Name: What is Quentin Tarantino like as a director? w/ Samm Levine | You Made It Weird
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What is Quentin Tarantino like as a director? w/ Samm Levine | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-12. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What is Quentin Tarantino like as a director? w/ Samm Levine | You Made It Weird' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-07-12. Transcript available.

people often ask me what is he like as a director and here is the best example
of that that i can
give and apologies to other people who've heard me talk about this on other
podcasts uh but it's
too good a story and if you've heard it get ready to hear it again so um in the
uh film one of the
first times we really see the bastards in action is when donnie donowitz comes
out with the bat
yeah and you know fenway pack teddy ball game yeah uh yeah so uh uh my buddy he
loves this yeah he
does this in a lot of movies yeah the thumb over the shoulder of the shoulder
yeah i always thought
he was doing like a brando thing with aldo rain i never asked him about it
specifically the only
thing we ever talked about in terms of performance we talked about accents
because he was he's given
he was doing a little twang he did in another movie too yeah i'm gonna do this
quentin yeah this is the
voice i'm gonna do a little bit who cut my throat it's never established i do
you want to know the
answer it wasn't cut the backstory for this car was a hang it was a hanging his
he said i'm a mountain
man director you know jim bridger so he's from appalachia mississippi somewhere
i'm from appalachia
and the backstory there is some years earlier in his younger life he saw a
couple of black men
being mistreated basically they were going to try to get lynched by some you
know racists in the
area and he stepped in oh and they saved their lives and in the process they
hung him not enough
to kill him just enough to teach him a lesson oh wow and that's how he got the
scar on his neck
oh wow there you go breaking news that would be in the book uh probably uh so
anyways
it's us in that ditch uh where you know we've got the nazi prisoners and we're
trying to get
information out of them and so that was the first thing we really shot like
first big thing we shot
and so it's day one of that we were there for i think six or seven days it's a
big scene there's
a lot to shoot a lot to cover yeah he takes his time because he can so we're
there and i don't know
if you remember my portion of that scene is yes i'm laughing yeah and uh you
know that's when uh
he says uh you know all right uh what's my character's name hershberg i'm gonna
send over
that uh that sergeant that crowd sergeant and uh you know i mean that means you
and so he goes over
and then he gets you know beaten to death you know that portion of the scene as
it happens uh this
scene was a bit larger than that initially i had quite a bit of back and forth
you got steve jobs
i got steve jobs like i said it's happened to me plenty yeah so i'm it's part
of the job i don't
take it personally part of the job part of the job so we had a little bit of
back and forth there
so he says you know irishberg sent over that kraut sergeant and so as scripted
and as shot uh you
know i'm holding my rifle the guy's on his knees wonderful actor richard sammel
is the actor's name
who played uh sergeant uh uh oh no oh this is it's too early for me ratchman
sergeant ratchman so um
he's uh i do want to point out we started at 10 a.m i don't know what time it
is and sam is
40 years old and keeps complaining i katie and i had a good laugh about how you
were like 10 a.m 10 a.m
i got three hours sleep last night it's true what it's i can't i have to come
back to the bastard
story i got three hours sleep last night ask me why do you only get three hours
you're not going
to believe the answer to this question why because my wife and i were binging
downton abbey wow and we
were like two episodes away from finishing the sixth season and it was like two
in the morning i was like
god damn it fine let's finish it i'm not going to bed i'll be thinking about it
all night let's do it
wow and the last one is like two hours long and we did it we stayed up and it
was like
fucking 4 45. this is why you were drinking a red bull when you came to the
door get up and do pete
holmes and he's gonna but you could have pushed an hour your energy you sure
did you brought the
good energy and i took it from you and you mirrored it and you declined the
free magic mind beverage oh
no i'm gonna use that in the car i'm gonna free it will get you it's gonna be
free so uh anyway back to
bastards uh the great guy playing the sergeant sergeant ratchman richard sammel
so he says al
laurent uh hershberg send that kraut sergeant over and so here's as scripted i
say that means you cupcake
and he does not respond and then i am supposed to bang him in the back with the
butt of my rifle and
then i say when the lieutenant says move you move and he still doesn't he still
doesn't react to that
and then i am to grab him by his hair yank him up to his feet and he turns
around at me and looks at
me and we have a little bit of a stare down and then i you know i said what you
know when the lieutenant's
talking you get over there and then he you know turns around and he walks over
and then you know the
rest of the scene he sits down he has the talk with aldo donowitz comes out
beats interesting i
wonder if it was another moment because all the hate that we have or the desire
for to watch this
guy get hit yeah the baseball bat which is a lot yeah i'll admit that when i
was watching that scene
it was it was difficult i know he's a nazi yeah in a movie still i'm i'm kind
of like uh like seeing
somebody bound and killed yeah is never fun no i i i always get nervous when i
talk this way i'm just
saying as a movie goer and also not to yes i get it yeah i wonder if your part
was to help us remember
this guy's a fucking piece of yeah you know what i mean and the look he's gonna
give you is like
disgust and he's an asshole and he's fucking all that yeah the first cut of the
movie was like five
hours so yeah he shoots everything yeah and then figures it out in the edit
yeah um so we go to do that
portion of the scene for the first time and he's got the camera up at the top
looking down it's kind
of a medium wide and he's all the way up there with the camera he doesn't have
a video village
he always stands by the camera and either watches a little viewfinder on the
side of the camera or he
watches the actors because he trusts bob richardson his dp to get the shot
right so
we do the first take of that and he's cut cut cut and because he's all the way
up there it takes him
like two minutes to run over where the the ladder is climb all the way down
there come over to talk
to his actors and brad pitt's next to you going like look at this dumb brad pitt's
like i think
moneyball will be my next movie was it yeah it sure was uh at least the next
movie he shot he takes out
the book michael lewis you've done it again so uh you've got a lot of names he
runs he runs down and
he comes over to me and he pulls me away from all the other actors here's the
thing here's the thing
okay um you're some fucking american jewish kid this guy is a fucking sergeant
in the nazi army okay he
would kill you with his bare fucking hands if he could and the only thing
stopping him from doing that
is the fact that you're holding the rifle he's not and there are 12 other
rifles around him
he knows one wrong move and he's gonna get blasted to hell that's the only
thing stopping him from
fucking killing you and you know that you want him to make a move you want an
excuse to tell your
fucking lieutenant what could i do lieutenant he was anti he came at me i put a
hole through his chest
you're looking for the excuse man i need to feel the fire i need to feel the
want from you
that you want this guy to make a move so you can put a hole in his neck and i
was like done and then
he goes over to richard and pulls him aside and i do not know what they're
saying and then the last
thing he says right before he goes back okay nobody talked to each other stay
in the moment and then
he runs back up to the stair runs over the thing okay and action and we go to
do the scene a second
time and now uh hershberg send that crowd sergeant over and uh that means you
cupcake and now i'm
fucking in it now it's fire and i bang him so hard i know i kind of hurt him
when i bang him with the
butt of the rifle sergeant lights in and says you move you move and i yank him
up to his feet and he turns
around he's staring at me and i got my rifle and it's a moment and it's going
on way longer than it
did last time and i'm looking at him he's looking at me like what what and i
start poking him in the
chest with the butt or with the with the uh front of the other rifle he's
looking at me and it's a
moment and it goes on so long and finally stops fixes jacket turns and walks
away and then they
get another little piece and then the scene ends god brilliant brilliant
brilliant do that again we're
gonna go again and then he comes over and i say richard what did he tell you
and he said oh um he told me
that when i turn around and you point the gun at me that if i didn't believe
that you'd really shoot
me that i should try to grab the gun away from you and then that would be the
new scene and he'd rewrite
and then that would be the new scene and i'd rewrite it in the woods in the
woods
in the middle of nowhere in germany we need 10 minutes yep because he he needed
something
authentic wow and if we couldn't get to the authentic thing he wanted he'd make
he'd find
the authentic thing we could do and he'd make that the scene and what he wanted
and what he wanted
well we'll edit that story out i i think you should i didn't like it i think
you should edit
at that i don't like you oh well the feeling is mutual you're too tall