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RE: Tarantino's "Death Proof"

Posted by halfnote (A) on December 11, 2007 at 20:27:49

In Reply to: RE: Tarantino's "Death Proof" posted by RGA on December 11, 2007 at 05:19:35:

I like PF quite a lot, and, as I've said before, KB2 had the real juice, with KB1 being a kind of maniacal, at times almost monotonous warm-up.

"True Love," for which QT provided the screenplay, is also quite dazzling, though like Death Proof, it seems to descend into self-mockery at times. I think Gary Oldman puts in one of the most memorable cameos in film history in that film, as Drexel the Pimp -- astonishing! (By the way, his work in Coppola's Dracula is also a tour-de-force.)

I'm guessing (forgive me for being presumptuous) you're a younger fella. It's not that I'm, particularly old and wise, now. But I think this movie has a lot more resonance to guys with a bit less tread on their tires, so to speak. I think it's an extremely poignant and ironic portrait of failure through success -- a kind of American Greek Tragedy, in a way, with his mother and "adoptors" seeling his fate like the gods on Olympus. But I respect your personal judgement on it. Whenever I feel like getting up on my high horse about film aesthetics and criticism, I remember that T.S. Eliot was quoted as saying that Hamlet "was a stupid play."

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