I agree. His four movies are all brilliant, but he couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.
But that's just my point! You she obeys! She obeys you! There's obeying going on right under my nose!
Wash ,'War Stories'
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Hayden - Apr 26, 2005 11:27:33 am PDT #2220 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Lyra Jane - Apr 26, 2005 12:47:20 pm PDT #2221 of 10002
Up with the sun
His four movies are all brilliant, but he couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.
And yet, people keep giving him opportunities to do so.
Also, re: Reservoir Dogs -- has anyone else watched the deleted scenes on the DVD? They suggest to me that the original screenplay may have been much more straightforward, as they fill in a lot of backstory that the film is probably better without.
Trudy Booth - Apr 26, 2005 12:59:09 pm PDT #2222 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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Gris - Apr 26, 2005 5:10:53 pm PDT #2223 of 10002
Hey. New board.
Aw, man, I absolutely LOVE QT's guest spot in Alias. He's one of my favorite short-lived villains of the first two seasons (which is all I've watched). Maybe my favorite. Those episodes were awesome.
Kathy A - Apr 26, 2005 5:27:17 pm PDT #2224 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
He's directing the season finale of CSI (original flavor).
P.M. Marc - Apr 26, 2005 5:40:18 pm PDT #2225 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I am a big QT fan. Except the dude should never ever act. REALLY not his forte.
I make an exception for his spot in Sleep With Me, but I realize I'm unreasonable about that movie.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 26, 2005 5:44:18 pm PDT #2226 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I make an exception for his spot in Sleep With Me, but I realize I'm unreasonable about that movie.
The bit is hysterical. Like the movie a whole hell of a lot too, but the TOP GUN but is priceless (if another sorta-steal).
Strega - Apr 26, 2005 7:49:33 pm PDT #2227 of 10002
John Bloom/Joe Bob Briggs has a great essay about Resevoir Dogs in Profoundly Disturbing, and talks about the City on Fire thing. He speculates that maybe Tarantino felt weird about taking the plot from a recent movie by a contemporary, because he's usually pretty open about what he's lifting things from. And it certainly would have been better PR if he had, but yeah, it's not like Resevoir Dogs is just a remake.
He also makes an interesting argument that it's really a horror movie.
The critics who have dissed it -- for violence, for cynicism, for self-conscious artiness -- are looking for moral and philosophical content in a film that has none. It's a horror film, but instead of one Jason Voorhees, we have eight of them. And the most sociopathic of them all -- Mr. Pink, the character Tarantino modeled after himself -- is the only one who gets to survive.
Jim - Apr 27, 2005 12:29:11 am PDT #2228 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
The biggest influence on the style of RD, though, hasn't been mentioned. It's Mamet with guns. And Mr Pink dies; you hear him shot by the cops.
Nutty - Apr 27, 2005 4:44:02 am PDT #2229 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I'd submit that Joe Bob is mistaken. It's not a horror film; it's a heightened-reality tragedy of honor, just like its Hong Kong generic forbear. The point is that, between the Veteran and the Traitor, there's honesty -- apology for his treason -- in the end.
To draw from David's discussion of yesterday, it's very like the scene in Rififi where Cesar confesses to having ratted out his mates. He accepts the mandate that Tony le Stephanois execute him -- agrees that that is his due, takes it with dignity, and is perversely redeemed. Honor among thieves, all that.