| Posted by: max314 at July 3, 2008, 10:23 am | | Topic: Your opinions on Quentin Tarantino's movies. Forum: JoBlo | | Quote: Originally Posted by LordSimen 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. Gotta say, I never found myself caring about the Bride. I got pretty darn close in Vol.2, but by the time the third act rolled around I went back into my Vol.1 shell of not caring. I found her to be a pretty bland and rather unlikable character. And Uma's one-note performance didn't help. Also, while I encourage watching movies of the genre within which you're working, that really shouldn't be one's only research. For all the blood and gore and grit, Tarantino movies really just play like cartoons. And the reason is simply that it's a film that copies other films. Fiction that's based on fiction. That two-stage filtration process means that the end product is heavily diluted, relying on caricatures rather than actual characters. And the hyper-stylised dialogue is symptomatic of this, as Tarantino uses the same eccentric style to cover over lack of genuine characterisation. That's my two cents. |
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