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Big Ben wrote: Fri Aug 24, 2018 5:20 pm I've no dobut Tarantino is in the film in someway. Did y'all not see his gnarly outfit?

black&huge wrote: Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:23 am So... many.... goddamn people. Is Tarantino sure he isn't just going to call it a day with 9 films? This seems like a swan song.

I'm also not familiar with a lot of the younger cast. From the obvious children of household name actors to just ones I never heard of I haven't seen anything these people have been in except Austin Butler from Yoga Hosers which I watched recently but I still had to google him after he was announced to remember.

So what I'm asking is for those of you familiar with a lot of the younger cast in your opinion do you think Tarantino is consciously making a good choice in having them or does it seem like he saw these people in one or two things that he liked on first impression and just said "well I have so many roles to fill. Time to just give them away"?

mfunk9786 wrote: Wed Aug 29, 2018 3:08 pm
I am really confused about multiple aspects of this post - first off, films in general routinely have large casts, it doesn't mean that everyone in the cast is going to play a giant part in it. Not sure why someone being added to the roster of a Tarantino film means they're going to leap off the screen with their own special moment - casting in his films is news because actors are willing to step over one another to participate, but that doesn't mean they're going to have a big part to play in the plot. Why would a director, or a casting director, throw up their hands and say "Time to start casting random people, so much work to do!"? Just because black&huge doesn't recognize them?

And as for your first question - what is more ambitious about this film than any of his others?

black&huge wrote: Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:23 pm
That was something in my mind i forgot to mention. I assumed a lot of these people will be relegated to background or maybe a couple lines of dialogue at most.

Second, because it looks like he's never done such a large scale film that attempts to combine real life events and people with fiction even moreso than Basterds. Making over downtown L.A., the large mix of A-listers and tv stars, the fact it's known as an integration of multiple stories a la Pulp Fiction it seems it's going to be the latter film turned up to 11.

A lot of the younger cast are credited with roles in current tv shows that are popular. Undoubtedly this will help the its box office success across a wide demographic but as for me I only get around to watching one or two new series a year and I can't keep up with every single new one popping up and I doubt anyone really can. Seeing as how some of this cast are coming from well known roles in shows that are more than a few years old, have ended but are still talked about I can barely even keep up with those either. It's less about just me not recognizing these people, they're coming from so many different things how is anyone just supposed to know which?

Also on a sidenote I noticed some pages back in this thread you said you are a big Tarantino defender on this board. I'd like to make clear I'm still as much of a Tarantino fan as I ever was and I do my fairshare of defending his work for the most part. In this case I'm just not used to the amount of young cast announced regardless of how small their roles may be. Tarantino flat out said around the time H8 came out that he favors casting older actors or getting actors once they reach a certain age and said he hates when a movie is just dominated by young pretty people. I love that idea so perhaps I'm thinking too hard about it with this film.

Persona wrote: Wed Aug 29, 2018 6:03 pm I get the impression that everyone wants to be in this movie and that Tarantino wants everyone to be in this movie.

Tarantino is definitely a maximalist so it wouldn't be shocking if this movie is horrifically overstuffed, but equally likely is that the majority of these "name" actors are playing parts that in other films would usually be reserved for someone whose recent previous credits were something like "Woman #2" or "Loud Punk" in an episode of NCIS.

Hollywood is this movie's extra, which is kind of great and apt.

TMZ wrote:BREAKING: QT Casts Candace Cameron as Julie Christie

mfunk9786 wrote: Wed Aug 29, 2018 5:36 pm Has nothing to do with my enjoying Tarantino's work or not, I just don't know if you're articulating yourself well on why it is remotely remarkable that the cast of this film is filled out with young and/or scantly known actors. That's what almost every film that has applicable roles does, it doesn't mean Tarantino or even the casting team knows them from Adam or expects viewers to.

If you're casting a young woman with two lines you can't give that role to Bruce Dern.

Didn't someone on this forum have a little hissy fit about Channing Tatum being cast in The Hateful Eight because he's too young and popular and good-looking, or am I misremembering? What is it about Tarantino films that inspires this sort of thing?