Tarantino, the Genre

Rating: 10/10 (29 January 2013)

The only thing i hate more about Tarantino movies is the end... it hits me like a sledgehammer when i realize that it will be two or three more for another one, and no other director leaves its mark the way Tarantino does.
Someone said that he is not a director but a Genre of cinema, you have horror, action, comedy, crime, drama, etc, etc, then you just say... it's a Tarantino movie, and for the geek or movie lover thats enough.
I was more excited for Django than i was for Inglorious Basterds, only for Dicaprio, it's one of those actors that brings everything to the screen, he did since the very great big role (in my opinion) of its career, Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, a month before the Martin Scorcese epic Gangs of New York. I did not like him, is face was just to perfect, did not like him him titanic nor the beach, but he became an actor in Catch Me If You Can, then of course after Gangs of NY sent him to the stars when he did not stop partnering with the legendary Scorcese.
The first evil character of his career, from what i've read, and one of the most scary and incredibly vivid characters that i've seen in a few years, i remember people talking about Christoph Waltz's charismatic character on Basterds, that people loved to hate, and for that he won the his first Oscar, and well deserved. But he was not evil, he was a psychopath that was just very cool, too cool, to relaxed, not showing more than a serial killer would show while talking to the police.
Now Leo's Calvin Candie was vivid and extravagant, he did not talk with his mouth he talked with he's entire face and hands, you laughed when he talked on those silly/serious parts, but when that, always present scenes in every Tarantino movie, when the characters sit down and things go from serious to utterly psychopathic interrogation/conversation table talks, just like that amazingly powerful tavern talk on Basterds.
But by god... i jumped inside and out, when the already visibly annoyed but calm Calvin Candie explodes, to enraged psycho... sweet Jesus. I saw an interview with him, Foxx and Tarantino where Foxx told that he (dicaprio) was having difficulties channeling the character due to the 'N' word, but Foxx and Sam Jackson told him to go full throttle cause people realize when it's not real, and he had to be.
And my friends... he was, that last part he showed all the evil that was probably as real on screen as it was back at that time, i do not get impressed that easily with characters like these cause in movies with serial killers like Lecter or Jigsaw and others then tend to not express emotions, because that's the reality.
But that would never be the case in any Tarantino movie, Christoph Waltz on Basterds character was scary and incredibly intelligent, just like Jules Winnfield (Sam Jackson) in Pulp Fiction, great lines of conversations that will remain in history of cinema.
Tarantino said he likes more to write novels than movies, Inglorious Basterds was supposed to be a novel, that's why he writes every single line to every character like he would do for a masterpiece novel, every uttered word grabs the audience like the action and violence on the movie, you almost see the words like a graffiti on screen. And of course every word comes with a gesture and a facial movement, either Christoph Waltz or Dicaprio are both brilliant.
Now everything else, the violence, the action, are Tarantino's Tags, and of course the Soundtrack is unique to him, it's like watching a movie that is also a big video clip with 4 or 5 genres of music, from hip hop to country to rock, for the average cinema lover, it will be difficult to accept the way its shot, the music of course, it does not match to what you're knowledge of western is, and the less serious tone of the matter as well.
Not even Spielberg or Scorcese get to have there marks on films, love them, get always excited when their films come out, as well as David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson and some others, Tarantino as a mark, the mark that usually is seen on independent films, the films that Hollywood does not like cause it's too outside the box, and Tarantino it's so outside that the box it's not even in the horizon. You either like the art of movie making or you just like movies thats the difference between Quentin Tarantino and everyone else.
PS. Dicaprio was finally on a Tarantino film, now please go for Denzel, Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, DeNiro (again), Morgan Freeman, Vincent D'Onofrio, bah... too many already.