Tarantino fans?

**pilothaz** · 07-24-2007, 07:29 PM

He is King. Just like Morgan Freeman, Samuel L Jackson, Edward Norton and Tim Robbins.

**Quick Orange** · 07-24-2007, 07:38 PM

Cheers to that!

Reservoir Dogs

Mr. Blonde: Hey Joe, you want me to shoot this guy?
Mr. White: [laughs] Shit... You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.

**majurey** · 07-24-2007, 07:49 PM

Love PF and RD as well, especially the editing on PF. But one of my all time favourites is True Romance. Christian Slater has a kind of young Jack Nicholson thing going on, you know, laid back, but threatening. Patricia Arquette is gorgeous (and apparently tastes like a peach), but the absolute pinnacle of that film is where Christian Slater's father Cliff (played excellently by Dennis Hopper) realises he's a dead man.

The mafia boss (Christopher Walken playing probably his most frighteningly cold character yet) is trying to find Slater and finds Cliff living in a trailer on waste ground. He roughs the guy up, sits him in a chair surrounded by Mafia flunkies and warns Cliff not to lie as his daddy taught him 17 'tells' a man gives away when he lies. Knowing that he cannot lie, Cliff realises it's him or his son. He asks for a cigarette and takes a moment to form his plan. He realises he's not going to rat on his son, so he's going to die. But he wants it to be a quick death, so he decides to goad Cocotti into a deadly rage and starts to talk. He starts to tell a story about history. About how the moors from north Africa, hundreds of years ago, invaded Sicily and raped the women there. This is why Sicilians have olive skin and dark hair with curls.

Cliff: "... I find it absolutely amazing to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, Sicilians still carry that n*gger gene. I'm just quotin' history. It's a fact. It's written. Your ancestors were n*ggers. Your great, great, great, great, great-grandmother was f*cked by a n*gger, and had a half-n*gger kid. That is a fact. Now tell me, am I lyin'?"

Cocotti looks at him for a moment, then jumps up, whips out an automatic, grabs hold of Cliff's hair, puts the barrel to his temple, and pumps three bullets through Cliff's head.

Cocotti: "I haven't killed anybody since 1984. Goddamn his soul to burn for eternity in f*ckin' hell for makin' me spill blood on my hands!..."

Powerful stuff. All the time Cliff tells the story there's a poignant piece of classical music playing. The whole scene just sends shivers down my spine, and Dennis Hopper's should have been given an Oscar for that soliloquy he delivered. It makes you think what a father will do to protect his children.

It's a little under 10 minutes, but

**zepplin** · 07-25-2007, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by majurey

Love PF and RD as well, especially the editing on PF. But one of my all time favourites is True Romance. Christian Slater has a kind of young Jack Nicholson thing going on, you know, laid back, but threatening. Patricia Arquette is gorgeous (and apparently tastes like a peach), but the absolute pinnacle of that film is where Christian Slater's father Cliff (played excellently by Dennis Hopper) realises he's a dead man.

The mafia boss (Christopher Walken playing probably his most frighteningly cold character yet) is trying to find Slater and finds Cliff living in a trailer on waste ground. He roughs the guy up, sits him in a chair surrounded by Mafia flunkies and warns Cliff not to lie as his daddy taught him 17 'tells' a man gives away when he lies. Knowing that he cannot lie, Cliff realises it's him or his son. He asks for a cigarette and takes a moment to form his plan. He realises he's not going to rat on his son, so he's going to die. But he wants it to be a quick death, so he decides to goad Cocotti into a deadly rage and starts to talk. He starts to tell a story about history. About how the moors from north Africa, hundreds of years ago, invaded Sicily and raped the women there. This is why Sicilians have olive skin and dark hair with curls.

Cliff: "... I find it absolutely amazing to think that to this day, hundreds of years later, Sicilians still carry that n*gger gene. I'm just quotin' history. It's a fact. It's written. Your ancestors were n*ggers. Your great, great, great, great, great-grandmother was f*cked by a n*gger, and had a half-n*gger kid. That is a fact. Now tell me, am I lyin'?"

Cocotti looks at him for a moment, then jumps up, whips out an automatic, grabs hold of Cliff's hair, puts the barrel to his temple, and pumps three bullets through Cliff's head.

Cocotti: "I haven't killed anybody since 1984. Goddamn his soul to burn for eternity in f*ckin' hell for makin' me spill blood on my hands!..."

Powerful stuff. All the time Cliff tells the story there's a poignant piece of classical music playing. The whole scene just sends shivers down my spine, and Dennis Hopper's should have been given an Oscar for that soliloquy he delivered. It makes you think what a father will do to protect his children.

It's a little under 10 minutes, but

here's the clip on youtube. Enjoy.

**zepplin** · 07-25-2007, 02:00 PM

I have been a Tarantino fan since Resivour Dogs. I loved Pulp Fiction and both Kill Bills, and his screen play of "True Romance", but some of his stuff lately....like "Grindhouse" & "Death Proof" (Kurt Russell), I just didn't get why he would make something like that. To each his own.

The reviews were quite good, though. Maybe some of the reviewers don't want to slam someone who is currently "HOT" in Hollywood. I know that the young people like that kind of stuff; then, too, sometimes my reaction to a movie can depend on how I feel when I watch it. I took my Grandson and his girlfriend to see Grindhouse and Death Proof while visiting in Canada, they loved 'em both, naturally. Death Proof was fun to watch. I thought Grindhouse was awful!! - but I just kept thinking, "after all the great stuff he has made, why would he do this?"

Now that he is rich and famose, maybe he's lost that creative edge he had when he was first starting out and struggling. I've seen this happen to some performers and creative people when they finially make it. I appreciate performers who improve their skills as their career moves forward: Betty Davis, Robert Dinero, Sean Connerly, Spielberg, even John Wayne, Clint Eastwood(especially!!), etc.,etc..(I'm dating myself)

I don't know what this means; and, maybe I'm just not thinking clearly.

Steve

**jimmyman** · 07-25-2007, 03:17 PM

Yeah, that scene in the trailer with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken was brilliant, and chilly at the same time, Walken is still way underrated as an actor. I personally like the role Gary Oldman played in that, he was great. I have to say though, Four Rooms is still one of my favorites weird flicks, with QT writing and directing part of it. Still love watching that one to this day, no matter how quirky it is.

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