It was a tradition that almost no one would dare question if it failed: Theoretically, Tarantino would only make ten films in his career. He didn’t want to be one of those directors whose career waned and became uninteresting. And now he was preparing what would become number ten. It even had a title: ‘The Film Critic’. However, the director of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ changed his mind.

The legend of ten movies. It is not clear when this aim of Tarantino was born, it is always floating in the air and for many years, whenever the promotion of a new movie begins, the subject is interpreted as inevitable. Some say it’s a marketing tactic, but Tarantino has always insisted he wants to retire on top. He developed the subject further on the Pure Cinema podcast: “Most directors’ last films are terrible (…). This is the case with most directors who made their last films in the Golden Age.” “This was also the case for many of the New Hollywood directors of the late ’60s and ’70s, who made their final films in the late ’80s and ’90s.”

Be on time. Tarantino doesn’t want to be one of those movie idols whose career he knows so well, and the number 10 has always seemed like a good number. Although perhaps logical, he should have done this before announcing the “final film”, a sin that even he could not escape. He gave a concrete example in the podcast: “Damn if Don Siegel had finished ‘Escape from Alcatraz0’. What a career…he had already said it all. The two that came after that were just orders.”

The end of ‘The Film Critic’. The Hollywood Reporter sounded alarmed, based on comments from people close to the director. Apparently, the initial project to depict the adventures of a Californian film critic in the late seventies (an era and profession the director is passionate about) has been turned into a film with Brad Pitt reprising his role as Cliff Booth. Stuntman for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Until now, it was unknown whether ‘The Movie Critic’ would be a prequel or sequel of sorts to this film. According to this environment, Tarantino has completely abandoned the project.

What would ‘Movie Critic’ be? What was known about Tarantino’s hypothetical tenth film before Brad Pitt’s character was revealed was that it was inspired by a real film critic who wrote for a porn magazine in the ’70s and died young. Tarantino has described him as a mix of controversial anchor Howard Stern in his early days and Robert De Niro’s Travis Bickle in ‘Taxi Driver’. This brief data was all that was available about a film that could now be added to the director’s big bag of canceled projects.

That’s the last movie. While ‘The Film Critic’ seems like a nostalgic defense of classic cinema rather than another epic of cheap violence, it is interesting how much Tarantino protests the latest films of his favorite directors. But the fact that Tarantino abandoned the project (and was not kicked out, as was the case with the canceled R-rated ‘Star Trek’ revue, which managed to discourage Paramount executives who had this firefighter idea) gives just the right measure of the level of pressure. what he attributes to himself. ‘The Movie Critic’ is no longer just another movie in his career but could be the final touch. It’s a pretty tough job.

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