{"id":406,"date":"2003-11-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/entirely-spoiler-free-trust-me\/"},"modified":"2003-11-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-13T12:00:00","slug":"entirely-spoiler-free-trust-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/11\/entirely-spoiler-free-trust-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Entirely spoiler-free, trust me."},"content":{"rendered":"

The week has been pretty good so far. I finished The Witching Hour<\/i> on Monday, and watched Kill Bill<\/i>. Then on Tuesday, I watched Finding Nemo<\/i> again, and then came back home and watched Kill Bill<\/i> . Then yesterday, in the office, I sent a mass-mail to people with the Kill Bill<\/i> script attached, and asked them to read it, and I read it myself all over again. At night, Mons came over and we ordered pizza and watched Kill Bill<\/i>. <\/p>\n

Hmm. I think I will go home tonight and watch it again.<\/p>\n

Ok, I admit it. This is as geeky as I can get. I sympathize with rulinian<\/a> now, I understand how Pirates of the Carribean<\/i> must have affected her. However, my lj-user icons won’t change. Am too lazy to use Photoshop in the office.<\/p>\n

Kill Bill<\/i>, in its concept, execution and all the assorted homages, makes me feel like this is the ultimate<\/i> comic-book. Coming from me, that’s a big compliment, I know. This is one of the few times I have watched a movie after reading the script, and not been disappointed at all<\/i>. Not a single shot, a single camera angle made me feel like – “jeez, gimme the equipment and I can do better than this”<\/i>. Not a single moment have I sitten back and thought – “bah, I know which way this is going.”<\/i> Even though I have read the script already. <\/p>\n

Right, so the first Matrix<\/i> affected me. Sholay<\/i> does it everytime, So does Lagaan<\/i>. ( and yes, vrikodhara<\/a>, Titanic<\/i> gets my monkey everytime, too.) But forgoshsakes, I didn’t fall in love with cricket, or I didn’t wanna learn Kung-fu after any of these movies. Kill Bill<\/i> has given me this incredible zest about learning Japanese ( trust me, there are loads of lines in Japanese, especially Sonny Chiba’s “The one that kills”-monologue.) It makes me want to go and buy all<\/i> the Hong Kong and Italian B-movies mentioned in all the websites (and the script itself) and spend the rest of my life memorizing the dialogues from every single one of them.<\/p>\n

So this is about you-know-who coming back from the dead and killing you-know-who and four others. Pretty simple storyline, you think. Bull! I have been racking my brains to figure out which literary sources have followed this non-linear-and-yet-linear form of moviemaking, and though the Tarzan<\/i> novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs comes to mind, it’s still not the only one. Maybe From Hell: The Graphic Novel<\/i> was kinda like it. Maybe. <\/p>\n

So far, Peter Jackson’s Braindead<\/i> was the only movie which had made me grin at shots of exploding geysers of blood and decapitated bodies. Ah! The sound of a Hattori Hanzo sword as it rips through Armani suits and other assorted body parts…. I wonder how it will sound in DTS. <\/p>\n

“Wiggle your big toe”
\n“Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest.”
\n“Bitch. You can stop right there.”
\n“If on your journey, you should encounter God, God will be cut.”
\n“I am Buck. And I’m here to fuck.”
\n“You’re Buck, right? And you’re here to fuck. Right?”<\/p>\n

Tarantino, you prick. Make these voices go away. <\/p>\n

Tonight I am gonna start reading William Buck’s Ramayana<\/i>. In Ram We Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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