SEAN! He's aliiiiiiive!
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
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Steph L. - Apr 26, 2005 10:13:09 am PDT #2210 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Sean K - Apr 26, 2005 10:15:14 am PDT #2211 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Hi Teppy! Yes, I live.
DavidS - Apr 26, 2005 10:16:09 am PDT #2212 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Wow. That's exactly RD.
That's why there was a big stink by cult movie fans when Reservoir Dogs first came out. They felt QT should have at least acknowledged how much plot he took from City on Fire. Chris Gore at Film Threat made it a big issue.
Some of QTs more famous lines have been directly lifted from other movies too. For example, the line in Pulp Fiction by Marcellus: "I'm going to get a hard man with pliers and a blowtorch" comes directly from the 70s crime film Charley Varrick. But not the "get medieval on your ass" part.
Steph L. - Apr 26, 2005 10:16:52 am PDT #2213 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Hi Teppy! Yes, I live.
How goes the living, out in the land of starlets and back lots?
Sean K - Apr 26, 2005 10:26:58 am PDT #2214 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It goes okay. Trying to find more work, as the work I have is not enough and also ending soon.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 26, 2005 10:33:47 am PDT #2215 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Yeah, the plot of RD is definitely CoF, but I think the jumbled time structure was all QT (well, by way of the Killing, sort of), as was the mixmaster blend of pop culture references, and the great conceit that an undercover cop basically needs to be a really good method actor.
And the casting was cool.
Scrappy - Apr 26, 2005 10:43:07 am PDT #2216 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am a big QT fan. Except the dude should never ever act. REALLY not his forte.
erikaj - Apr 26, 2005 10:44:41 am PDT #2217 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
No...he can't be anything but him.
Jessica - Apr 26, 2005 10:45:14 am PDT #2218 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Except the dude should never ever act. REALLY not his forte.
I love his little cameo in Pulp Fiction, but yeah. (He was originally planning to play Pai Mei in KB2, and I can only imagine the train wreck it would have been.)
Frankenbuddha - Apr 26, 2005 10:48:49 am PDT #2219 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I love his little cameo in Pulp Fiction, but yeah.
I like him well enough in RD, but he's not in it much longer than he is Pulp Fiction - big speech, a few lines and an elided death scene.