Is Quentin Tarantino actually a good director, or does he just steal everything? Or both?
Quentin Tarantino’s movies are a lot of fun and endlessly enjoyable, but the more I age and watch other movies, the more I realize how much he just repeats things he likes from other movies, sometimes shot by shot. Lady Snowblood, Tokyo Drifter, 8 1/2, Band of Outsiders, Black Sunday, City of the Living Dead, A Professional Gun, City on Fire, Do the Right Thing, and so on. I know he’s said “I steal from every movie ever made” and that art is in a constant dialogue with itself wherein artists take from earlier generations and build upon them, but at a certain point it’s just plagiarism, isn’t it?