It's funny to see that the most free-of-any-kind-of-guilt movie made by Quentin is considered his worst. I remember being in Berlin and the boyfriend of a friend of mine had gone to see it (a real "serious" guy he was, without the slightest taste of humor) and after he came out of the theater he was fucking furious. He was saying that Tarantino is a fraud and that he is not going to watch another movie of his and that the movie had cars and deaths and girls and nothing more. That it was basically a vacant, unholy crap. When I first saw Death Proof I equally didn't like it because I was not prepared for something like this. Trashy cinema was not on my list at that time because I was also being... criminally "serious".
When I saw it again some years after I loved it and since I have seen it numerous times. The humor and the fun of this movie are simply irresistible. Small and big details that run in front of you eyes like the panties that the girl is wearing in the beginning and holding a bong, the greatest pee in the world that the other girl is about to take, the persona and style of stuntman Mike and the unbelievably stylish and even kitsch cars, create a filmic universe that you want to drown in it from joy. Most people didn't get the humor of the movie. They didn't get that it was straightly a B movie and B movies have something particularly trashy in their flavor. Most people went inside the theater prepared to watch another Pulp Fiction. I have said it before that Quentin is a man of a huge ego and practitioner of hubris and believe me when I say I hate that kind of people. But it's an undeniable truth that inside the superficial movies that he makes there is a huge talent and a profound genius to be found. There is no other filmmaker who would have dared to make a movie like Death Proof and succeed in it.
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