Posted on 03/15/2005 7:46:12 PM PST by Destro
Tarantino moves on to non-gratuitous violence
Staff and agencies
Tuesday March 15, 2005
Quentin Tarantino is to exchange the world of yellow jumpsuits and shiny swords for one of muddy khakis and greasy rifles. The Kill Bill director's new film, which has the projected title of Inglorious Bastards, is to be about a platoon of second world war soldiers trapped behind enemy lines.
"I've been kicking back and now I'm getting ready to start working again," Tarantino, who has just started working on the film's script, told the Sun. The director - who was in London picking up an Icon of the Decade award from Empire magazine - also vowed to keep on making movies for at least another 15 years.
"I'm not going to be this old guy that keeps cranking them out," he added. "My plan is to have a theatre by that time in some small town and I will be the manager - this crazy old movie guy.
"I've made enough money that nobody even needs to show up at the theatre. It's just having something to do.
"I will make little speeches before each movie. That sounds like a pretty cool life."
Tarantino added that Shaun of the Dead was his favourite film of 2004, and that his second favourite was The Passion of the Christ.
"I'm actually in the writers' branch of the Academy, but I wanted to switch over to the directors' branch so I could vote for Mel Gibson to win an Oscar," he said. "I think The Passion Of The Christ is one of the most magnificent directing jobs I've seen in my life. I hadn't seen a movie bring back the imagery of silent cinema until that film."
I've seen MD like 12 times (not kidding, sadly), I love it!
Just a suggestion; Avoid the Big Kahuna burgers at the snack bar.
[Duane: Oh, come on.]
Sid: Top Gun is f--king great. What is Top Gun? You think it's a story about a bunch of fighter pilots.
[Duane: It's about a bunch of guys waving their d--ks around.]
Sid:It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. It is! That is what Top Gun is about, man. You've got Maverick, all right? He's on the edge, man. He's right on the f--king line, all right? And you've got Iceman, and all his crew. They're gay, they represent the gay man, all right? And they're saying, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. He could go both ways.
[Duane: What about Kelly McGillis?]
Sid: Kelly McGillis, she's heterosexuality. She's saying: no, no, no, no, no, no, go the normal way, play by the rules, go the normal way. They're saying no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? That is what's going on throughout that whole movie... He goes to her house, all right? It looks like they're going to have sex, you know, they're just kind of sitting back, he's takin' a shower and everything. They don't have sex. He gets on the motorcycle, drives away. She's like, "What the fick, what the f-ck is going on here?" Next scene, next scene you see her, she's in the elevator, she is dressed like a guy. She's got the cap on, she's got the aviator glasses, she's wearing the same jacket that the Iceman wears. She is, okay, this is how I gotta get this guy, this guy's going towards the gay way, I gotta bring him back, I gotta bring him back from the gay way, so I'm do that through subterfuge, I'm gonna dress like a man. All right? That is how she approaches it.
Okay, now let me just ask you--I'm gonna digress for two seconds here. I met this girl Amy here, she's like floating around here and everything. Now, she just got divorced, right?...
All right, but the REAL ending of the movie is when they fight the MIGs at the end, all right? Because he has passed over into the gay way. They are this gay fighting f--king force, all right? And they're beating the Russians, the gays are beating the Russians. And it's over, and they f--king land, and Iceman's been trying to get Maverick the entire time, and finally, he's got him, all right? And what is the last f--king line that they have together? They're all hugging and kissing and happy with each other, and Ice comes up to Maverick, and he says, "Man, you can ride my tail, anytime!" And what does Maverick say? "You can ride mine!" Swordfight! Swordfight! F--kin' A, man!
Hey! Shaun of the Dead was my favorite movie of last year too! :) Cool!
I went to the same elementary school as Steve Buscemi. Of course, he is about 15 years (if not more) older than me.
I saw it in the theatre, and just finally popped for the DVD. I'd really like to get the entire Twin Peaks run on DVD, but I've just been too cheap so far. I have Straight Story, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Lost Highway, and Fire Walk With Me already.
"Kill Bill" is a parody of bad Kung Fu movies and spagheti westerns. If you watch it from any other point of you'll get frustrated.
Don't forget ELEPHANT MAN.
I've seen it, and didn't find it appealing.
Jackie Brown was a nice little gem.
pissed my pants - and its very true - well not exactly true - those movies appeal to the Freudian stage where adolescent boys hate girls and just want to rough house with other boys. Not exactly sexual as in gay.
Not much else really got to me like those other three did.
There's something about Harvey Keitel reciting lines written by QT... I think that the two work really well together.
As much as I love PF and RD (though I've never been able to listen to Steeler's Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle With You" since then without that scene poping into my head!), I think that my favorite movie by QT is Jackie Brown. Amazing movie, and I never seem to tire of it. I've problably seen it 20 or 30 times. I think it was on Starz Theater, and I caught it at least once a day for an entire week!
Mark
I was happy to see Quentin use the theme from "Across 110th Street" in that film.
Liar?
BTW, Pulp Fiction had only one poor acting performance, that being from Tarantino, himself.
The Pulp Fiction screenplay was an interesting mixture of somewhat clever characterization, awkwardly contrived convergence, and presented no single character with whom the viewer could identify.
The script left gaping holes and had amateurish inconsistencies (for example, hit men don't leave physical evidence all over, junkies don't usually drink, car wrecks don't magically disappear, the list goes on.) That said, the film had some unique scene transitions and the music was especially well done.
One didn't have to look too deeply to be offended by Pulp Fiction. Tarantino made cinematic fools of military personnel, people of faith and police while humanizing mobster hit men and drug dealers. So, when Tarantino says he wanted Gibson to win an Oscar, it was probably just another poor acting performance .
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Movies are not reality nor are they there for the purpose of morality. They are entertainment.
On your first point, I agree, especially when the title is "Pulp Fiction." Careful fiction writers do, however, try to tie up loose ends and avoid inconsistencies where possible. This helps in the so called willful suspension of disbelief, that feeling of losing yourself in a book or film.
On your second point, respectfully I must disagree. All too often, Hollywood interjects political messages into films, where they have no purpose in the plot other than to accomplish social instruction.
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