Word: quentin
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...simply this: Pulp Fiction, entertaining as it is, contains very little that is actually new. In fact, one of the most important reasons that the movie is considered so avant-garde is because it embraces "borrowing" from previous films in such an overt way. The image of Quentin Tarantino working in a video rental store, watching countless movies and storing up scenes to be replayed in his own movies some day has enchanted pop consciousness. Tarantino even plagiarises himself in one scene--a car trunk shot lifted directly from Reservoir Dogs...
...they "weren't particularly great ones." He cheerfully admits he was no one's first choice for Get Shorty and that when the script was submitted to him, "it didn't push me over the edge." He changed his mind after talking with Pulp Fiction's writer-director, Quentin Tarantino, who has become his unofficial adviser. "He said, 'Look man, what's going on here? This is the one you say yes to.'" This he finally did after insisting that much of Leonard's dialogue from the novel be restored. "In the original script it said something like, 'Where...
...motives. Talking about himself, he gives a well-calibrated performance--though he's too good an actor for anyone to determine which of his moods are felt and which are feigned. When difficult questions are posed, he grows monosyllabic, evasive. Asked about a confrontation he reportedly had with director Quentin Tarantino over the repeated use of the N- word in Pulp Fiction, he pirouettes around the issue: "I did have problems with [Pulp Fiction]. I like the movie, I think he's very talented, and I expressed to him the problems I had with it. But I won't talk...
...Seven" is not for the squeamish, but if you feel up to it, you owe it to yourself to see it. If you are repulsed by what Quentin Tarantino does, beware; "Seven" makes "Resevoir Dogs" look like "101 Dalmations." This movie is in an almost-new realm of brutality, and gets there not by showing needles slammed through breastbones, as Tarantino is wont to do, but rather by showing the aftermath, giving description and letting you imagine things that are infinitely worse...
...Tarantino time. The popularity of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction--the first independent film to earn more than $100 million at the U.S. box office--will midwife plenty of melodramas with Tarantino's signature plot: men in groups and on a heist, talking until the dark night of the soul gives way to a red dawn...