When Tarantino was casting Pulp Fiction, the script had so much heat on it in Hollywood, even Daniel Day-Lewis wanted to play Vincent Vega. But Tarantino was adamant the role had to go to John Travolta, despite the studios seeing him as washed up. Tarantino explains…
“Absolutely nobody in the studio wanted John Travolta. And not only that, but it was also considered a really hot script at that time. When he was turning everything down, Daniel Day-Lewis expressed interest in playing Vincent.
I like Daniel Day-Lewis —but I really wanted John. I had my heart set on him. And it's one thing to want the guy who's out of fashion when nobody else wants him, right? But when there's actually a hot guy who you can actually get, and you want to go with the guy from Barbarino? — Yes, I want the guy from Barbarino, I’m sorry...
I was just kind of tough on it, in so far as — they really wanted to do the movie, and I just said, "look, I want to go this way, and if you don't agree that this is the way to go, then maybe we shouldn't make this movie together. Maybe I should make it with somebody else."
It wasn't a take-it-or-leave-it kind of situation, right. It's like, "look, I think he's a terrific actor. I think what you should do is you should watch him in Brian De Palma's Blow Out, and if you don't think he's a terrific actor after that, then maybe we should talk about whether we should do this movie together."
...But also, aside from just that, there was this aspect: John Travolta is a movie star. Just because everyone in Hollywood had forgotten about it just shows how dumb they are.
I actually walked down the street with John Travolta at his lowest ebb, in pre-production of the movie, and people would lose their minds when they saw him. We'd walk into a regular restaurant and we had to leave. Tourists in Hollywood would see him and just lose their minds.
People were dying to see him in something worth watching. It's just stupid Hollywood didn't realize it.”
Quote comes from Quentin Tarantino's appearance on the Opie and Anthony Show, 12-13-2012
JAY-Z says his two best albums are “Reasonable Doubt” & “The Blueprint”. He made NINE songs that actually made the album in 1 weekend ♨️
He said OG Juan went away to Miami for a weekend & was LIVID when he got back because he missed it.
WHY THE NEW GENERATION RAP FANS
HATE THE JAY Z FREESTYLE..
1.) ITS NO BEAT
2.) IT’S TOO MANY WORDS
3.) THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH KNOWLEDGE ON THE HISTORY OF RAP TO UNDERSTAND NODS TO
PUBLIC ENEMYS “911 IS A JOKE”
4.) ITS NO HOOK
5.) ITS NO AUTO TUNE OR HARMONIZING
6.) HE HAS NO JEWELRY
OR DESIGNER CLOTHES ON
See today’s casual rap fan does not really understand REAL HIP HOP
They know HIP-POP
a commercialized version of it
That does not deal with knowledge
And information through a lot of words from a rapper that make sense
They are trained to listen to the beat
Or the hook
Or the autotune singing
Or look at the outfit or the jewelry
And since
JAY Z WENT BACK TO THE ESSENCE
OF WHAT THE ACTUAL ONLY SKILL ELEMENT OF HIP HOP IS
“THE LYRICISM”
Majority of the fans do not know what they are looking at
Or even have the knowledge on how to listen to hip hop correctly enough to judge it properly