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Kill Bill Volume 1

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==^..^== 3 Tarantino from the beginning to the end...
VincentP 2.75 Tarantino kills his idols.
Astec 2.75
Ghost Dog 3
Xavier Chanoine 5
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El Topo 4.5
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Sid 0.25
Sonatine 3
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Tarantino from the beginning to the end...

A lot of fans had to wait for this new production from Quentin Tarantino and I think, that they should had a lot of entertainment by watching it. On the one hand, the realisation is really a very good and creative job. The non chronological scenes, the animated sequences or the rooms shown from the top. And of course always the adapted songs.

On the other hand the violence is present in every sequence. For me it is to much. Blood, blood, blood! But it belongs also to the Tarantino's style...



18 April 2004
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Tarantino kills his idols.

Two deadly female avengers clash

I'm not sure why this film should be such a frenzy. Is it merely because it is a Tarantino film or is it because the film is considered to be the hypest genre movie endeavour of the 00s? We could almost be deceived into thinking that Tarantino actually owns genre movie. That he was the only one who could erect such a monument to cheap and campy entertainment. And there we end up contemplating an obvious contradiction: can we really give such a consideration to someone whose sole intention was to pay a tribute to the films he quite justifiably cherished?

Hold on a second! Are we sure we couldn't have expected anything better in that respect? The film boasts being "the 4th film by Quentin Tarantino" to start with, and we end up with a mere 3rd and a half! I thus understand it is too early to make any definite judgment about the film, but so far I tend to feel there's been more scavenging on T's part than any righteous "homage". We're even almost on the verge of profanation, if I may go so far, and all the more so as the graves are very fresh. Somehow the souls of the legendary figures of Asian cinema mentioned in the credits (May they be at rest) have no particular benefit to derive from that four-set production.

In a way, Tarantino seems to have applied the famous Yagyu adage "Kill your father if he stands in your way. Get rid of Buddha if he interferes" uttered in the film from the very mouth of Kinnosuke Nakamura as a modus operandi for the shaping of a film whose indirect aim is to defile the sacred groud of Asian genre movie. The cue, taken from Fukasaku's Yagyu conspiracy, and later rephrased by the swordmaker played by Sonny Chiba, could therefore be seen as a way to justify such a crude treatment of references we know Tarantino takes very seriously. Why did he have that film sound so fake? I figure someone who would consider those references as silly and who had treated them in a serious way would have been better off, and I think Jim Jarmush was more successful in that kind of approach with Ghost Dog.

But again I should wait until I've seen the second half (and it's such a pity the instruction scenes should only appear there) before giving a definite judgement.



12 March 2004
by VincentP


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