The Movie Critic | Quentin Tarantino

[dkelly26666]

I'm hoping it's more of a Brian De Palma type of thing, where a woman critic is stalked by someone for giving bad reviews and it becomes a giallo type of thing.

There actually is a famous story where Janet Maslyn, who was a critic for the NY Times for many years, claimed that she received a series of creepy late night calls and threatening correspondence from an unidentified man. She fully believes that it was writer/director James Toback, after she gave a bad review to his 1978 film, "Fingers". (I love that film, by the way, LOL). But he is apparently a world class creep, that got MeToo'ed into oblivion a few years ago when women came forward with hundreds of allegations against him. Maslyn believes to this day that he was her stalker, but she could never prove it.

I'm just pondering here, I have no idea what Tarantino plans to do here.

It'll be interesting, either way, I'm sure.

[dancerslegs]

Originally Posted by dkelly26666

There actually is a famous story where Janet Maslyn, who was a critic for the NY Times for many years, claimed that she received a series of creepy late night calls and threatening correspondence from an unidentified man. She fully believes that it was writer/director James Toback, after she gave a bad review to his 1978 film, "Fingers". (I love that film, by the way, LOL). But he is apparently a world class creep, that got MeToo'ed into oblivion a few years ago when women came forward with hundreds of allegations against him. Maslyn believes to this day that he was her stalker, but she could never prove it.

And Pauline Kael was a good friend of Toback's. Just to give this possible plot line a relevant twist.