Dear Jodie,
Quentin Tarantino, without question, was the very first rock
star movie director. He straddles the
line between genius and insanity and spends time on either side of that line.
I laughed in spite of myself at his brilliant Pulp Fiction! In any other movie on the
planet, two hit men on their way to blow some people out of the water would be
discussing strategy. Their looks would be stern and fixed, their eyes blazing
with the anticipation of killing.
Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) are
driving to the hit, and what are they discussing? What the French call a Quarter Pounder with
Cheese!
People are blowing people away, sodomizing folks, overdosing
to the brink of death, and here I am laughing my ass off!
Let me repeat that! Laughing my ass off!
Why!!!
That's the genius/insanity of Quentin Tarantino both as
screenwriter and director.
Who would create a character, Butch, whose most prized
possession was a watch that had been stashed for years at the time up the
keister of two different men, and play it to the hilt?
Butch risks his life and kills a man to get that watch! Who would think of that?
Quentin Tarantino!
Who would create a scene where a man accidentally blows the
head off a young man and I'm laughing so hard I can't catch my breath?
Quentin Tarantino!
Who would dare take vignettes and tell them completely out
of chronological order and have it all make complete sense?
Quentin Tarantino!
He is the rock star of directors! And Pulp
Fiction ROCKS! I just watched it
again, and it holds up brilliantly after 20 years.
10 out of 10!!!
Just as an oh-by-the-way, Quentin Tarantino publicly named
his favorite actor growing up, Adam Roarke, he of the 60's biker flicks.
Adam Roarke was my acting coach and friend. I'm so sorry that he died before Quentin
Tarantino could use him in a movie! I
would love to have seen that collaboration!
If I remember correctly, Jodie, you are a Quentin
Tarantino fan, aren't you? :-)
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Haha Rocky - great review! Royale with Cheese - I went into the McDonalds in St Germaine where Tarantino got the idea for that line, and I ordered...... you guessed it!
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