Overview
- Tarantino unveiled entries 20–11, placing Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale at No. 11 and Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story at No. 20 alongside titles such as Cabin Fever, Moneyball, Chocolate, The Devil’s Rejects, The Passion of the Christ, School of Rock, Jackass: The Movie, and Big Bad Wolves.
- He alleged that Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games ripped off Battle Royale and questioned why the Japanese author did not sue.
- Praising West Side Story, he said the musical revitalized Spielberg and added, “I don’t think Scorsese has made a film this exciting [this century].”
- He recounted seeing Battle Royale in a private screening arranged by Fukasaku in Japan while scouting for Kill Bill, followed by an early U.S. festival screening experience.
- He called Jackass: The Movie the funniest film he has seen in two decades and said he screened it for his Kill Bill crew during production.