I will agree with you that it was a simple story, barely any subplots or variables, but i thought the performances, flashbacks, and the conclusion was entertaining enough to fill in those areas. Bills comparison of Kiddo to Superman was supreme script writing and then providing a flashback as the transition to the conclusion was a great choice. Tarantino didnt really have that much of a story to tell because it was just a Revenge/Love Story, but he did it in such an extravagant way i dont see another Revenge flick coming close to the Kill Bills
The Superman speech in KB2 was lifted from the introduction to the book 'The Great Comic Book heroes' by Jules Fieffer. I found the passage awhile back on the net, and it is basically a direct lift. If I find it later I'll post the link.
I am a big Tarantino fan though, as long as he does well with the lifts I don't mind them. It's pretty good that the introduction to an obscure superhero book from the 60s gets a showing in a modern movie.
my picks:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Jackie Brown
4. Kill Bill vol.1
5. Deathproof
6. Kill Bill vol.2
from his screenplay by but directed by another movies:
1. From Dusk til Dawn
2. True Romance
3. Natural Born Killers
WeaponXproject said:
That was the last good movie Oliver Stone and QT helped a little by him and his buddies doing storyboard drawings.
It was essentially his baby though Oliver directed it. I don't think it would have been any different and I would definetely leave it as it is by Stone.
Stone was re-writing parts of the screenplay and NBK was becoming so far removed from Tarantino's original screenplay that QT asked for his screenplay credit to be changed to 'story by QT', which it was. I think it would have been a very different movie under QT and I would've much preffered to have seen his take on his story.
I don't know what you mean by QT and his buddies helping out with storyboards, he had nothing to do with the Stone movie at all, bar an old screenplay of his being used as the basis. Taratino said he didn't want to se the movie, and had no plans on watching it, although he said he might catch it one day if it happened to come on tv.
Pulp Fiction and RD are both perfect movies, very entertaining all the way through. Jackie Brown is pretty damn perfectly executed too, although not as funny, exciting or engaging as the 1st two I would say, it is a slow boiler and was much better appreciated on further viewings by myself.
Kill Bill vol1 is a blast but I found vol2 to be a bit of a chore.
I enjoyed Deathproof for what it is was, a pretty cool experiment in trying to recapture a type of b-movie he enjoyed in his youth. Great action, and the type of dialoge was apt I thought. It's the kind of things folk talk about in real life; it's the kind of common place dialoge you'd get in an old b-movie; it's a good way of showing real women in comparison to the ways you imagine the old bitter psychotic serial killer views women.
Someone on another message board said that Tarantino directed the first half(non-vamp) of From Dusk Til Dawn, don't know if this is true or not.
agreed
