Quentin Tarantino admits watching Bambi as a child traumatized him

American director Quentin Tarantino arrived in Barcelona as part of his European tour to present the book movie meditation (Reservoir Books), a meeting with followers in which he confessed that the film that, against all odds, “traumatized” him the most as a child, was Bambi.

“I could not imagine that something like this would happen, that they were going to shoot the mother Bambi. I didn’t expect it, I didn’t foresee it, hence the shock. I had seen this poster before and took it for granted that small animals would be fine, not that it would become that dystopian reality that left Bambi orphaned,” admitted the director of contemporary classics such as pulp Fiction or Kill Bill.

And that the director KnoxvilleTennessee, he didn’t grow up in cotton and, as he told the audience at the Coliseum Theatre, his mother allowed him to watch adult-only films from a very early age.

“Yes, I must have seen a lot of disturbing images as a child. But I liked it. I didn’t quite understand what was happening in scenes like rape or torture, but I understood it from the context,” Tarantino explained. which the general public often associates specifically with violence.

In his first non-fiction book, he also reveals that he saw his first two porn movies in a movie theater when he was only 14 years old, or that his mother’s African-American boyfriend took him to a movie theater where he was the only white person and where a restless man lived. cinema pass black powderJim Brown.

“It was probably the most masculine experience I’ve ever been a part of,” he recalls in the book, referring to the noise with which the stalls were celebrated, a feeling he always wanted to “recreate” for others. since his cinema.

Conversation in Spain

At his only presentation in Spain movie meditationin which it is forbidden to take pictures or record videos, Quentin Tarantino He arrived on time, wearing a white shirt and socks, sneakers and jeans.

His speech, in which he delved into his love and constant references to the cinema of the seventies, the so-called “New Hollywood”, was accompanied by viewing of famous scenes from the classics, such as american graffiti or Dirty Harry.

In conversation, he did not avoid mentioning his controversy about the criticism of the new films of the universe. Marvel And COLUMBIA REGION and indicated that he would “like” if he was twenty years old to have his comics shown on the big screen, although they are no longer “interesting”.

Quentin Tarantino explained that if the 70s of the last century changed the cinema, it was precisely in order to treat the viewer “in an adult way”.

“The Second World War had already passed, and the viewer no longer wanted to be treated like a child, he already knew what life was,” he said.

The audience, consisting of fans of the American, who are willing to pay from 82 to 94 euros for admission, also heard the reading of one of the last chapters of the book in the voice of Tarantino himself.

In a play where he fantasizes about how it could be taxi driver if Brian de Palma was its director, and in which he also names Spanish titles such as Residence Narciso Ibanez Serrador or tie me up Pedro Almodovar, Quentin Tarantino he flirts with both autobiography and film criticism. (EFE)