Word: quentinian
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...Cannes regular described Old Boy as a Tarantino movie that Tarantino would be afraid to make. It surely has its quota of Quentinian quirks, including cool bad guys dressed in black, a revenge motif that won't quit, some acts of abuse that would have given de Sade appreciative shivers?and, most important, an expert's joy in expanding and subverting the rules of genre. The gnarled story line, also familiar to fans of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill, careers from 1988 (when the main character, Oh Dae Su, is kidnapped and confined without being told what his crime...
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