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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..

[–] hnt_dnl 11 years ago

Well, I think the first time that I ever watched this movie, it was before Tarantino broke out into Hollywood. And even when I saw it afterwards, it's been quite a long time, so I didn't even put 2 and 2 together. But the overall similarities to Pulp Fiction are undeniable. Both are crime films told with a nonlinear structure and things go horribly wrong in both movies for the criminals.

[–] srinath_r_htanirs 10 years ago

He gets passed too often as a top director for doing this.

Wild At Heart made me think of Pulp Fiction.

The Killing made me think of Reservoir Dogs.

Kill Bill movies resemble Lady Snowblood.

His style in general seems to have originated from quite a few movies including The Sting.

He also likes a lot of trashy movies, so we'll have to be satisfied that his films at least have a mashed up influence here and there of some classics as well.

[–] DracTarashV 10 years ago

Not me.

Hey there, Johnny Boy, I hope you fry!

[–] Guardia 10 years ago

It's fine that he re-worked The Killing into Reservoir Dogs if you ask me. While I prefer the Killing (it isn't so obsessed with looking cool), RD is more about the actual team of the heist rather than the details of heist itself.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

[–] BB-15 10 years ago

Yes I thought of Tarrantino's out of sequence plot lines. And the flashback parts of "Goodfellas". And other heist films going back to the original "Ocean's Eleven". And even "Point Break" with the masks at a robbery idea.

"The Killing" is a very influential film imo.

BB ;-)

it is just in my opinion - imo - 🌈

[–] Szabu 8 years ago

Yes, I definitely thought of Jackie Brown with all the parallel perspectives of the heist, right after each other. Fun stuff.

[–] jim_85258 8 years ago

Agreed....The scene where Vince Edwards walks in the apt with the shotgun and everyone dies except Elisha Cook was very pulp fiction like to me or even the Kill Bill flicks. I was just going to write a comment about that and then saw yours from 2010. Better seeing a good movie late than never 😁

[–] kalelabud 8 years ago

after i saw the chinese film tarantino literally remade scene by scene (city on fire) as reservoir dogs, i can't see any other influence.