Slate Chats With Quentin Tarantino's 'Favorite Imitator'

C.M. Talkington revisits the complicated lineage of his 1994 debut film.

New York magazine culture editor Lane Brown recently asked Quentin Tarantino if the filmmaker has a “favorite imitator.” Tarantino acknowledged that follow-on films were more of a trend when he first started out, but named C.M. Talkington, who made the 1994 crime thriller Love and a .45.

Today, Slate staff writer Aisha Harris has shared a Q&A with Talkington and it’s quite illuminating. For starters, Talkington was extremely unlucky with regards to the timing of his buzzed about debut film, which was lapped by Natural Born Killers and Pulp Fiction.

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