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McCabe & Mrs Miller - YouTube
Death Proof - YouTube
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With Basterds, I think it’s going to crush the weak competition come this late August. Every time I go to the movies and the Basterds trailer comes on, I hear people whispering about it - so it’s a great sing. I think it will open up with 33M in the US. It will be that big.
When QT said it was lesser work than his other movies (Death Proof), I also thought the same thing. I mean it’s like a short film in a way, there aren’t that many open locations until the very end, it’s like a stageplay - almost in the way of a Mankiewicz movie where the movie moves through the conversation of characters. I still like Death proof, but I must admit the second half has always entertained me more, with Rosario, Tracy, etc. I think the earlier girls weren’t good actresses, they were too conventional for lack of a better word and uninteresting.