{"id":36214,"date":"2023-12-16T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/book-review-the-cinema-speculation-by-quentin-tarantino\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T15:04:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T15:04:01","slug":"book-review-the-cinema-speculation-by-quentin-tarantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/book-review-the-cinema-speculation-by-quentin-tarantino\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Cinema Speculation by Quentin Tarantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_86\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>This book \u2018The Cinema Speculation\u2019 is written by acclaimed director Quentin Tarantino, where in he displays his talents as a film critic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tarantino\u2019s collection of essays about the important movies of his formative years is packed with everything needed for a powerful review: facts about the work, context about the creative decisions, and whether or not it was successful.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>Quentin Tarantino, the Oscar-winning director of classic films like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, offers plenty of attitude with his thoughts on movies ranging from Animal House to Bullitt to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Big Chill.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you agree with his assessments or not, he provides the original reporting and insights only a veteran director would notice, and his engaging style makes it impossible to leave an essay without learning something.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"TAXI DRIVER [1976] - Official Trailer (HD)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T5IligQP7Fo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The concepts he smashes together in two sentences about Taxi Driver would take a semester of film theory class to unpack.<\/p>\n<p>Taxi Driver isn\u2019t a \u201cparaphrased remake\u201d of The Searchers like Bogdanovich\u2019s What\u2019s Up, Doc? is a paraphrased remake of Hawks\u2019 Bringing Up Baby or De Palma\u2019s Dressed To Kill is a paraphrased remake of Hitchcock\u2019s Psycho. But it\u2019s about as close as you can get to a paraphrased remake without actually being one. Robert De Niro\u2019s taxi driving protagonist Travis Bickle is John Wayne\u2019s Ethan Edwards.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZEn9pnR_9GU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZEn9pnR_9GU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like any good critic, Tarantino reveals bits of himself as he discusses the films that are important to him, recalling where he was when he first saw them and what the crowd was like. Perhaps not surprisingly, the author was raised by movie-loving parents who took him along to watch whatever they were watching, even if it included violent or sexual imagery. At the age of 8 he had seen the very adult MASH three times.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) Official Trailer - Uma Thurman, David Carradine Action Movie HD\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WTt8cCIvGYI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the dark humor of Kill Bill makes much more sense. 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