Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Angst essen Seele auf) (1974) by Rainer Werner Fassbinder transposes All That Heaven Allows into contemporary Germany with Rock Hudson's Thoreau-esque man of the soil recast as a Moroccan "guest worker". On arrival in the United States he soon changed his German name. Tarantino paid homage to Sirk and his melodramatic style in Pulp Fiction when character Vincent Vega at a '50s-themed restaurant orders the "Douglas Sirk steak" cooked "bloody as hell.