Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:
Filmmaker in Focus
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood opens this weekend, and while the filmmaker has made fewer than 10 features, there’s no mistaking one of his movies thanks to his signature style. This video from StudioBinder breaks down Tarantino’s directorial trademarks to show how he keeps audiences hooked:
Supercut of the Day
Want another tribute to the filmography of Quentin Tarantino in anticipation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? Here’s a fantastic supercut of scenes from his movies, including his latest, from Cine File. And you can bet there is a whole lot of violence throughout this video:
Movie Comparison of the Day
Every fan has his own favorite Tarantino movie, but is there one that is objectively his greatest? In anticipation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Couch T. looks at the box office, awards, soundtracks and more, comparing his entire filmography, and came up with 24 reasons Django Unchained is inarguably best:
Classic Movie Trailer of the Day
One thing Django Unchained has that others don’t is the first collaboration between Tarantino and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio. Courtesy of Movieclips, let’s look at the original trailer for the movie, which opened in U.S. theaters on December 25, 2012:
Music Video of the Day
YouTube star Trisha Paytas cosplays as a number of characters from Quentin Tarantino movies, including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in the music video for her new song, which is of course titled “Quentin Tarantino.” Watch it here:
Reworked Movie of the Day
You love him in the John Wick franchise, including the current release John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, but what would Keanu Reeves look like in other iconic crime movies? Using the latest computer technology, Derpfakes is able to show us what the actor would have looked like in the 1983 classic Scarface:
Drawing Lesson of the Day
The Lion King is the number one movie in the world with its photorealistic reimagining of Disney’s 1994 animated classic. Drawing live-action-style versions of the characters takes a lot of computer art skill, but would you like to draw Rafiki the mandrill in a more cartoonish form? Here’s Pierre Pompoup with another lesson:
Fan Art of the Day:
What would the reimagined version of The Lion King have looked like if Disney didn’t go so far in the realistic animal looks and stayed truer to the animated classic? Here’s some fan art showcasing alternative character concepts for the remake that are more faithful to their cartoon counterparts:
Fan Theory of the Day
Speaking of The Lion King, everyone accepts that Mufasa was a great king before he was murdered by his brother, Scar. But what if that’s not actually true? In this video from ScreenCrush, Ryan Arey examines the evidence that maybe Simba’s father wasn’t the best Lion King after all:
Alternate Ending of the Day
Avengers: Endgame now holds the record for the highest-grossing movie of all time worldwide, but some fans find the Marvel Cinematic Universe installment incomplete. Why don’t we get to see Captain America returning the stones? Here’s How It Should Have Ended with an animated look at how that could’ve looked:
