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Quentin Tarantino
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Kill Bill: An Unofficial Casebook
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“The key difference between a geek and a critic is that a
critic digs deep and tries to get behind the surface of things,
for better or worse, while a geek is interested in his own hedonism,
the thrill of discovery.A geek is expansive and associative
and doesn’t necessarily care what a film or a scene ‘means’. It’s
the difference between the encyclopaedia and the scholar. A
critic likes an interesting association, a nice phrase; the geek
admires the beau geste, a pulpy story and its codes of honour
taken seriously.
Tarantino rather combines those two roles. He is encyclopaedic
but also interpretive. He is a human Rolodex of
credits. His films are like stuffed overnight bags breaking at the
seams. The Handel of filmmakers, he takes the whole of
cinema as his resource. But he also provides new meanings,
new interpretations of old moments by the way he recontextualizes
them.”
― D.K. Holm, Quentin Tarantino
critic digs deep and tries to get behind the surface of things,
for better or worse, while a geek is interested in his own hedonism,
the thrill of discovery.A geek is expansive and associative
and doesn’t necessarily care what a film or a scene ‘means’. It’s
the difference between the encyclopaedia and the scholar. A
critic likes an interesting association, a nice phrase; the geek
admires the beau geste, a pulpy story and its codes of honour
taken seriously.
Tarantino rather combines those two roles. He is encyclopaedic
but also interpretive. He is a human Rolodex of
credits. His films are like stuffed overnight bags breaking at the
seams. The Handel of filmmakers, he takes the whole of
cinema as his resource. But he also provides new meanings,
new interpretations of old moments by the way he recontextualizes
them.”
― D.K. Holm, Quentin Tarantino
“Like the atomic bomb, it’s there; like the bomb, the temptation
will always exist to use it.There can no longer be a world
without the atomic bomb; there can no longer be a world
without violent movies.”
― D.K. Holm, Quentin Tarantino
will always exist to use it.There can no longer be a world
without the atomic bomb; there can no longer be a world
without violent movies.”
― D.K. Holm, Quentin Tarantino
“Paradoxically, that large screen in the cavernous, crowded
room creates intimacy. And violence is an intimate act. If you
are punching someone, or if you are pinpointing someone in
the telescope of your rifle, you are as close to your victim as to
a lover, trying to think like them, anticipate their moves, overcome
them.”
― D.K. Holm, Quentin Tarantino
room creates intimacy. And violence is an intimate act. If you
are punching someone, or if you are pinpointing someone in
the telescope of your rifle, you are as close to your victim as to
a lover, trying to think like them, anticipate their moves, overcome
them.”
― D.K. Holm, Quentin Tarantino
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