No holding back here.
Legendary composer Ennio Morricone — famous for his work on many of the most famous spaghetti western films — worked with similarly legendary director Quentin Tarantino on the 2015 movie The Hateful Eight.
However, it seems that the 90-year-old Morricone does not have fond feelings towards his former collaborator.
In a recent interview with Playboy Germany, Morricone held nothing back as he savaged Tarantino on several fronts, saying ”
“He is not a director. He is absolutely chaotic. He talks without thinking, he does everything at the last minute. He has no idea.
“He calls up out of the blue and wants a complete score in just a few days. That’s not possible. It makes me so mad,” Morricone said. “I’m not going to put up with this. And I told him so last time.”
And in case there was any ambiguity over his feelings for the Pulp Fiction director, Morricone did not stop there, saying “The man is a cretin. He only steals from others and puts stuff back together again. There’s nothing original about that. That doesn’t make him a director. He is nothing compared with the Hollywood greats, such as John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock or Billy Wilder. They had class. Tarantino simply recooks old dishes.”
Morricone, who has composed music for over 500 films, will return to Dublin on 15 February 2019 — performing his 60 Years of Music tour in the 3Arena. Hopefully he sets a few minutes aside to tell us more about why he hates Quentin Tarantino.
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