Legendary Hollywood writer-director Quentin Tarantino recently revealed the surprising major movie he has never seen. Tarantino's love of film began as a child with his mother frequently taking him to movies of various genres. He continued his film education by working at the Manhattan Beach video store, Video Archives. There, his encyclopedic knowledge of cinema grew which he used to help him cultivate a prolific Hollywood career.
Beginning in 1992 with the release of the heist-mystery thriller, Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino quickly became respected as one of the industry's most talented screenwriters. Two years later, he went on to create what many call his masterpiece, Pulp Fiction. After earning both the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and the prestigious Palme d'Or, Tarantino's career took off releasing Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
In a recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Tarantino revealed the popular movie that he has surprisingly never seen. While discussing the director's upcoming non-fiction book about the films of the New Hollywood era, Cinema Speculation, Kimmel asked "What's the biggest...most well-known, well-respected, whatever movie that you've never seen?" After a moment of contemplation, mentioning that there are a "few," Tarantino admitted that he had never seen The Sound of Music. His response elicited a round of gasps from the studio audience with the host himself completely surprised by the film.
Why It's So Surprising Tarantino Has Never Seen The Sound Of Music
Tarantino is well-regarded as a filmmaker that holds a wealth of knowledge of Hollywood classics and obscure movies of his generation. This love of television and film of the 1960s and 70s helped him to create his ode of that era of Hollywood, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. So it is surprising, to say the least, that Tarantino had never seen The Sound of Music, one of the biggest movies of the 1960s.
The grand World War II set musical garnered the film 10 Academy Award nominations, winning Best Picture and Best Director, and pulled in over $286 million (over $2 billion when adjusted for inflation). The movie currently sits as number 40 on the American Film Institute's top 100 movies of all-time list and number 4 on their musicals list. For a director that is a self-proclaimed cinephile who uses his movie knowledge to inspire much of his projects, Tarantino's revelation that The Sound of Music is a box left unchecked is understandably a shock to many.
Source: Jimmy Kimmel Live!