Brilliant film! Tarantino makes films they way they used to: the story drives the film not the film drives the story. Best film I've seen this year. Unfortunately I found the only flaw as poor Mike Myers with his character because it took you out of the movie. Brad Pitt didn't. And I didn't even recognize Rod Taylor. I loved that Tarantino used the cinema as a device in the story. The movie runs 152 minutes but you'd never notice. So much more to say but I don't want to get into spoilers. If you have friends that enjoy good film this is one to see together and discuss afterwards.
shempmcgurk wrote: > I saw the movie today and thoroughly enjoyed it. > > What surprised me is that Pitt and the American actors only have supporting > roles. The real stars — and the ones who have most of the screen time — are > the German and French actors: Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, and the > excellent Christoph Waltz who is the main star of the movie. > > What ALSO surprised me is that the filmmakers allowed 80% of the dialogue to > be in either French or German, with English subtitles. American movie-goers > are notorious for hating sub-titles and success of a movie is often dependent > upon dialogue being conducted in English…and American English, preferrably. > Recall Texas governor Ma Ferguson's observation back in the '20s that "If > English was good enough for Jesus Christ it's good enough for me." > > English is the center of the universe for most Americans. > > Not so here. And I fully expected an English-speaking movie because in the > opening scene the German and French protagonists "switch" to English because, > as it was explained by the character, it was a language they could both > understand, causing me to think that this would set the stage for the entire > movie to be spoken in English, which didn't happen. > > In the silly and asinine "Scarface" by Brian DePalma such a "trick" was > employed when early on in the film the Al Pacino character says > "Hey, we must practise our English so from now on, no more Spanish". And then > the whole movie — of which 90% involved interactions between Latinos — was > implausably conducted entirely in English. > > Bravo to Tarantino et al for not falling into this trap. ------------------------------------ To subscribe, send a message to: fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:fairfieldlife-dig...@yahoogroups.com mailto:fairfieldlife-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: fairfieldlife-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
