THE PEOPLE VS. QUENTIN TARANTINO
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is your favourite film. But what is your favourite shot from it?
ABIGAIL TANNER
That’s easy. During the three-way bullring showdown at the end, the music builds to the giant orchestra crescendo, and when it gets to the first big explosion of the theme there’s a wide shot of the bullring. After you’ve seen all the little shots of the guys getting into position, you suddenly see the whole wideness of the bullring and all the graves around them. It’s my favourite shot in the movie, but I’ll even say it’s my favourite cut in the history of movies.
What inspired Drexl Spivey [Gary Oldman] in True Romance?
DANNY WELCH
Well, I wrote Drexl for myself to play. Because I didn’t think it would get made as a Tony Scott movie — I thought it would be, like, an $800,000 movie. I thought, “No-one’s going to let me play Clarence, but I could maybe play Drexl in a cheaper movie.” So basically it was just a role that I thought I would do a good job with.
Alright, Quentin. Everyone says I look like you. Who have you been told you look like?
SANDY NELSON
Well, when I was younger I did resemble Kurt Russell a little bit. And in my twenties I resembled Elvis a little bit because I was trying to look like Elvis. I had a pompadour, my hair was dyed black and I had sideburns. I don’t know how much I looked like him, but I was trying to look like him!
