BAH ICK UGH POO

[mlknchz]

Aside from the obvious answer (he can't because he doesn't have an original bone in his body) why doesn't Quentin Pinkerton Tarantino make a film that's not a direct rip-off of an obscure film he hopes no-one's heard of?
OK, maybe they're "FUN" as a friend of mine suggests, but what would you think of a painter whose entire body of work was copying other paintings?
What would you think of that painter being praised to the skies while the painters of the original (and arguably better) works languished in obscurity?

So, here's my challenge to QPT; prove me wrong by making a really good, really original film that isn't wholly based on some other film you've watched. Pick a book that no-one's filmed yet, and make THAT.


C'mon, I DARE ya

Comments

[chocolatebark.livejournal.com]

Pick a book that no-one's filmed yet, amd make THAT

Jackie Brown?

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

eh...one film 15 years ago does not a refutation make


I also thought it was too self-consciously "cool"

I liked the bit where Chris Tucker got shot

[chocolatebark.livejournal.com]

Fair enough! Also, is his middle name REALLY Pinkerton?

(The weird thing about the whole Django thing is that QT was already IN a post-modern ironic tribute/prequel/spin-off thingy of Django, Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django

I ALWAYS like when Chris Tucker got shot

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

No, I refer to his fetish for Asian women.

I KNOW, right? Though I LIKED the Miike film

Re: I ALWAYS like when Chris Tucker got shot

[chocolatebark.livejournal.com]

Ha! Fair enough. I don't think there will be any asian women in Django Unbound...lots of dirty feet-shots though, I imagine.

Yes, the Miike film was kind of fun--I haven't seen any of his stuff since 13 Assassins...should probably see what he's made in the last couple of years (probably half a dozen different fillums)

Re: I ALWAYS like when Chris Tucker got shot

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

flaming cattle stampede....good times, good times

Re: I ALWAYS like when Chris Tucker got shot

[chocolatebark.livejournal.com]

That was a good shot--I liked that it was when he was pulling back to let the viewer get the full effect, too, instead of just doing the whole sequence in close up and shaky-cam or some such.

[glazomaniac.livejournal.com]

i accept at face value spike lee's accusation that it is racist trash.

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

Though I think Mr Lee has been known to overuse that term...yeah

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

I´d like to see him make a historical drama, seriously!
Hilarious.
Just imagine, for instance, the letters home by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillie_de_Hegermann-Lindencrone done by Tarantino as a film!
Extra pun for hitherto free: the best scene in a much better (though not that well either) novel by http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wilde-West-Walter-Satterthwaite/dp/0312059973 has in my humble opinion simply copied it from the actual (though their historical accurateness may need a bit of proof, too;) books of H-Lindencrone. Of course, her personal output holds no copyright in any country anymore, if she or anyone indeed ever did so, it´s for free, right?!

[mlknchz.livejournal.com]

I agree her life would make a fascinating movie, but in QPT's hands it would be as puerile and pointlessly anachronistic as Sofia Coppolas "Marie Antoinette"