Charlie Rose

cagestokerblog  01/02/2013 05:42 PM Report

A modern day Shakespeare. QT's body of work too, will be remembered 400 years from now.

finalfantasytown  01/02/2013 01:43 AM Report

I don't know where he is going. But I do know who he is looking for. Pandora, many-gifted mortal woman, who bring misery to mankind and loose evil spirits. Build chest to save lives as soon as possible.

KevinNiduaza  12/28/2012 11:10 PM Report

I had the fortune of seeing 'Django Unchained' a few nights ago. After reading some of the comments on this video, I really don't know where some of this venom towards Tarantino is coming from.

The thing that struck me the most about criticism towards 'Inglourious Basterds' was that most critics (and general audiences everywhere) only spoke/wrote about the film on a surface level. It is unfortunate because it signals too big problems with the modern intelligentsia. The first being that we are still only judging things on a surface level. The second being this is doubly true when discussing or criticizing Tarantino's work. I mean c'mon folks, it's been twenty years now, why can't anyone understand what a Tarantino movie is?

Tarantino's last two movies have been described as 'revisionist history' and while that isn't a false statement it certainly is a misleading one. One could easily dismiss the two films as such but would be denying themselves the pleasure of understanding the greater point of both films. These movies are not merely 'revision' but rather an attempt deconstruction and reconfiguration of not just movie tropes or stories but rather populist views of two huge pieces of culture. These two pieces being propaganda (Inglourious Basterds) and mythmaking (Django Unchained). I won't get into Basterds because this is more my response to Django but I am willing to go toe to toe with anyone who wants to question that movies motives insofar as what it's trying to do with propaganda.

As for Unchained, I saw right away what Tarantino is up to. He places a white man (Waltz) in a role that would generally deemed for 'the magical negro' trope - where a talented black character uses his/her talents to help a white hero. He puts this character in the service of a mythic black cowboy hero (a role historically made for white men). Then he juxtaposes this duo with that of Candie and Stephen. Stephen being the most interesting - his name seems to be a play on Stepin Fetchit. Stephen has pseudo-power, being the man behind Candie but while betraying his people. When Django kills Stephen, Tarantino is clearly making a statement on classic stereotypes and tropes or at least his feeling about such. Within the context of Westerns, it works perfectly. Historically, Westerns have been a form of American Mythmaking and Tarantino seems to be deconstructing that myth and melding it back together in a superbly reflexive matter. Even the legend of Siegfried and Brunnhilde is subverted into an American context by replacing the anglo lovers with something truly American - slaves of the southern plantations, plantation owners as Kings and the institution of slavery as the hellfire the hero must face. God, he even has Jamie Foxx on a horse doing tricks, you know, like Gene Autry used to do.

finalfantasytown  12/28/2012 06:16 AM Report

The question is how to leave? Even part of Athena is from Gaia. The generation of human being has emotion. I don't think it is 50/50. Obviously, Zeus is very interested in the Sun and all of us are deeply trapped.

By the way, I am also interested in where the idea of United States came from and how it developed. I need to find it out. who lies?

finalfantasytown  12/28/2012 06:08 AM Report

It is very interesting that in Roman myth, Zeus is Jupiter.

After Olympia Gods defeated Titans, Zeus consigned Titans to Tartarus guarded by hundred-hand ones. Gaia, angered by the imprisonment of Titans, incited giants to Olympia Gods.

Is it true that emotions are from Gaia? Zeus is really genius to imprison Titans in Tartarus. old ugly nasty shameless Gaia. I build spaceship as soon as possible to Jupiter and adjust sickle to the emotion center. I am joking. That is what bad guys are going to do.

finalfantasytown  12/28/2012 05:59 AM Report

This version is true

'Zeus had to contend with the monstrous giant Typhoeus,

the son of Gaia. He used his thunderbolts to

set Typhoeus's many heads on fire, but according

to Apollodorus, Typhoeus cut Zeus? sinews

with the god's own adamantine scythe and

imprisoned him in his cave in Cilicia. Zeus

was rescued by Hermes, who helped reattach

his sinews, and finally defeated the monster

with his thunderbolts. Zeus's ascendancy was

complete.'

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/28/2012 02:47 AM Report

"Empowerment of the Black Man."

Chicken George had the power Quentin and his frontal lobe showed it even after this:

http://youtu.be/Qa5RGa_hAJw

Revenge does not give us more freedom it just grows the power of your amygdala and the neural pathways to it.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/28/2012 02:27 AM Report

"The script is 60% of the movie."

Perhaps editors and directors/actors would disagree but then we have the results of his work.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/28/2012 02:21 AM Report

In an interview with Playboy, Tarantino said, "He's the first villain (Calvin Candie) I've ever written that I didn't like. I hated Candie, and I normally like my villains no matter how bad they are."

"For me," DiCaprio said, "the initial thing obviously was playing someone so disreputable and horrible whose ideas I obviously couldn't connect with on any level." He went on: "I remember our first read through, and some of my questions were about the amount of violence, the amount of racism, the explicit use of certain language... My initial response was, 'Do we need to go this far?'" But, DiCaprio concluded, Tarantino's use of in-your-face imagery was necessary to tell the story, just as it was in his previous film, the bloody WWII tale "Inglourious Basterds."

So then did DiCaprio really get a hold of the script and want to play this part as we were told or was it like the quote above?

http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/leonardo-dicaprio-says-django-unchained-made-him-ask-0052549 37.html

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/28/2012 02:10 AM Report

Quentin mentions "The Legend of Nigger Charlie" and it was one of Paramount's highest-grossing movies of 1972: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Nigger_Charley

There was a movie "Skin Game" in 1971 that was a western comedy where a slave was sold over and over as part of a con http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_Game.

Quentin probably didn't see that one.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/28/2012 01:58 AM Report

“ . . . and I will have a Polynesian Pearl Diver. Do not spare the rum."

http://www.ranker.com/list/django-unchained-movie-quotes/movie-and-tv-quotes?page=2

The Polynesian Pearl Diver in another movie:

THE BLUE GARDENIA (1953): As Nat King Cole croons the title song, Raymond Burr seduces Anne Baxter in the Coral Room of the Blue Gardenia Supper Club by plying her with tropical drinks — served complete with ice cones and mint sprigs.

Burr asks Baxter, “Ever see a Polynesian Pearl Diver before?” Baxter: “Not served as a drink.” Burr: “These aren’t really drinks. They’re trade winds across cool lagoons. They’re the Southern Cross above coral reefs. They’re a lovely maiden bathing at the foot of a waterfall.” This being a Fritz Lang film, she quaffs one too many of the “South Sea pile drivers” and wakes up the next morning as the prime suspect in Burr’s murder.

Interesting use of a drink Quentin.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/28/2012 01:35 AM Report

Tarantino mentions two films.

I have seen Mandingo. "Quentin Tarantino has cited Mandingo as one of only two instances "in the last twenty years [that] a major studio made a full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movie", comparing it to Showgirls.[6]"

I have never even heard of "Goodbye Uncle Tom" which is available on YouTube: http://youtu.be/VCtCEKzmMsQ

Here is Roger Ebert's review of Mandingo which he gave zero stars:

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19750725/REVIEWS/808289998/1023

Yes Charlie, "Ho, Ho, HO" on what is released on Christmas Day 37 years later.

ERos  12/27/2012 11:21 PM Report

Great conversation with two people that love their craft.

MisterMittster  12/27/2012 06:25 PM Report

He is the epitome of the 'grown-up Brat', that is so pervasive today in our declining American culture. He probably never had an original thought in his creepy little life. From what I've seen, his movies Suck, And only turdish-like punksters like his crap. It's like they live vicariously threw thru his anus, the way they carry on like a bunch of cackling little chicken-hawks. bwok bwok bwak

He's just a wart on Sergio Leone's ass.

finalfantasytown  12/26/2012 11:45 PM Report

After Cronus castrated Uranus's genitals, the beings got the genital. Is there any organization doing business for collecting genitals?

finalfantasytown  12/26/2012 11:42 PM Report

I keep thinking why souls are released when Gaia loses her beauty such as nature, tradition, religion. We need to hunt the souls, which is Achille's mission.

finalfantasytown  12/26/2012 11:33 PM Report

I favor his opinion on pain in the first scene of reservoir dogs. I am curious why Gaia was in pain when she had too much children with Uranus. Obviously, the sickle which Cronus used to castrate Uranus belongs to Gaia. Who have given Gaia the sickle? The sickle is a mark. Cronus wounded Gaia once again. Asteroid belt, the broken sickle. What was the position when Uranus made love with Gaia?

ZNY  12/26/2012 10:18 PM Report

Totally agree. He's overly impressed with himself. I bet he requested not less than an hour interview. However, is this really worth an hour on Charlie Rose?

bonalibro  12/26/2012 06:26 PM Report

He seems to be overly impressed with himself. His talk is clearly swelling his head.