I had a bunch of movies on the ‘Screen of desire’ list to check on to, but I’ll start out with Jackie Brown.
If I’m not wrong, the second movie of Quentin Tarantino, the
self-taught director of the hit Pulp Fiction (which also happens to
show tonight, but I’ll skip that one). However, this movie didn’t get
as much attention as Pulp: basically because fans expected a kind of a
same movie. Also Jackie Brown seems to be the kind of typical
Tarantino tricks in the ‘We let old stars burn again’-category, in
this case it’s Pam Grier
(from Foxy Brown to Jackie Brown, I hear you). The movie focusses
around a stewardess who tricks law enforcement (Michael Keaton) and
‘bad-ass’ gangsters (Samuel Jackson, De Niro and Bridget Fonda). And
yes, apparantly Tarantino wanted to focus on the characters and that’s
why most fans ended up disappointed.
However, there are some flashes of Tarantino-style editing: the
shots around Bloomington’s are surprising (but not original). Also Pam
Grier probably displays her best acting skills in this
movie: I suspect Tarantino to have a secret crush on her.
To close off this rant: Pam looked pretty much different at the end. Like way older than in the rest of the movie. But maybe I see ghosts. And mind the cursing and the weird shot of De Niro doing something you wouldn’t expect him to do. Luckily he gets shot.