Idle (and admittedly wild) ruminations on Quentin Tarantino’s next two films, which he’s announced will be his last two films.
At the Jerusalem film festival this year, in July, Quentin Tarantino announced that he would retire after making his tenth film, which meant he’d be making two more. If the number suggests he has made only eight films, it’s because he counts the Kill Bill instalments as one, and does not include larky detours like his episode of Four Rooms. Anyway, with Tarantino, numbers are never a straight line. They’re more like a forest, and like a forest, it’s easy to lose your way. (Is Death Proof its own movie, or merely one half of Grindhouse?) And numbers aren’t the point. The point is that we have just two more Tarantino movies to look forward to, something the filmmaker confirmed a couple of weeks ago, at the Adobe Max creativity conference in San Diego. Of course, he didn’t say, “I am going to stop after my tenth film.” He wouldn’t be Tarantino if he did. He said, “Drop the mic. Boom. Tell everybody: Match that shit.”
So I began to tick off the genres he’s dived into. There’s the pure psycho-killer movie (Death Proof) – but then, you could make the case that they’re all movies filled with psycho killers. There are the gangster-flavoured psycho-killer movies (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction). There’s the psycho-killer movie as crime thriller (Jackie Brown), as a Western (Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight), as a wartime adventure (Inglourious Basterds), as a martial-arts movie (Kill Bill 1 and 2). One part of me, the serious moviegoer in me, wants No. 9 and No. 10 to be different. Maybe something like what The Age of Innocence was for Martin Scorsese – after years of physical violence, an exploration of emotional savagery, where class structures and social mores prove deadlier than Uma Thurman on a mission.
But nah! The other part of me just wants more of the same, but with the twisted variations we can expect only from Tarantino’s mind. Here’s my vote for a psycho-killer movie with a scene set in a classroom, a flashback narrated by the character played by Samuel L Jackson, about where he first picked up a gun: “There was this white-ass teacher, man, and she said she was going to teach us a rhyme, man. You know what the first line was? Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Are you freaking kidding me? Why not ask a white sheep, brother? It blows the mind. Even with freaking farm animals, it’s always the freaking nigga that gets shafted. And this stupid-ass sheep says, Yes, sir; yes, sir, Three bags full, One for my master, one for my dame… It’s Uncle Tom’s pasture, man. And what does the fleece-as-white-as-snow sheep do? It follows Mary to school, man. It makes the children laugh and play. It’s all ha-ha-hee-hee. The black sheep, meanwhile, is getting its ass sheared so the master can get his ass rich.”
Or how about a James Bond movie? It’s not that much of a stretch to imagine – 007 is, after all, some sort of cold-blooded psycho killer himself. Plus, there’s kinship in the way the characters announce their names. “The name is Bond, James Bond” is just a step removed from Django Unchained’s “D-J-A-N-G-O. The ‘D’ is silent.” What excites me most is the villain. The megalomaniacs in the Bond films are contractually bound to deliver a monologue about the nature of the evil they are about to inflict on the world – the prospect of Tarantino writing these lines quickens the pulse. Here’s the villain of Goldeneye issuing a threat to Bond. “Why can’t you just be a good boy and die?” The line sounds as though spoken between sips of Earl Grey. Imagine the same scene playing out with this line from The Hateful Eight: “Oh, you believe in Jesus now, huh, bitch? Good, ’cause you ’bout to meet him!” Or this one from Reservoir Dogs: “Are you gonna bark all day little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?”
Even without psycho killers on the prowl, the mind runs wild at the possibilities. Tarantino reinvigorating the courtroom drama, that most talky of genres, and stuffing his brand of street poetry into the mouths of belligerent lawyers. Tarantino imbuing Shakespeare with his unique colours: Caesar’s death comes from the application of the five point palm-exploding heart technique, and is followed by Mark Anthony’s oration. He sees a Roman not lending him his ears – he slices it off and begins talking to the severed appendage: “Can you hear that?” Or think of Tarantino diving into a doomed-ship romance. Only it’s WWII, Rose is a German, and Jack is an inglourious member of a Jewish extermination posse. What else? Horror? An epic like The Ten Commandments? Only, it would have to be nine commandments. I really cannot see a Tarantino character adhering to “Thou shalt not kill.” Or maybe eight. I don’t see much use, either, for “Honor thy father and thy mother,” especially when Samuel L Jackson is on screen. I give up. There’s a reason the prospect of every genre, in Tarantino’s hands, ends up looking like “a Tarantino film.” This is what happens when you’re such a path breaker. You end up becoming your own genre.
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MANK
November 19, 2016
Hilarious Brangan, simply hilarious. That lend me the ear bit is a classic 😂 Same goes for ten commandments
Yes He has become a genre of his own. Others I can think of in similar vein is Scorsese and woody Allen. There is a Bonnie and Clyde style 30s set crime drama that he has been teasing for a while . I hope he makes that next
And Tarantino was in running for directing casino Royal, it’s too bad that producers rejected him
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thulasidasan17
November 19, 2016
“Oh, you believe in Jesus now, huh, bitch?”
He sees a Roman not lending him his ears – he slices it off and begins talking to the severed appendage: “Can you hear that?”
I lost it. The last line define struggle for the fans of one of the (if not the) greatest post-modernism pop-culture referencing genre-whiplashing auteur of the 21st.
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Shriram_Sundar
November 19, 2016
Shit! I read Ba Ba Black sheep like Samuel.L.Jackson man!
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Anuja Chandramouli
November 19, 2016
Loved loved loved this! Especially your take on a potential Tarantinoesque twist of a Shakespearean classic! Would be lovely to see a proper horror film or a fantasy from the great man.
I heard he had planned to make a film on the Vega brothers ( Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction and Vic Vega from Reservoir Dogs). Hope it materializes. Wouldn’t it be interesting if according to Tarantino their ancestry can be traced all the way back to a certain Dutch painter also named Vincent who was involved in a very unfortunate incident involving an ear? 🙂
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Chanakya
November 19, 2016
Tarantino will be missed after he retires. I like your imagination although I can not imagine Samuel mothafucking Jackson saying ‘freakin’.’ Some things shouldn’t be censored. 🙂
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sravishanker1401gmailcom
November 19, 2016
BR : Highly entertaining and energizing read. The Tarantino take on Shakespeare must be worth atleast an offer from the man himself to co-write a script ? :):)
Why go through the hard work of writing punch dialogues when someone from Namma Madras can come perilously close 🙂
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Kitizl
November 20, 2016
I honestly think anything that involves a lot of scope for dialogue would be an excellent playground for a filmmaker like Tarantino.
That being said, I’d love to see a courthouse drama.
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Aram
November 20, 2016
I would love to see this //He sees a Roman not lending him his ears – he slices it off and begins talking to the severed appendage: “Can you hear that?” //
Hilarious.
Last 2 QT movies arent as exciting to me as Inglorious Basterds. That villain is the best of all QT villains.
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Santosh Balakrishnan
November 20, 2016
Brilliant post man… Whenever i hear my girl singing Baa Baa, i would feel pertinent to change the sheep’s colour (at least try explain the implied)!!
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Vikram s
November 20, 2016
BR, QT directing a Bond film where Christoph Waltz comes back as villain….that would be something…of the two films, one is going to be a non-fiction subject is what I read….I saw Death proof recently and thought it was on par with the highly underrated Jackie Brown….
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brangan
November 20, 2016
Chanakya: Can’t say ‘fuck’ in the paper, man! 🙂
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Kannan T G
November 20, 2016
Though I am a regular reader, something inside me resists me to reply to your articles.. after defending Vairamuthu in your OK Kanmani songs review, this is the 2nd time I am commenting on your page..
Happy to read a piece on Tarantino on what we can expect from his last 2 films.. Last lines _/_.. you always end on high.. When I was reading “Ba Ba Black Sheep” all I could hear was Sam L Jackson.. Shows how deep Tarantino has impressed you. Had I come across these lines anywhere, I would have surely thought, “It is very “Tarantinoisque”.. Without knowing Tarantino as the screenwriter of Tony Scott’s “True Romance”, i felt it during the Sicilian Scene in True Romance..
http://genius.com/Quentin-tarantino-true-romance-sicilian-scene-annotated
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Altman
November 21, 2016
Tarantino making a Bond movie would be the bomb, man.
Of course, Idris Elba will be the new 007 spouting off couplets like, “The name is Bond, James fucking Bond. I’ve got a license to kill you all, ya honky ass mothafuckas.”
Black Screen. Rock Music. Title in big ass yellow fonts:
“Once Upon a Time in Bolsheviks Occupied Russia”
The movie is set in 60’s during the height of the cold war. Christopher Walken plays M. M for Mean Motherfucker. A monologue to his agents supervised by Bond, “I am putting together a special team and I need me eight agents. Eight badass agents. You’re gonna be dropped into Soviet Russia. And once you’re in enemy territory, as a bushwhackin’ guerrilla assassins, you’re gonna be doin’ one thing and one thing only… killin’ Commies. They’re the foot soldiers of a bourgeois-hatin’, mass murderin’ maniac and they need to be dee-stroyed.”
Sam Jackson would be Q with all the chic gadgets and dope ass cars and guns. A sample conversation:
Q: James ma brother, you know what they call mineral water in Russia?
Bond: Vodka Martini?
Q: Check out the big brain on Bond!
Christoph Waltz plays Dmitri Landa, a KGB agent specialized in hunting and killing the bourgeois in hiding. He is also a double agent secretly working for the CIA. He plans to live in the US under immunity once he assassinates Stalin for them. After Dmitri’s done shooting Stalin in kneecaps and balls, he seeks Bond’s assistance to help him flee the country.
Bond agrees. But only after carving a ‘hammer and sickle’ symbol on Dmitri’s forehead with a laser watch. Boastful of his artwork, Bond, along with his mate, looks into the camera with a smirk on his face and says, “I think this just might be my masterpiece.”
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P
November 21, 2016
How fun!
Tarantino owes us the sequel to Kill Bill firstly. Because that little girl needs her revenge 😉
Then he can do whatever last film he wanted. I wouldn’t mind an inglorious Basterds II or his take on Shakespeare. Though I am sure adapting Shakespeare would be too pedestrian for him. Maybe he could give us his take on Dante’s Inferno or maybe on Orpheus and Eurydice.
One can dream. I was disappointed with Hateful Eight so I hope whatever he makes now is better than that.
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Anu Warrier
November 21, 2016
May I be an iconoclast and say I can’t stand Tarantino’s films? 😦
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Rohit Sathish Nair
November 21, 2016
One kind of film Tarantino says he hates is the biopic, which he says is ‘always a big excuse for actors to win Oscars’. He sees them as ‘flat-out boring even if they have on screen the story of the most interesting person’. Maybe he should be the one to break the mould.
Or if not a biopic, something like a bastardised Forrest Gump…
How much of a singular DIRECTOR is Tarantino? We sure know that no one writes dialogue like him, but how much of a distinctive style of direction, like say Scorsese has, does Tarantino have?
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sravishanker1401gmailcom
November 21, 2016
Altman : Post of the Day ! (so far)
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sravishanker1401gmailcom
November 21, 2016
“This is what happens when you’re such a path breaker. You end up becoming your own genre.”
VOW !
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Rohit Sathish Nair
November 22, 2016
Anu Warrier:
My friend still groans when he thinks of that headshot-in-the-car in Pulp Fiction.
Rajeev Ravi also hates him!
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Rohit Sathish Nair
November 22, 2016
I think some hate him because his cult as a filmmaker is kinda misleading. Him being this successful and sensational seems to give every other film buff high hopes.
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KayKay
November 22, 2016
“Tarantino owes us the sequel to Kill Bill firstly. Because that little girl needs her revenge😉”
P, before that, Tarantino owes us Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the 2 parts joined seamlessly with the extended anime sequence showing how O-Ren takes her revenge on the long-haired Yakuza dude who killed her father.
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P
November 22, 2016
@KayKay: OOOOHHH!!!!! 😀 I actually like the jagged edges of Kill Bill though I wouldn’t mind watching that extended anime sequence you speak of 😉
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Deepak
November 22, 2016
Oh that Sam Jack dialogue was so “monkeyfighting” (edited for TV) awesome, just like others have said above I read the whole thing in his voice. As interesting as all the suggestion above seem, I’m most interested to see him do a mega budget Bollywood style Masala movie, the kind where the Dad is a cop and the child becomes a criminal, like Shakti maybe. Just imagine the kind of QT touch he could bring to this genre?
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Altman
November 22, 2016
How much of a singular DIRECTOR is Tarantino?
Rohit, the answer to your question is in the first part of your comment itself. Tarantino says he has no respect for biopics. I’ll take it a bit further to say he finds movies that are rooted in some sort of reality as bland. His films are the antithesis to movies based on commonplace people or situations. They are highly fictionalized wish fulfillment fantasies, not unlike the Marvel movies. They are cinematic and self-aware rather than realistic.
He creates his own universe (Tarantinoverse if you may) with his stories and populates it with all sorts of oddball characters. His characters are inherently violent, mostly cunning, usually loquacious and rarely real. Some of them have connections with other characters from his other films. For instance, as Anuja mentioned, Vic Vega from Reservoir Dogs and Vincent Vega from Pulp Fiction are brothers. Mr.White from Reservoir Dogs talks about a hooker named Alabama he once met, who happens to be the leading lady of True Romance. The movie producer they meet in True Romance, Lee Donowitz is related to Sgt. Donny Donowitz (the bear jew) from Inglorious Bastards. Same way Django Unchained is connected to Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction and so forth. Heck, all the characters smoke the fake Red Apple cigarettes created by Tarantino.
But unlike the Marvel movies we don’t get superheroes or even ordinary heroes in the classical sense from Tarantino. His characters are thieves, psychopaths, crooked cops, hookers, drug dealers, pimps, junkies, rapists, arms dealers, ex-cons, hit men, gangsters, assassins, martial artists, nazis, femme fatale, racists, slaves, slave owners, bounty hunters and so…He manipulates us to like, even to root for these characters whom we’ll find despicable in real life. It requires a lot of guts and talent to do so.
Of course, he is influenced by various filmmakers, genres, styles and he makes no bones about admitting it. He proudly stated, “I steal from every movie ever made.” I think Kubrick, Westerns and Hong Kong films have influenced him a great deal. It doesn’t mean he isn’t an original. He takes elements from all these films and concocts them into a unique offering with his own flavor.
Finally, he’s unpredictable. The fact that no one knows for sure what he is up to next must have inspired Brangan to write this article IMO. The audience went to The Hateful Eight expecting a winter western shot in 70mm. But what unfolded on screen was an Agatha Christe like murder mystery mostly shot indoors. All this makes him singular even a maverick director in my book. Obviously, we were underwhelmed by his recent outing yet we are still eagerly anticipating the last two deadly shots from his pistol.
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sameoldnewbie
November 22, 2016
Chanakya – your point is too true!
Don’t know if you have seen this taster for ‘Quentin does Shakespeare’ 🙂
I personally would like the revenge classic ’The Count of Monte Cristo’ to be given the modern Tarantino treatment. It is one of my all-time favourites and it’s right up Tarantino’s street, with enough potential to become an on-steriods version of a monster mash-up of all his movies…
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Rohit Sathish Nair
November 23, 2016
Altman:
What you have said is more of an answer to why Tarantino the writer is great.
We know Scorsese uses slow motion, long shots and freeze frames like no one else does (Yeah, you could say Schoonmaker is to Scorsese what Tarantino the director is to the writer in him). Even how he examines violence as a director is one of a kind.
So, his brand of violence apart, what can we see as a signature of Tarantino’s directorial style other than how he pays homage to his predecessors and contemporaries?
I too thought about the Indian masala movie he could do, especially since he liked Kaante.
If he wants to, maybe he should try something realistic, to test himself the way Rangan sir mentioned.
Or atleast, for an easier ask, do away with revenge, which he uses in most of his films, even if at times in the form of a secondary character
Or even how it’s always a hitman/assasin/bounty hunter for hire alone, in pairs or as a team, the equivalent of Sachin not attempting cover drives during his 241*
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KayKay
November 23, 2016
Altman: If I could toss 10 Likes in the general direction of your post, I’d do it, brother! You’ve summed up the Tarantinoverse PERFECTLY! You either give in to his unique blend of genre homage, or you don’t.
Tarantino doesn’t just capture the thrills a certain genre of film, he captures the thrill of WATCHING that certain genre of film.
When I’m seeing Uma Thurman carry 2 buckets of water up the stairs under her “cruel tutelage of Pai Mei” (Kill Bill 2), I’m actually reliving the thrill of seeing Gordon Liu doing it in the 36 Chambers Of Shaolin so many years ago.
No one quite captures this the way Tarantino does.
This becomes evident when you juxtapose his films alongside compatriot Robert Rodriguez, an equally audacious and talented filmic polymath
They both use the raw materials of mythology and genre tropes of past films, but where Rodriguez replicates them perfectly, Tarantino crafts his own special self-contained Universe from them.
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KayKay
November 23, 2016
I’m not quite sure if QT could do Bond, or for that matter helm a major tentpole franchise.
Carrying on from what Altman said, QT’s “Tarantinoverse” is ultimately a “stagey” experience from a filmic standpoint. And I don’t mean that in a pejorative “Visu Films” sort of way.
I mean, pretty much the whole of Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight, Jackie Brown and most of Inglorious Basterds could be filmed as stage plays, consisting largely of dialogue scenes set in a closed environment. Only the genre requirements of the Martial Arts movie and the Western lent Kill Bill and Django a more cinematic feel. Take away both of it’s car chases, and Death Proof is 2 groups of girls yapping. Dogs is a Heist Movie, without the Heist. Basterds is a War Movie without a single battle sequence.
Which is why, as much as I luuuuuuuurve QT’s films, I’m not quire sure that he’s a versatile film-maker, able to genre-hop outside his own self-contained QT-verse.
Which is why, MANK buddy, I’m not quite sure about the comparisons to Scorcese. They’re both Auteurs, but while Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Wolf Of Wall Street, The Departed, GoodFellas and Casino are films I can imagine QT helming (and with a few tweaks, maybe even Shutter Island and Gangs Of New York) can you see him doing an Age of Innocence, Kundun, The Last Temptation Of Christ, Bringing Out The Dead, Hugo and The Aviator?
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KayKay
November 23, 2016
Oh, KayKay’s mini rant time:
I’m a tad annoyed that True Romance is frequently dragged out for a discussion on QT’s films. A recent Blu-Ray Box Set of QT’s films even included True Romance!!!
Romance is WRITTEN by QT, but it’s an out and out TONY SCOTT film, It SOUNDS like a QT film, but totally LOOKS like a Tony Scott film, right down to the polished visuals and the far more frequent cuts Scott applies (compare the Walken/Hopper scene alongside Landa’s interrogation of the French Farmer at the start of Basterds or Jackson’s confrontation with Tim Roth in the Pulp Fiction diner scene to see the difference). Romance shouldn’t be part of the conversation when discussing QT as a director and film maker. It’s a far more CINEMATIC movie than anything QT has made.
Needed to give this little shout out to my man Tony because:
a) He took a fatal dive off a bridge after being diagnosed with an incurable disease
b) In his lifetime, while achieving considerable commercial success, “Thambi” Tony got but a fraction of the critical plaudits thrown the way of “Anna” Ridley.
End of rant.
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Anuja Chandramouli
November 23, 2016
KayKay: “Altman: If I could toss 10 Likes in the general direction of your post, I’d do it, brother! You’ve summed up the Tarantinoverse PERFECTLY! You either give in to his unique blend of genre homage, or you don’t.”
I second that. And if I could toss 10 likes in the general direction of your posts and mini rant, I’d do it, brother!
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MANK
November 23, 2016
Kaykay, completely agreed with your Tarantino analysis. His film universe is totally cinematic, but his filmmaking is not. He does not know to move the camera like Scorsese, de palma or Spielberg, nor are his visualisation as kinetic as Tony Scott, mctierman or verhoven. Lot of them are talky chamber pieces that relies extensively on quirky characters and super stylised dialogues . But his reputation as a seminal filmmaker is irrefutable. One pulp fiction is enough to put him firmly in the Pantheon of all time great filmmakers
I agree about true romance being a Tony Scott film from start to finish. Tony and Quentin would have made a great writer director combo if they had continued their association . Quentin’s writing would have given the much needed soul to Tony’s style and slickness and vice versa
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MANK
November 23, 2016
And regarding Scorsese, I was just saying that his films were in a genre of its own just like Tarantino s is. It goes without saying that Tarantino is no were near the filmmaker that Scorsese, whether in technical craftsmanship or in the versatility of the subjects he has tackled
I think the only time Tarantino stepped out of his comfort zone was in Jackie brown. That was as real a film he has ever made, more or less devoid of his usual frills. But it received a very lukewarm response and he went back to his universe with a vengeance
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MANK
November 23, 2016
Kaykay, your shout out to Tony was touching. He never got the critical plaudits he deserved because he always made genre entertainment. In many ways he is a much better filmmaker than Ridley who has always been an extremely overrated filmmaker IMO. Sure Tony made a lot of crap movies, but even in them his technical craftsmanship was unmistakable. Even films like last boy scout or spy game which were underwhelmers in their initial viewing, has grown on me and have become riveting watch for me now.
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Altman
November 23, 2016
KayKay: That was very benignant of you brother! Thank you. I agree with you on True Romance being an out and out Tony Scott film. The visuals, frenzied pacing are all so distinct from Tarantino’s. Tony Scott was criminally underrated. He reinvented the way modern aerial dogfights were filmed with Top Gun, yet critics snubbed it as ‘Navy recruitment video’. His reputation was shadowed by his elder brother’s legacy.
Rohit: Screenwriting is as much as an integral part of filmmaking as staging or framing. Scorsese too pays homage to his predecessors like Hawks, Ford, Fellini, et al. You could feel Hitchcock’s spirit dominating Shutter Island; The Departed was a remake of Hong Kong’s Internal Affairs.
If we are talking about signature tropes, Tarantino has plenty like trunk shots, over the shoulder kill shots, 360-degree shots, God’s eye pov, characters looking in the mirror, B&W scenes, Mexican standoffs and of course the foot fetish. Yeah, some of these were borrowed, but hey, he has utilized these frequently enough to be claimed as his own!
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sravishanker1401gmailcom
November 23, 2016
Re: Django Unchained that part about the link between skull shape and servility was a gem – and the tiara on the crown was Samuel Jackson nodding in a servile fashion to Di Caprio’s harangue on servility – not sure whether THAT one has been done before anywhere.
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MANK
November 23, 2016
Altman, but the difference in the case of Scorsese is that the influences are implicit in his films.. but in the case of Tarantino, they are explicit. You can go on a spot the influences trip with Tarantino. Perhaps he does it intentionally. So just a minute into inglorious basterds, you know this opening scene is influenced from the opening of the good the bad and the ugly . Also the twists and turns in his films seems to be a little too calculated as opposed to Scorsese’s, which is far more spontaneous
Not that I mind. Tarantino s version is devilishly entertaining in its own way. How even the smallest of details have an overall effect on the progression of the movie .Note how the conversation shifts from French to English in the opening interrogation scene. Or how someone ordering 4 glasses brings out a hidden aspect of his character. That’s the true brilliance of Tarantino.
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brangan
November 24, 2016
Thank you all for the kind words about that bit of dialogue. Was chuckling as I wrote that para, so am glad it worked for at least some of you 😁
MANK: I don’t think you can compare Scorsese and QT that easily. Scorsese is more ‘show don’t tell’ – his camera does a lot of the ‘talking.’ QT is ‘show AND tell’ – and he structures his shots around his actors (who do the talking). That’s a very valid and thrilling kind of filmmaking IMO.
Evem speaking of ‘pure’ cinema, that opening shot of Hateful Eight is as thrilling as anything Lean has done, say Omar Sharif approaching the well in Lawrence of Arabia.
KayKay: Even if you late come, you latest come.
(Of course. In your case, even an established punch dialogue can sound exquisitely porn-y. 😁)
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KayKay
November 24, 2016
B: Hahahahahaha…. well, if you’re gonna insist on translating that into English 🙂
Now take Muthu’s punch dialogue, translate that into English and let your imagination take flight:
“Nobody knows when and how I will come. But I will be right on time at the right time”
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sravishanker1401gmailcom
November 24, 2016
KayKay : You’re the best !
But may I draw your attention to that line from the song in My Fair Lady “how KIND of you to let me come” ?
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Drunken Monkey
November 26, 2016
@rangan: “Ba Ba black sheep..” Cant stop laughing. Brilliant!
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Bemused
November 28, 2016
Can’t say ‘fuck’ on the paper, but ‘nigga’ is fine? Hmm… interesting
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Rohit Sathish Nair
March 20, 2017
Just watched Kill Bill Vol. 2 yesterday, and I think some kind of answer has started to form in my head, to this question I posted earlier: ‘What makes Tarantino the director different?”
I think QT the director has many qualities that you wouldn’t always associate with QT the writer: he is diligent, focused and yes, restrained. Especially in Kill Bill Vol. 2, at times, what he didn’t do was more apparent than what he shows on screen. Few have instincts as sharp as he does, yet I could sense that he isn’t riding on them alone.
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tonks
August 14, 2019
I just watched Inglourious besterds and Django Unchained on Netflix India last week. I LOVED both : there is so much swag in both movies, and such delightful characterization. I heard about these movies from this blog : thank you for that.
Suggestion : Since so many of us use streaming platforms to access movies, it would be lovely if this blog had a sub section devoted to movie gems that are available in streaming in India. Readers could contribute, too. I’m sure there are a lot of movies there that are very good, but most do not know about.
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Kay
August 14, 2019
Tonks – That would be really great. I have a Prime subscription right now and more than half my TV time is spent in searching for good movies.
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tonks
August 14, 2019
It could even be just one comments thread under a post : readers could share what they have seen, one or two lines, and everyone else would know about that movie.
I loved the climax of Inglourious besterds : I certainly didn’t see that coming. What a glorious finale.
Anybody else who was reminded of the character ‘Dude’ in Aadu 2 by the character of Django? A slight resemblance perhaps, but mainly the swag 😊
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tonks
August 23, 2019
Kay : Sharing some new streaming info here (coz I don’t know where else to share)
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tonks
August 23, 2019
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/aadai-agent-sai-srinivasa-athreya-11-new-southern-films-streaming-online-now-107713
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Kay
August 24, 2019
Thank you, Tonks. Will check them out.
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tonks
September 2, 2019
http://huffp.st/dQYw4d1
5 Netflix shows to watch if you’re sick of re watching old romcoms
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Madan
September 2, 2019
Anybody else feel that, at least in India, Netflix no longer offers as much value as Hotstar? Some of the recent shows I have dug have all been Hotstar – Feud, Big Little Lies, Chernobyl, Loudest Voice. Even among older shows, they have a decent amount of the HBO catalogue. Shows like Sopranos, Wire, Newsroom are all available on Hotstar. Yes, they don’t have Narcos but is there another reason apart from that anymore to have Netflix? A Hotstar plus Amazon Prime package gives you a wide array of movie, TV and sports offerings and STILL costs less than Netflix. I think this works out even if I add Sony Liv to the former group.
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tonks
September 3, 2019
Netflix now has a few cheaper options
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/technology/features/story/netflix-launches-cheap-rs-199-plan-for-indians-but-rs-799-plan-still-better-if-you-have-good-friends-1573411-2019-07-25
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Madan
September 3, 2019
tonks: Thanks a lot, didn’t know about this plan. So if there’s something I really, really want to see and it’s only on Netflix, the 199 pack makes sense. As a regular option, without the facility to cast on TV, it doesn’t.
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tonks
September 4, 2019
I do most of my watching on the go, between my work duties, so this is perfect for me. On a smaller screen, HD or not does not matter as much.
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tonks
September 15, 2019
Just letting you know that Downtown Abbey is now streaming on Prime. To the best of my knowledge, this is the first time we are getting this legally in India (I’d searched a few months back). For someone like me, who adores 19th century English literature, this series is viewers heaven.
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Kay
September 15, 2019
The Dowager Countess’s dialogues are some of the best I have heard. I was searching for similar shows and came across this list.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/news/gmp2128/shows-to-watch-after-downton-abbey/
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tonks
September 17, 2019
Maggie Smith indeed is delicious.
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Ramit
September 19, 2019
tonks, Kay- you may like this:
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Ko
December 29, 2019
THE BEST BLOG WRITTEN BY BR EVER.
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