Uma Thurmonds teacher in the lengthy âKill Bill 2â training flashback is Pai Mei from the Shaw Brotherâs âExecutioners From Shaolinâ
For all we make fun of Quentin Tarantino, heâs seen a TON of movies, and paid homage to every one. Itâs over the top and intended to bring to mind those other films. Almost as if his films are only fully appreciable by those who have also seen a TON of movies.
And another Shaw Brothers film to look for. I really love those movies they are great fun.
No mention that one of the characters in From Dusk 'Till Dawn wears a Precinct 13 shirt for the whole movie?
Better not make fun where I can hear you, I will beat you up!
For what itâs worth, this isnât a list of the references in Tarantino films - itâs a list of a few of the obvious ones.
Now if he could just do a entire scene that wasnât a homage to something, he might be worth watching againâŚ
âŚplus now I feel dumb for not realising that he was making use of Darryl Hannahâs seizure moves as an homage. Though it did make more sense the second time roundâŚ
Who Do You Think Youâre Fooling? (1994)
A comparison of Quentin Tarantinoâs Reservoir Dogs and Ringo Lamâs City on Fire.
Youâre Still Not Fooling Anybody (1997)
By âweâ I meant not me. Or least not me in the last 25 years. Before then, I was too young to appreciate what was happening. Even how he sets up shots and moves the camera is influenced by those who came before him, those whom he appreciated.
Now go watch supercuts of dolly zooms.
I know, my father and I walked to the local theater to see âFive Fingers Of Deathâ when it came to the US. It was intense. But it was only a year or so before the first Bruce Lee movie was released in the US, and that crushed the Shaw brothers genre in America.
When asked in 2002 by Sight & Sound Magazine to name his twelve favourite movies of all time, Tarantino placed âFive Fingers of Deathâ at number 11.
Normally I would think a few of those are a stretch, but since itâs Tarantino⌠probably not.
âArt is either plagiarism or revolution.â
â Paul Gauguin
âArt isnât something you marry, itâs something you rape.â
â Edgar Degas
Other people have done this as well. âThe Hunger Gamesâ is the Japanese movie âBattle Royaleâ
Also, I recently read someone commenting on a French novel that was clearly âadaptedâ as the novel and movie âOrdinary People.â
I said to my GF that it would be possible to have a career ripping off foreign works that had never been translated into English, especially stories that are a couple years old where the author is dead.
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