Tarantino's films are no more violent than many others... - tinear

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Tarantino's films are no more violent than many others...

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Posted by tinear on November 14, 2004 at 17:47:35

and the violence in his movies (with the exception of Kill Bill 1 &2 which he has been saying since before their release were paeans to Asian action films) serve the story.
Un Chien Andalou---I think that's the name of the film with the eyeball being sliced by a razor: Jean Cocteau working with Salvador Dali: what were they thinking?
The Vikings: hell, a guy is blinded and another has an arm hacked off.
But we live in a different world than when those movies (and how about Psycho, too?) were made. How does one make people sit up and take notice, today? Would Saving Private Ryan have made a ripple if it had followed the story-telling style of The Longest Day?
Audiences change and the great directors always have known it and taken them where they have never been---but, once they reach it, they know it is "real."
The reported atrocities of Vietnam; the brutality of the regimes of Mao, Stalin, Amin, Pol Pot--we now know the world is a very, very ugly place---and is far worse than our parents knew.
Would a documentary of Abu Grahib be less shocking than...Reservoir Dogs?
Well, it doesn't matter how shocked some folks are: "Clockwork Orange" STILL upsets many today---and it's a Kubrick classic.
If one cannot discern the artistic difference between Pulp Fiction and say...Cold Blooded Killers (or whatever that Oliver Stone piece of crap was named that "starred" Woody Harrelson and Juliet whatever) the fault can hardly be laid at the directors door.
Hell, you may as well criticize the engineer of a fine speaker system that Joe Six-pack doesn't hear the quality.

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Topic - Tarantino's films are no more violent than many others... - tinear 17:47:35 11/14/04 (13)

Re: Tarantino's films are no more violent than many others... - Jack G 05:38:44 11/15/04 (1)

Re: Tarantino's films are no more violent than many others... - patrickU 06:05:12 11/15/04 (0)

Re: Tarantino's films are no more violent than many others... - patrickU 04:31:53 11/15/04 (0)

tin, garvin called you arrogant - Victor Khomenko 18:50:40 11/14/04 (2)

Natural Born Killers ends up being what it attempts to satire. - Tom §. 06:54:54 11/15/04 (1)

I think you are quite right - Victor Khomenko 06:59:06 11/15/04 (0)

It is silly to brand a director based on one work - Victor Khomenko 18:06:28 11/14/04 (6)

Fecundity doesn't define greatness: how many paintings did Vermeer create? - tinear 18:09:22 11/16/04 (0)

Re: Tarantino and diversity - Gee LP 20:35:34 11/14/04 (2)

You said it well - Victor Khomenko 04:53:12 11/15/04 (1)

Re: You said it well - patrickU 09:37:55 11/15/04 (0)

Re: It is silly to brand a director based on one work - jamesgarvin 18:27:42 11/14/04 (1)

To say what I said was arrogant is arrogant - Victor Khomenko 18:58:14 11/14/04 (0)

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