Re: OT: Tarantino...your thoughts on his body of work...
Posted by:
Sawfish (IP Logged)
Date: 8 July, 2021 10:01AM
Knygatin Wrote:
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> I have only seen Pulp Fiction, and I did not like
> it. I don't remember anything from it, except the
> kitsch violence. But the critics hailed it and you
> had to go see it. So I am sure, by this equation,
> that it had some insidious political
> (((Hollywood))) propaganda poking out to enter my
> brain.
No message; it was simply exploiting Tarantino's fine ear for 70s hipness and coolness.
I think that Reservoir Dogs was a more honest film. As soon as he had broadly recognized success, he became extremely self-indulgent, a sort of self-appointed arbiter of what's cool and what isn't.
So mostly it's well filmed, repeatedly exploring hyper-macho themes, as embodied in 1970s black American culture--which if one can recall that period, was actually pretty fun, since people were not afraid to laugh at themselves, nor the more obvious foibles of others.
>
> I understand he made a film called From Dusk Till
> Dawn about vampires in Mexico.
I think Rodriguez actually directed. Tarantino may have written it.
Oddly, among the very best stuff he's done was as an actor playing a character very much like himself--a young turk director--who was narcissistic and exaggerated in the extreme.
This was one segment of the anthology film, Four Rooms.
But I honestly believe that he was poking fun at himself, so I give him credit for that much, at least.
At this point I'm sorta seeing Tarantino as the poster boy for all that's wrong with America today. A person possessed of significant talent--although not even 1/10th of what he, himself, thinks he has. And he sees himself as enlightened --in a way "woke" (in his own way--he's not conventionally PC, you'll be glad to hear, K), and here's the kicker--the part that makes him the poster boy: he thinks this makes his opinion superior to all others.
Very typical of today's emergent generation, who were all awarded trophies for participation--which they were led to believe is congruent with excellence--and were constantly reassured how great they were, when all they were doing was the minimal competent output.
So you see, to them "competence" = "excellence", and this then, to their way of thinking, confers the moral right to arbitrate all issues.
You get kinda tired of this, after a while...
> And that John
> Carpenter also made something like that, called
> Vampires, at about the same time. I have not seen
> either of these. It is one of the few films by
> John Carpenter I have not seen. I have great
> admiration for Carpenter's artistic hand, both as
> film director and suggestive musician. And as a
> director of entertainment action/horror films,
> working in Hollywood, he seems pretty much to have
> managed to keep his films mostly free from pc
> propaganda. And he made the odd film They Live,
> which some interpret as an attack on the whole
> system and the deep state.
Did you like any of De Palma, and say, Phantom of the Paradise? An odd little film, for sure....
--Sawfish
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