When I heard the news about Quentin Tarantino’s next film being a Western I was disappointed that he would not pursue the filming of his screenplay, Killer Crow. Eventually I thought that if he was going to make another Western he better make it fast to he can produce Killer Crow by the time his 25th Anniversary Collection comes out. If he’s going to make another Western it’s going to have to be worth the wait of Killer Crow and here’s my guide to what would make that happen:
1. Brad Pitt and Tarantino Re-teaming
Brad Pitt and Tarantino met at the filming of Inglourious Basterds but before that they desired to work with one another. When they finally did get to make a film together the product was what I consider to be Tarantino’s best work. Brad Pitt had a very important part in the delivery of IB in general. He portrayed a Lieutenant from the south that leads a group of Jewish soldiers on a Nazi killing spree. I actually liked Inglourious Basterds so much that when Tarantino revealed that he had written a full script of his planned third storyline of Inglourious Basterds I was very excited. So of course when he revealed that in fact his new film would be a western like Django Unchained I had mixed feelings. Among those feeling was the anticipation of his new cast. Having already done the main-character-is-black thing I think the best thing for this film is to have multiple characters like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and of course Ingourlious Basterds. That is the thought that occurred in my mind right before thinking about the past actors Tarantino had worked with multiple times, and that thought led me to the hope that Tarantino would cast Brad Pitt. My dream is that he could play essentially the same character except maybe this time he could lead a group of cowboys. It would be a quite whimsical surprise if Quentin also got some of the other Basterds to play cowboys. Given that all of Quentin Tarantino’s films are connected in one big gory universe, cowboy Brad Pitt could easily be a descendant of Lieutenant Aldo Raine.
2. Samuel L. Jackson Playing A Good Guy
Sam and Quentin Tarantino have desired to work with each other for a movie since Reservoir Dogs. Even though he didn’t get a part in Reservoir Dogs, Sam did play the iconic, Oscar nominated role of Jules Winnfield in Pulp Fiction. He also played major roles in Tarantino’s Jackie Brown and last year’s Django Unchained. Though I have yet to view Jackie Brown, he didn’t play very nice people in his other works with Tarantino. That’s why I think it’s time we see him give the classic Tarantino Samuel L. Jackson, but this time have him be a force for good. I don’t mean this Wyatt Earp type guy but I mean this scene:
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- Only with him having good intentions. There are a couple of ways I could see this play out. One thing that I think is on all of our minds is what happened to Django after his film. We last saw him riding off into the moonlight with a cigar in his mouth and his newly reclaimed wife on the back of his horse. Where did they go? Maybe they rode all the way to Canada or Mexico to their freedom or possibly they moved to the mountains and shot any white man’s head off that dared look at them. Whichever happened I’m sure most people would like it if Sam Jackson portrayed an older Django that had become a full time bounty hunter or marshal. The other way Jackson could play a good guy is if he was just a marshal. Though that sounds kind of boring I think that would be much better than my first proposal. Of course the only way any of these scenarios could occur is if this film took place in a certain time period, which brings us to my next wish…
3. A Post Civil War Time Period
After Django Unchained’s controversial depiction of slavery it would be a big surprise if Quentin Tarantino didn’t put some racial conflict in his next film. He already used the pre-civil war setting which had more than 100 n-words, so wouldn’t it make sense for this film to be post? I think we would all like to see Tarantino’s play on the remaining racial tension between the African Americans who have gained their freedom and the white men that feel betrayed of theirs. After the civil war most men with the North accepted that they needed to get used to the black men, but the Southerners still resented the crap out of them. I propose a story about two marshals, one white and one black, that have to work together to stop a band of Texan cowboys from... Well that’s as far as I’ll go for lack of information. The point is that I think Tarantino could do a lot with that times period. Who knows? Maybe he’ll kill off another important political figure years before their actual day like he did Hitler!
4. One Of The Reservoir Dogs To Come Back And Play Their Relative
I just watched Reservoir Dogs the other night and I must say that it is definitely up there with Inglourious Basterds and Pulp Fiction. Tarantino worked with Harvey Keitel and Michael Madsen multiple times after Reservoir Dogs so they might be our best chances of seeing a Reservoir Dog in a Spaghetti Western. I actually don’t care if they’re related or not but I would like to see one of them play some kind of law figure. How cool would it be to see Harvey Keitel and Sam Jackson team up and shoot a bunch of desperadoes up? Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi are still acting as well! I think some of them could also play small time robbers or something of the outlaw nature. This may be the most unlikely of my dreams to come true but it is the wish of a loyal Tarantino fan.
5. The Film To Be Separated Into Parts
My last wish was going to be a cameo from Jamie Foxx as Django but I decided I’d put this instead. To justify this wish let’s go back and look at Tarantino’s best work: Pulp Fiction was actually four separate stories, Inglourious Basterds was separated into five chapters, and Reservior Dogs went back and told the story of how Mr. White, Blonde, and Orange got on board for the Jewelry Heist. My point here is that the multi-part structure is one of my favorite methods of Mr. Tarantino and all filmmakers. A western structured like this would truly be something I would watch again and again just like I do with Inglourious Basterds, which if you haven’t noticed by now is my favorite of his films.
This is everything that would make Tarantino’s western my new favorite so hopefully Mr. Tarantino will just randomly be surfing the web and see this! Avengers72 out. Peace!