The amazing thing about Tarantino movies (maybe Kill Bill aside) is how LITTLE violence there is. The dialog alone inspires a sense of extreme violence, but there isn’t much quantified. Reservoir Dogs registers as one of the most violent movies out there, yet there is little more in it than some hysterical gangsters standing in a warehouse yelling at each other.
What Tarantino does is he takes a scene and gradually builds up the tension, you know inevitably something bad is going to happen, but it gets revealed slowly.
Two examples, in “Pulp Fiction” where Jules arrives in the apartment and gives his “and you shall know I am the Lord....” speech. He begins by questioning them about their breakfast, and gradually reveals the real reason he’s there.
The other was the opening of Inglourious Basterds, where Landa visits the French farmer.
True, Tarantino is no Sam *sniff* Peckinpah.
The body count in RD was 11 so some of that hysterical screaming was done at 800+ feet per second.
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