Director Quentin Tarantino explained what was one of his favorite films, a western but also an undisputed classic of cinema, even for non-fans of the genre.
Quentin Tarantino loves cinema perhaps more than anything in the world. Listening to it, it gives you the feeling of having not only devoured everything, but also digested everything! Also, when he talks about what one of his favorite films is, he doesn’t keep it a secret for long!
In 2007the filmmaker was invited to the Cannes Film Festival to present this film, a classic of both western and cinema: Rio Bravo!
Yes, it’s one of the greatest westerns, one of the best Howard Hawks films, one of the best John Wayne films, but it’s also a film of a completely different genre (…) . It’s also one of the best hangout movies.
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Hangout can be translated in this context as: “hanging out with people”. Faced with the public’s amazement at his expression of “hangouts movies”, the director of Pulp Fiction explained:
“There are films where you want to hang out with the characters so much that they actually become your friends. And that’s a quality that’s present in very few films. And it happens a lot in films of this length [Rio Bravo fait 2h21]you have to get past the movie character so that you can develop a certain love for him as a person.”
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Rio Bravo is one of the best hangout movies of all time. When it ends, these people have become your friends. And when you see it again and again and again, they’re still your friends and you get to hang out with them again, with John T. Chance, with Dude, with Feathers: they’re your friends!
Friends that Quentin Tarantino always took pleasure in meeting in Rio Bravo, which during his youth was part of his test in his love life:
“At one point in my life, I had precisely defined what my favorite films were. (…) I was in my twenties, and every time I went out with a girl for a while, I showed her Rio Bravo , and she had better love!”
A cinephile perhaps a little extreme!