![]() ![]() His presumed inability to get laid back then is something we should all feel grateful for. If the onetime star of A Summer Place hasn’t contributed an M&M tidbit or two to Tarantino’s mulchmeister mind - and who among us knows for sure? - then he’s one of the few in Hollywood who hasn’t.Īs most fans know, QT’s predilection for constructing his own screen language out of cinematic pedigrees that have gone the way of the dodo would make the bibliography for any of his screenplays longer than the screenplay itself - and his shallower imitators just crib from him without giving two hoots about the lonesome video-store hours the young Quentin spent vacuuming up 20th-century movie esoterica with those beady Kalamata-olive eyes of his. Turning back the clock to peg the ingredients that made the movie so fresh can feel like excavating Troy, especially if you get to excavate Troy Donahue in the bargain. ![]() Strangelove or The Wild Bunch - the breakthroughs that turned Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpah into Stanley Kubrick and Sam Peckinpah, respectively - PF’s signature audacities have been thoroughly kneaded into the big pop-culture pizza we eat every day. The Movies of 1994 Grantland takes on a golden year in cinema.Like Dr. They’ve been scarfing up variations on it since they were kindergartners, after all, and nobody goes to college to find out who invented pepperoni. By now, though, the average professor of Tarantino studies at good old STFU must despair over whether trainee film buffs can untangle what was so original about his Rubik’s Cubist assemblage of talking jags, nonchalant mayhem, confetti chronology, and cartoon-cutout characters. That’s enough all by itself to make landmark status a lock, right? Right. ![]() Premiering 20 years ago this month, Pulp Fiction was the movie that turned Quentin Tarantino into, you know, Quentin Tarantino. Let’s Talk About Hair - Oh, and Women’s Shoes. ![]()
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