Pulp Fiction Reference
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GreenGoblinsOckVenom86 — 15 years ago(November 14, 2010 03:33 PM)
"I didn't think of Pulp Fiction with the pliers and blowtorch, but when Malkovich said the Secret Service used to be tougher I was thinking, sure, last time you faced the Secret Service your main opponent was Clint Eastwood."
LOL! Yeah. That is a good movie.
"You know how much I sacrificed!?" Norman Osborn Spider-Man (2002). -
songmaster2005 — 15 years ago(November 04, 2010 05:27 AM)
"I'mma call a couple of hard, pipe hittin' beep to go to work on the homes here wit a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'mma get medieval on yo' ass!"
Yeah, I doubt that quote was lifted or "stolen" verbatim from
Charley Varrick
. That's called an "homage" in film terms or in literary circles, it's called "paraphrasing". I suppose anybody in a film who used a famous quote from another film is a thief right? sigh, quit hating on Tarantino. The man won an Oscar for God's sakes (
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
).
Col. Hans Landa: "Wait for the crme" -
Gular-Scute — 15 years ago(November 10, 2010 04:40 AM)
Thank you for explaining them intellergint words to me. Previously, I thought homage was a collective term for comestibles such as Roquefort and Brie and that paraphrasing was a kind of watersport.
Tarantino stole the important part of the line and added nothing of worth to it. That's why I call it stealing rather than anything else. That's his modus operandi, he takes ideas from other films and infantilises them.
Winning an Oscar means nothing. It's just a self aggrandizing ceremony where plastic people stroke another's ego in return for the goosing of their own.
I don't hate Tarantino, much less 'hate on' him, whatever that means. I just recognise that he is a poor filmmaker who is popular due to the vagaries of how cool is defined. It says a lot about modern Western culture's celebration and veneration of trash. -
jeffandsarah-1 — 15 years ago(November 10, 2010 12:46 PM)
Seems to me one mans homage is another mans thieving.
Done with a nod and a wink, then it flattery, elseways its lack of original thinking.
Not sure if Terror-tiny is a homager but he sure does like violence, and is that a bad thing, Roberto says NO. -
defiant-10 — 15 years ago(February 19, 2011 12:09 AM)
Switch on the "Trivia" track on your PF DVD (it's one of the subtitle options) and you'll learn Tarentino put in the blowtorch/pliers line because of his appreciation for Varrick.
Much in the way some cur might lift a tagline.
What I had in mind was boxing the compass. -
Gular-Scute — 14 years ago(September 11, 2011 06:54 PM)
Tarantino's film career is just a list of poorly rendered 'appreciations'. His excuse for a complete lack of imagination and talent was a tired one the first time he used it.
I don't own the PF DVD, it will never cross my threshold. I won't waste any more money or time on it let alone go through the tedium of listening to that hack's commentary guff.