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Enzo Castellari's Inglorious Past
Italian drive-in king gets royal treatment for cult classic
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MM: Quentin Tarantino is obviously a huge fan of yours. He’s featured very prominently on the Inglorious Bastards DVD extras and has announced plans to remake the film. What are your feelings regarding the remake? Would you have any input in Tarantino’s re-imagining?
EC: His idea to make a remake of my movie is my lifetime achievement award! Just to think that a young genius director like Tarantino picks, from millions of movies, my own movie to make a remake? For me it’s my Academy Award! From our last meeting, Tarantino will start filming in Europe around the month of September. During the remake, I will have a little part and I will stay on the set, near Quentin all the time I want.
MM: Although Inglorious Bastards was released 30 years ago, its fan base continues to grow, especially among young males. Why do you think the film has such an enduring appeal to a new generation of fans?
EC: I do have to say, that during the various projections I have witnessed during these past years, the film did not bore me at all. That means that the film has not aged. That means that all the enthusiasm I put into the realization of the movie is still intact—all the inventions continue to create enthusiasm among the spectators, and I am the first spectator of my own film. When I am on set directing my movie, I always think, ‘What I would like to see on the screen?’ Every time I start a new scene, I always ask myself, ‘Would I like to see this scene on the big screen?’ You cannot imagine how many times I changed the script because I knew, that on the big screen, it would not work well. I work for myself and for the spectator; when it has [satisfied] both of us, that means that I worked well. If one spectator, watching my movie, will forget all his daily problems following my story, well, my [goal] has been accomplished!
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