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More Tarantino Love!

Release date:  8/21/2009

Universal Pictures

Directed and Written by

• Quentin Tarantino

Produced by

• Lawrence Bender

Cast

Brad Pitt

• Lt. Aldo Raine

Christoph Waltz

• Col. Hans Landa

Melaine Laurent

• Shosanna

Eli Roth

• Sgt. Donny Donowitz

Samuel L. Jackson

• Narrator

The hosts review:

• Beer!
• Batman!
• No mistaking that this is a Tarantino movie.
• Each of the main characters (Aldo, Hans, Shosanna) has their own kind of morality that pushes them to do what they do.
• Or, is Hans Landa a bored, yet brilliant, sociopath?
• Is Aldo really just the same as Hans?
• Brad Pitt is great at playing these off-the-wall characters.
• Aldo Raine = homage to and poking fun at John Wayne
• The film within a film within a film!
• The basement bar scene… a whole bunch of busy dialogue, and then BOOM!
• The cameos were very good; Mike Myers, Rod Taylor and Harvey Keitel (voice).
• Changing lanes and discussing Clerks and Clerks 3, and Kevin Smith’s career.
• The music was all over the place, the soundtrack is fantastic.
• “Being in wool underwear will make you want to kill anything”
• “… and Hannah Montana.”

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

• Tarantino intended for this to be as much a war film as a spaghetti western, and considered titling the movie “Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France”.  Instead, that ended up being the title of the first chapter of the film.
• Cloris Leachman originally appeared in the film as Mrs. Himmelstein, an elderly Jewish woman living in Boston, drinking tea with Donny Donowitz (and signing his trademark baseball bat afterward).  This was cut from the final film, but Tarantino has said that he might use the footage in the prequel.
• Roughly only 30% of the film is in spoken English, the language which dominates the film is either French or German, with a little Italian.
• At the end of each take, actors would face the camera and say “Hello Sally”, referring to Sally Menke, the film’s editor.  This has been done with Tarantino’s previous movies (such as Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol 2 and Deathproof).  Inglourious Basterds was the last film by Tarantino to be edited by Menke, whose work was honored in 2010 with her final Academy Award nomination for Best Editing, prior to her death later that year.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 2/16/2013

 

 

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It’s a Quentin Tarantino Love Fest!!

Release date:  12/25/1995

Miramax Films

Directed and Written by

• Allison Anders
• Alexandre Rockwell
• Robert Rodriguez
• Quentin Tarantino

Produced by

• Lawrence Bender

Cast

Rim Roth

• Ted the Bellhop

“The Missing Ingredient”

Valeria Golino

• Athena

Ione Skye

• Eva

“The Wrong Man”

David Proval

• Sigfried

Jennifer Beals

• Angela

“The Misbehavers”

Antonio Banderas

• Man

Lana McKissack

• Sarah

“The Man from Hollywood”

Quentin Tarantino

• Chester Rush

The hosts review:

• Robert Rodriguez’ clip was good… kinda weird… enjoyable.
• Quentin Tarantino’s was also really good.
• “The Misbehavers” could have been a standalone short.
• “The Missing Ingredient”… missing a whole lot more.
• The reason you watch the whole thing, all four stories, is for the very last five minutes.
• The reason for some of the witches being topless didn’t make sense.
• It would have made more sense if “The Misbehavers” was first.
• Tarantino’s short was typical of his long films, long mundane dialogues that explode into insanity.
• What, exactly, brought these four writer/directors together?  And, was it a good idea?
• Alison Anders biography reads almost like a Tarantino script.
• Robert Rodriguez followed up the first three Spy Kids movies with Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
• The hosts can’t really recommend the whole movie, but the opening credits and Tim Roth’s movements were very Pink Panther-ish.
• Ione Skye… aged well, looked good!
• Madonna… meh, why was she there?
• A discussion of Madonna’s… oh, let’s just call it her movie career for the sake of argument.

Trivial bits ‘n pieces:

• “Five Rooms” was the original title of this movie, but Richard Linklater withdrew before production began.
• Salma Hayek is the dancing girl in TV in “The Misbehavers.”
• The role of Ted the Bellhop was originally written with Steve Buscemi in mind.
• Bruce Willis is not credited because he violated SAG rule by acting in this film for no money, doing it for fun and as a favor for Tarantino.  SAG agreed not to sue Willis if his name was not included in the credits.
• Robert Rodriguez and Antonio Banderas filed their segment one week after finishing Desperado.

Your Producers for this episode were:

• Tony
• Darrell
• Tony/Deuce

This episode was recorded: 2/7/2013

 

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