Quentin Tarantino Is Writing a Book About a WWII Vet Who Finds Joy in Watching Foreign Films
As Quentin Tarantino prepares to retire from filmmaking (maybe), it doesn’t mean he’s going to stop working and telling stories. During a recent interview with DGA Quarterly Magazine, the filmmaker revealed that he’s writing a novel and the main theme of the story is movies, which, as you know, Tarantino has a love for.
The story will center on a WWII veteran who isn’t a fan of the kind of films that Hollywood is producing in the 1950s, but his love for movies rekindled when he discovers foreign films. Here’s what Tarantino had to say about the book:
“Right now, I’m working on a book. And I’ve got this character who had been in World War II and he saw a lot of bloodshed there. And now he’s back home, and it’s like the ’50s, and he doesn’t respond to movies anymore. He finds them juvenile after everything that he’s been through. As far as he’s concerned, Hollywood movies are movies. And so then, all of a sudden, he starts hearing about these foreign movies by Kurosawa and Fellini…And so he’s like, ‘Well, maybe they might have something more than this phony Hollywood stuff.’ So he finds himself drawn to these things and some of them he likes and some of them he doesn’t like and some of them he doesn’t understand, but he knows he’s seeing something.”
Tarantino has been doing a lot of research and preparation for the novel, and as he says, that involves “rewatching and, in some cases, watching for the first time movies I’ve heard about forever, but from my character’s perspective. So I’m enjoying watching them but I’m also [thinking], ‘How is he taking it? How is he looking at it?'”
This definitely sounds like the kind of story that Tarantino would want to tell, and as a fan of Tarantino’s stories I’d be interested in reading it… if it’s something that he actually decides to finish and publish. What do you all think about the story that Tarantino is looking to tell in his book? Does that sound like something that would interest you?