Quentin Tarantino is not only a cult director, but also a walking film encyclopedia. He never holds back with his personal opinions. In 2009, for example, he talked about his favorite films that were released between 1992 and 2009. Tarantino’s favorites also include a Bruce Willis blockbuster, in which the star for the director set a career best has.
Quentin Tarantino loves Unbreakable with Bruce Willis
In the video, which Slash Film has picked up again in an article, Tarantino talks about his favorites from the last few decades. The his best feature film since 1992 is the dystopian action drama Battle Royale from Japan.
The last thing the director mentions in the video is Unbreakable by M. Night Shyamalan. In the film, Bruce Willis plays the lead role as David Dunn, who, after a train accident, is the only unscathed survivor and realizes that he is invulnerable and therefore a kind of superhero.
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Tarantino says about the performance in Unbreakable:
Not only did he the best acting performance by Bruce Willis ever captured on film. It’s also the brilliant retelling of the Superman mythology.
Shyamalan stages his unusual superhero story as a melancholic, quiet character drama. Unbreakable is also one wonderful homage to comics himself. The fascination of the fans, who look at the colorful covers with shining eyes and look forward to superhuman fantasy stories every time, is the basic mood that the director incorporates into his film.
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What about Quentin Tarantino’s next film as a director?
For years, the Pulp Fiction director has talked about being… retired after 10 films behind the camera wants. Most recently, Tarantino planned a work called The Movie Critic, which was set in California in 1977 and was about a cynical film critic. At some point there was even information that Brad Pitt’s character Cliff Booth from Tarantino’s last film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was supposed to return.
In April 2024 there was news that Tarantino had completely scrapped the project The Movie Critic no longer shoots at all wool. What will actually be his 10th and final directorial work has not been known since then.