Quentin Tarantino compares Hollywood to a “sausage factory”!
Never stingy with killer formulas, the director dismantles contemporary Hollywood cinema. For him, the majority of current films suffer from the same defects… to the point of making him want to read books rather than go to the cinema.
After gratuitously destroying Paul Dano, the filmmaker aims broader: Quentin Tarantino guns down all of Hollywood!
In a text published by the magazine Sight & Soundthe director draws a particularly harsh observation on the state of American cinema.
“Today, it’s almost impossible for me to watch a new movie without dissecting it to the bone“, he writes. The filmmaker then continues with a particularly violent charge against the industry:
“Flaws, implausibilities, the desire to flatter the public, poorly chosen actors or simply monumental bullshit generally torpedo each new film that comes out of this tasteless sausage factory that was once called Hollywood…“
And Tarantino doesn’t stop there. According to him, the problem has become so deep, after Covid, that contemporary cinema inspires him more contempt than admiration:
“Today, the very idea of what a film is inspires more contempt in me than generosity. And it’s quite logical, because in comparison, the films of the last six years make the 1980s look like the 1930s…“
The director nevertheless admits to having appreciated some recent works, notably West Side Story by Steven Spielberg and the two chapters of Horizon: An American Saga by Kevin Costner. But none gave him the pleasure he once felt: “Nothing really captivated me and took me into that magical territory of pleasure that was the reason I loved cinema more than any other art. Today I prefer to read a book.”
A recent film, however, found favor in his eyes: The Ripthe crime thriller produced by Netflix with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon: “It’s a suspense film that captivated me from start to finish.”he writes. Tarantino salutes in particular “the direction of Joe Carnahan, the excellent casting” but above all “the sensational scenario” signed Joe Carnahan and Michael McGrale.
While he criticizes Hollywood, Tarantino continues to prepare his own projects. His next work will be a play, The Popinjay Cavalierexpected in London’s West End in 2027.
