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No Pauline Kael: Tarantino’s latest film focuses on the film critic of a porn magazine

Quentin Tarantino He has been determined for some time that his next film, his tenth, will also be his last. That later he will retire from directing to dedicate himself to writing, so there are many expectations in the film that it happens once upon a time in hollywood. Since finishing this film, Tarantino has published two books: a novel that expands on the aforementioned Once upon a time and cinema meditationsan anthology of essays that in a way anticipated what he was going to do next: a film centered on someone who writes about films.

Taking into account Tarantino’s sympathies, many speculated at the time that the protagonist of The Movie Critic (such is its confirmed title) was to be Pauline Kael: one of the most influential critics in history. However, this theory began to lose weight through the various public appearances that Tarantino made afterwards, until he via Deadline has confirmed that its protagonist has nothing to do with this review: in fact, it is inspired by a very little-known writer, who developed film reviews within the framework of a cheap porn interview during the 70s. That is The Movie Critic.

The final film will therefore be set in California in 1977, the same year that one of Tarantino’s fetishes was released: The ex-prisoner of Koreadirected by john flynn with script of paul schrader. Tarantino has actually been in Cannes, giving a talk in more detail about his future, and has hosted a screening of this thriller. Schrader’s legacy is strong in him, because in fact he has added that his protagonist will go through a plot arc very similar to that of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver.

Schrader, of course, signed the script for this film that he directed Martin Scorsese (also present in Cannes with Killers of the Flower Moon). This is how Tarantino talks about his new character: “All the other things were too dirty to read, but there was a porn rag which had a very interesting film section. This guy wrote about conventional cinema. I think it was very good. Very cynical. The reviews of him were a cross between the first howard stern and what Travis Bickle could be if he were a movie critic. Think about Travis’s journal entries.”

Tarantino insists: “This critic was very, very funny. Very rude. He insulted all the time. He used racist slurs. But the shit about him was so much fun. He wrote as if he was 55, but he was only in his 30s. He died before he was 40. It was not clear how for a while, but now I have done some more research and I think it was complications due to alcoholism”. Tarantino never manages to identify him, and he has already revealed that the porn magazine will be called in his film The Popstar Pages.

The Movie Critic centers on “a guy who really lived, but was never really famous, and wrote movie reviews for a porno magazine.” Tarantino adds that he’s looking for a middle-aged actor, and that he’ll be someone he’s never worked with. “I haven’t decided yet but he will be someone from about 35 years. He will definitely be a new actor for me. I have an idea of ​​someone who I imagine doing very well… ”, he hints. Soon he will move to The Angels and it will start with the casting.

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