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Would you rather a serious CR in the Sixties OR a Quentin Tarantino CR in the early 2000's?

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  • DEKE_RIVERSDEKE_RIVERS
    Posts: 2,328
    Casino Royale is a very Tarantino-esque novel. He would certainly have made a good movie out of it, but without EON involved.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited 7:39pm Posts: 5,817
    thedove wrote: »
    He's socially awkward for sure. I think he's a brilliant filmmaker. I don't think Tarantino has worked with large budgets all the time. I seem to recall Reservoir Dogs being made on a small budget. He definitely is a cinephile who knows film and different genres. Could he pull off a Bond film? I am not sure but I would love to see him try.

    Reservoir Dogs is one of these strange films that seems to be considered 'low budget'. Perhaps for a Hollywood film it was at the time (although I think nowadays we wouldn't quite see it like that), and I'm sure for its scale it had limitations. But it was financed by a combination of Tarantino selling his scripts, and Harvey Keitel (who also helped get a lot of the talent onboard). I think the budget was about a million, if not more. I guess that's low budget in a very specific context, but very few independent filmmakers would ever get that amount to make their debut, and few would have that level of talent behind them in terms of crew and cast. It's not nothing.

    Compare that to Christopher Nolan's first film which cost about $6,000. Self financed and very much an independent production (to the point it couldn't have been done without Nolan taking on the directing, cinematography, and editing responsibilities). Same for films like Primer, El Mariachi, Blair Witch etc. In fact, Tarantino's early efforts as an independent, low budget filmmaker ended in disaster if anyone's seen what exists of My Best Friend's Birthday. He was never a lone, independent filmmaker, but a director who, by his own admission, had a good bit of luck and the right people behind him. That's not a criticism of him, but he's not a DIY filmmaker.

    I think the biggest budget he's dealt with is in the range of 100 million. Again, not nothing.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,838
    Serious film in the 60s. I don’t want Tarantino touching Bond.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,838
    Serious film in the 60s. I don’t want Tarantino touching Bond.
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