[quote=“vadasz”]
I guess KB1 is more “fun” in an exoctic, action, kick-ass sort of way. This is why a lot of people have been turned on to QT in the past. Lots of “fucks” lots of “cool” deaths, lots of references (dude, if’n you don’t get it yer out). But, for me, what has always made his movies great is that, buried beneath all this stuff (stuff that, by the way, I highly enjoy), is an emotional core that few directors, American or otherwise, come close to. When Mr. Orange tells Mr. White he’s a cop; when Jewels says, “I’m tryin’, I’m tryin’” and, my favorite scene in any of his movies, when Jackie Brown walks out of Max’s office and the camera pans away from Max with his sad, there-goes-the-greatest-thing-that-ever-happened-to-me look. These are the moments when his films rise above just being “cool,” or “funny,” or “kick-ass,” and they are what make him a truly great director.
In terms of KB2, the scene when Bill and Bea talk before the wedding, close-up on their profiles, black and white, or the scene when Bill walks away after the five-finger business and the Bride looks truly sad and relieved at the same time, for me those scenes are the payoffs. I love the house of blue leaves, but, really, it’s just fun. Not a whole lot of emotional depth and not much coming close to art in the sort of Katian sense of awe in the face of pure beauty. But when Bill says, “Paimai taught you . . .”, shit. The whole movie explodes right there and then we really know who the bride is, who bill is, and what this show is really about.
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I feel sorry for the people not going to see some of, imo, QT’s best stuff