Robert Rodriguez
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 16 Nov
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Or is it the one where he's- There's a bunch of the- He named them different than the books because of the copyright issue.
So whatever's on the cover, you'll find the cover of it, but the painting itself might have a different name.
And it's still imitated today. He has this very triangular way of composing that tells a story. The posters still look like this. Look at the one with the snake. Again, if you see the triangular design, your eyes go immediately to the snake and then down to him. It tells a whole story. I have a theory of why his art is the way it is. Now, you know, I knew him. Did I tell you? Really? Okay.
So first you get to Hollywood, right? So I'm just this kid who's an artist. You get to Hollywood, first thing you want to do is work with all your heroes. So Dust Till Dawn, I said, I want to work with Frazetta. Because he used to do some movie posters, like The Gauntlet with Clint Eastwood. That gauntlet, when he did, was really nice. Look up The Gauntlet, Clint Eastwood, Frazetta. Yeah.
And so I called him and he said, yeah, I'll do it. In fact, when I showed him the movie, he goes, where'd you find this gal? And I said, yeah.
So I wanted to get that for Dust Till Dawn, right? So he said, where'd you find this gal? I wish I had a gal like that to paint. She's based on all your paintings. The girl that's always in your paintings, I made Salma dressed like that because it's a Frazetta come to life. He goes, oh, that's all you need on the poster. I go, well, you had to draw the other actors.
So when you come to the house, you'll see the painting he did. It was the year he got his first stroke. So it took him, by the time I got the painting, we'd already made posters. We thought, okay, it's not going to come. And then it showed up at the last minute. But we gave it away at comic book stores. But it's really cool. But at the bottom of the painting, there's some of the actors.
He didn't even paint Harvey Cattell. He just like, the other actors, Quentin. And then instead of vampires, he just did his monkey dudes. He always does. And it's really cool. It's really cool. But I got to know him and I got to go visit his studio because we kind of, again, it's that similar mindset. And I didn't realize he had all his originals. I see that little monkey dudes on the bottom.
He had all his originals next to his house in his museum. Like all those that you were just looking at. They were all there. I didn't realize as an illustrative artist, sometimes you don't own your own material. He made it a point to own his own originals. So, like, the ones you just were salivating over, those were in my house. Wow. I wish I knew you seven years ago. Damn.
Because his kids... Oh, my God. His kids are so impassioned about the art. Even his granddaughter, Sarah Frazetta, she has Frazetta Girls. This is... They're so always, you know...
bringing up his legacy and keeping it alive so cool but I really wanted to go do like a Conan type movie or a John Carter I wanted to do one based on Fire and Ice which is the only one he had actually it was an animated film thought well maybe if Conan's been used too much Let's do Fire and Ice as a movie because he worked on that as an animated film. I just want his paintings to move.
Like add Frank Miller's art move. I want Frazetta's paintings to move because he was transporting us to another world that we all recognized. If you could make that Conan with the sword.
Yeah, they've never seen it like that. Yeah. But the thing is, it's like- And look, that's not a guy that's just been in a gym. Right. He looks like a freaking beast. He's been swinging a sword and cutting off heads. And with technology, you can do that. So that's why I'd gotten Jim interested in this.
Yeah.
And because it was done that way first, like with Arnold in it, people just figured, oh, we'll just hire a bodybuilder to be a barbarian-type character from then on. But to do it really like that, he's more like a James Bond character. You know, he goes from movie to movie. Yes. And he's really fucking smart. Yes. And he's just... No, but I got to meet Frazetta. So keep that up for a second.
So I went to his... We talked about his paintings and how he did it, and I got a theory on how he did this. But... When I went and saw the originals, like, holy shit, you got all the originals. how did you make the, and he really loved to live life. Like he'd go play golf, he'd go play baseball. He'd get an assignment and he'd wait till the last minute and go and paint it.
So what happens when you wait till the last minute, you have to just open up the pipe and let it through, right?
I think that's why we all know this place, you know, collectively dream, you know, Jim Cameron would come over to my house, you know, Del Toro, George Miller, John Favreau, to see these originals in person. When you see them in person, it blows your mind. It feels like you're being transported.
I think because he did them at the last minute, they just came from the universe because that's why people were related. People would just buy these paperbacks for the art. Yes. This, this Conan was created in the thirties.
Books came out in the sixties. Right. They didn't become a big hit till these books came out because of the art. Exactly. And then when you read the stories, the stories were really great, but they got them for the art. A hundred percent. And he was showing me his, his, his layout of paintings. And he went two days, one day, three days, four days, two days. I was like, holy shit. Just locked in.
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