I am hoping for an intelligent discussion on the aesthetics of Quentin's Movies. So Don't Belligerently Bash My Brains in because you like Quentin and I don't, Please. I find the level of gleeful Revenge based Violence in his movies Disturbing. he is really the "Charles Bronson Stars in Death Wish 4" of respected Film Makers. I Think his movies are ripe for Psycho Analysis of the Film maker / Writer - Which is Quinton. Starting with "Inglorious Bastards" Some one correct me if I am wrong, but Quinton is Jewish, right? I get The Revenge fantasy there, the Holocaust is no small injustice. It effects the Jewish Psyche, it effects anyone with a sense of decency or compassion for their fellow man to see the skin and bones of the survivors of Auschwitz in the old black and white News Reels . I'm Irish, I think it is in my DNA to get angry at Injustice since the Potato Famine and the manner in which it was the Cruel indifference of the British that literally caused it, ( all other crops and the healthy potatoes were headed to Britain, while the Irish starved) but this transpired before my Grandfather was born (?!?) but I feel like it is in my DNA to stand against such Grotesque in humane treatment. So I get what inglorious Basterds was about. But Is that good Film Making? or Just simply a Revenge fantasy like Charles Bronson in Death Wish? No one thinks Death Wish is High Cinema. o relate it to my own Irish Experience... ( Since I don't feel Comfortable Speaking For the Jews in relation to the Holocaust) Would it serve the history of the Potato Famine to make a movie Wherein MIchael Collins ( a Non-fiction Irishman, who was not around during the famine) Storms the Shipyard and slaughters The British Crews and returns the Cargo ( FOOD) to the Irish, Including a poor Irish Mother ( portrayed by Uma Thurman) who desperately Feeds it to her Malnourished starving children Just in the Nick of time. Only to have the last British Sea captain Show up to reclaim the food, and have her bash his brains in with a rock on screen graphically. Would it serve the history to put a Fictional "Happy ending" (?) on this sad chapter in history? Is a Cathartic Revenge fantasy high Art? Is it even Healthy? I don't think so. I never saw Either KILL BILL, So Correct me if I'm Wrong, but They are about a woman exacting revenge against an abusive male in a patriarchal society? I don't have to ask if this Is Healthy... IT IS NOT! It pits half the Human race against the other half in the war to end all wars, end all love, and End all Children....Revenge sheds no light on the Battle of the sexes. TRY RELATIONSHIP COUNCILING! And Being that Quinton isn't a woman does he have the estrogen to relate their pain? He is Certainly lacking in Maternal instinct! Which Brings us to Django Unchained, a black slave Revenge Fantasy. Does Quinton as a White man have the right to negate Martin Luther KIng Jr's Message? The Message that Won the Civil Rights Movement? Is it Healthy to take up the argument of " Shit no! That Honky would never get away with Whipping Me?" Yeah, he would and did, Jamie Fox, You are a fictional Superhero Character! It is kinda belittling, to say " oh all you had to do is walk in with guns blazing and Dynamite! and magically dodge all Bullets" .. It amounts To,"if you had been More Like Django, You could have spared yourself all of that." Now to the Oddest Entry in Quinton's Fictional Revenge fantasies- ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD. All previous Entries are grand in scope- a grave injustice to an entire race or gender of people. This one was just about the gruesome, nonsensical murder of 4 people by a cult? In Quinton's version Sharon Tate Survives it and The Manson Family members in attendance Get their Brains bashed in, Their Dick Bit off, and charbroiled by a flame thrower...He didn't even alter so that Manson the Architect of this madness was there to get his? What is so Special about these 4 victims that they deserve their own fictional happy ending? Is Quinton Elevating being a Resident of Hollywood to a special stature wherein it's different than Jonestown or Columbine, or Virginia Tech, Newtown CT or 10,000 other examples of a Mass Murder of at least 4 people that happens every year, on every continent, at least 3 or 4 times, to be generous? Does being a Hollywood Starlet ( and 8 months Pregnant) who can rock a mini-skirt and Go Go boots, raise Sharon Tate to the level of The Holocaust or Slavery? What Grand Injustice is he addressing with his latest fictional revenge fantasy?

posted 5 years ago in Quentin Tarantino