(Pause here: Kill Bill and Death Proof sure do gory things to women..but some men, too.)
Inglorious Basterds: The detailed scalpings -- sound and image. The lingering strangulation of Diane Kruger.
(Pause here: Inglorious Basterds sure does brutal stuff to Diane Kruger - she is strangled by Waltz some scenes after being tortured by Pitt.)
Django Unchained: The Mandingo slave fight to the death on the floor of a fancy lounge as the jaded whites watch; the dog's killing the one slave -- the big shoot out with blood bags bursting like balloons filled with Hawaiian Punch.
The Hateful Eight: Samuel' L Jackson's illustrated tale of torturing, raping and killing Bruce Dern's naked son in the freezing snow.
The poisoned coffee scene and what happens to Daisy Domergue in it (and later what happens to her when she is hanged -- another female victim for QT.)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A surprisingly non-violent movie for 90% of the running time -- QT without killings? Impossible! Indeed...a heapin' helping of most satisfying gore arrives at the climax for the fantasy destruction of the Mansons. (Two out of three of whom are women -- but in real life, these women were monsters who stabbed an eight-months pregnant woman with a knife.)
QT only has one film left(he says) but the comparative non-violence of Once Upon a Time suggests...he's mellowed. A little late.
QT akins himself to a heavy metal rocker --THAT's his real mind set, that's his audience. .
But it must be said:
In certain ways, he's basically a sick fuck.
In certain ways, a LOT of Hollywood people are...they just don't get to express themselves on film like QT does.
We in the audience who enjoy QT's films are sick fucks too. But that's OK. Its only make believe and he is such a GREAT writer.
Plus, as QT has raged more than once about his movies: "I put violence in my movies because ITS FUN, OK!!?"
PS. You know who else was a sick fuck? Alfred Hitchcock. Especially in his final years, with gory, sexulized killings in Psycho, The Birds, Torn Curtain, Topaz, and Frenzy. But ALSO in his "Hays Code" years of Lifeboat, Rope, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956, and Vertigo.
QT felt that Hitchocck was hamstrung by the Hays Code and not violent ENOUGH. I'd say taken in the context of the more innocent times in which Hitchocck worked -- QT is wrong.
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