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RE: About "not getting it"

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In Reply to: RE: About "not getting it" posted by Peter H-son on November 29, 2007 at 08:46:56

Thanks for your thoughtful and spirited response. I'm sure there are many here who will agree with your assessment. However, ironically, even in your degradation of Tarantino's work, you offer a clue to why his works matter, however unappealing they may be to you:

"Tarantino is a representative of junk [or] ecclectic postmodernism."

I wonder if Richard Appignanesi [a writer I must confess, I am unfamiliar with], whose words you so fittingly cite, would feel the same way about Tarantino as you do. Or would he perhaps see in him a raucous compatriot?

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RE: About "not getting it" - Peter H-son 04:59:57 12/02/07 (0)
I don't feel one way or the other about Tarantino. As you say, he is a product of his time.

It's his navel-gazing followers I do not like. Brats who compete in who can throw around the most pop culture trivia. "Ain't that Gordon Lau guy cool?" You are even cooler if you refer to him as Lau Ka-fai. The leader of the Tarantino pack will add that his Mandarin name is Liu Chia-hui and that it's how he is credited in his Shaw Bros pictures.

It's Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard who identified this eclectic or junk postmodernism. The Appignanesi quote comes from his book, Introducing Postmodernism. A book I recommend to everybody.

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