Quentin Tarantino just won my slashy little heart.

[tzikeh]

Tarantino and I have had a long-time love/meh relationship, but right now, he's totally my hero. He was just on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, and he's his usual nutbar self, but he completely validates fandom in a way that no other celebrity/Hollywood-creative type ever has (that I know of), and not in a jokey, wink-wink way. He strongly encourages movie audiences (and, by extrapolation, tv audiences, comic-book readers, etc.) to ignore authorial intent if they want to.

Transcription of some relevant bits:

Quentin: It's interesting what you're saying, because, you don't really have to be... some... movie expert to be able to play the subtext game.

Craig: Right.

Quentin: You know, you can watch any movie, and it doesn't matter what the director was thinking, or what the people making the movie was [sic] thinking, if you can make a case for it, you can lay in a subtext, into a film, make it a lot, much more enjoyable way to watch the film.

Craig: Right. So, by a person looking a (unintelligible)

Quentin: Like gay subtext! Gay subtext for instance! Always makes every movie better.

Part I of the interview:

(if you can't see embedded YouTube, view it here.)

Part II of the interview:

(if you can't see embedded YouTube, view it here.)

Comments

:D

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

If you have not seen Quentin Tarantino's infamous speech about Top Gun (from the movie Sleep With Me, but I have a vague memory that the scene was said to be written in because he used to hold forth on that kind of thing at parties and the filmmakers decided it should go in the movie), you ought to YouTube that shit.

Re: :D

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I have seen it, and he talks about it in this interview as well. :)

[ramblinsuze.livejournal.com]

I thought that interview was awesome. It's good to see a director encouraging people to look for deeper meaning, even if what you discover isn't what the writer/director/whomever intended. That's a great attitude. And, yes, gay subtext makes everything better! :D

Re: :D

[very-improbable.livejournal.com]

Haha awesome. I can't watch the clips right now but I am looking forward to it. :)

[ignazwisdom.livejournal.com]

Quentin: Like gay subtext! Gay subtext for instance! Always makes every movie better.

I really, really wonder about Quentin sometimes. (And I generally always love him, as a dude if not always as a filmmaker!)

[ariante.livejournal.com]

Haha, love it. Quentin speaks truth.

Re: :D

[ghudson.livejournal.com]

I've seen that speech! I remember nothing else about the movie but that part stuck with me, because it was so awesome.

[faith-girl222.livejournal.com]

that interview is amazing! thanks for bringing it to my attention. also, WOW he reminds me of rodney mckay.