{"id":9362,"date":"2018-02-21T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=9362"},"modified":"2018-02-21T17:05:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T00:05:18","slug":"tarantino-on-hitchcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/21\/tarantino-on-hitchcock\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarantino on Hitchcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a two-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/breteastonellis.com\/unedited-new-york-times-quentin-tarantino-article\/\">interview<\/a> with Quentin Tarantino:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;People discover <em>North by Northwest<\/em> at 22 and think it\u2019s wonderful when actually it\u2019s a very mediocre movie. I\u2019ve always felt that Hitchcock\u2019s acolytes took his cinematic and story ideas further. I love Brian De Palma\u2019s Hitchcock movies. I love Richard Franklin\u2019s and Curtis Hanson\u2019s Hitchcock meditations. I prefer those to actual Hitchcock.&#8221; And Tarantino also prefers\u2014passionately defends\u2014Gus Van Sant\u2019s meta art-manque shot-by-shot remake of <em>Psycho <\/em>over the original Hitchcock film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I always knew my sensibilities were incompatible with this guy&#8217;s, even if he does know how to compose a nice shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a two-year-old interview with Quentin Tarantino: &#8220;People discover North by Northwest at 22 and think it\u2019s wonderful when actually it\u2019s a very mediocre movie. I\u2019ve always felt that Hitchcock\u2019s acolytes took his cinematic and story ideas further. I love Brian De Palma\u2019s Hitchcock movies. I love Richard Franklin\u2019s and Curtis Hanson\u2019s Hitchcock meditations. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-studies","category-quotables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}