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I hope you're right. I'd love for the guy to come out of this sabbatical and prove that he can do it. I've just watched Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction after going years without looking at either one. The transperancy of his references still stands out, as does the novelty of the dialogue. This is nothing new, but given the amount of time he's been away, which has supposedly been spent studying, I'm left wondering if he just needed to build a new stock of genres to pilfer. Not that it's a bad tactic - obviously it's served him well. Many others have noted that being a) so referential and b)so specific in tone provides a short path to self-parody, and what I know of KB suggests that it's a road he wasn't able to refuse. We'll see. But if anyone knows how to put Yuen Wu-Ping's talents to good use, it's Tarantino, and that will probably make a lot of the flick worth watching, even if the rest fails.
I'm not with you, Mocca, on the page count not being indicative of running time. Pulp Fiction is a 150 page script and a 155 minute film, so the 1 page = 1 minute rule applied there. And that's a dense script, full of more detail than most scripts ever have, but it shows on the screen in all of those long pans across locations. Until I hear substantiated news that the shooting script is much shorter, I'm sticking with what I said above. And even if the script floats to teh surface again I'm not gonna read it 'cause I just want to see the damn thing.
So it's still got that 'new Guns and Roses' record feeling to it and I'd like to see it be otherwise. While I haven't seen much that makes me look forward to this, I'll see it and will be as happy as anyone if it's solid. Hell, I'm one of the people who thought Jackie Brown was good. |
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