On May 23, 1994, Clint Eastwood was set to current the Palme d’Or at the closing ceremony of the forty seventh Cannes Film Festival. Many members of the group gathered at the occasion anticipated Krzysztof Kieslowski’s celebrated movie Trois Couleurs: Rouge. But as a substitute, in a shock to the system, Pulp Fiction took the prize as a substitute.
The room was crammed with clamor and whistling as the director of the successful movie, Quentin Tarantino, took the stage. It hadn’t died down by the time he arrived at the podium to provide his acceptance speech. While a surprised Tarantino gathered his ideas, a lady in the crowd shouted out her displeasure: “What a piece of crap! What a piece of crap!” Without hesitation—and as seen in this archival video—Tarantino responded by giving her the finger.
At the time, Tarantino was nonetheless in the early phases of his movie profession. He was 32 when he attended the Cannes Film Festival to premiere of his new impartial movie, which featured a star-studded forged: John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, and Samuel L. Jackson, who had been about to make movie historical past. The filmmaker hadn’t anticipated the Palme d’Or; in actual fact, he’d even considered leaving the festivities earlier than receiving a name from Gilles Jacob, the pageant president, asking him to remain. After his flippant gesture, Tarantino had this to say: “I never expect to win anything when a jury has to decide, because in general I don’t make films that bring people together. I make films that divide them.”
Clint Eastwood later said that the determination had been made democratically, and that Pulp Fiction had merely stood out from the remainder of the pack. “We sat there and watched it, and it caught everyone’s attention pretty well,” he advised the American Film Institute. “I was surprised that the members of the European jury jumped out of their seats… A few of them turned around and said, ‘This is the best film, this is the film of this festival!’”
Pulp Fiction, which value $8.5 million, went on to turn out to be certainly one of the most worthwhile impartial movies in cinema historical past, grossing $214 million. Today, Tarantino’s success is plain, and his fame is nicely established. The Kill Bill saga, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood: the director continues to current his singular model of aesthetic violence. But not everybody could agree about which of this movies is Tarantino’s very best.
Original story from VF France.
