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How many of you thought about Quentin Tarantino...

posted 15 years ago by Ricc0
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while watching this film.. it really did occur to me that Tarantino learned a lot from Kubrick's works..

[–] praxis1966-1 13 years ago

Meh People can talk about Tarantino ripping off other filmmakers all they like, but he isn't the only one who's done it and he's by far not the most prestigious to do it. Hell, I read an interview with Ingmar Bergman where he candidly admitted to "imitating [Akira] Kurosawa, and badly." Anyway, who cares? If you're going to a Tarantino movie for anything other than brain candy you're going for the wrong reasons, lol.

[–] princesstinymeat 13 years ago

Just saw The Killing for the first time and, yes, I thought of Reservoir Dogs throughout. Both are fantastic films.

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[–] Ricardo-36 12 years ago

Yes, it reminded me Reservoir Dogs and Jackie Brown a lot. I was constantly thinking "if someone ever does a remake of this film, that person would be Tarantino".

"You keep him in here, and make sure HE dosen't leave!"

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[–] fang123horn 12 years ago

Not Tarantino, but I thought about Nolan with The Dark Knight and Inception with Dicaprio remarkably similar to Hayden's character and how they try to time their heist exactly right and things go wrong in the process.

Also the movie kind of reminds me of an episode of 30 Rock for some reason because the theme of that show is about control and Hayden's character really reminds me of Jack Donaghy and how he is so charming and manipulative but ultimately as much as he plans his takeovers and schemes fate still intervenes and make him look stupid or clumsy or both.

[–] krispy_123 12 years ago

Just re-watched this after many years and honestly "Kansas City Confidential" from 1952 came to my mind.

...the guy in the $600 banana suit - COME ON!

[–] ThePaddyMoista 11 years ago

I believe Tarantino cited The Killing among his influences for Reservoir Dogs. They do bear resemblances.

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[–] nage-3 11 years ago

Tarantino ? No - and the main difference is there was only one scene with violence and shooting, whereas in Tarantino you have them all the time. I think this is why I liked this movie more that Tarantinos early works like the "...Dogs" (which in my mind is clearly his first major attempt in movies and basically is nothing special in contrast to his following works like Pulp, Inglorious and Django)

But straight from the start - with this use of a narrator - I immediately thought of Sin City.