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I’ve seen DP yesterday and the day before yesterday and chanches are I’ll see it again today.
2 questions and some comments:
who was the guy one girl sent “you’re an asshole!” to?
what was the whole piano music scene ? I think she sent messages to the dyke that got them weed. It seemed out of place, like she was messaging her lover, and was never referred to again.
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Jungle Julia was texting Chris Simonson (the guy she liked). He disappointed her, thus the “you’re an asshole!” message later on.
That piano music sequence was one of my favourite scenes in Death Proof. The music is called “Sally and Jack” by Pino Donaggio. It was there to show how JJ was in her own world as girls often are when speaking to/texting the guy they love. All the surround sounds were silenced, and just the music played, while we see Jungle Julia texting Chris Simonson, telling him she can’t wait to see him. We see her sitting alone, away from the group. After she sends the message, she goes to sit down with them, she receives a message from him saying he misses her too and we see her smile as she thinks about him and sends a reply. I thought that was one of the most human moments from all of his five films. I loved that bit.
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It’s more Zoe Bell’s movie than it is Kurt Russells. I was suprised. He gets less screen time than I expected, I thought the movie was mostly about him. Zoe is adorable and seems very natural.
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And he’s all the more mysterious because of it. We hardly know him.
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QT introduces and builds up the characters of the first group of girls, just to have them all killed by Stuntman Mike in the middle of the movie. They weren’t even friends of the second group of girls or related in any way. It seems like they were just killed to show what Stuntman Mike is capable of doing and to have an gory death scene. But why build them up first? For the twists sake? I liked it anyway.
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Wow, people complain when there is no characterisation and they complain when there is characterisation. You can never win. :-</E>
The reason why he built them up was so that the death scenes were all the more dramatic. If he just killed some random girls we didn’t know, we wouldn’t feel anything. QT is all about fucking with the audience, you shoul dknow this by now. So in building them up, we start to care for them, or atleast get to know them and we see that Stuntman Mike is a crazy lunatic going after innocent girls. I saw absolutely no problems with it. It makes perfect sense.
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I loved the long take. From IMDB: “During the second half of Death Proof (2007), when the four women are talking in the cafeteria, it is all done in a single take that is approximately seven minutes long” Perfect.
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You do know that, that’s from Reservoir Dogs right?
Dude, after watching it twice within close proximity, you don’t seem to be getting it as much as you should do. Hmmmm…
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(Another question for those who have seen the extended cut)
Was “the film print” you saw completely devoid of the scratchy, jumpy cuts?
Reason why I ask was because the Grindhouse version we (Americans) saw featured a “deteriorated/chopped” print which included the missing reel,multiple scratches/jumps,etc.
I only remember about 4 cuts. As followed:
#1-The opening song, “The Last Race”, isn’t played in it’s entirety. Rather than a fade-out, it’s abruptly cut during the credits.
#2-The girls who scream in joy at Julia’s billboards from a distance quickly vanish thanks to the jump cut. Mike then drives into the frame and replaces them.
#3-At the cafe, dialogue is repeated from one of the characters from a different camera angle.
#4-(Towards the end of the movie) There’s a very brief black-out-then-cut to Zoe climbing out the car window to do the stunt. (I’m sure this was QT’s nod to distributed-film owners who quickly wanted to cut to the action for their film print)
Was all the above presented in the extended cut? Any new ones?
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The film print did have scratchy jumps. The prints got better as the film went along which is what probably happened in the Grindhouse cut.
- Yes, that happens.
- That happens. Also, I think in the European cut, there are more instances where they scream at the billboards. They do it like 3-4 times.
- Yeah, Marcy Harriell’s character (also called Marcy) repeats some words as she speaks her first dialogue in the film.
- Yeah, I believe that happens too.
I don’t remember of any others. I’ve only seen it once. What I do remember is that the scratches and cuts etc were much more prominent in the first half of the movie.
By the way, the parts that were included in the proper cut were in my opinion some of the greatest scenes of the movie.