I think I can now say my movie viewing habits boil down to "directors with neuroses that interest me, and directors with neuroses that don't."
totally get this. This is one of my biggest barriers to not always getting on with others who are huge movie buffs. I love film, but so much of the "classics" just don't speak to me. Some of it is because much of film is about telling the stories of men which often doesn't speak to me personally. The problem of not enough women involved in screen writing and directing and not nearly enough talented female filmmakers.
However, since my adolescent film obsessions were tied up in hong kong martial arts films and was dragged to every action film released in the 80s by my mother, Tarantino tickles me for taking all that is cool and interesting in these junk genres and using the language of the genres to make a film that surpasses everything it borrows from. And Tarantino writes the best female characters. I didn't notice this until I was looking for a film clip to show to a female sexuality discussion group when I settled on Fabienne's monologue in Pulp Fiction on wanting "a pot". Great scene and I'm finding it doesn't stand alone. Tarantino writes really fascinating women.
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Date: 2003-10-26 02:43 pm (UTC)totally get this. This is one of my biggest barriers to not always getting on with others who are huge movie buffs. I love film, but so much of the "classics" just don't speak to me. Some of it is because much of film is about telling the stories of men which often doesn't speak to me personally. The problem of not enough women involved in screen writing and directing and not nearly enough talented female filmmakers.
However, since my adolescent film obsessions were tied up in hong kong martial arts films and was dragged to every action film released in the 80s by my mother, Tarantino tickles me for taking all that is cool and interesting in these junk genres and using the language of the genres to make a film that surpasses everything it borrows from. And Tarantino writes the best female characters. I didn't notice this until I was looking for a film clip to show to a female sexuality discussion group when I settled on Fabienne's monologue in Pulp Fiction on wanting "a pot". Great scene and I'm finding it doesn't stand alone. Tarantino writes really fascinating women.