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Street, Sydney NSW 2000.EDITORIALEDITOR JAMES JENNINGS
ART DIRECTOR KATIE SMITH
PHOTO EDITOR KRISTI BARTLETT 02 8114 9493... ALSO
THIS MONTH
AT EMPIRE:
Got to check out the incredible Star Wars:
Galaxy’s Edge land at Disneyland,
California! Stay tuned for a feature on
our visit next issue...DO YOU REMEMBER the first time you saw Pulp Fiction?
I sure do.
Schoolie’s Week 1994, somewhere in Queensland. (Yes,
I’m aware that several thousand sordid anecdotes from
bogans Australia-wide begin with those exact same words.)
Out of the dozen or so school friends who were away with me
for a relaxing week of drinking tinnies in a squalid flat and
not much else, not a single one was interested in attending the
local cinema on opening day to see Pulp Fiction. Not. One.
(This is even after I showed several of them a VHS of
Reservoir Dogs at my parents place a few years earlier. You
can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make them wade in
the gallons of fake blood with a side order of severed ear.)
So alone I trudged to see a film I was unbelievably hyped
for, only to find a cinema populated by about half-a-dozen
patrons. Pleasingly, the seat options were plentiful.
Two-and-a-half hours later my compadres and I stumbled
out of the cinema in a giddy daze, changed forevermore by
what we had just witnessed. My friends could keep their
cartons of VB and roll-your-own cigarettes: the warped,
wonderful brain of Quentin Tarantino had shaped my brain
into something else entirely, and I couldn’t get enough.
Right there and then, I was Team QT for life.
As you could imagine, then, I’m more than a little amped
for QT’s latest, Once Upon A Time In... Hollywood. Empire
was lucky enough to sit with the great man in his edit suite to
see 45 minutes of the film, a love letter to LA and the film
industry of yore. The conversation starts on page 42.
On page 50 we switch gears as QT answers questions sent
in by readers, covering everything from QT’s favourite Marvel
film to whether or not he still owns a Laserdisc player (you can
probably guess the answer to that one). Robert Rodriguez and
Kevin Smith also share their thoughts on their larger-than-life
friend, Smith revealing which of his movies QT wishes he
had a part in (hint: it isn’t Yoga Hosers).
See you at the movies, where I expect there’ll be
more people watching Once Upon A Time In...
Hollywood than there were watching Pulp Fiction in
Maroochydore, 1994.THIS MONTH
AT EMPIRE
JAMES JENNINGS
EDITOR
CLASSIC
LINES
OF THE
MONTH“He’s in my office.
He’s in a little purple
sack — or rather a
big purple sack. And
he’s not coming out
again.”p. 53
“I’m gonna fuckin’
die here, and I
thought, ‘I’m not
going to go without
being stoned.’”p. 82
”I THINK YOU’D
REMEMBER IF YOU
DID A SCENE WITH
JOHNNY FUCKING
DEPP!”p. 49