Tarantino - Incredible But Creepy
September 30th 2007 21:46
QT is definitely not a cutie. In fact, there is something about him that fairly shrieks ‘beady-eyed lunatic!’ However, during a recent discussion with a good friend about who we would sleep with for free (hypothetically of course, apart from the one or two (thirty) glorious ones that no woman could turn down, under any circumstances – I don’t care if they have the pox or it’s my wedding day), I was forced to admit that old Quentin would have no need to turn out his pockets.
Now, let me reassure you, the bloke does little to snap my clapper-board, but there is something highly alluring about a man with such manic movie genius. “Genius?” I hear you sputter, “he’s nothing but a copy-cat from Ballarat!”
WRONG!
He is from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Alright, I’m hearing you. He does have a tendency to borrow a bit here and there, grab this technique, snatch this concept, seize that scene, in order to celebrate a classic, or tribute a tour de force. But he’s not plagiarising exactly. He’s just having a loan of something that inspires him in order to weave it into his own wonderful (and wacky) work of art.
Apart from that, he has integrity and munificence, of a kind. He turned down Speed and Men In Black in order to write Pulp Fiction instead – and I’m ever so glad he did; and he puts his name to under-the-radar films such as Hostel, in the role of ‘Presenter’ in order to give them more exposure. Less happy about that. He falters in these virtues somewhat when he spits on people on the red carpet or attacks them like a rabid black marmot for presumed offences.
But still! He gets it for gratis. He is just that good.
Most of his movies are among my all-time favourites, and I am very much looking forward to his remake of King Hu’s 1966 martial arts epic, and most especially to his forever-in-the-works Inglorious Bastards, in which Eddie Murphy and Sylvester Stallone are rumoured to star, despite not being among his platoon of oft-cast actors.
I also pray for the hinted third and final instalment in the Kill Bill volumes, in which Nikki, Vernita Green’s daughter, seeks her own revenge on The Bride.
Until then, I will continue to watch his other macabre, violent, visually stimulating, time-splitting, colour slashing, distinctively irresistible films over and over.
And ponder my apparent psychological issues while perusing QT’s peculiar physiognomy.
Michaelie Clark
Quentin Tarantino - more than slightly disturbing. Courtesy of deviantart.com
WRONG!
He is from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Alright, I’m hearing you. He does have a tendency to borrow a bit here and there, grab this technique, snatch this concept, seize that scene, in order to celebrate a classic, or tribute a tour de force. But he’s not plagiarising exactly. He’s just having a loan of something that inspires him in order to weave it into his own wonderful (and wacky) work of art.
Apart from that, he has integrity and munificence, of a kind. He turned down Speed and Men In Black in order to write Pulp Fiction instead – and I’m ever so glad he did; and he puts his name to under-the-radar films such as Hostel, in the role of ‘Presenter’ in order to give them more exposure. Less happy about that. He falters in these virtues somewhat when he spits on people on the red carpet or attacks them like a rabid black marmot for presumed offences.
Rabid Black Marmot. Courtesy of tunc.biz
But still! He gets it for gratis. He is just that good.
Most of his movies are among my all-time favourites, and I am very much looking forward to his remake of King Hu’s 1966 martial arts epic, and most especially to his forever-in-the-works Inglorious Bastards, in which Eddie Murphy and Sylvester Stallone are rumoured to star, despite not being among his platoon of oft-cast actors.
I also pray for the hinted third and final instalment in the Kill Bill volumes, in which Nikki, Vernita Green’s daughter, seeks her own revenge on The Bride.
Until then, I will continue to watch his other macabre, violent, visually stimulating, time-splitting, colour slashing, distinctively irresistible films over and over.
And ponder my apparent psychological issues while perusing QT’s peculiar physiognomy.
Michaelie Clark
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