I dunno if i ever found any of his stuff shocking the first time i saw them. i got into tarantino when i was about 10 or 11 coz i had an older brother. i guess pulp fiction wouldve been the first one i saw coz dogs took ages to come out on video coz of the ban or something (in england). i dont think i fully understood the rape scene and being a kid i think i just found it funny, coz u know its the kind of stuff youd diss your friends with ‘you wanna get fucked in the arse, hurgh hurgh’
dogs was talked about so much in england that by the time i saw it i was surprised at how unviolent it was compared to what people wrote about it, it was a tarantino trait until kill bill that all the violence was pretty much off screen (e.g. the ear cutting, the sword scene in pulp, the bullet hitting melanie in jackie brown). i think true romance probably shocked me more coz it was more explicit when drexl gets shot in the nuts. i was always watching big dumb eighties action movies growing up so movie violence was already kind of unreal to me, the things that shocked me most were the bit in indiana jones and the last crusade when that guy just ages to death rapidly, the bit in nightmare on elmstreet where that girls belly rips open and gets flung around the room and that fucking clown in ‘it’! human violence didnt really shock me. stop-motion movement and lil kids with evil slow-motion voices still freak me out!
