Day 29: Favourite Movie
Pulp Fiction
“You see, this profession is filled to the brim with unrealistic motherfuckers. Motherfuckers who thought their ass would age like wine. If you mean it turns to vinegar, it does. If you mean it gets better with age, it don’t.”
Not only is this my favourite Tarantino film, but it’s probably my favourite film in general too.
Day 28: An actor/actress you want to see in a Tarantino film.
Marion Cotillard
Do I even need to explain? Tarantino writes the best roles for women. Just look at Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill or Death Proof! Just thinking about Marion, one of my favourite actresses, as a HBIC in a Tarantino epic makes me feel giddy. I’m thinking a 1920’s noir-esq. mystery with a Tarantino twist. Marion would play a flapper with a secret or something. I don’t know. I’m all out of movie ideas.
Day 27: An underrated movie. Death Proof
Day 26: Favourite Movie Poster Pulp Fiction
Day 25: Saddest Character Death.
Bridget Von Hammersmark and Shosanna Dreyfus, Inglourious Basterds
I’m still bitter that BOTH of these ladies died. Why couldn’t Landa have let Bridget go? Or, I don’t know, had hot passionate sex with her in the office. Whatever. And hey, Zoller, fuck you. I had nothing against you before, even though you were a Nazi, but then you went and killed Shosanna. Maybe she planned to die that night, maybe she knew she was going to die, but I bet it wasn’t like THIS. She wanted to die in a fiery inferno of her own doing, laughing manically as a bunch of idiots burned to death right below her.
Day 23: Least favourite movie. I’m sorry. I don’t understand the question. Here’s a picture of Quentin Tarantino as a vampire instead.
Day 22: A scene that made you want to bang your head against a wall.
“I’m a cop.”
Oh, Mr. Orange. You’re an idiot, you know that? This guy is so sure you’re not a cop that he sticks up for you, he gets shot for you, and he shoots people for you. THEN when he’s holding you as you are both dying on the cold floor, you tell him you’re a cop. And he’s got a motherfucking gun in his hand. I know we don’t know if Mr. White actually shot Mr. Orange before the other cops stopped him, but the lesson remains the same… YOU DON’T TELL HIM THAT YOU’RE A COP UNTIL HE’S IN JAIL OR DEAD. PREFERABLY DEAD. You can go to his funeral and weep silently as you pour your heart out while laying a bouquet of fucking lilies on his grave if that’ll make you feel better, but at least you’ll be alive to do it.
Day 21: A scene that made you laugh.
“Oh man, I shot Marvin in the face.”
Does this make me a bad person?
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Day 20: A scene that makes you sad.
Beatrix meets her daughter, Kill Bill: Vol 2.
B.B.: Freeze, Mommy! Bill: Bang bang! [pretends to be shot] Bill: Oh! She got us, B.B. I’m dying. B.B.: Oh, I’m dying, I’m dying… Bill: Fall down, sweetheart. Mommy shot you. [both fall down and pretend to die] Bill: But little did Quick-Draw Kiddo know that little B.B. was only playing possum, due to the fact that she was impervious to bullets. B.B.: I am pervious to bullets, Mommy. Bill: Hey, get back down there. You’re playing possum. [in a narrative tone] Bill: So, as the smirking killer approached what she thought was a bullet-ridden corpse, that’s when little B.B. fired! [B.B. gets up and pretends to shoot the Bride] B.B.: Bang bang! Bill: You’re dead, Mommy… so die. [the Bride is still shocked] Bill: B.B. [comes out of it and acts out a huge death scene] The Bride: Oh, B.B., you got me. I should have known… you are the best. [collapses to the ground and pretends to die] B.B.: Oh, Mommy, don’t die. I was just playing. The Bride: I know.
This is the only scene in any of Tarantino’s films to make me cry. It’s not exactly ‘sad’, but it’s a sort of happy-sad. The Bride has been on a revenge-fueled rampage, all the while just waiting to get to Bill and finally finish what he started 4 years ago. Then she meets her daughter, a daughter she thought dead, and I think things change for her. Yes, she still has to kill Bill, but I think the fact that her daughter is alive, his daughter is alive, makes her revenge, I don’t know, bittersweet?](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7krhlX3uL1qaqvheo1_500.jpg)
Day 20: A scene that makes you sad.
Beatrix meets her daughter, Kill Bill: Vol 2.
B.B.: Freeze, Mommy!
Bill: Bang bang!
[pretends to be shot]
Bill: Oh! She got us, B.B. I’m dying.
B.B.: Oh, I’m dying, I’m dying…
Bill: Fall down, sweetheart. Mommy shot you.
[both fall down and pretend to die]
Bill: But little did Quick-Draw Kiddo know that little B.B. was only playing possum, due to the fact that she was impervious to bullets.
B.B.: I am pervious to bullets, Mommy.
Bill: Hey, get back down there. You’re playing possum.
[in a narrative tone]
Bill: So, as the smirking killer approached what she thought was a bullet-ridden corpse, that’s when little B.B. fired!
[B.B. gets up and pretends to shoot the Bride]
B.B.: Bang bang!
Bill: You’re dead, Mommy… so die.
[the Bride is still shocked]
Bill: B.B.
[comes out of it and acts out a huge death scene]
The Bride: Oh, B.B., you got me. I should have known… you are the best.
[collapses to the ground and pretends to die]
B.B.: Oh, Mommy, don’t die. I was just playing.
The Bride: I know.
This is the only scene in any of Tarantino’s films to make me cry. It’s not exactly ‘sad’, but it’s a sort of happy-sad. The Bride has been on a revenge-fueled rampage, all the while just waiting to get to Bill and finally finish what he started 4 years ago. Then she meets her daughter, a daughter she thought dead, and I think things change for her. Yes, she still has to kill Bill, but I think the fact that her daughter is alive, his daughter is alive, makes her revenge, I don’t know, bittersweet?
Day 19: Favourite use of music in a scene.
About Her, Malcolm McLaren, Kill Bill: Vol 2.
“Well no one told me about her,
Well no one told me about her.
How many people cried?
But it’s too late to say you’re sorry,
How would i know?
Why should i care?
Please don’t bother trying to find her,
She’s not there.”
This song is used near the end of Kill Bill: Vol 2 when Beatrix is watching a movie with her daughter after meeting her for the first time. The song is brilliant and I think that it fits the scene perfectly.
Day 17: A character you would recast.
Tarantino is omniscient. He knows all. He is never wrong. Why would I question his casting choices? BLASPHEMY.
Day 18: A character that could never be recast.
All. But especially Landa, Shosanna, Mia, Jules, Mr. Blonde, The Bride, Bill… etc.
This is me being really lazy with this meme.
Day 16: Best Ending
Pulp Fiction
Jules: Wanna know what I’m buyin’ Ringo?
Pumpkin: What?
Jules: Your life. I’m givin’ you that money so I don’t hafta kill your ass. You read the Bible?
Pumpkin: Not regularly.
Jules: There’s a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you. I been sayin’ that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. I never game much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass. But I saw some shit this mornin’ made me think twice. See, now I’m thinkin’: maybe it means you’re the evil man. And I’m the righteous man. And Mr. 9mm here, he’s the shepherd protecting my righteous ass in the valley of darkness. Or it could mean you’re the righteous man and I’m the shepherd and it’s the world that’s evil and selfish. And I’d like that. But that shit ain’t the truth. The truth is you’re the weak. And I’m the tyranny of evil men. But I’m tryin’, Ringo. I’m tryin’ real hard to be the shepherd.
Truthfully, I could have chosen any of his films for this one. I think Tarantino is fantastic with endings. It was hard to choose between this, Reservoir Dogs and Basterds, but I just love this scene because I think Tim Roth and Samuel L. Jackson are superb and I love Jules’ little Bible speech.
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Day 15: A Classic Example of Tarantino Violence
Mr. Blonde: Listen kid, I’m not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don’t give a good fuck what you know, or don’t know, but I’m gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It’s amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I’ve heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain’t gonna get.
[He removes his razor]
Mr. Blonde: You ever listen to K-Billy’s “Super Sounds of the Seventies” weekend? It’s my personal favorite.
I don’t think it really gets any more Classic Tarantino than this scene. You don’t even see Mr. Blonde cut off his ear, which is what makes it so effective. When I told my mum that I was rewatching Tarantino’s films a few weeks ago, the first thing she said was “Oh god, I can’t stand that scene in Reservoir Dogs where Mr. Blonde cuts off the cops ear.” Out of all the violent scenes in his movies (which there are a lot) that was the one she remembered.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l78rggju6U1qaqvheo1_500.jpg)
Day 15: A Classic Example of Tarantino Violence
Mr. Blonde: Listen kid, I’m not gonna bullshit you, all right? I don’t give a good fuck what you know, or don’t know, but I’m gonna torture you anyway, regardless. Not to get information. It’s amusing, to me, to torture a cop. You can say anything you want cause I’ve heard it all before. All you can do is pray for a quick death, which you ain’t gonna get.
[He removes his razor]
Mr. Blonde: You ever listen to K-Billy’s “Super Sounds of the Seventies” weekend? It’s my personal favorite.
I don’t think it really gets any more Classic Tarantino than this scene. You don’t even see Mr. Blonde cut off his ear, which is what makes it so effective. When I told my mum that I was rewatching Tarantino’s films a few weeks ago, the first thing she said was “Oh god, I can’t stand that scene in Reservoir Dogs where Mr. Blonde cuts off the cops ear.” Out of all the violent scenes in his movies (which there are a lot) that was the one she remembered.
Day 14: Movie with your favourite cast
Inglourious Basterds
“It was a tough, tough birth, but the babies are magnificent. The cast really is impeccable. They really, really support the movie. It’s almost… I’m almost kind of building the film on the cast actually. In a lot ways, they’re sort of the foundation of the film.”
Quentin Tarantino on casting Inglourious Basterds.
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Day 13: Favourite dialogue exchange.
Bill/Beatrix, Kill Bill: Vol 2
Bill: As you know, l’m quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology… The mythology is not only great, it’s unique. The Bride: [who still has a needle in her leg] How long does this shit take to go into effect? Bill: About two minutes, just long enough for me to finish my point. Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero and there’s the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he’s Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone. Superman didn’t become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he’s Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red “S”, that’s the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that’s the costume. That’s the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He’s weak… he’s unsure of himself… he’s a coward. Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race. Sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plimpton. The Bride: Aso. The point emerges. Bill: You would’ve worn the costume of Arlene Plimpton. But you were born Beatrix Kiddo. And every morning when you woke up, you’d still be Beatrix Kiddo. Oh, you can take the needle out. The Bride: [does so] Are you calling me a superhero? Bill: I’m calling you a killer. A natural born killer. You always have been, and you always will be. Moving to El Paso, working in a used record store, goin’ to the movies with Tommy, clipping coupons. That’s you, trying to disguise yourself as a worker bee That’s you tryin’ to blend in with the hive. But you’re not a worker bee. You’re a renegade killer bee. And no matter how much beer you drank or barbecue you ate or how fat your ass got, nothing in the world would ever change that.
There are so many dialogue exchanges I could have chosen, but I wanted to choose something that other people might not have. This scene just sticks in my head. Kill Bill: Vol 2 might be the weaker of the two, but I think the final scenes between Bill and The Bride are the best of the series.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l76w5fCLpP1qaqvheo1_500.jpg)
Day 13: Favourite dialogue exchange.
Bill/Beatrix, Kill Bill: Vol 2
Bill: As you know, l’m quite keen on comic books. Especially the ones about superheroes. I find the whole mythology surrounding superheroes fascinating. Take my favorite superhero, Superman. Not a great comic book. Not particularly well-drawn. But the mythology… The mythology is not only great, it’s unique.
The Bride: [who still has a needle in her leg] How long does this shit take to go into effect?
Bill: About two minutes, just long enough for me to finish my point. Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero and there’s the alter ego. Batman is actually Bruce Wayne, Spider-Man is actually Peter Parker. When that character wakes up in the morning, he’s Peter Parker. He has to put on a costume to become Spider-Man. And it is in that characteristic Superman stands alone. Superman didn’t become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he’s Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red “S”, that’s the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that’s the costume. That’s the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He’s weak… he’s unsure of himself… he’s a coward. Clark Kent is Superman’s critique on the whole human race. Sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plimpton.
The Bride: Aso. The point emerges.
Bill: You would’ve worn the costume of Arlene Plimpton. But you were born Beatrix Kiddo. And every morning when you woke up, you’d still be Beatrix Kiddo. Oh, you can take the needle out.
The Bride: [does so] Are you calling me a superhero?
Bill: I’m calling you a killer. A natural born killer. You always have been, and you always will be. Moving to El Paso, working in a used record store, goin’ to the movies with Tommy, clipping coupons. That’s you, trying to disguise yourself as a worker bee That’s you tryin’ to blend in with the hive. But you’re not a worker bee. You’re a renegade killer bee. And no matter how much beer you drank or barbecue you ate or how fat your ass got, nothing in the world would ever change that.
There are so many dialogue exchanges I could have chosen, but I wanted to choose something that other people might not have. This scene just sticks in my head. Kill Bill: Vol 2 might be the weaker of the two, but I think the final scenes between Bill and The Bride are the best of the series.
