[quote=“Fatale”]
This is the kind of thread I try and keep out of. All this Quentin love and unappreciating anything other filmmakers try and do.
If people want to emulate the style of Tarantino, who cares, Tarantino has been pinching styles from different movies for years and he admits it. He was influenced and I am sure Quentin is thrilled he is influencing so many others.
I’ll bet the people in here who call themselves ‘future’ writers/directors write in the same way Quentin does…
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I don’t think Tarantino pinches other filmmakers styles, QT has his own unique style which is very consistent. I mean the only styles he has pinched that I can remember is the split screen sequences and long-shots but I don’t think they even qualify as they aren’t styles belonging to one individual. I mean trunk-shots, witty dialogue, shot of drink being poured into a cup from above, shots of car license plates before the car goes off or after a car comes into the picture, pop-culture dialogue, use of red apple cigarettes, rhyming sentence structures, use of popular or relevant/appropriate music etc etc all consists of QT’s style. Guy Ritchie tries to emulate a few of those things, not that there is anything wrong with it though, but he still tries to copy him.
I wish more movies were tarantinoish. It beats all these new films that are shyamalanish. Can I watch a movie without some lame ass twist at the end already.
well, I guess it’s more the feeling I got from it… but thinking about it… in both there are ppl involved in very violent situations who at the same time only want love and to have their peace
[quote=“WeaselCo”]
I wish more movies were tarantinoish. It beats all these new films that are shyamalanish. Can I watch a movie without some lame ass twist at the end already.
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So true. There are so many Shyamalan copy-cats out there right now. The Forgotten was just dreadful.
yeah it kicked ass. but what was pulp-ish about it?? what “is” pulpish?
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It has a similiar narrative to PF, in which three different stories are told that are all interwined by one event and some of the characters from one story pop up in another story. It also just has a very stylish quality that you could compare to PF- the gritty violence, wrong side of the law characters, and just the way the music meshes together with some of the scenes (“Si Senor” is the shit by the way.) I really loved the first story and thought it was totally awesome, but the other two were just pretty good. In my opinion the whole movie should have just been that one story.
