Scenes That Only Quentin Tarantino Could Have Gotten Away With Most filmmakers love to push the boundaries and take us places we never thought we would go. They do this not only with twists and special effects but also introducing surprising content, dialogue, and characters. Sometimes these controversial pictures just flop and other times the thrills and shocks elevate them to cult status with runaway success. And when it comes to the shocking, the thrilling, and the controversial there’s one name that will always outshine all the rest and that’s Quentin Tarantino. He’s known for his trademark nonlinear storylines, superb casting, satirical subject matter, unique soundtracks, incredible dialogue and quirky pop culture references. Quentin, …show more content…
https://nonamemovieblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/directed-viewing-inglourious-basterds-and-the-new-remix/ When Colonel Aldo Raines elite group of Jewish-American soldiers come across a gang of Nazi soldiers in Inglorious Basterds you know it’s definitely not going to end well. Part of the reason you know this is because you’ve already heard the Colonel telling his men that they each owe him 100 Nazi scalps adding “And I want my scalps”. The Colonel questions the first, a blonde sergeant, as to the whereabouts of a group of Germans further up the road but the sergeant refuses to give up the information. Apparently not fazed at all Raine yells out to one of his men known as the Bear Jew telling him that they have a German who wishes to die for his country, urging him to “Oblige him!” Amidst much tension-building baseball-bat tapping, the Bear Jew appears, played by none other than the master of gore himself Eli Roth. What follows is a messy death but one that I was glued to. 12 The Eye Pluck …show more content…
In her back-story, a scene played out completely in anime, we learn that she witnessed her parent's gruesome death at the hands of underworld crime boss, Boss Matsumoto , at a very young age. The young O-Ren vowed revenge and a few years later she manages to kill Matsumoto. The way she does this is as surprising as ever. She takes advantage of his pedophilia and manages to get into his bed at age 11. Sitting on top of him she stabs him in the chest resulting in a fountain of blood. This scene made us almost feel sorry for O-Ren Ishii, one of the Bride’s sworn enemies. Almost, but not quite. 5 Epic Head On Collision www.roadandtrack.com Almost every movie we watch nowadays features a crash scene, so it can be pretty difficult for a director to really grab our attention. We feel like we’ve seen it all. But in his 2007 offering, Grindhouse: Deathproof, Quentin once again found a way to surprise us with his particular version of a gruesome head-on
AUDIE MURPHY JUNE 28, 1971 MAY 28, 1971 MOST DECORATED WWII AMERICAN SOLDIER BORN IN KINGSTON, TEXAS Audie Leon Murphy was born to poor Texas sharecroppers, Emmett and Josie Bell Murphy. He was the sixth of twelve children. Audie grew up on farms near Farmersville, Celeste, and Greenville, Texas. His father abandoned the family in 1936, when Audie was in the fifth grade.
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. ”-Adolf Hitler. These are the things Hitler did to the Germans. He convinced so many people that he was right and that Germany was the victim of everything that the Allies did to them. It eventually reached to kids and that's what happens with the young boy Dieter in Soldier Boys by Dean Hughes.
On one rainy day Tim and his platoon came across a young Viennese soldier on a dirt trail. After the event Tim Admits, “I was terrified. There were no thoughts about killing. The grenade was to make him go away—just evaporate—and I leaned back and felt my mind go empty and then felt it fill up again(173).” This is one interaction that Tim had faced, which had a big impact on him.
In the book SlaughterHouse-Five, the main character Billy Pilgrim, is an anti-hero who jump travels through time and past events in his mind. Billy’s definition of what is going on is that he has “come unstuck in time.” (Slaughterhouse-five 1) The looming question is if the travels that billy experiences are actually true. Could a person actually know what is going to happen before it does, or jump from one moment to the next…
after being herded into the cattle cars the train stops and, “The SS walked by shouting throw out all the dead! outside all the Corpses” (pg. 99) The Germans wanted to get rid of the dead Jews in the cattle cars. it hurts me to know the Germans would just throw out the dead bodies as if they were trash bags, how could anybody stand for that, how cruel and evil must you be to treat other humans as trash! while waiting outside and eating Elie goes to his father who says, “They didn't give us anything, they said that we were sick, that we would die soon, and that it would be a waste of food” (pg.
The novel Slaughterhouse-Five written by Kurt Vonnegut is an abstract war novel about the Bombing in Dresden during World War II. This passage occurs at the end of Chapter 4, as Billy listens to his detainers describe to him the truth of time. Through the experiences of Billy Pilgrim and the Tralfamadorians, Vonnegut shows how life is meaningless due to his speculations concerning free-will. The philosophy of the Tralfamadorians believes against free-will due to concluding it’s only important on earth. The quote, “All time is time.
However the camp soon seems to resemble that of a concentration camp because of the way they seem to be treated. Not only do they get fed disgusting and inedible mush but other problems soon arise when they learn about how they are going to be robbed a vast amount from their wages. One of the men in the film states “a white corpse, a black corpse, it’s the same so why do they refuse to pay us?” As a result, the infantrymen decide to take the General Officer as their hostage in order to convince him to pay them their correct owed amount in full and not at a half rate.
Loyalty: Not as Cut and Dry “Schindler’s List” and “The Things They Carried”, both take place during a war. The film and short story both display courage, loyalty and an emotional burden. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and Oskar Schindler, the main characters in the two works, were both in roles that demanded courage, displayed a shift in loyalty and an emotional burden. Their demand of courage showed through their authority to complete tasks at hand and to prevent any unnecessary bloodshed. Throughout their journeys there is a conscientious decision to shift their loyalties to protect those in their immediate lives, which also proved to be their emotional burden.
Shane Black has casually become a genre unto himself. Before trying his hand at directing - which is also a genre unto itself, he dreamt-up (meaning he wrote them) some of the most beloved movies of all-time, such as Letha Weapon, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Last Action Hero. Okay, maybe the “most beloved movies of all-time” designation is a stretch, but that doesn’t change the fact that Black certainly has a distinct style - and as such, a legion of followers.
The editing, camera angles, and the music all rang bell. Comparing this film to the preview films weve watched this one was beyond in a different level. The film broke the hays code the
In different varieties of stories, narratives play a considerable part because narratives set the action and move it along. Theorists like Todorov, Propp, and Levi- Strauss produced comprehensive lists of narrative conventions such as structure, character and conflict. The conventions are used to created the basics of constructing a plotline. If using the correct features and elements, anyone can transform a simple narrative into a noteworthy story. The narrative of 1957 novel “The executioners” by John D. MacDonald is an example of a narrative that ahs been changed around but has the same basic plotline.
Directed by Orson Welles, the 1941 motion picture “Citizen Kane” is the story of the rise and fall of a great, influential man. The opening scenes of “Citizen Kane” are quite different from what follows during the rest of the film. Fading in and out of different landscapes instilled mystery. This mysterious vibe was carried on during Charles Foster Kane’s death through the use of shadows, quiet music, and close up shots. Isolated in his vast empire of a home, Kane uttered only one word before he passed: “rosebud.”
Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) challenged traditional narrative and technical elements of classic Hollywood cinema through techniques in cinematography, mise-en-scene and lighting. The mise-en-scene build of Citizen Kane is the pivoting point of the narrative forthcoming and Welles uses every technical element encompassed in this build to span his narrative across 60 years of Charles Foster Kane, the main character 's life. The beginning of this build is founded on the black and white shooting choice which sets an ominous almost 'film noir ' lighting and feel of the opening scene of the castle in Xanadu. This where we see end of Kane 's life, but every aspect of the film 's narrative will revolve around these frames and including the questions of 'who has died '?, 'what was the significance of the snow globe? ', and 'Who is rosebud? '. The camera angle in the deathbed scene is deliberately shot from a low angle, which further implies the importance of the person lying in the bed as well as providing mystery as the viewer is not yet privy to whom has just
The Godfather (1972) is said to be one of the greatest films ever made. When this movie was released in 1972, it was nominated for Ten Academy Awards and it won three: Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film was adapted from the book with the same name written by award winning author of mafia fiction, Mario Puzo. This film takes place in a span of ten years following the life of Don Corleone, the head of the Corleone Crime Family. It was a film that changed the history of cinema, introducing a very talented filmmaker and several acting legends in the telling of a story of a Sicilian Crime Family.
Pulp Fiction, a gangster film centred around crime and drama, was directed and written by Quentin Tarantino, staring John Travolta, Uma Thurman and Samuel Jackson. The Oscar award winning film details the lives of two hitmen, a gangster, and the gangster’s wife Jules Winnfield (Samuel Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta), are on a mission to retrieve a stolen briefcase from their employer, and mob boss, Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Mia, (Uma Thurman) plays the role as Wallace’s wife, who is spends some time with Vincent, while Wallace leaves town for business purposes. Even though the lives of these individuals seem interesting enough, each of them wove together to create a film involving a series of funny, bizarre, and suspenseful