Comments on: Inglorious Tarantino http://blogs-r.us/bioblog/2009/02/17/inglorious-tarantino/ Biology is everything Mon, 21 May 2012 01:50:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: gillt http://blogs-r.us/bioblog/2009/02/17/inglorious-tarantino/#comment-807 gillt Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:02:34 +0000 http://blogs-r.us/bioblog/?p=263#comment-807 Yes, Fairey is a fairly successful hack. See here: http://www.nplusonemag.com/styles-radical-shill Technically, Tarantino isn't a hack because he names his sources for inspiration and usually makes a point of offering his own work as homage. Fetishizing yes, but this is how he honors them. You can make the argument that Tarantino doesn't have an original thought to his name, but that doesn't make him a hack, just an overtly indulgent and nostalgic film geek. Yes, Fairey is a fairly successful hack. See here: http://www.nplusonemag.com/styles-radical-shill

Technically, Tarantino isn’t a hack because he names his sources for inspiration and usually makes a point of offering his own work as homage. Fetishizing yes, but this is how he honors them. You can make the argument that Tarantino doesn’t have an original thought to his name, but that doesn’t make him a hack, just an overtly indulgent and nostalgic film geek.

]]> By: The Arborist http://blogs-r.us/bioblog/2009/02/17/inglorious-tarantino/#comment-806 The Arborist Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:22:58 +0000 http://blogs-r.us/bioblog/?p=263#comment-806 First off, so Shepard Fairey is a hack? I kinda like him in a twisted Warhol kind of way. Besides which many, many, film reviewers have dismissed Quentin Tarantino as a film fetishizing hack. Pretty much all of his films are a series of bloodied up quotes from other movies loosely tied together with some plot excuses. (That's not to say I don't like them. I do.) <em>Science Fiction: Multiverse Wars</em> From Dusk till Dawn should qualify already. <em>Documentary/Biopic: Lucifer: The Blackest Sheep</em> Are you trying to tell me that Reservoir Dogs wasn't a documentary? <em>Comedy: Rainy Season for Pol Pot</em> I'm pretty sure most (maybe all) of Tarantino's films are comedy. Musical: Tinnitus the Musical I'm sure this is next. I'm visualizing the torture scenes right now, and the best part is the audience gets to participate also. <em>War: Inglorious <del>Basterd</del> Bastard</em> I'm waiting for his rom-com; though I guess Pulp Fiction might qualify. First off, so Shepard Fairey is a hack? I kinda like him in a twisted Warhol kind of way. Besides which many, many, film reviewers have dismissed Quentin Tarantino as a film fetishizing hack. Pretty much all of his films are a series of bloodied up quotes from other movies loosely tied together with some plot excuses. (That’s not to say I don’t like them. I do.)

Science Fiction: Multiverse Wars
From Dusk till Dawn should qualify already.

Documentary/Biopic: Lucifer: The Blackest Sheep
Are you trying to tell me that Reservoir Dogs wasn’t a documentary?

Comedy: Rainy Season for Pol Pot
I’m pretty sure most (maybe all) of Tarantino’s films are comedy.

Musical: Tinnitus the Musical
I’m sure this is next. I’m visualizing the torture scenes right now, and the best part is the audience gets to participate also.

War: Inglorious Basterd Bastard
I’m waiting for his rom-com; though I guess Pulp Fiction might qualify.

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