The director of “Pulp Fiction,” Quentin Tarantino, often provokes the community with his unconventional approach to choosing “good movies”, among which, actually, there are quite a few quite decent works.
This time the director (through Collider) highlighted the 1985 movie “Fandango” and called it “one of the best directorial debuts of all time.”
“Fandango” is a comedy that started the collaboration between actor Kevin Costner and director Kevin Reynolds. According to the plot, five friends who have graduated from college go on a trip before they are drafted into the army and sent to fight in Vietnam. They travel across Texas to finally retrieve a bottle of wine they buried on days they partied together, and promised to find at a moment when something extraordinary happens in life.
Reynolds, at that time a newcomer in directing and scriptwriting, played a decisive role in the career of Kevin Costner. On the positive side, the action movie “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves,” which became one of the most financially successful films of the actor to date, and on the other hand, “Waterworld,” which suffered from an inflated budget and production chaos, undermining the friendship of the duo. Costner and Reynolds reunited only decades later for the History Channel miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys,” thanks to which Kevin cemented his place in television even before “Yellowstone.” The director also helped create part of the film “Dances with Wolves,” despite not being credited.
In the early years of his work, Reynolds caught the attention of Quentin Tarantino. In July 1994, in an interview with Vanity Fair, the director predicted that “Kevin Reynolds will become the Stanley Kubrick of his decade.” As for “Fandango,” Tarantino has watched it at least five times.
“Fandango is one of the best directorial debuts in the history of cinema,” said the director, who was so captivated by the film that he began to dress and talk like Costner’s character. “I wanted to wear a dirty tuxedo and sleep, pee, drink, and sweat in a car driving through the desert.”
Spelling error report
The following text will be sent to our editors: