[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
I know this may rustle your jimmies DB, but the entire slew of final dialogue from Pulp Fiction about Jules’ wish to make amends for his sins.[/quote]
There’s really only one quote from any of his films that I really, really like. It’s from Pulp Fiction, from Harvey Keitel’s character.
“Just because you ARE a character doesn’t mean that you HAVE character.”
Oh yeah, I also like:
“Where did you get that motorcycle?”
“It’s not a motorcycle, baby. It’s a chopper. Now c’mon, let’s go.”
“What happened to my Honda?”
“I’m sorry baby, I had to crash that Honda.”[/quote]
Man I love The Wolf as a character, for such a short time on screen, he did have some absolutely wonderful quotes.
I like many Tarantino lines, but not because of the actual dialogue itself, but the relation it has to the film surrounding it, sometimes almost metaphysically.
For instance the tipping scene in Reservoir Dogs and how the dialogue of each character alludes to their personality and role in the film, if you go back and listen intently to the dialogue having already seen the entire film, there are some very subtle hints of absolute masterpiece foreshadowing that most very easily miss.
Perhaps more boldly present is this subtlety from Kill Bill Vol. 1:
O-Ren Ishii: Your instrument is quite impressive. Where was it made?
The Bride: Okinawa.
O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] Whom in Okinawa made you this steel?
The Bride: [in Japanese] Hattori Hanzo.
O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] YOU LIE!
[the Bride shows Hattori Hanzo marking on sword]
O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] Swords however, never get tired. I hope you saved your energy. If you haven’t… You may not last five minutes. But as last looks go, you could do worse.
It looks rather tame at first hand, and maybe even still a little cheesy afterwards even, but knowing the fight between Beatrix and Ishii lasts a total of four minutes and fifty nine seconds from beginning to end is very satisfying. Of course some could argue it’s just a cheesy way to throw in some movie “Easter egg” like that, but I still love when Tarantino does those things. [/quote]
Eh, I don’t know. It seems to me that you shouldn’t have to work so hard to enjoy a good line from a movie. I’m just not a fan of Tarantino. I think most of what he does that people really enjoy is just shit he’s ripped off from movies that are old enough so that most of the audience, who tends to be the under-40 crowd, hasn’t seen the originals. He doesn’t even bother to come up with original titles anymore, either.
Given that most of his films are really just odes to certain genres or films from the past, I was wondering how a director 30 years from now might be able to make an ode to Tarantino. I couldn’t figure it out, then it hit me. They could just film a scene-by-scene remake of Once Upon a Time in the West, throw some over-the-top, stylized violence into it, call it One Time Out West and voila! An ode to Tarantino!