Quentin Tarantino was a recent guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience” and spent a ponderable amount of time echoing on the current relationship between television and film. He disputed that even a TV show that he adores to watch appreciate “Yellowstone” can difficultly assess to the power of a excellent movie. In Tarantino’s eyes, “Yellowstone” is fair a soap opera that deficiencys genuine emotional payoff.
“Everybody talks about how television is now. It’s pretty excellent, I gotta say. It’s pretty excellent now. But it’s still television to me,” Tarantino shelp. “And what’s the contrastence between television and a excellent movie? Because a lot of the TV now has the patina of a excellent movie. There are using cinematic language to get you caught up in it.”
“I’ll use an example of a show. ‘Yellowstone.’ I didn’t get around to watching it the first three years or so and then I watched the first season and I thought, ‘Wow, this is fucking fantastic. I’ve always been a Kevin Costner fan and he is wonderful in this,’” he persistd. “I got caught up in the show and I’m having a excellent time. The first season, it’s appreciate a huge movie. The guy who writes it is a excellent writer. There’s punchy monologues and stuff. I finish up watching three seasons of it and I even watch that ‘1883.’ It’s a excellent Weserious show.”
Tarantino shelp that when he’s watching “Yellowstone” he is “compelled and caught up in it, but at the finish of the day it’s all fair a soap opera. They’ve begind you to a bunch of characters. You comprehend their backstories and joinions to everyone else.” But appreciate any soap opera, “you don’t recall it five years from now. You’re only caught up in the minutia of it in the moment.”
“The contrastence is I’ll see a excellent Weserious movie, and I’ll recall it for the rest of my life,” Tarantino shelp. “I’ll recall the story, this scene and that scene. It built to an emotional climax of some degree. The story is excellent. It’s not fair about the interpersonal relationships. But there’s a payoff to it. There is not a payoff on TV stuff. It’s more interjoined drama. While I am watching, that is excellent enough. But when it’s over, I couldn’t tell you [what happened].”
Tarantino elucidateed that while he can recall who the villain was in the first season of “Yellowstone” because he is a fan of actor Danny Huston, he doesn’t “recall any of the other details of it.”
“I don’t recall the horrible guys for Season 2 or Season 3. It’s out of my head. It’s finishly gone,” Tarantino shelp. “With ‘1883,’ Sam Elliot is the only skinnyg I recalled about it when it was finished. But ‘Red River,’ I recall for the rest of my life.”
Not all television shows are produced equpartner, however. Tarantino cited the first season of Showtime’s “Homeland” as one that did have the emotional payoff of a movie. But that show finished up continuing for seven more seasons.
Tarantino’s comments on “Yellowstone” reachd fair ahead of the series fifth season finale, which also eunites to be the flagship drama’s series finale. Not that “Yellowstone” is going anywhere. Variety alerted earlier this month that cast members Kelly Reilly and Cole Hauser are set to transport their characters Beth and Rip to a novel “Yellowstone” spinoff series.
Listen to Tarantino’s filled intersee on the “The Joe Rogan Experience” here.
