Tarantino admitted: “The movie that traumatized me was ‘Bambi'”

American director Quentin Tarantino made a Holy Sunday stop in Barcelona as part of his European book launch tour the cinema of meditation (Reservoir Books), a meeting with followers where he admitted that the film that, regardless of everything, “traumatized” him the most in his childhood. Bambi.

“I could not imagine that something like this would happen, that Bambi’s mother would be shot. I didn’t expect it, I didn’t see it coming, hence the shock. I’ve already seen the poster and I understood that everything will be happy among the little animals, and not that it will become that dystopian reality in which Bambi is an orphan,” admitted the director of contemporary classics such as pulp fiction or Kill Bill.

And that the filmmaker from Knoxville, Tennessee, didn’t grow up in a vatican and, as he told the audience at the Teatre Coliseum, his mother allowed him to watch movies recommended only for adults from an early age.

Yeah, I saw a lot of disturbing images as a kid, I guess. But he enjoyed it. I didn’t really understand what was happening in scenes like rape or torture, but I understood it from the context,” explained Tarantino, who the general public often associates with violence.

In his first non-fiction book, he also reveals that he saw his first two porn movies in 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 person and where the man lived. black powder by Jim Brown.

“It was probably the most manly experience I’ve ever been a part of,” he recalls in the book, talking about the excitement with which the booth scenes were celebrated, a feeling he’s always wanted to “recreate” for others since cinema is his.

At its only presentation in Spain since the cinema of meditationin which photography and video recording were not allowed until now, Tarantino arrived on time, wearing a white shirt and socks, tennis shoes and jeans.

His intervention, in which he dived into his love and constantly referring to the cinematography of the seventies, the so-called New Hollywood, is accompanied by watching famous scenes from classics such as American graffiti or Dirty Harry.

In the conversation, he did not avoid referring to his controversy surrounding the criticism of the new films from the Marvel and DC universes, and he pointed out that if he were twenty years old, he would “love” to see his comics on the big screen, even though he no longer likes it now. “.

Tarantino pointed out that if the 70s of the last century changed cinematography, it was precisely treating the viewer “as an adult”.

“World War II had already passed and the viewer no longer wanted to be treated like a child, but knew what life was,” he said.

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

In a play, in which he imagines how it could have been “taxi driver” that Brian de Palma was its director, and in which he also names Spanish titles such as Residence by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador or tie me up Pedro Almodóvar, Tarantino flirts with autobiography and film criticism.

Indeed, his next film, Film critic [El crítico de cine]it revolves around that number.

“There is a lot of speculation as to who it is based on. And yes, he’s a real critic, but he’s not famous and… and I won’t tell you anymore,” said Tarantino, who, laughing, added that it wouldn’t be a “revenge story.”

The book that was number one in The New York Timeshe especially focuses on the harshest and lowest budget films from the years of his sentimental upbringing, from Defending himself to Dirty Harrypasses Taxi driver, escape from alcatraz or Former prisoner of Koreathe strip that he called out the most times in Barcelona.

Cinema of speculationin its original title, it was presented in the US before its short European tour that passed through London and Italy (Milan and Brescia) before Barcelona, ​​and will lead the director Reservoir Dogs Also to Berlin next week.