not what I would have wrote. But it's what he wrote.
I ... I don't get it. Is it Toes instead of toast? I read this sentence and know it's funny, but I cannot for the life of me decipher why.
Well. Hats off to him, he didn't just go for his dreams, he went for his fantasy... And got it
I mean I'd write a scene where my character was sat on by a black bbw if it were my movie.
I hate Tarantino's movies (Resevoir Dogs and Dusk Til Dawn being the exceptions) but I respect this level of being unashamed
To be pedantic, Dusk till Dawn isn't one of Tarantino's movies. It's one of Rodriguez's movie staring and written by Tarantino.
Well, pulp fiction is a really good movie, but the spy kids movies are some of the greatest works of art ever produced, so of course you'd pick that
Hmm, yes. Spy Kids, known for its avant-garde script and concept. With thought provoking and philosophical quotes, such as "Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created here on earth?". Frankly, I don't think humanity was prepared for such work of art. No wonder you would want to rewatch it over Pulp Fiction. After watching such marvelous journey that the characters went throughout this series of films. It ruins the experience of any other piece of art, since they can never replicate the experience of viewing Spy Kids.
You can’t convince me this guys love for Sharon Tate didn’t stem directly from her reportedly never wearing shoes.
I feel obligated to drop this manifesto here:
Thank you!! This addresses so much of the misgivings I have with most "safe" and "acceptable" storytelling and finally I have the words to express it.
Tarantino always writes himself a role so he can say the n word or get feet pics of attractive actresses
I dunno, all the slurs and gratuitous feet shots get old. Yea I enjoy some of his movies, but scenes like his "dead [slur] storage" bit in Pulp Fiction get to be really grating.
It was cathartic to see him get immediately blown to pieces in Django Unchained, and seeing a theater full of Nazis getting machinegunned will always hold a special place in my heart
I don’t disagree, but in pulp fiction the use of these slurs lends to a pretty accurate portrayal of criminal underworld, and people generally, being very casually racist/homophobic in LA/Long Beach in the late 80s and early 90s. I grew up in that area in that time, and it felt pretty spot on in that movie.
He's definitely one of the few directors who is grandfathered in and can still get away with stuff others wouldn't.
I think he gradually built up credibility. If an equally experienced director started doing the same thing today, everyone would wonder how far the fetishism goes and ask a lot of questions.
If you work on a Tarantino film, you know there's going to be foot stuff. But that's as far as it goes - he's not a total creep like some other powerful men in Hollywood. So it's accepted as eccentric.