His movies are unquestionably filled to the brim with references and homages to other movies. Tarantino’s film knowledge is remarkable. I catch some of the references, but a lot of them go over my head. Here is a list for Pulp Fiction (scroll down to ‘Movies’): Pulp Fiction Movie References Guide - The Quentin Tarantino Archives
The trailer looks like the cast had a lot of fun making it, which is not usually a good sign for the viewers.
It’s a good list. But I think this one - “Ringo Starr - Member of the Beatles. Jules calls Pumpkin ‘Ringo’ due to his British accent.” - is wrong. I think it’s more likely the use of Ringo is a reference to the various gunfighter characters named Ringo in a number of western movies.
That’s certainly possible, but more likely? There’s a lot of guys with guns in the movie, but only one Brit, and he’s the only guy who gets called “Ringo.” I suspect it’s more to do with his accent than his armament.
I loved Inglourious Basterds but I thought Django was too similar. Replace evil Nazis with evil slave owners, replace Jews with Slaves, completely ahistoric story line. And it’s not like they’re so similar as to be replaceable: Inglourious was just made better. More suspense, more over the top ending, they killed freaking Hitler, and Christopher Waltz’s part was better.
Not that I didn’t like Django. I just thought it was not breaking new ground, and most of the themes and ideas had been used (and used better) in IB. So, I’m hesitant to be excited for a new Tarantino movie if this is just going to be Django 2: Electric Boogaloo.
What was ahistorical about Django?
I was talking about Inglorious Basterds, sorry I wasn’t making that clear.
I meant DrCube’s post:
Jango Unchained was so stupid awesome it’s almost worth it to sit through A Million Ways to Die in the West just to see his post credits cameo.
I guess that makes sense. A lot of Tarantino’s (and Robert Rodrigues’s) movies would appear to take place in the same “universe”, or at least he recycles the same characters. Or maybe just the same names. For example:
Texas Ranger Earl McGraw (Michael Parks) appears in From Dusk Til Dawn, Planet Terror, Death Proof and Kill Bill.
In Reservoir Dogs, Mr. Blonde (aka Vic Vega) is the brother of Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction. Also, Mr. White’s parole officer is Seymore Scagnetti and in Natural Born Killers (written by Tarantino) Tom Sizemore plays Det. Jack Scagnetti.
Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Inglorious Basterds) and Lee Donowitz (True Romance) might be related.
There are actually a bunch of them.
Either way, I’m reserving judgment. This kind of looks like Reservoir Dogs in the Old West. Since I’ve seen Tarantino do Reservoir Dogs and the Old West with Jango, I’m not sure if there’s anything new here.
Umm, it’s Django.
WTF? Fifty posts and nobody has mentioned the fact that Kurt Russell is in this film? Talk about burying the lede. I’ll see it for Kurt’s mustache alone.
Then let me amend my statement to say his films are like bad 1970s comic book scripts that reference old movies and TV characters.
Well, his post-Pulp-Fiction movies, anyway. His movies (and scripts) up to that point were pretty good.
You and I were clearly reading very different comics in the 70s.
“The D is silent.”
…and Peaky Blinders! The modern soundtrack totally works in the gritty 1920s Birmingham, England.
Can you explain in what way you think Quentin Tarantino movies are like 70s comic books? Like Miller, I read a lot of comic books back in the seventies and I haven’t noticed any resemblance to what Tarantino puts up on the screen.
Thanks for the link - to me it looks like it will be very entertaining. I love QT’s movies…for that reason alone…they’re very entertaining. :dubious:
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