Quentin Tarantino on What Makes ‘Dunkirk’ a Masterpiece | The Rewatchables | The Ringer

I'm not stopping yeah we need to get off on it back Brittney's next down the rest of the world you can practically see it from here what you know Quentin you and I were talking a little bit about this show and you made some suggestions for movies you want us to do and before we get into the nitty gritty of Dunkirk I think we just got to start with why Dunkirk for rewatchable is episode this a movie that only came out two years ago yeah I guess it was because in the last month or so I've been getting obsessive about making my top 10 list of the decade of the 2010 so I found myself watching a bunch of stuff like a second time or a third time that I hadn't watched in years and really pitting the movies against each other watching things that I I just missed that always heard they were good and it was in watching Dunkirk a third time making my top 10 list that I think I had it preliminary at 7 and it jumped up to number 2 Wow after I saw the third time so when we started talking about different movies to see that was definitely one that I had just completely brand-new fresh passion for and frankly I'm not just I'm not that used to being that passionate about a movie that new and I actually thought it would migrate as a rewatchable I didn't even know I didn't even have a whole like spiel to say about it either so that's that's one of the things I thought would be kind of fun to just really explore what else is age the best Oh frankly I would say the tank number one thing there's age the best is I think the concept of Chris Nolan's virtuosity mm-hmm it's like this to me I can understand if you guys think that Dark Knight is his apex mountain to me this is his apex mountain because this is where he really dealed himself in aside from Gotham City yeah aside from science fiction and aside from the San Diego comic-con crowd yeah all right to being a great filmmaker and dealing with a big subject and brought Warner Brothers along with him hmm in the exact way Stanley Kubrick would have done bringing warner brothers along with them and they backed him a hundred percent and yeah if you look at interstellar this film and then 10 it which is his movie coming out next year you've got three wholly original stories from big studios with big budgets that people are excited about or eager to see they were here to see interstellar they were very eager to see Dunkirk which is kind of impressive immediately got to see this and then Tennant we'll see what we get Chris what else is aged the best I agree with him it's it's hard to imagine this movie being imitated or topped it does feel like it could only have been made by him and it could only have been told in the way that he told it if you try to rearrange the movie in your head and say okay what would happen if you would cut it in a more linear fashion it actually doesn't hold together as a gripping story the way it does the way he tells it so you wind up really having something that's it's a special kind of storytelling it's only could have been done by him [Music] maybe the greatest shot in war movie history boom-boom-boom-boom you know them dropping the bombs with him in the foreground help us understand how that happened that is one of those rare shots when you see it you're like I don't get how he did that there are multiple shots in this movie that I was gonna say like please help me understand how anybody can make that shot happen like dogfight shots where the camera is still and I'm just like I don't get it how did this happen well it's like I I think what one of the things about nolan is you know if he can do it in real life he's going to do it if he can do it practically where all he has to do is send it to the lab afterwards that's how he's going to do it that's what makes it a good shot as opposed to a paint set that you can paint anything you want so things might have been sweetened later but I would imagine that here we put the kid on the ground he he created his frame and then created a series of explosions that got closer and closer and closer and my guess is he probably had a dummy for the guy that explodes but he animated it later out of the fact that was my feeling it would be hard to do this without just a little sprinkle of touching at the end but it's I mean it's but it's incredibly effective but he has about four or five just great shots of an artist of a great director whether it's like when the ships are tilting in the weird angle that he gets that shows the ship tilting and the water rushing in and he just keeps doing that all the time he keeps making it an artistic experience even if something like Saving Private Ryan all the great shots that flow you away are all in that opening that pass action which is just amazing see but I don't remember any shots afterwards yeah they're just kind of telling the story from that point on [Music]

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Length: 4min 58sec (298 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 06 2020

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[u/potpan0]

I can understand if you guys think that The Dark Knight is his Apex Mountain - to me, this is his Apex Mountain because this is where he really dealed himself in apart from Gotham City, and aside from science fiction, and aside from the San Diego Comic-Con crowd, all right, to being a great film maker.

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[u/Sakari729]

Could it be on the same level as crawl(2019)