tarantino’s fingerprints are all over this movie, from the script to the soundtrack to the camera angles to the dialogue to the casting to the editing.. ffs just look at get shorty or true romance for a taste of what a “replacement level director” would bring to a story like this
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
A "script" isn't even a play -- it's a network of suggestions that a resourceful director will modify.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
The source material maybe helps the pacing of the movie somehow? I dunno. But t has a much more relaxed vibe than anything else he’s done and I love it so much. It moves at the speed of Forster’s character, and with his same intensity
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:52 (two years ago) link
There's a shot of Forster walking out of a screening at an AMC mall theatre, his hands in his pockets, that's so casually good, so redolent of the character he plays, that no one else could've realized it.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
he's walking out of an weekday afternoon screening!
that's a great shot
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 22:55 (two years ago) link
It’s such a *casual* film, even when shit gets wild.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:16 (two years ago) link
yeah exactly
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
It's a great movie, great cast, great book, but to argue any Tarantino movie doesn't have his fingerprints all over it (for better or worse) and that anyone could have done it is crazy
AND he's literally the only director on Earth who was going to cast Forster and Grier as the leads in a movie in 1997
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
I remember reading an interview with Stephen King where he said his reward for finishing a novel was reading an Elmore Leonard book. I thought that a really wonderful compliment.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:25 (two years ago) link
it’s a really great version of the kind of films and TV shows I normally hate
― Dan S, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
and yeah, Tarantino’s fingerprints are all over it. It is a movie out of time, like Forster & DeNiro & Grier, so all the locations & cars & outfits have a very specific 70’s look while also seeming like present day…down to like, the car Forster drives or the loungey carpeted bar they go to, Grier’s airline & uniform. Tarantino cares enough about that granular stuff to hire the kind of ppl who *also* care. Same with the music. To me his specificity is what defines his style
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 23:47 (two years ago) link
Y'all are my people, y'all know this.
― pplains, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:30 (two years ago) link
But
https://i.imgur.com/hfHQVoB.gif
lmao
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:33 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZNufFkpgIc
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
sry pplains
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 02:03 (two years ago) link
please pass the milk, please
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 02:48 (two years ago) link
yes, and probably the only one with the confidence to play out the entire heist scene twice & at that pace. The film is a miracle.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 11:44 (two years ago) link
lol ppTarantino more about footprints anyway surely
― siffleur’s mom (wins), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:04 (two years ago) link
https://media1.giphy.com/media/BMTzHbtf96few/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e476barkc2oirf4s7whed7dqp8y4ciywyev112uy7d3&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g
QT while he's editing one of the numerous female foot shoots in his movies
― calzino, Wednesday, 27 October 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
Oh no, someone accidentally added sexual overtones to the scene in Jackie Brown where the first woman Louis has seen in many years seduces him, in a manner that establishes her propensity for boundary-pushing. No wonder Sally Menke got fired for this blunder.
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link