Can't explain it...despite the goofy casting...I'm getting pumped for Inglorious. Haven't been this excited for a Tarantino movie since Kill Bill Vol. 1. Sadly, that didn't go too well. Nevertheless.
Watch KB1 again. I watched it on Blu-Ray about seven months ago and had a much greater appreciation for the film.
It's not Tarantino's finest film by any means, but I think after seeing more of the kinds of films that informed KB1, I felt the film clicked with me at levels that I was previously unaware.
And yes, I too, am stoked to see Inglorious Bastards (the misspelling of "bastards" be damned).
I'm happy to check out KB1 again and I've heard this defense of tarantino films before - death proof and the kill bills - that you need to "get" all his references and you'll appreciate the movies more. While this may be true, it seems to run counter to tarantino enjoys about movies - the raw, unpretentious, and joyous experience of watching. must one watch every leone film prior to taking in the kill bills? is knowing all of monte hellman's work a prerequisite to enjoying death proof?
this seems to me quite an unpleasant standard to apply to films - one that only phd students and film experts could hope to enjoy.
maybe i'm just a simple modernist, fan of the immersive story and unable to keep up with post-modern gamesmenship.
or maybe an artist hiding in a circle of references and allusions and eye winks is eschewing the more difficult task of finding human truth in their material.
Oh, I don't pretend to "get" all his references nor do I care about them. But over time I had a gravitation towards the kinds of the films that Tarantino tended to ape (especially in KB1) and after viewing a few of them -- and they may not have even been the exact films he was referencing -- I "got" what he was trying to do in Kill Bill and it enhanced my enjoyment of it on a meta level.
That "meta" level is something that is, and should remain, totally optional. To put the paradigm of making the viewer watch a list of films prior to watching the film they originally intended is an onerous and ridiculous exercise.
...And, I've seen a lot of the films that influenced Death Proof (or, films of that ilk) and I still find Death Proof to be Tarantino's painful nadir.
Finally, to your last point about the artist hiding behind references and eye-winks... I would be lying if I said that I didn't sense that very thing in some of the man's work.
Nevertheless, I'm going to Inglorious Basterds (misspelling intact now) without concerns about the "source material" so that I may enjoy it at face value.
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Watch KB1 again. I watched it on Blu-Ray about seven months ago and had a much greater appreciation for the film.
It's not Tarantino's finest film by any means, but I think after seeing more of the kinds of films that informed KB1, I felt the film clicked with me at levels that I was previously unaware.
And yes, I too, am stoked to see Inglorious Bastards (the misspelling of "bastards" be damned).
I'm happy to check out KB1 again and I've heard this defense of tarantino films before - death proof and the kill bills - that you need to "get" all his references and you'll appreciate the movies more. While this may be true, it seems to run counter to tarantino enjoys about movies - the raw, unpretentious, and joyous experience of watching. must one watch every leone film prior to taking in the kill bills? is knowing all of monte hellman's work a prerequisite to enjoying death proof?
this seems to me quite an unpleasant standard to apply to films - one that only phd students and film experts could hope to enjoy.
maybe i'm just a simple modernist, fan of the immersive story and unable to keep up with post-modern gamesmenship.
or maybe an artist hiding in a circle of references and allusions and eye winks is eschewing the more difficult task of finding human truth in their material.
Oh, I don't pretend to "get" all his references nor do I care about them. But over time I had a gravitation towards the kinds of the films that Tarantino tended to ape (especially in KB1) and after viewing a few of them -- and they may not have even been the exact films he was referencing -- I "got" what he was trying to do in Kill Bill and it enhanced my enjoyment of it on a meta level.
That "meta" level is something that is, and should remain, totally optional. To put the paradigm of making the viewer watch a list of films prior to watching the film they originally intended is an onerous and ridiculous exercise.
...And, I've seen a lot of the films that influenced Death Proof (or, films of that ilk) and I still find Death Proof to be Tarantino's painful nadir.
Finally, to your last point about the artist hiding behind references and eye-winks... I would be lying if I said that I didn't sense that very thing in some of the man's work.
Nevertheless, I'm going to Inglorious Basterds (misspelling intact now) without concerns about the "source material" so that I may enjoy it at face value.
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