They’re holding forth, but also jump-starting their enthusiasm for the art they love.
isn’t passionate. Dylan turns a history of Edwin Starr’s “War” into a lengthy meditation on the U.S.’ ill-fated misadventures in Vietnam and Iraq, and it’s as bitter and angry and accusatory as anything he’s written since “Masters of War.” Yet there is always a degree of removal between himself and the subject matter. Tarantino, on the other hand, writes as though he’s being paid by the “I,” embarking on long personal jags and fevered digressions.
That makes sense; Tarantino isn’t a great writer of prose, but he’s an excellent talker, and when he’s singing the praises of this obscure exploitation film or that, or talking about hypothetical alternate versions of, it’s like he’s back behind the counter at Video Archives itself, where such theories and aesthetics were worked through in passionate conversations. “I wasn’t a professional filmmaker back then,” he writes. “I was a brash know-it-all film geek.” And he still is.
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