NEGATIVE SPACE

Dafür ein sehr gutes, von Ella Taylor in L.A. Weekly: über Aldo Raines Hintergrundgeschichte, Tarantino-Nachahmer, John Landis und sein Movie Review Book.

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Meistens ist es besser, sich seinen eigenen Kopf zur Hintergrund-geschichte einer Figur zu machen. Manchmal ist man aber auch zu interessiert, als dass man nicht wissen wollte, was sich der Regisseur dabei gedacht hat:

"Aldo’s been fighting racism in the South; he was fighting the Klan before he ever got into World War II. And the fact that Aldo is part Indian is a very important aspect of my whole conception, even of turning the Jews into American Indians fighting the unfightable, losing cause. So that lead guy is legitimately an Indian. Also, the dichotomy of this Southern hillbilly and his verbiage bouncing off them is interesting."

Und wer nach neueren Gangsterfilm-Empfehlungen sucht, ist hier richtig:

"A case can be made that I re-created the gangster film and set forth the next higher subgenre that other directors followed, and there were some good films that came out. Love and a .45 was really good; it was very close to True Romance, Natural Born Killers and Reservoir Dogs combined. That might be the only film that guy ever made, but he had a gift for really funny dialogue. Lucky Number Slevin was pretty good. My least favorite was The Usual Suspects. But the ones I loved the most were from foreign countries — the Hong Kong gangster movies, [like] Johnnie To or Too Many Ways to Be Number 1."

Und über einen meiner Lieblingsregisseure, nämlich John Landis, habe ich ihn auch noch nicht sprechen gehört:

"It’s a little bit like ’78, ’79, ’80, where exuberance in filmmaking is not getting its due anymore. For example, The Blues Brothers never got any respect. Now it truly is beloved, as it goddamn well should be. I mean, it’s sad to think of what happened to John Landis after An American Werewolf in London, but in those two movies, he was the first fanboy director making movies out of his head."

Und schön zu wissen, dass man nicht der einzige ist, der ein Filmtagebuch führt:

"Even though I quit school when I was in junior high, I’m an academic at heart, and my study is cinema. I’ve been writing a movie-review book over the years, and I’m not in any hurry to finish it. I started writing the book because it wasn’t enough that I was just seeing movies — they were being lost to the atmosphere. It’s like my whole life, I’m studying for a professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate."