The movies of the 1970s were often gritty and complex. Watching them as children built our character, writes Rich Cohen.
According to his new memoir “Cinema Speculation,” Quentin Tarantino learned movies as a child not by watching Disney cartoons but by tagging along with his mom when she went to see whatever she wanted. The world wasn’t made for kids in the 1970s. Most of the movies of pre-Spielberg Hollywood were what we’d now consider inappropriate. Those of us who were young at the time simply hoped to take what we could from the experience. If you picture an 11-year-old Mr.
I grew up in much the same way as Mr. Tarantino. “Chinatown” was the first movie I saw in a theater, at age 6. I imagine that, like me, nothing was explained to him, that he was left to grapple with the horrors and mysteries of the adult world alone. The trying and failing to understand, the not getting it, formed his sensibility; the explanations he invented to keep the story rolling taught him how to be cool even when lost.
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