As though the heavens parted and a beam of light shined down upon my bleak little world, Quentin Tarantino, the maestro behind Kill Bill and Inglourious “Shouda Won Best Original Screenplay” Basterds, told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer that he would love to direct a western, or a rom-com:
“I would love to make a full-on, no bullshit Western,” he declared. “I’d love to make a romantic comedy, and take it out of the ghetto it’s been exiled to.”
He continues, (because he’s awesome):
“True Romance’s title was not ironic. Sure, James Gandolfini almost beats Patricia Arquette to death and she has to blow him away with a shotgun, but that doesn’t mean it’s not romantic. It just has to be done my way, and I think people want me to do it my way.”
Tarantino does have a way with romance. If you saw Jackie Brown, there is a breathtaking moment when Max Cherry (Robert Forster) gets his first glimpse of the inimitable Pam Grier as Jackie. The world seems to slow down as she approaches him and suddenly the jaded bail bondsman is reborn as a young man in love.
He also knows when actors have great chemistry together, so he’d avoid any miscasting — a huge flaw in most Hollywood rom-coms. Tarantino knew, for example, Uma Thurman and John Travolta would look good dancing together, long before we did.
Well. I’ll say this much. This movie doesn’t even exist yet and I’m more excited for it (the rom-com) than I will ever be over some Gerard Butler-Aniston pairing, or a Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz outing. NEXT! I shout into the cinema heavens.
Photo via Tarantino.com
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