Quentin Tarantino confessed that “Bambi” was the film that traumatized him the most

American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino has stopped this Holy Sunday in Barcelona as part of his European tour to present the book “Meditations on Cinema” (Reservoir Books), a meeting with followers in which he has confessed that the film that, against all odds, “traumatized” him the most in his childhood was “Bambi”.

“I couldn’t imagine that something like this would happen, that they would shoot Bambi’s mother. I did not expect it, I did not see it coming, hence the shocking. I had seen the poster before and I took it for granted that everything would be happy among the little animals and not that it would become that dystopian reality in which Bambi is left an orphan”, has acknowledged the director of contemporary classics such as “Pulp Fiction” or “Kill Bill”. ”.

And that the filmmaker from Knoxville, Tennessee, did not grow up in cotton wool and, as he has told the audience at the Teatre Coliseum, his mother allowed him to watch films recommended only for adults from a very young age.

“Yes, as a child I saw a lot of disturbing images, I suppose. But she enjoyed it. He did not understand very well what was happening in scenes such as rape or torture, but he understood it from the context ”, Tarantino has explained, whom the general public often associates precisely with violence.

In his first non-fiction book, he also reveals that he saw his first two porn movies at the cinema when he was only 14 years old or that his mother’s boyfriend, an African-American, took him to a cinema where he was the only white man and where a man lived. agitated screening of the Jim Brown film “Black Powder”.

“It was possibly the most masculine experience I had ever been a part of”he recalls in the book in reference to the uproar with which the scenes in the stalls were celebrated, a sensation that he has always wanted to “recreate” for others from his cinema.

At his only presentation in Spain of “Cinema Meditations”, in which he has not been allowed to take photos or record videos, Tarantino has arrived on time, with a white shirt and socks, trainers and jeans.

His intervention, in which he has delved into his love and constant reference to the cinema of the seventies, the so-called “New Hollywood”, has been accompanied by the viewing of famous scenes from classics such as “American Graffiti” or “Dirty Harry”.

In the talk, he did not avoid referring to his controversy over the criticism of the new films from the Marvel and DC universe and he indicated that he would have “liked”, if he were twenty years old, to see his comics taken to the big screen, although now They don’t “interest” you.

Tarantino has explained that if the 70s of the last century changed cinema, it was precisely to treat the viewer “as an adult”.

“The Second World War had already passed and the viewer no longer wanted to be treated like a child, they already knew what life was about”, has pointed out.

The public, made up of fans of the American willing to pay between 82 and 94 euros for admission, has also heard the reading of one of the last chapters of the book from the voice of Tarantino himself.

In the work, in which he fantasizes about how “Taxi driver” could have been if Brian de Palma had been its director, and in which he also names Spanish titles such as “La residencia” by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador or “Tie me up” by Pedro Almodóvar , Tarantino flirts with both autobiography and film criticism.

Precisely, his next film, “The movie critic” (The film critic), revolves around that figure.

“There is a lot of speculation as to who it is based on. And yes, he is a real critic, but he is not known and… and I am not going to tell you anymore ”Tarantino has pointed out, who, between laughs, has added that it will not be a “revenge story”.

The book, which has been number one in The New York Times, focuses especially on the most stark and limited-budget films from the years of his sentimental education, from “Defense” to “Dirty Harry”, passing through “Taxi Driver ”, “The escape from Alcatraz” or “The ex-prisoner of Korea”, the film that has been mentioned the most times in Barcelona.

“Cinema Speculation”, in its original title, was presented in the US before his short European tour which, prior to Barcelona, ​​passed through London and will also take the director of “Reservoir Dogs” to Berlin next week.

With information from EFE