90-year-old film-music composer Ennio Morricone has bashed director Quentin Tarantino, with whom he had worked on 2015’s “The Hateful Eight,” ultimately winning the Academy Award for Best Original Score.
[metalwani_content_ad]
Morricone told the German edition of Playboy (via Variety):
“He is not a director… He is absolutely chaotic. He talks without thinking, he does everything at the last minute. He has no idea.
“He calls up out of the blue and wants a complete score in just a few days. That’s not possible. It makes me so mad. I’m not going to put up with this. And I told him so last time.
“The man is a cretin. He only steals from others and puts stuff back together again. There’s nothing original about that. That doesn’t make him a director.
“He is nothing compared with the Hollywood greats, such as John Huston, Alfred Hitchcock or Billy Wilder. They had class. Tarantino simply recooks old dishes.”
The composer also took aim at the Academy Awards, saying about the comments that the 2016 Oscar ceremony “left him emotionally disturbed”:
[metalwani_content_ad]
“Nonsense. Rather, I was in pain from sitting down for so long, on the plane and at the ceremony.
“If I looked happy, it was because I knew I would soon be getting away from that boring ceremony. [I have no desire to return to the US and] its self-inflated pomposities and embarrassments like the Oscars.”