| Posted by: LordSimen at July 3, 2008, 7:04 am | | Topic: Your opinions on Quentin Tarantino's movies. Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by max314 Yeah, I think that's exactly what it does. His "research" for his films is just other films. For example, if he's writing a war film (e.g. the upcoming Inglorious Bastards), then instead of researching actual past wars, his "research" is constituted of watching war movies. If he's writing crime movies, then instead of researching actual criminality, his "research" is constituted of watching crime movies. And so on. I believe I mentioned in another thread how Tarantino's films are simply reinterpretations of other films. A copy of a copy. He attempts to hoodwink the audience into thinking he is doing something creatively unique by coming up with eccentric dialogue to cover up his creative deficiencies, but I think his pseudo-creativity is becoming more and more evident to mainstream audiences as time goes on. PS If you want to know which film Pulp Fiction is largely based on, then I suggest you add Chungking Express to your list. Nothing you just said about Quentin Tarantino sounds like a "creative deficiency." In fact, they are all positive things. The guy researches movies instead of real life. That's a good thing. Because he researches how to do the subject differently than they did it while still homaging the past works. You say his eccentric dialogue is there to cover up his faults. However, that dialogue is where the characters lie. Characters who he, himself, creates from front to back. He takes characters, such as the bride, who on paper could have been a "Elektra" (movie not comic), and turned her into a fully developed, well rounded character who people cared about. Sure, he puts them in familiar situations, but the situations are all put together with unique twists and turns that others did not include. There's nothing wrong with what Tarantino does. |
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