Anybody else notice that they were about to go to work on Richard Dreyfuss with an actual pair of pliers and a blowtorch? Bruce Willis was even in the scene! I half expected Ving Rhames to appear and say they were going to get medeival! Nobody in the theater had any clue why I was cracking up at this. Ahh, good times...
sharehmm nice. havent seen Pulp in quite a long time so didnt remember that. loved it how Malkovich was so excited that he was getting to torture someone, rummaging through his bag of stuff. like how he got his blowtorch at Home Depot! LMAO
shareI noticed that as well! A great nod to a great movie
shareI didn't think of Pulp Fiction with the pliers and blowtorch, but when Malkovich said the Secret Service used to be tougher I was thinking, sure, last time you faced the Secret Service your main opponent was Clint Eastwood.
I love both movies and didn't get either reference. I can't believe that I didn't. I wondered why they were putting so much emphasis on the pliers and the blowtorch but did not make that connection.
That's why the internet is great. You get to laugh watching the movie and then again when reading the comments.
I think humanity should be wiped out and then we can give evolution a second chance.
"I didn't think of Pulp Fiction with the pliers and blowtorch, but when Malkovich said the Secret Service used to be tougher I was thinking, sure, last time you faced the Secret Service your main opponent was Clint Eastwood."
LOL! Yeah. That is a good movie.
"You know how much I sacrificed!?" Norman Osborn Spider-Man (2002).
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First thing I thought when I saw that scene was "Holy *beep* pliers and a blowtorch". I laughed a little inside.
Col. Hans Landa: "Wait for the crème..."
Tarantino stole that line from Don Siegel's Charley Varrick. Tarantino stealing from 70s films? How unusual...
share"I'mma call a couple of hard, pipe hittin' *beep* to go to work on the homes here wit a pair of pliers and a blowtorch. You hear me talkin', hillbilly boy? I ain't through with you by a damn sight. I'mma get medieval on yo' ass!"
Yeah, I doubt that quote was lifted or "stolen" verbatim from Charley Varrick. That's called an "homage" in film terms or in literary circles, it's called "paraphrasing". I suppose anybody in a film who used a famous quote from another film is a thief right? *sigh*, quit hating on Tarantino. The man won an Oscar for God's sakes (Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen).
Col. Hans Landa: "Wait for the crème..."
Thank you for explaining them intellergint words to me. Previously, I thought homage was a collective term for comestibles such as Roquefort and Brie and that paraphrasing was a kind of watersport.
Tarantino stole the important part of the line and added nothing of worth to it. That's why I call it stealing rather than anything else. That's his modus operandi, he takes ideas from other films and infantilises them.
Winning an Oscar means nothing. It's just a self aggrandizing ceremony where plastic people stroke another's ego in return for the goosing of their own.
I don't hate Tarantino, much less 'hate on' him, whatever that means. I just recognise that he is a poor filmmaker who is popular due to the vagaries of how cool is defined. It says a lot about modern Western culture's celebration and veneration of trash.
Seems to me one mans homage is another mans thieving.
Done with a nod and a wink, then it flattery, elseways its lack of original thinking.
Not sure if Terror-tiny is a homager but he sure does like violence, and is that a bad thing, Roberto says NO.
Switch on the "Trivia" track on your PF DVD (it's one of the subtitle options) and you'll learn Tarentino put in the blowtorch/pliers line because of his appreciation for Varrick.
Much in the way some cur might lift a tagline.
What I had in mind was boxing the compass.share
Tarantino's film career is just a list of poorly rendered 'appreciations'. His excuse for a complete lack of imagination and talent was a tired one the first time he used it.
I don't own the PF DVD, it will never cross my threshold. I won't waste any more money or time on it let alone go through the tedium of listening to that hack's commentary guff.
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