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problem with the dialogue

posted 11 years ago by crakatoot
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in pulp fiction, reservoir dogs and even kill bill to an extent the dialogue was funny and a little bit quicker and tighter then how normal people talk but still it did sound very natural. the way real people talk, just a but funnier. Think of Travolta and Jackson talking about pigs and personality in Pulp Fiction. but in this film, and it's not that there woman, but there is nothing even remotely natural about the way they talk. with every sentence it seems like the girls are just trying to beat you over the head with how goddamn sassy they are. That gets old fast. And conversations just go on and on. Every book you read about writing screenplays always says you use dialogue as little as possible. Obviously that is not Tarantiono's style but at a certain point it gets ridiculous. Think about the scene where Julia talks about the lap dance thing with Butterfly. Tarantiono uses like 200 words when maybe 50 would work. and the whole time Julia is talking she keeps swaying her head back and forth cause Damn she is just so sassy. This is actually the only film I ever walked out on. after being very disappointed by planet terror, and then death proof came on and the girls started with these long ass conversations, I just couldn't take it anymore. So I left and went to a party and got trashed. it was the right decision. eventully I watched the whole movie, and I do like the lap dance scene but other then that it was pretty disappointing. Though it does make me want nachos. anyone agree.

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[–] ed_fred 10 years ago

The dialogue is very excessive, and I just got the feeling the female characters were puppets that Tarantino is talking through. I have a very difficult time believing that even the most hardcore of women talk that way to each other to that excess. It's like Tarantino's wet dream of how he thinks women should talk to each other...like drunk, horny guys talking to each other.

[–] Doc110894 10 years ago

[–] cybopath 10 years ago

They were Tarantino avatars.

[–] stitchesaresore 10 years ago

While the talking could be a bit excessive, I found the girls' dialog in the first half believable. My friends and I can be more vulgar with our conversations. Once Zoe shows up, however, I got disinterested in their talking. Maybe she just annoyed me too much.

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[–] Soodinum 10 years ago

'Then' and 'than' are different words - stop confusing them.

[–] cybopath 10 years ago

Yea I found that too it's like Sex and the City with added car movie trivia.

[–] mattiasflgrtll6 9 years ago

Sadly, I agree. The reason I watch a Tarantino film is pretty much always for the natural but still witty, dialogue. Even after 5 minutes, I've usually already laughed a few times.
But here, the dialogue was very off. It's genuinely surprising Tarantino wrote the whole script himself, 'cause... sometimes it just felt so goddamn flat. A lot of lines (especially in the first half) felt very forced and were not that funny, the topics chosen for the conversations were sometimes just dull (So he's selling a rare Italian magazine, who cares???) and most of the characters just weren't that interesting. The only girl I think made me laugh was Kim, most of the others were written flatly. Thank God for Stuntman Mike though. I've got to say, he really made this movie!