By drax on Skatehive
It is difficult to imagine anything that could better illustrate the wretchedness of today’s Hollywood than the status currently enjoyed by Quentin Tarantino. Not that Tarantino has any particular reason to complain about it. On the contrary, he represents one of the few contemporary American filmmakers who can boast fame beyond the circles of critics and ardent cinephiles, as well as the fact that his works attract attention even from the ordinary “rabble” who couldn’t care less about anything not delivered by social media algorithms. Along with that, of course, comes a generally more than solid box‑office result, which looks even more impressive when you consider that Tarantino’s films are neither remakes, nor sequels, nor adaptations of Marvel comics. The problem, therefore, is not that Tarantino is a bad or particularly unsuccessful filmmaker. The problem is that apart from him, there are no longer such filmmakers in Hollywood. And that is especially sad when you consider that a qu