{"id":2186030,"date":"2025-12-03T22:56:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2186030"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:56:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:56:27","slug":"quentin-tarantino-slams-paul-dano-in-there-will-be-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/quentin-tarantino-slams-paul-dano-in-there-will-be-blood\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino slams Paul Dano in &#8216;There Will Be Blood&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/11\/27\/USAT\/87497236007-2237984960.jpg?crop=4866,2737,x0,y177\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Quentin Tarantino slams &#8216;Hunger Games&#8217; as &#8216;rip off&#8217; of &#8216;Battle Royale&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Quentin Tarantino has slammed &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; franchise, calling it up a &#8220;rip off&#8221; of the Japanese film &#8220;Battle Royale.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bang Showbiz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/11\/27\/quentin-tarantino-battle-royale-hunger-games\/87496308007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a> isn&#8217;t shy about his disdain for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2022\/03\/06\/the-batman-paul-dano-used-plastic-wrap-become-new-riddler\/9380805002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Dano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dano received ire when the legendary filmmaker sat down on &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/s9e48-top-ten-of-144885070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast<\/a>&#8221; to discuss his top 10 movies of the century. Tarantino picked <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/09\/23\/leonardo-dicaprio-movie-benicio-del-toro\/86044768007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paul Thomas Anderson<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;There Will Be Blood&#8221; as his fifth favorite film from 2000 on, and stressed the film would have been higher if it wasn&#8217;t for a &#8220;big giant flaw,&#8221; i.e. Dano.<\/p>\n<p>Dano, 41, starred opposite <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/09\/11\/daniel-day-lewis-acting-retirement-return-anemone\/86091892007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daniel Day-Lewis<\/a>, who won an Oscar for his performance. Tarantino, 62, said the two were not on equal footing. &#8220;Obviously, it&#8217;s supposed to be a two-hander, and it&#8217;s also so drastically obvious that it&#8217;s not a two-hander,&#8221; the director said. &#8220;He is weak sauce, man. He&#8217;s a weak sister.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>USA TODAY has reached out to Dano&#8217;s reps for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">Quentin Tarantino slams <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/11\/27\/quentin-tarantino-battle-royale-hunger-games\/87496308007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;The Hunger Games&#8217; as a &#8216;rip off&#8217; of this book<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tarantino wasn&#8217;t finished, later calling the &#8220;Little Miss Sunshine&#8221; actor &#8220;uninteresting&#8221; and saying Austin Butler would have been better for the role.<\/p>\n<p>Ellis attempted to push back on the criticism, noting the weight of Day-Lewis&#8217; role, but the filmmaker wasn&#8217;t convinced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you put him with the weakest male actor in SAG?&#8221; Tarantino countered. &#8220;I&#8217;m not saying he&#8217;s giving a terrible performance. I&#8217;m saying he&#8217;s giving a non-entity performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he liked Dano in any other roles, Tarantino couldn&#8217;t think of any and listed other actors he also isn&#8217;t a fan of. &#8220;I don&#8217;t care for him, I don&#8217;t care for Owen Wilson, and I don&#8217;t care for Matthew Lillard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dano received a BAFTA award nomination for his role in &#8220;There Will Be Blood&#8221; as well as Primetime Emmy nominations for his roles in the &#8220;Mr. and Mrs. Smith&#8221; reboot and the 2018 limited series &#8220;Escape at Dannemora.&#8221; He also earned a Golden Globe nomination for the 2014 film &#8220;Love &amp; Mercy,&#8221; for which he won a Gotham Award. He has starred in the Oscar-winning movie &#8220;12 Years a Slave&#8221; as well as Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8220;The Fabelmans&#8221; and Matt Reeves&#8217; &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2022\/03\/06\/the-batman-paul-dano-used-plastic-wrap-become-new-riddler\/9380805002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Batman<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">Tarantino reveals his top 20 movies of the century:<\/h2>\n<p>Tarantino&#8217;s full list of top 20 best movies of the century was as follows:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8220;West Side Story&#8221; (No. 20)<\/li>\n<li>Eli Roth&#8217;s &#8220;Cabin Fever&#8221; (No. 19)<\/li>\n<li>Bennett Miller&#8217;s &#8220;Moneyball&#8221; (No. 18)<\/li>\n<li>Prachya Pinkaew&#8217;s &#8220;Chocolate&#8221; (No. 17)<\/li>\n<li>Rob Zombie&#8217;s &#8220;The Devil\u2019s Rejects&#8221; (No. 16)<\/li>\n<li>Mel Gibson&#8217;s &#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221; (No. 15)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Linklater\u2019s \u201cSchool of Rock\u201d (No. 14)<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Tremaine&#8217;s &#8220;Jackass: The Movie&#8221; (No. 13)<\/li>\n<li>Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado&#8217;s &#8220;Big Bad Wolves&#8221; (No. 12)<\/li>\n<li>Kinji Fukasaku&#8217;s &#8220;Battle Royale&#8221; (No. 11)<\/li>\n<li>Woody Allen&#8217;s &#8220;Midnight in Paris&#8221; (No. 10)<\/li>\n<li>Edgar Wright&#8217;s &#8220;Shaun of the Dead&#8221; (No. 9)<\/li>\n<li>George Miller&#8217;s &#8220;Mad Max: Fury Road&#8221; (No. 8)<\/li>\n<li>Tony Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Unstoppable&#8221; (No. 7)<\/li>\n<li>David Fincher&#8217;s &#8220;Zodiac&#8221; (No. 6)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Thomas Anderson&#8217;s &#8220;There Will Be Blood&#8221; (No. 5)<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Nolan&#8217;s &#8220;Dunkirk&#8221; (No. 4)<\/li>\n<li>Sofia Coppola&#8217;s &#8220;Lost in Translation&#8221; (No. 3)<\/li>\n<li>Lee Unkrich&#8217;s &#8220;Toy Story 3&#8221; (No. 2)<\/li>\n<li>Ridley Scott&#8217;s &#8220;Black Hawk Down&#8221; (No. 1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usatoday.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quentin Tarantino slams &#8216;Hunger Games&#8217; as &#8216;rip off&#8217; of &#8216;Battle Royale&#8217; Quentin Tarantino has slammed &#8220;The Hunger Games&#8221; franchise, calling it up a &#8220;rip off&#8221; of the Japanese film &#8220;Battle Royale.&#8221; Bang Showbiz Quentin Tarantino isn&#8217;t shy about his disdain for Paul Dano. 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