Quentin Tarantino is one of the most outspoken characters in Hollywood and during a recent appearance on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcasthe pulp fiction The director made a surprise revelation about his favorite films of the 21st century.
When assigning a film by director, Tarantino cited Sofia Coppola’s Lost in translationChristopher Nolan Dunkirkand Edgar Wright Shaun of the dead among his 10 best films of the last two decades (so far). And at the top of the heap? Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film Fallen Black Hawk.
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, Fallen Black Hawk chronicles the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, in which American forces were caught in a deadly ambush during an attempt to take out a Somali warlord’s top lieutenant. The film received good reviews at the time of its release and won two Oscars at the 2002 Academy Awards (Best Editing and Best Sound), but Tarantino’s claim that Fallen Black Hawk It is a “masterpiece” of the millennium that certainly took fans by surprise.
“Look, Ridley Scott is a brilliant director and it’s a great movie,” Bruckheimer told me. “It captures the essence of what that period was like and takes you inside that world. F1 It is a process film, and Fallen Black Hawk It’s a process movie, because it puts you inside a world that you’ll hopefully never be a part of, and shows you how it really works.
“And the authenticity that Ridley achieved in [Black Hawk Down] It was amazing. I think it’s a fantastic movie, so I’m lucky to be a part of it.”
For reference, Tarantino said that he did not initially think about Fallen Black Hawk as a masterpiece, but after several viewings, he came to appreciate the film’s technical brilliance and resilience.
“I liked it when I first saw it, but I actually think it was so intense that it stopped working for me and I didn’t carry it with me like I should have,” he said in the podcast episode. “Since then, I’ve seen it a couple of times, not many, but I think it’s a masterpiece, and one of the things I like most about it is… this is the only movie that really focuses completely on one Apocalypse now sense of purpose and effect and visual feeling.
“And I think it does that. It maintains the intensity for two hours, forty-five minutes, or whatever, and I watched it again recently; my heart was racing for the entire duration of the movie. It had me and never let go, and I hadn’t seen it in a long time. The directorial feat is beyond extraordinary.”
By the way, Fallen Black Hawk It is currently streaming for free on Kanopy and Hoopla in the US (viewers in the UK and Australia are not so lucky).
F1: The Movie starts streaming on Apple TV starting December 12.
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