Friday, October 10, 2003

Fangoria is an article written by Jonathan V. Last, where he talks about Quentin Tarantino and how Kill Bill pays homage to the samurai epic, showers the audience with blood, and dilutes pop culture.

Here's a bit: "Kill Bill is an entertaining genre movie and a real high point in the wuxia oeuvre. It has, however, a certain grandiosity that, while not entirely unwelcome, is so self-conscious as to be a little uncomfortable. There are moments in Kill Bill--when, for example he bleeps out the name of Uma Thurman's character or puts the opening credits in Japanese--that are so pretentiously stylish that it feels as though we've caught the director in flagrante with himself.

ALL OF WHICH brings us to Tarantino himself. Several years ago there was an article in Esquire positing that Tarantino and Oliver Stone were cinema's Fitzgerald and Hemmingway. Tarantino was the elegant, sociable auteur, Stone the gruff, confrontational bull. Both pairs have notoriously bad feelings between them."

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