Quentin Tarantino Doesn’t Like This Legendary Director For Only One Tiny Reason

A prominent and proclaimed director himself, Quentin Tarantino never misses a chance to praise works of his colleagues, with some of them being Tarantino’s constant source of inspiration.

Being a true dedicated cinephile since the very young age, the director was captivated by early films of Martin Scorsese, Takashi Miike, Stanley Kubrick and Jean-Luc Godard that brought him to creation of modern cinematic masterpieces like Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Though it seems like Tarantino doesn’t enjoy all the film classics — including some big director’s films. In a podcast called Two Bears, One Cave held by Tom Segura Tarantino confessed he actually is not a fan of Alfred Hitchcock’s movies — in particular these movies’ endings.

The reason for this is that, according to Tarantino, Hitchcock just spoils suspense that was brilliantly built during the whole film, by a simple and even trivial final act, thus leaving almost nothing to say about it to the viewers.

This opinion may not be shared by many of Alfred Hitchcock’s fans given the fact that the Master of Suspense is mostly famous for his ambiguous end scenes that leave the viewers inspecting themselves what actually happened after all.

Of course, the techniques used by Hitchcock back then pale in comparison to almost any modern trailer, let alone the film itself, but who was on the threshold of the whole modern cinema world anyway? Hitchcock was definitely one of them.

And the confession made by Tarantino doesn’t mean that he doesn’t acknowledge one of the greatest filmmakers’ legacy — it was Hitchcock who reinvented the whole cinema industry by introducing new ways of shooting with different camera angles, set of the lights and some special techniques to create an eerie atmosphere.

Source: 2 Bears, 1 Cave podcast