This is Quentin Tarantino's "Rio Bravo"

"From Kill Bill 1 on, QT became much more of an action director, but with Jackie Brown, there is a pleasure in just sitting back and watching people converse with one another."

Hmmm.... Disagree. Death Proof was WAY more about dialogues than any of his movies (even though it is his weakest movie). His last three movies were also highly pointed toward the interactions between the characters. And Kill Bill Vol.2 was way slower than Kill Bill Vol.1. I really don't see how did you come to this conclusion..

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I suppose you could say I "rushed to this conclusion," rather confusing two issues. Certainly the QT penchant for talk -- and lots of it -- continues on from Kill Bill 1 on, but QT took about 6 years off between the laid back, chatty Jackie Brown and "Kill Bill" and -- clearly something happened to his sensibilities. There is more action WITHIN his talky pictures after Jackie Brown -- the bladed battle that climaxes Kill Bill 1; the extended car chase that climaxes Death Proof; the assault on Hitler at the movie theater in Inglorious Basterds, and the running gun battle at Candieland in Django. Indeed, The Hateful Eight gets back to talk, but there are a few big bloody close-range shootouts along the way.

Meanwhile, in Jackie Brown...its mainly middle-aged people talking....the sensibility is as much Elmore Leonard as QT. To repeat: "something happened" in the years after Jackie Brown. QT hung out with young goremeister Eli Roth whose ultraviolence came through QT in Kill Bill, Death Proof, Basterds(where Roth PLAYS a psycho sadist) and Django. QT also elected to sing a song of love to the King Brothers Kung Pow Kung Fu cheapo epics. Jackie Brown -- despite many of its characters getting killed by the end -- is sedate and "for the matured viewer" in comparison.

And that's what I guess I was getting at. QT without his trademark dialogue isn't QT, but he sure does push harder on action since Jackie Brown.

Thanks for reading.

It seems to me that QT's first three films -- Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown -- are of "one piece": contemporary crime pictures set in roughly the same South Bay/North Hollywood urban locales in Los Angeles. Almost a trilogy. And among those three, Pulp Fiction is the Great One, but Jackie Brown sure feels more mature, "meaty" and thoughtful.

After completing that trilogy and taking six years off, QT came back with fantastical Kung Fu, trips to Japan and Mexico(in Kill Bill), trips to the historical past in period pieces(WWII Europe, the American South, and the American West), two Westerns(Django and Hateful Eight), and one contemporary movie directed to look like a grindhouse cheapie from 1975(Death Trap.) Much more stylized, much more period driven. A whole new QT.