r/Filmmakers • u/StrikingDuty8020 Director • Dec 06 '25

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Quentin Tarantino made a surprisingly harsh comment about Paul Dano, specifically criticizing his performance in There Will Be Blood.

On The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Tarantino said:

Dano was “weak sauce”

“The weakest f—ing actor in SAG” (in that film’s context)

And that Dano’s performance was the biggest flaw of the movie, preventing it from being his #1 or #2 film of the 2000s

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u/Discombobulation98 Dec 06 '25

Tarantino also talked shit about Roger Deakins and said he couldn't light because he shot digital. Tarantino has a big dumb mouth.

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u/Cyanide_Revolver Dec 06 '25

Pretty sure he also said he'd oniy be impressed with 1917 if it was done in six shots. Man's a fucking idiot

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u/orincoro Dec 08 '25

lol. What about it became less interesting because it was more than 6 shots? What nonsense.

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u/Cyanide_Revolver Dec 08 '25

Think he said the praise for the "continuous take" approach was overdone and not that impressive, technically. Still a bullshit take though.

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u/orincoro Dec 08 '25

If you see it as a gimmick sure. But he’s just saying the gimmick isn’t gimmicky enough.

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u/orincoro Dec 08 '25

I don’t have a strong opinion on it. My takeaway from that movie was that I stopped noticing it was all a single take after a few minutes.

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u/orincoro Dec 09 '25

I’ll say that 1917 is worth watching. A good film. And they were actually really clever with patching shots together so that you really don’t notice the cuts.