10 Weirdest Movies Quentin Tarantino Actually Wanted To Make
5. A Biopic Of Slavery Abolitionist John Brown
When asked if there was a genre he didn't like, Tarantino once said that he had "no respect" for the biopic. "They are just big excuses for actors to win Oscars. It’s a corrupted cinema. Even the most interesting person – if you are telling their life from beginning to end, it’s going to be a f*cking boring movie."
And yet, when asked about it in 2009, he emphasised one curious exception. "There is one [biopic] that I could be interested in, but it would probably be one of the last movies I [ever make]. My favourite hero in American history is John Brown. He's my favourite American who ever lived. He basically single-handedly started the road to end slavery and the fact that he killed people to do it. He decided 'If we start spilling white blood, then they're going to start getting the idea".
Tarantino said didn't want to make a "solemn" biopic, and that he would focus on one epic moment or episode. As he puts it, "don’t make a movie about [Elvis Presley's] whole life. Make a movie about one day. Make a movie about the day Elvis Presley walked into Sun Records. Make a movie about the whole day before he walked into Sun Records, and the movie ends when we walks through that door. That’s a movie."