Tarantino Gives Tarkovsky Django

DID YOU KNOW? One day, legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino walked out of store with a box of cookies. Outside the store he saw a poor kid waiting for his autograph. The kid was a huge fan of Tarantino and wanted to be a film director. Tarantino gave him his box of cookies and a copy of his masterpiece Django Unchained and said “Watch this film 100 times kid, you will be someone very important one day.” The kid was Andrei Tarkovsky and he grew up to become one of the best Russian film directors of all time.

A meme presents a fake inspirational story in which Quentin Tarantino gives a young Andrei Tarkovsky cookies and a copy of Django Unchained, supposedly inspiring him to become a great director. The punchline is the impossible anachronism: Tarkovsky died decades before Django Unchained was made, so the sentimental story is deliberately absurd.

• @itvbia / 3849 2020-07-28