{"id":292096,"date":"2024-02-27T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/forgotten-films-tarantino-helped-to-bring-back-to-pop-culture"},"modified":"2024-02-27T13:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:37:30","slug":"forgotten-films-tarantino-helped-to-bring-back-to-pop-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/forgotten-films-tarantino-helped-to-bring-back-to-pop-culture","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Movies Tarantino Helped to Deliver Again to Pop Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div readability=\"440.4753156\">\n<p>Few directors have the gift of gab on the level of <a href=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/quentin-tarantino-movies-ranking\/\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a>, who compulsively recommends old movies whenever he opens his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>On his own <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em> and the <em>Pure Cinema Podcast<\/em>, where he appears as a frequent guest, Tarantino has introduced contemporary audiences to many films, often forgotten ones from the 1970s, from which he famously draws inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the auteur has even morphed into a critic with his book <em>Cinema Speculation<\/em>, it feels like Tarantino wants to tell us something vital about the movies he loves. Discover the forgotten films Tarantino rescued from obscurity.<\/p>\n<h2>Dark Star (1974)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1245915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1245915\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245915 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Dark Star 1974\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245915\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Star 1974\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Dark-Star-1974-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1245915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Bryanston Distributing Company.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first film of legendary director <a href=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/john-carpenters-best-films-ranked-best-to-worst\/\">John Carpenter<\/a>, the sci-fi comedy<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lwISbJfRNz0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Dark Star<\/a><\/em>, sometimes gets overlooked as a goofy bit of schlock Carpenter came up with on his way to making <em>Halloween<\/em>, which cemented the director&#8217;s reputation and fortune with its 1978 release.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dark Star<\/em>, by all accounts a thorough collaboration between Carpenter and his co-writer Dan O&#8217;Bannon, certainly lacks the polish of its sci-fi contemporaries like <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> or <em>Star Wars: A New Hope<\/em>. However, the film holds its own in Carpenter&#8217;s catalog and gives us a window into the culture of its era, albeit adapted into space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s the one talking [<em>Dark Star<\/em>] down,\u201d Tarantino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2qQFWpHyAJo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">explains<\/a> on the <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em>, referring to Carpenter. \u201cHe even said to the effect, \u2018Well, I don&#8217;t respond to it because I see its student film origins.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see very little student film origins,\u201d Tarantino adds. \u201cTo me, it just looks like a good science fiction movie\u2026 It&#8217;s a science-fiction masterpiece. It&#8217;s a counter-culture, anti-establishment, hippy filmmaking masterpiece.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Straw Dogs (1971)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1157356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1157356\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><picture decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1157356\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 3\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3.jpg.webp 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-300x169.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-1024x576.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-768x432.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-50x28.jpg.webp 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-180x100.jpg.webp 180w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-150x84.jpg.webp 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Straw Dogs (1971)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-180x100.jpg 180w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3.jpg\" alt=\"Straw Dogs (1971)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-180x100.jpg 180w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/slike-4-3-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript>\n<\/picture><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1157356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Cinerama Releasing Corporation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the years, Quentin Tarantino has made no secret of the director who most influenced him: Sam Peckinpah, the hard-living World War 2 veteran and director of gritty Westerns and crime movies. Of Peckinpah&#8217;s output, Tarantino has claimed only two films count as true masterpieces: <em>The Wild Bunch<\/em> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=izkEZAjaIbk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Straw Dogs<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While not exactly forgotten, <em>Straw Dogs<\/em>, which stars Dustin Hoffman as a clueless husband unable to protect his wife from menacing day laborers in the English countryside, has a reputation as a tough film to watch, mostly due to one scene we won&#8217;t get into here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing about <em>Straw Dogs <\/em>is necessarily enjoyable,\u201d Tarantino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kglcLQjJWsQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> on the <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em>. \u201cIt is a rough movie. It is rather horrific. Little by little, things are pushed a little too far, then a little farther, then they spiral out of control. There&#8217;s not a clear read on any character in this movie.\u201d He pauses before adding, \u201cAnd that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s art.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Last Run (1971)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1245916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1245916\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245916 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere in The Last Run (1971)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 4\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245916\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971.jpg\" alt=\"George C. Scott and Trish Van Devere in The Last Run (1971)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 4\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Last-Run-1971-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1245916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Richard Fleischer&#8217;s 1971 crime drama, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=11CXO4h7Ypg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Last Run<\/em><\/a>, starring George C. Scott and Tony Musante, features Scott as an aging criminal coming out of retirement in Portugal to drive an escaped assassin (Musante) across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFleischer had a flair for lurid material,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/videoarchivespodcast.com\/episodes\/the-last-run-rustlers-rhapsody-the-jet-benny-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> Tarantino on the <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em>. Of Scott&#8217;s performance, he muses, \u201cIf Bogart were to make movies in the &#8217;70s, I could totally see Bogart playing this role.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The film has a low-key charm that only led it to modest success in its own time. Tarantino tells us, \u201cIt has a very slight story, but like the route George C. Scott is planning, it&#8217;s a straight-ahead line but with major turns, and everything changes when you make those turns.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Rage (1972)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1245917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1245917\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245917 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Rage (1972)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 5\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245917\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972.jpg\" alt=\"Rage (1972)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 5\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Rage-1972-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1245917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Another George C. Scott star vehicle celebrated by Tarantino, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dRaKadwN-Jk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Rage<\/a><\/em>, finds the middle-aged Scott as a rancher living in Montana with his son, who falls victim to a military test gone awry when an aircraft leaks poisonous gas over the young boy and his sheep herd, killing both the boy and his animals. Scott, who narrowly avoids the same fate, goes on to exact his revenge on the reckless authorities who perpetrated the crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe reigns h-ll on the institution,\u201d Tarantino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d7Ttm0GhdsA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tells<\/a> <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em> listeners, \u201cwhich is the real culprit in this, because every member of this institution thinks they&#8217;re doing the institution&#8217;s bidding and the public good.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Star 80 (1983)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1245914\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1245914\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245914 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Eric Roberts in Star 80 (1983)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 6\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1245914\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Roberts in Star 80 (1983)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 6\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Star-80-film-1983-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1245914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the most emotionally devastating movies of the 1980s, Bob Fosse&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tb7WdswtuOo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>Star 80<\/em><\/a>, took the then-recent murder of model-turned-actress Dorothy Stratten (played by Mariel Hemingway) as its subject matter. Stratten, the lover of the director Peter Bogdanovich, could not escape the pursuit of her spurned ex-husband, Paul Snider (played by Eric Roberts), a possessive loser with delusions of grandeur.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2GE8Fn5XhCA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Speaking<\/a> on the <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em>, Tarantino describes <em>Star 80<\/em> as a \u201csnazzy, entertaining, poppy movie galvanized by a tour de force performance by Eric Roberts\u2014not only great but my favorite performance of that year.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Delirium (1979)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246140\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246140\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246140 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Turk Cekovsky and Terry TenBroek in Delirium (1979)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246140\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979.jpg\" alt=\"Turk Cekovsky and Terry TenBroek in Delirium (1979)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 7\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Delirium-1979-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246140\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Mexico Films S.A.\/New Gold Entertainment\/Odyssey Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The low-budget, regionally produced exploitation flick <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ku_nRpcw9Iw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Delirium<\/a><\/em>, directed by Peter Maris, focuses on a killer sent by a right-wing cabal to restore order to a city turned upside down by violent criminals. As the movie progresses, the killer, a Vietnam vet who hardly speaks, develops some ideas of his own about the cause of all the madness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really a movie where if you&#8217;re out looking for information on it, you might not want to,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MTHZXvrl620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">advises<\/a> <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em> co-host Roger Avary, emphasizing its \u201cfantastic tonal shifts\u201d would hold less power if previewed.<\/p>\n<p>Tarantino builds on this, underlining that the script will \u201ctake you places you don&#8217;t expect to go.\u201d Later, he adds, \u201cThe one-note aspect is part of the effect because the movie has other fish to fry. It has another story to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246139\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246139 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Faye Dunaway, Anna Anderson, and Donna Palmer in Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 8\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246139\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978.jpg\" alt=\"Faye Dunaway, Anna Anderson, and Donna Palmer in Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Eyes-of-Laura-Mars-1978-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Columbia Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Irvin Kershner, a director most famous for helming <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em>, made an entirely different kind of movie just two years before with <em>The Eyes of Laura Mars<\/em>,\u00a0a film that revels in the disco world of 1970s New York City. The story revolves around Laura Mars, a fashion designer, played by Faye Dunaway, who can&#8217;t stop witnessing murders in her head from the killer&#8217;s point of view.<\/p>\n<p>The film, written by John Carpenter, \u201ccould have been an American giallo,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v0S-CB4WPgg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> Tarantino on the <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em>, referring to the Italian slasher-mystery genre popularized by directors like Dario Argento. \u201cIt captures a uniquely authentic but different high-class Manhattan than <em>Dressed to Kill<\/em>. It captures the disco Manhattan. And this movie has one of the best disco soundtracks of its era.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Rolling Thunder (1977)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1025854\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1025854\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1025854 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Rolling Thunder William Devane\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 9\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Rolling-Thunder-e1708740244158.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1025854\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Rolling-Thunder-e1708740244158.png\" alt=\"Rolling Thunder William Devane\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 9\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1025854\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: American International Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>William Devane had his first starring role with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yWpfuwSek-Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Rolling Thunder<\/a><\/em>, a movie about a returning Vietnam vet who ends up on a quest for revenge after some thugs interrupt his homecoming with stomach-churning brutality. The film features a young Tommy Lee Jones in a supporting role, who, together with Devane, ventures across the border to Mexico to straighten out the baddies.<\/p>\n<p>Rhapsodizing on the film in his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cinema-Speculation-Quentin-Tarantino\/dp\/0063112582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cinema Speculation<\/a><\/em>, Tarantino writes, \u201cI loved <em>Rolling Thunder<\/em> so much that years before it became available on Vestron Home Video\u2014for a period of ten years\u2014I followed it all over Los Angeles, whenever and wherever it played\u2026What I used to claim about <em>Rolling Thunder<\/em> was it was the best combination of character study and action film ever made. And it still is.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Hardcore (1979)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246138\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246138 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"George C. Scott and Leslie Ackerman in Hardcore (1979)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 10\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246138\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979.jpg\" alt=\"George C. Scott and Leslie Ackerman in Hardcore (1979)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 10\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Hardcore-1979-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Columbia Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Paul Schrader pushed the envelope for the time with his 1979 film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=boKe4FSYhJM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><em>Hardcore<\/em><\/a>, which stars George C. Scott as a devoutly religious Midwesterner who ventures into the seedier side of Los Angeles to rescue his daughter from the adult film world. In classic Schrader style, the movie pushes a principled character to his breaking point in a way that terrifies and amuses the viewer. While far from a perfect film, <em>Hardcore<\/em> mostly delivers on its fish-out-of-water premise, though some moralism does creep in near the end.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s supposed to possess the class of a studio picture, but simultaneously appeal to cinema of sensation viewers,\u201d writes Tarantino in <em>Cinema Speculation<\/em>. And for the film&#8217;s first hour, Schrader makes a compelling movie with undeniable power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concluding his review, Tarantino notes, \u201cWhen I first reached out to Schrader, I warned him that, while I liked the film&#8217;s first half, I&#8217;m very rough on it and him in the second half. He wrote back, \u2018<em>I don&#8217;t think you could be harsher than I am on the second half of the film<\/em>.&#8217;\u201d Hey, nobody said the films Tarantino recommends don&#8217;t have their flaws!<\/p>\n<h2>Daisy Miller (1974)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246136\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246136 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Cybill Shepherd and Barry Brown in Daisy Miller (1974)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 11\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246136\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974.jpg\" alt=\"Cybill Shepherd and Barry Brown in Daisy Miller (1974)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 11\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Daisy-Miller-1974-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Paramount Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking of flawed films Tarantino loves, Henry James&#8217; tragic novella <em>Daisy Miller <\/em>tells the story of an innocent abroad in Europe looking for love in the late nineteenth century. Daisy, the protagonist, finds herself courted by a young Italian man, while a jealous fellow American expatriate tries to throw cold water on the budding romance.<\/p>\n<p>Director Peter Bogdanovich adapted <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_NhciYKjWEA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Daisy Miller<\/a><\/em> for the screen in 1974, and the poor box office performance marked a major downhill turn in his career. Tarantino has taken up the cause of resurrecting the film&#8217;s reputation, writing in <em>Cinema Speculation<\/em> that what sets the film apart \u201cfrom the whole <em>Masterpiece Theatre<\/em> vibe of most classic literary film adaptations is the director&#8217;s approach. He tries to turn the first half of the film into a comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the film gains power as it progresses and builds to a gut-punch ending,\u201d he continues. \u201cBogdanovich&#8217;s film is very funny, yet it leaves a viewer profoundly sad as you watch the final credits fade up.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Joe (1970)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246137\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246137\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246137 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Peter Boyle in Joe (1970)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 12\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246137\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Boyle in Joe (1970)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 12\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Joe-1970-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Cannon Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the funniest movies about hippy culture and the reactionary elements it spawned, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OLcMHH405Ig\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Joe<\/a><\/em>, directed by John G. Avildsen, asks viewers to empathize with the parents of the flower children. Featuring a young Susan Sarandon and an outrageously small-minded Peter Boyle, <em>Joe<\/em> shows us how a hatred of hippiedom led some members of the Greatest Generation to lose their minds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs harsh, and ugly, and violent as the movie <em>Joe<\/em> is,\u201d writes Tarantino in <em>Cinema Speculation<\/em>, \u201cat its heart, it&#8217;s a kettle-black comedy about class in America, bordering on satire, while also being savagely vicious.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Matador (1986)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246141\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246141 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Antonio Banderas in Matador (1986)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 13\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246141\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986.jpg\" alt=\"Antonio Banderas in Matador (1986)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Matador-1986-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Iberoamericana Distribuci\u00f3n.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pedro Almod\u00f3var, one of the directors Tarantino claims inspired him most in his video store days during the 1980s\u2014after the New Hollywood of the previous decade had pivoted to a corporate-driven model that favored happy endings\u2014made an unusual thriller in 1986 called <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nswrsdEJVbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Matador<\/a><\/em>. In the opening of the film, which stars Antonio Banderas as a student bullfighter who gets caught up in a series of murders, a former bullfighter indulges in a bout of self-love while a montage of slasher film plays on the television.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember when I worked at my Manhattan Beach video store, Video Archives, and talked to the other employees about the types of movies I wanted to make, and the things I wanted to do inside of those movies,\u201d Tarantino explains in <em>Cinematic Speculation<\/em>. \u201cAnd I would use the example of the opening of Almod\u00f3var&#8217;s <em>Matador<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Summer of &#8217;42 (1970)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246144\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246144 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Gary Grimes and Jennifer O'Neill in Summer of '42 (1971)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 14\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246144\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film.jpg\" alt=\"Gary Grimes and Jennifer O'Neill in Summer of '42 (1971)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 14\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Summer-of-42-film-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Set on the island of Nantucket during the Second World War, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HK-AgsP0zfY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Summer of &#8217;42<\/a><\/em>, directed by John Mulligan and adapted from the memoir of screenwriter Herman Raucher, revolves around a teenage boy who falls in love with an older woman whose husband has gone off to fight overseas. The coming-of-age story had phenomenal success at its release but largely fell off the radar for several decades afterward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe nature of the comedy had never been quite seen before and people really responded to it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/purecinemapodcast.libsyn.com\/ib-technicolor-at-the-vista-with-quentin-tarantino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> Tarantino on the <em>Pure Cinema Podcast<\/em>, before explaining that <em>Summer of &#8217;42<\/em> then pivots somewhere darker. \u201cPeople just wept in the theater, because it has a devastating third act. If you ask me, it&#8217;s one of the best third acts in seventies cinema.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Mandingo (1975)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246143\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246143 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Mandingo (1975)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 15\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246143\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film.jpg\" alt=\"Mandingo (1975)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 15\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mandingo-film-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Paramount Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Critics have never known quite what to do with director Richard Fleischer&#8217;s shocking film<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Px83VZ0QB6s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mandingo<\/a><\/em>, a campy historical drama that, at turns, feels ahead of its time and, at others, feels more than a bit retrograde. The story, which centers on events at a slave plantation in the Antebellum South, covers some of the same ground as Tarantino&#8217;s film <em>Django Unchained<\/em>, which pays it homage in several scenes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike <em>The Godfather<\/em>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/purecinemapodcast.libsyn.com\/ib-technicolor-at-the-vista-with-quentin-tarantino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">explains<\/a> Tarantino on the <em>Pure Cinema Podcast<\/em>, \u201cit&#8217;s a very artistically rendered adaptation of a really trashy paperback.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>What&#8217;s Up, Doc? (1972)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1011186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1011186\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1011186 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"What's Up, Doc 1972\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 16\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Whats-Up-Doc-1972-Warner-Bros-e1708740443657.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1011186\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Whats-Up-Doc-1972-Warner-Bros-e1708740443657.jpg\" alt=\"What's Up, Doc 1972\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 16\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1011186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Director Peter Bogdanovich had a streak of three back-to-back hits in the early 1970s\u2014<em>The Last Picture Show<\/em>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HejpRrOWIRc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">What&#8217;s Up, Doc?<\/a><\/em>, and <em>Paper Moon<\/em>\u2014that ranks among the most remarkable streaks in cinema history. Why this streak ended would require more space than this article allows, but suffice it to say that overconfidence ran into tragedy followed by bitterness and, ultimately, redemption.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s Up, Doc?<\/em>, the middle film in the Bogdanovich streak, sometimes gets overshadowed by the two films that bookend it. Tarantino has done his best to remind audiences of the film&#8217;s grandeur, referring to it as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/comedy-movies-quentin-tarantino-calls-untouchable\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">untouchable<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/purecinemapodcast.libsyn.com\/ib-technicolor-at-the-vista-with-quentin-tarantino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">noting<\/a> that it contains \u201cthe greatest comedy chase scene of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Piranha (1978)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1032612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1032612\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1032612 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Piranha\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 17\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Piranha-e1708740511549.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1032612\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Piranha-e1708740511549.jpg\" alt=\"Piranha\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 17\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1032612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: New World Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the wake of the birth of the modern blockbuster that began with <em>Jaws<\/em>, a rush to replicate the film&#8217;s success led to many ripoffs. The best of these, director Joe Dante&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXs2v9tFDeY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Piranha<\/a><\/em>, took the fearsome freshwater fish as its monster, gave it some genetic enhancements, and set it loose in an American summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you ask me, <em>Piranha<\/em> is as fun as any movie made in the seventies,\u201d Tarantino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=ySapbM_NusA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a> on the <em>Video Archives Podcast<\/em>. \u201cI&#8217;ve seen it eight or nine times since it came out, and I&#8217;ll probably see it three more times. And I&#8217;ll enjoy it every time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Unstoppable (2010)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_723503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-723503\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-723503 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Unstoppable Denzel Washington Chris Pine\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 18\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Unstoppable-e1708740550535.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-723503\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Unstoppable-e1708740550535.png\" alt=\"Unstoppable Denzel Washington Chris Pine\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 18\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-723503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: 20th Century Fox.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The last film of director Tony Scott, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fyuoIqeL-bc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Unstoppable<\/a><\/em>, could easily seem like a missable mishmash of cheap action thrills if one doesn&#8217;t look too closely. Starring Denzel Washington opposite Chris Pine, this runaway train movie has the velocity of its subject matter and offers up a novel fear for the contemporary paranoiac\u2014exploding trains in small towns anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purecinemapodcast.libsyn.com\/final-films-w-quentin-tarantino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">According<\/a> to Tarantino, \u201cIt really is one of the best examples of a director going out by doing his thing that he does better than anyone else on an incredibly high note\u2026It just completely holds up\u2014such an exciting movie.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246145\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246145 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Charles Bronson and Perry Lopez in Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 19\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246145\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989.jpg\" alt=\"Charles Bronson and Perry Lopez in Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 19\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kinjite-Forbidden-Subjects-1989-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Paramount Pictures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Charles Bronson teamed up with director J. Lee Thompson one last time for <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hk8_bERekbo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects<\/a><\/em>, as unsettling an action movie as anyone will ever see. The film follows Detective Crowe, played by Bronson, who gets sucked into a sordid gangland story involving child trafficking and, in due course, righteous vengeance. <em>Kinjite<\/em> would most likely not get written today, let alone produced and distributed. With that said, the film does not back down from its irredeemably dark themes, which puts it in an increasingly rare category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/purecinemapodcast.libsyn.com\/final-films-w-quentin-tarantino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Speaking<\/a> on the <em>Pure Cinema Podcast<\/em>, Tarantino says, \u201cJ. Lee, he does not let me down. He doubles\u2014triples\u2014down on the [grotesque subject matter] and plays with your perception of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Black Sabbath (1963)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_718335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-718335\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-718335 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Black Sabbath movie Mich\u00e8le Mercier\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 20\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Black-Sabbath-e1708740619600.png\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-718335\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Black-Sabbath-e1708740619600.png\" alt=\"Black Sabbath movie Mich\u00e8le Mercier\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 20\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-718335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Warner Bros.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trailblazing Italian horror director Mario Bava, who helped to define the horror genre as we know it today, directed the anthology film<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t7MyJMlOpdE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Black Sabbath<\/a><\/em> in 1963, which features horror icon Boris Karloff as its presenter. The movie serves up viewers with three separate stories involving a telephone stalker and a call girl, an animated cadaver that feeds on the blood of loved ones, and a cursed ring stolen from a corpse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMario Bava became one of the first directors I got to know by name because I saw <em>Black Sabbath <\/em>on television, and then it would pop up again,\u201d Tarantino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m7hRNh-gFEE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">explains<\/a> to interviewers at <em>SiriusXM Town Hall<\/em>. \u201cAlong with Sergio Leone, it was Mario Bava who got me thinking in terms of shots\u2026even when I would see a Mario Bava movie I didn&#8217;t like, I would still recognize the style and that operatic quality.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>The Outfit (1973)<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1246142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1246142\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246142 perfmatters-lazy\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20width='1280'%20height='720'%20viewBox='0%200%201280%20720'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" alt=\"Robert Duvall and Joe Don Baker in The Outfit (1973)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 21\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-150x84.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1246142\" src=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973.jpg\" alt=\"Robert Duvall and Joe Don Baker in The Outfit (1973)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" title=\"Forgotten Films Tarantino Helped to Bring Back to Pop Culture 21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/The-Outfit-1973-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1246142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The novelist Donald E. Westlake, who wrote under the pen name Richard Stark, published a long-running series of crime novels about a character called Parker, a professional armed robber with a code of ethics that doesn&#8217;t keep him from killing the occasional bystander.<\/p>\n<p>Parker has appeared in various movies, usually by other names. \u201cWestlake didn&#8217;t mind selling his books, but he never sold his character,\u201d Tarantino writes in <em>Cinema Speculation<\/em>. Tarantino&#8217;s favorite of these films, John Flynn&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YBLuiXCGF6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Outfit<\/a><\/em>, stars Robert Duvall and Joe Don Baker as partners in crime.<\/p>\n<p>Tarantino writes, \u201cThe scene between Duvall and Baker on the stairs is the epitome of poignant masculinity.\u201d Regarding an inadvertent second viewing, he clarifies, \u201cIt was even better the second time.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wealthofgeeks.com\/forgotten-films-tarantino-helped-to-bring-back-to-pop-culture\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few directors have the gift of gab on the level of Quentin Tarantino, who compulsively recommends old movies whenever he opens his mouth. 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