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Quentin Tarantino (USA, 1963) debuted with the independent film
Reservoir Dogs (1992), superficially inspired by Ringo Lam's
Long hu Feng Yun/ City on Fire (1987).
Sei persone si ritrovano a tavola attorno a un uomo anziano.
Uno dei commensali tiene un discorso sul perche' non lascia mai le mance
alle cameriere. Sembra una riunione fra
vecchi amici. In realta` si intuisce che si tratta di gangster.
Nella scena successiva Mr White sta guidando a grande velocita` e conforta
Mr Orange che sanguina da una ferita coricato nel sedile di dietro. Si rifugiano
in un magazzino deserto. Poco dopo arriva Mr Pink.
Sospetta che qualcuno li abbia traditi perche'
la polizia li stava aspettando al negozio di gioielli che dovevano svaligiare.
Litigano a voce alta. Pink e` favorevole ad abbandonare il moribondo e
andare a spartirsi il bottino, di cui e` rimasto in possesso lui.
Ricostruisce la sua fuga rocambolesca.
White ricorda come ebbe inizio l'avventura, quando il vecchio Joe gli propose
per la prima volta il piano.
Arriva anche Blonde, uno psicopatico estremamente calmo che fa saltare i
nervi a White e comunica che un altro complice, Brown, e` morto. Li porta
fuori: nel bagagliaio dell'auto ha chiuso un poliziotto che e` riuscito
a catturare.
Altro flashback: Blonde che va da Joe subito dopo essere uscito dal carcere
e viene trattato quasi come un membro della famiglia sia da Joe sia da suo
figlio. E` un fedelissimo e vuole tornare al lavoro al piu` presto. Joe gli
offre allora un posto nella banda che sta mettendo insieme.
Il figlio di Joe sta guidando verso il magazzino e apprendere al telefono
cellulare che Brown e` morto e Blue e` scomparso. Arriva nel magazzino mentre
Blonde spiega di aver sparato sui commessi perche' loro hanno
attivato l'allarme. Blonde lega il poliziotto a una sedia e tenta di fargli
confessare chi li ha traditi. Il poliziotto dice di essere appena stato
assunto e non sapere nulla. Blonde non gli crede e comunque si diverte a
torturare un poliziotto: gli taglia un orecchio e sta per dargli fuoco con
la benzina quando viene crivellato di colpi da... Orange. Orange e` un
poliziotto undercover. Il poliziotto dice di saperlo.
Flashback di Orange: quando e` stato addestrato da un collega nero, quando
e` riuscito a convincere Joe a dargli il posto e quando e` venuto il grande
giorno. E` stato Joe ad ordinare a tutti di usare nomi falsi e di non
fare mai alcun cenno a fatti personali (durante la fuga in auto Orange
aveva chiesto a White il suo vero nome e da che citta` venisse). Poi tutto
e` andato storto: l'auto, guidata da Brown (Tarantino), si e` schiantata,
e Brown e` morto; e` sopraggiunta un'auto della polizia e White ha
freddato i due poliziotti sotto gli occhi di Orange; hanno fermato un'auto
a caso, ma la donna al volante ha sparato a Orange e White l'ha dovuta
uccidere. Cosi` Orange e` stato complice di un massacro, fra cui alcuni
suoi stessi colleghi, e per di piu` e` stato mortalmente ferito.
Tornano il figlio di Joe e Pink. Orange racconta una storia incredibile per
giusticare di aver ucciso White. Joe non gli crede perche' conosceva troppo
bene la fedelta` assoluta di Blonde e uccide a bruciapelo il poliziotto.
Arriva Joe, che dice di essere sicuro che Orange e` il traditore.
Poi punta la pistola addosso a Orange per ucciderlo,
ma White, che invece gli crede, la punta addosso a lui, e il figlio di Joe
la punta contro White. Per qualche secondo rimangono incerti, poi Joe
spara a Orange e in una frazione di secondo sparano anche gli altri due.
Joe e suo figlio muoiono sul colpo. Mentre Pink scappa con i diamanti,
White si avvicina a Orange e lo abbraccia: Orange gli bisbiglia che e'
davvero un agente della polizia. White piange e gli punta la pistola alla testa.
Irrompe la polizia. White spara, tutti sparano.
Racconto spezzato in continuazione, con la storia che si delinea poco alla
volta. Lunghe conversazioni/divagazioni che servono pero` a mettere a fuoco
la personalita` dei protagonisti. Eccesso di dettagli, iper-realismo anche
truce. La storia e` ambientata in un mondo di gangster in cui ci sono ancora
valori morali (la fedelta` soprattutto), ma non e` chiaro quali siano
gli obiettivi, per cosa la gente viva.
Tarantino also scripted Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Il film e` strutturato come un insieme di storie correlate fra di loro
dall'ambiente dei gangster. Il boss e` un omaccione nero di nome
Marcellus, sposato all'avvenente bianca Mia. Fra i suoi sicari c'e' John
Travolta e un nero di nome Jules che ama citare passi della Bibbia
prima di uccidere le sue vittime.
La prima storia dura pochi secondi: due ragazzi che stanno facendo
colazione decidono di rapinare il ristorante. L'azione si ferma quando
saltano sul tavolo e intimano agli avventori che si tratta di una
rapina.
La seconda storia e` quella in cui Travolta e Jules irrompono in un
alloggio, terrorizzano i tre individui (due bianchi e un nero) che vi
si trovano, si fanno consegnare una valigetta piena di droga, uccidono
i due bianchi, e poi vanno a consegnare la valigetta a Marcellus.
La terza storia ha inizio quando Marcellus affida sua moglie a Travolta.
Mia e` una cocainomane che si fa portare in un ristorante sui
generis, dove le cameriere imitano attrici famose e si cena dentro
delle riproduzioni di auto d'epoca. Lo obbliga anche a partecipare a
una gara di danza. Al ritorno a casa, mentre Travolta si sta ripetendo
di darle la buona notte al piu' presto per evitare guai, lei viene
stremata da un'ennesima dose di cocaina. Lui la carica in macchina
e la porta dal suo amico spacciatore di droga. Questi, riluttante, tira
fuori la medicina da somministrare in questo caso, ma e` Travolta
che deve fare l'iniezione. Mia si riprende sull'istante, con la siringa
ancora piantata nel petto.
La quarta storia e` quella del pugile impersonato da Bruce Willis, che
lavora per Marcellus. Da bambino ricevette in regalo l'orologio d'oro
che era stato di suo nonno e di suo padre, entrambi morti in guerra.
Willis ammazza il suo rivale sul ring, e quella sera stessa ha un
piano per scappare con sua moglie. Si fa portare da una tassista
(morbosamente affascinata dall'idea che lui abbia appena ammazzato
qualcuno) a un motel, dove la moglie lo aspetta. La moglie, bella e
affettuosa, ma un po' bambina, ha pero` dimenticato il suo orologio.
Willis deve tornare a prenderlo al suo appartamento, dove Travolta e`
venuto a cercarlo, ma, non trovandolo, e` andato al cesso: Willis lo
mitraglia appena esce. Sulla via del ritorno incappa in Marcellus e,
senza esitare, lo mette sotto con l'auto. Ma Marcellus si riprende e
comincia a sparargli e inseguirlo, mentre lui, che si e` schiantato
contro un muro, fugge camminando a stento. Alla fine si picchiano in
un negozio di stereo, ma il padrone tira fuori il fucile e li lega
tutti e due. Arriva un poliziotto, ma non e` per arrestarli, bensi`
per sodomizzarli. Tirano fuori da un sarcofago uno psicopatico vestito
di nero, che lasciano di guardia a Willis, mentre si appartano con
Marcellus. Willis si libera, mette ko lo psicopatico e fa per andarsene; ma all'ultimo momento ci ripensa e torna sui suoi passi, prende
una sciabola, infilza il negoziante e libera Marcellus, che spara
all'inguine del poliziotto che lo stava sodomizzando. Marcellus lo
lascia libero di tornare dalla sua donna e di sparire dalla circolazione.
L'ultima "storia" e' quella dell'inizio. Si torna alla stanza in cui
Travolta e Jules hanno ritrovato la valigetta con la droga. Freddano
il bianco terrorizzato, ma poi gli si para di fronte un altro bianco,
che era nascosto in bagno: soltanto che i suoi colpi di pistola non li
colpiscono. Jules si convince che si tratti di un miracolo. Trascinano
via il nero, l'unico superstate. In auto pero' a Travolta sfugge un
colpo, che fa schizzare via la testa del nero. Dovendo ripulire l'auto
e se stessi, dirigono verso la casa del nipote acquisito di Marcellus,
il quale pero' da' loro poco tempo per andarsene. Marcellus
manda loro un esperto di situazioni che scottano, grazie alla cui perfetta
organizzazione l'auto e i gangster vengono ripuliti.
I due sicari, vestiti da collegiali, vanno a fare colazione al ristorante
della prima scena. Quando i due rapinatori affrontano Jules, scoprono
di trovarsi di fronte un gangster, che disarma il ragazzo. Mentre la
ragazza sta per perdere il controllo, Jules tiene al ragazzo un sermone
in cui in pratica gli dice che, forte del miracolo della mattina,
ha deciso di cambiar vita: gli da` un sacco di soldi e lo lascia
andare via.
Piu' che le storie contano i dialoghi iper-realisti, presi dalla
strada, e il contrasts fra il tono da commedia, quasi parodistico, e
le scene truculente, da gore.
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Jackie Brown (1997) is a more traditional caper (and love story) based on
Elmore Leonard's book "Rum Punch". The plot is overlong, mainly because
Tarantino can't resist the temptation to show off his talent in crafting
dialogues. However, the conclusion is too convoluted to sound plausible.
The universe of small-time crooks and failed middle-aged characters is
not particularly exciting because their interactions is always almost
sterile, superficial, emotion-less.
Jackie Brown is a middle-aged flight attendant, who works for a lousy airline.
In a beach condo,
a black man, Ordell (the owner of the condo, and of the sexy blonde, Melanie,
who lives in it), and a middle-aged white man, Louis (just released from jail), watch
advertisements for assault weapons.
The black man receives a call that a friend has been arrested, and visits a bail bondsman, Max, to buy the man's release.
Then kills the man so he can never testify against him.
Jackie Brown is caught by two police officers: she is smuggling money
and drugs out of the country on behalf of the black arms dealer, Ordell.
Ray and his partner are after Ordell, not after her, but she does not want
to cooperate. So she is arrested, and the judge sets the usual bail, which
Ordell asks Max to pay... the same way he paid for the release of his
accomplice and then killed the man to shut his mouth forever.
But Jackie is smarter: she welcomes Ordell's night visit with a gun, and
convinces him that she can be trusted, especially if he is willing to pay
her a good salary while she does time in jail for him.
Advised by Max, who is becoming her best friend, Jackie instead tells the police
she wants to make a deal (testifying against Ordell in return for immunity).
Then she tells Ordell the truth, but justifies her "betrayal" as a way to
get the cops' trust and be allowed to fly again. She even convinces him to
give him a percentage of the money that she will smuggle into the country
under the cops' nose.
In the meantime, Louis and Melanie, alone in the condo, chat and then casually
make love (just three minutes, and he does not exactly satisfies her).
All Melanie does is watch tv, get high and get laid.
Louis is supposed to be Ordell's right-hand man, but doesn't do much else than
hang around him.
Jackie has devised a plan to double-cross everybody. She plans to smuggle
a huge sum for Ordell, with the collaboration of the police. Then she has
enlisted Max, who is tired of being a bondsman, to run away with the money
while she delivers an empty bag to both the police and Ordell.
The exchange takes place at a department store, in a fitting room. Jackie
has the bag full of money. Louis drives Melanie to pick up the bag. But Jackie
gives Melanie a bag that contains very little money, and leaves the
real money in her own bag. Then she walks out and tells the cops that
Melanie ran away with all the money.
When everybody has left the premises,
Max simply retrieves the third bag that Jackie left
behind in the fitting room.
Outside, Louis loses his nerves and shoots Melanie dead. Then drives away with
Ordell, but Ordell soon realizes that Jackie ripped him off with Max's help.
Ordell kills Louis and walks away, determined to take his revenge.
But Jackie is not finished with him: she sends Max to apologize and to ask
for a meeting at Max's office.
Then she delivers Ordell to the cops, who shoot him dead when
he walks in with a gun.
Jackie and Max are hardened, failed, middle-aged people, but they have been
loyal to each other, and now can look forward to their retirement. But not
together: she takes off for Spain, he hangs up the phone on what would have
been his next case.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da
Arrigo Verderosa)
Jackie Brown (1997), é un salto verso il tradizionale (e la storia d’amore), basato
sul libro “Rum Punch” di Elmore Leonard. La trama è fin troppo lunga,
principalmente perché Tarantino non resiste alla tentazione di dar mostra del
suo talento nel costruire i dialoghi. L’universo di truffatori insignificanti e
personaggi di mezz’etá con una vita fallimentare non è particolarmente
eccitante principalmente perché le interazioni tra di loro sono quasi sempre
sterili, superficiali, prive di emozioni.
Jackie Brown é
un’assistente di volo di mezza etá, che lavora per una compagnia aerea di
quart’ordine. In un condominio balneare, un uomo di colore, Ordell (il
proprietario del condominio e di una bionda sensuale che ci vive) e un uomo
bianco di mezza etá (appena uscito di prigione), guardano pubblicitá di armi
d’assalto. L’uomo di colore riceve una telefonata che gli fa sapere che un suo
amico è stato arrestato, e visita un garante di cauzione, Max, per trattare il
rilascio dell’uomo. Poi uccide l’uomo in modo che non possa testimoniare contro
di lui.Jackie Brown è arrestata da due agenti di polizia: sta portando merce di
contrabbando, denaro e droga, fuori dal paese per conto del trafficante d’armi
di colore, Ordell. Ray e il suo partner danno la caccia ad Ordell, non a lei,
ma la donna non vuole collaborare. Viene quindi arrestata, e il giudice
stabilisce la solita cauzione, che Ordell chiede a Max di pagare… nello stesso
modo in cui ha pagato la cauzione per il suo complice, per poi ucciderlo in
modo da chiudergli la bocca per sempre.
Ma Jackie è piú furba: accoglie la visita notturna di Ordell con una
pistola, e lo convince che di lei ci si puó fidare, specialmente se l’uomo le
pagherá un buon salario mentre lei passa del tempo in prigione al posto
suo. Consigliata da Max, che sta
diventando il suo migliore amico, Jackie propone invece alla polizia un patto
(quello di testimoniare contro Ordell in cambio dell’immunitá). Poi dice a
Ordell la veritá, ma giustifica il suo tradimento come un modo per guadagnarsi
la fiducia dei poliziotti ed avere il permesso di volare di nuovo. Lo convince
persino a darle una percentuale del denaro che lei fará passare illegalmente
nel paese sotto il naso dei poliziotti. Allo stesso tempo, Louis e Melanie,
soli nel condominio, chiacchierano e fanno l’amore per caso (solo tre minuti, e
non si puó dire che lui l’abbia proprio soddisfatta). Tutto ció che Melanie
vuole è guardare la tv, sballarsi e scopare. Louis dovrebbe essere la mano
destra di Ordell, ma non fa molto piú che stargli intorno.Jackie ha escogitato
un piano per imbrogliare tutti. Pianifica di trasportare una grossa somma di
denaro per Ordell, con la collaborazione della polizia. Poi ha ingaggiato Max,
che è stanco di essere un garante, per scappare con lei con i soldi mentre lei
consegna una borsa vuota sia per la polizia sia per Ordell.Lo
scambio ha luogo in un centro commerciale, in un camerino. Jackie ha la borsa
piena di denaro. Louis accompagna in auto Melanie a prendere la borsa. Ma
Jackie dá a Melanie la borsa che contiene una minima parte del denaro, e ne
lascia la maggior parte nella propria. Poi esce e dice alla polizia che Melanie
se n’è andata con il denaro. Quando tutti hanno lasciato l’edificio, Max
raccoglie la terza borsa che Jackie aveva lasciato nel camerino. All’esterno,
Louis non controlla i suoi nervi e uccide Melanie con un colpo di pistola. Poi
fugge in macchina con Ordell, ma Ordell realizza subito che Jackie l’ha
imbrogliato con l’aiuto di Max. Ordell uccide Louis e se ne va, determinato a
vendicarsi. Ma Jackie non ha ancora
chiuso i conti con lui: manda Max a scusarsi e a chiedere di incontrarsi. Ma spedisce
Ordell nelle mani dei poliziotti, che lo uccidono a colpi di pistola quando
Ordell entra con una pistola.
Jackie e Maz sono
persone di mezza etá temprate, fallite, ma sono stati leali l’un l’altro, e ora
possono pensare a ritirarsi. Ma non insieme: lei parte per la Spagna, lui
lascia cadere la cornetta su quello che sará il prossimo caso.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) is a mixture of thriller and action movie
that recycles Hollywood and Hong Kong cliches in a rather trivial manner.
A massive yawn-inducing story, it boasts some of most ricidulously implausible
scenes in the history of implausible Hollywood plots.
A bleeding and scared woman is lying on the ground.
Heavy steps of cowboy boots on a
wooden floor. He washes blood from her face with a handkerchief signed "Bill",
and claims he is not being sadistic. Then shoots her.
The same woman drives in a truck to a middle-class neighborhood, walks into
a house and begins a kung-fu fight with a black housewife. A school bus stops
in the front of the house and the little daughter of the housewife walks into
the house. The two women (with bleeding faces) stop fighting and behave as
if they were old friends in front of the girl. The moment the girl disappers
into her room, the housewife tries to kill the blonde, but the blonde is faster
in stabbing her. The child walks into the kitchen and sees her mom dead. The
blonde apologizes to her and walks back to her truck. She picks up a piece
of paper and crosses out the second name of the list. The first name was Oren
and is already crossed out.
A flashback shows what happened four and a half years earlier. The blonde
(pregnant) lies lifeless on the floor of a chapel, surrounded by more dead
bodies: her groom, the reverend and his wife. The sheriff's footsteps on the
wooden floor sound like Bill's footsteps.
The blonde is taken to a hospital and lies in a coma.
A nurse (Elle) with a eye-patch
is ready to kill her, but Bill calls her and tells her to abort the mission.
Four years later, the blonde wakes up scared in the same hospital bed. She has
been in a coma for four years. She hears steps approaching and pretends to
be still unconscious. The male nurse has been selling her body to customers
for four years. She gets rid of this one, kills the nurse, and runs away in
a wheelchair. She steals the truck and sets her mind to take revenge on the
four people who tried to kill her: three women (including the black housewife)
and a man.
An manga interlude (and a Morricone-style soundtrack).
depicts the life of one of the women, Oren. This Japanese
girl witnessed the murder of her parents, and years later took revenge on
the pedophile who did it. Then she became a top murderer
The blonde takes just a few hours to fully recover
and then drives the truck out of the parking lot, on her way to kill.
She flies to Japan, gets a sword and hunts Oren. When she finds her (Oren
has become a boss of sort), the blonde has to kill an army of samurais,
but, of course, this US-made blonde who just recovered from four years of
coma has suddenly become a world champion of samurais.
Then she also kills Oren after a duel in the snow.
She crosses out Oren's name from the list (the first name on the list)
and interrogates Oren's cute interpreter to find out about Bill and
his Deadly Vipers.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Arrigo Verderosa)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) é un misto di thriller e action movie che
ricicla I cliché di Hollywood e Hong Kong in maniera piuttosto banale. Una
storia che induce massicciamente alla sonnolenza, vanta alcune delle scene piú
ridicolmente improbabili nella storia delle trame improbabili di Hollywood.
Una donna
sanguinante e spaventata, stesa a terra. Passi pesanti di stivali da cowboy sul
pavimento di legno. Lui le pulisce il sangue dalla faccia con un fazzoletto con
sopra ricamato “Bill”, e sostiene che il suo non è sadismo. Poi le spara. La stessa donna guida un pick-up in un quartiere di classe
media, entra in una casa e comincia un combattimento di kung-fu con una
casalinga di colore. Uno scuola-bus si ferma lí davanti e la giovane figlia
della casalinga entra in casa. Le due donne (con le face sanguinanti) smettono
di combattere e si comportano davanti alla ragazza come se fossero vecchie
amiche. Nel momento in cui la ragazza si ritira in camera sua, la casalinga
prova ad uccidere la bionda, ma la bionda è piú veloce e le lancia un pugnale.
La bambina entra in cucina e vede la madre morta. La bionda si scusa con lei e
ritorna al suo pick-up. Prende un pezzo di carta e depenna il secondo nome
della lista. Il primo nome era O-Ren, ed è giá stato depennato. Un flashback ci
mostra cosa è accaduto quattro anni e mezzo prima. La bionda (incinta) giace
priva di vita sul pavimento della cappella, circondata da altri cadaveri: il
suo sposo, il reverendo e la moglie. I passi dello sceriffo sul pavimento di
legno suonano come quelli di Bill. La bionda è portata in ospedale, dove giace
in coma. Una infermiera (Elle) con una benda sull’occhio è pronta ad ucciderla,
ma Bill la chiama e le dice di annullare la missione. Quattro anni dopo, la
bionda si sveglia spaventata nello stesso letto d’ospedale. E’ rimasta in coma
per quattro anni. Sente un rumore di passi avvicinarsi e finge di essere ancora
incosciente. L’infermiere ha venduto il
suo corpo a dei clienti per quattro anni. La donna si libera di questo cliente,
uccide l’infermiere, e scappa su una sedia a rotelle. Ruba il pick-up e decide
di vendicarsi delle quattro persone che hanno provato a ucciderla. Tre donne
(inclusa la casalinga di colore) e un uomo. Un intermezzo in stile manga (e una
colonna sonora alla Morricone), dipinge la vita di una delle donne, O-Ren.
Questa ragazza giapponese è stata testimone dell’omicidio dei suoi genitori, e
anni dopo si vendica del pedofilo che l’ha architettato. Diventa poi una killer
professionista. The blonde takes just a few hours to fully recover and then
drives the truck out of the parking lot, on Alla bionda servono solo un paio
d’ore per riprendersi completamente, poi esce dal parcheggio con il pick-up,
pronta ad uccidere. Prende un volo per il Giappone, si procura una spada e dá
la caccia ad O-Ren. Quando la trova (O-Ren è diventata un specie di boss della
mafia), la bionda deve uccidere un esercito di samurai; ma, ovviamente, la
bionda americana che si è appena ripresa da quattro anni di coma è appena
diventata un’esperta nell’arte dei samurai. Poi uccide anche O-Ren dopo un
duello nella neve. Depenna il nome di O-Ren dalla lista (il primo nome sulla
lista), e interroga la seducente interprete di O-Ren per avere informazioni su
Bill e le Deadly Vipers.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) was a sequel (or prequel),
even more tedious and implausible than the first one.
It is almost insulting to Buddhism, Daoism and Chinese civilization.
As a parody it is not funny. If it is not a parody, it is also an insult
to the viewer's intelligence.
The only redeeming factor is a few great shots.
Beatrix is driving towards Bill's hideout, determined to kill him.
She narrates the massacre that happened years earlier. She was about to
marry Tom, and she was pregnant. They were rehearsing the wedding in a chapel.
She told everybody that she had no family. But her former lover Bill showed up,
and minutes later four members of the Deadly Vipers entered the chapel and
killed everybody. Bill shot her but she survived (of course).
Now Bill is at Budd's home, a trailer in the desert, warning him that Beatrix
is coming to kill him. Budd tells Bill that he pawned the magic sword.
Budd is not scared. He works as a bouncer in a saloon, and always shows up
late because there are no customers. His boss fires him. He drives back to
his trailer and notices something wrong. He turns on the music. Beatrix is
hiding under the trailer. When she opens the door to kill him, he is ready and
shoots her in the chest. She falls to the ground but it is not a fatal shot.
He then sticks a syringe in her butt to make her sleep. He takes her sword
and calls Elle, a one-eyed woman, telling her that he has the magic sword and
Beatrix. Elle accepts to pay a huge sum for the sword and asks Budd to make
Beatrix suffer. Budd hires a friend to dig a hole in the cemetery and then
gives Beatrix a choice: let him blind her or let him bury her alive. She choses
the burial. Budd ties her hands and feet and puts them in a coffin, then nails
the coffin, then drops the coffin in the hole, then covers it with earth.
Now the film shifts to a night in which Bill and Beatrix were sitting by a fire
and he was telling her about the power of the Shaolin monks, masters of kungfu;
in particular about a blow to the chest that can make the heart explode.
The following day Bill drove Beatrix to the master Pai Mei and left her there.
Pai Mei's cruel training turned her into a kungfu master.
Back to the tomb: Beatrix uses the tricks learned from Pai Mei to make
a hole in the coffin (it helped that Budd conveniently left her a flashlight and a razor) and to reemerge from the tomb (one of the most laughable scenes in
the history of cinema).
She then walks into a cafe run by Tom, the man whom she is about to marry in
the chapel of the beginning. Never mind that she's covered in dirt, head to toe.
Back to the present, Elle, the one-eyed woman, drives to Budd's trailer and
delivers a suitcase full of money in exchange for the magic sword, but, when
Budd opens the suitcase, he is bitten by a deadly snake in the face and dies
within minutes. Elle calls Bill and tells him that Beatrix, not herself, has killed Budd.
She also tells Bill that she, Elle, has killed Beatrix.
Alas, Beatrix is already outside, all covered in dirt but ready to strike.
Beatrix attacks Elle and the two begins a lengthy and vicious duel, Elle
brandishing the magic sword and Elle using Budd's sword (he lied about
having pawned it).
At one point Beatrix even sticks Elle's head in a toilet and flushes it.
Elle tells Beatrix that Pai Mei is dead: she poisoned him after he plucked
her eye out. Beatrix plucks out Elle's remaining eye and leaves her
twitching in excruciating pain on the floor.
Now Beatrix is driving on a jungle road. She visits an old friend of Bill's,
Esteban, who runs a brothel in the jungle, and he tells her where Bill is
hiding. She enters the house ready to execute Bill but Bill is playing with...
her own daughter (also his daughter). Seeing the baby who was taken from her,
Beatrix is moved to tears. Alone with her, Bill
shoots a dart of truth serum into her thigh and proceeds to ask her questions.
He wants to know why he left her. She tells him that, after one more killing
mission, she found out that she was pregnant and that changed her loyalty from
him to the baby. She survive an attempt on her life (comically she tells the
hired contract killer to check the strip of the pregnancy test, and the killer
leaves telling her "congratulations"). While Bill thought that she was dead,
Beatrix decided to start a new, normal life with Tom, the man he met in the
cafe.
Bill now tells her why he came to kill Tom and everybody else (he says he
"overreacted"). He was trying to find the person who killed her and instead
he found that she was alive and getting married. He thought that was a mistake
because she was a natural-born killer, incapable of a normal life.
Now Bill is ready to be challenged to a sword duel but instead Beatrix
strikes him with the death blow learned from Pai Mei that causes Bill's heart
to explode. He dies calm and dignified.
Grindhouse - Planet Terror (2007)
Grindhouse - Death Proof (2007) is a parody of amateurish horror B-movies.
Much of the dialogue (full of the "F" word) is useless, just a lengthy detour to tell a simple story.
It is redeemed by great visuals.
Julia is the host of a local radio show in Texas. Her friends Shanna and
Butterfly come to pick her up. As they drive towards a restaurant, they cheer
every time they see a billboard about Julia's show.
They talk about making out with men.
Butterfly stays outside to smoke a cigarette and sees a man in a sport car
staring at her. We see that this man has the pictures of the three girls
in the car. Inside the restaurant they meet their friend Marcy. Marcy
heard Julia's show where Julia promised the listeners that her friend Butterfly
would do a sexy lap dance for the first man who buys her a beer and recites
a certain poem to her. Butterfly is a little upset but eventually they all
laugh at the joke. The girls come out after darka bar, Julia reveals that she made a radio announcement offering a free lap dance from Arlene in return for addressing her as "Butterfly," buying her a drink, and reciting a segment of the poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening., laughing, a little drunk.
Outside the man in the sport car is watching them.
They head to a bar where they meet two male friends.
Butterfly exchanges phone messages with a man called Chris who is ignoring her.
Butterfly walks out to smoke a cigarette and sees again the same sport car.
She then makes out for a few minutes with one of the guys, Nate.
Inside two guys try to get the other girls drunk offering them harder
and harder liquor. They also make fun of a man who is eating like a pig
at the counter. This man starts talking to a sexy blonde who needs a ride
home. He, Mike, is an old stuntman who worked in Hollywood.
Pam is jealous of Julia, an old schoolmate.
Meanwhile, Lanna joins Julia and her friends. They walk outside and
smoke weeds and drink. Mike approaches them pretending to recognize
Julia and tries in vain to impress the crowd of the bar with his resume:
Pam and the others don't recognize any of the shows in which he worked.
Mike returns outside with a beer for Butterfly and recites the poem.
Julia tries to get rid of Mike, who has a scar on his face, pretending
that Butterfly already did the lap dance for another man, but Mike insists
in a soothing tone and Butterfly eventually accepts to perform the lap dance.
After the lap dance, they all prepare to leave. Julia, Butterfly, Shanna
and Lanna leave in one car towards a girls-only party, while Mike drives
Pam in his "death-proof" car, a car built for stuntmen to survive even the
worst crashes that are shown in films.
The moment they leave, he starts terrorizing her. He drives like a maniac
in the night
and she begs in vain to stop. He then tells her that the car is death-proof
only for the driver. He slams on the brakes suddenly and Pam hits her head against the windshield and dies.
He then accelerates in the direction of the girls and catches up with them
in the dark. He passes them, turns off the lights and positions the car
for a head-on collision. The girls see the carl heading towards them only
at the last second: their car is pulverized and they are thrown in the
air. We see the impact in gory detail from multiple angles.
The following morning Mike is at the hospital, the only survivor, and claims
to remember nothing. The local sheriff is convinced that he deliberately
murdered the four girls but he cannot prove it, especially since the girls
were full of marijuana and alcohol while Mike was sober.
The film continues in black and white.
Months later, Mike stops in the parking lot of a convenience store and sees three girls arrive in a car: Abbie, Lee and Kim. This time it's a small rural town in Tennessee. Mike licks the feet of one of the girls that are sticking
out the window, pretending to pick up something from the ground.
The film returns to color.
Abbie walks inside the store and buys a copy of a fashion magazine that has
a page on Lee, who is dressed like a cheerleader.
They drive to the airport where they pick up their friend Zoe, a
stuntwoman from New Zealand. Mike is there taking pictures of them.
Kim drives. They are all working in the movie industry.
They stop at a restaurant where Mike overhears their conversation.
What he doesn't hear is that Kim carries a gun.
Zoe tells the girls why she wanted to visit that small town: it's the
only place where she found a car for sale, a specific car she's always
dreamed of. The car is a
1970 Dodge Challenger, used in her favorite movie (Richard Sarafian's Vanishing Point). Zoe intends to test-drive the car for fun.
They drive to a rural location and meet the owner. Zoe begs Kim to let her play
a game called "Ship's Mast". Lee initially refuses, but then accepts.
They tell Abbie that they don't want her to come along, but Abbie insists.
In fact it's
Abbie who convinces the man to
let them test-drive the car by leaving Lee behind and telling the man that
Lee, dressed like a cheerleader, is a porno star.
Kim starts driving but stops in the middle of nowhere. Zoe uses two belts to
tie herself on the hood of the car and Kim starts driving fast.
There is no car on that country road and Zoe enjoys the reckless drive.
However, suddenly Mike's car appears behind them driving even faster.
He rear-ends them in his "death-proof" car, and continues to do so, clearly
trying to have Zoe killed. He then drives next to Kim and starts hitting the
car from the side. Eventually Zoe is catapulted from the car into the bushes.
Mike stops to enjoy the scene and laughs loud at them.
Kim pulls out her gun and shoots Mike, wounding him. Now Mike is scared
and drives away. Luckily, Zoe is unhurt and gets back in the car. The girls
decide to take their revenge and start chasing Mike, who is in pain.
The car of the girls is faster than Mike's car and find him in a field,
screaming in pain. They hit his car and then Zoe gets out and crashes his
window with a metal pipe. He drives away
on the dusty unpaved road. They catch up and start slamming into his car,
causing
excruciating pain to his wound. Now he's the one begging them to stop
and let him go, but they continue the high-speed chase with no mercy,
even zigzagging through traffic when he enters a highway.
The chase ends when they send his car in a ditch. They drag him out and
beat him senseless (presumably to death).
Django Unchained (2012) is a poor parody of the spaghetti westerns of
the 1960s, a painfully slow movie done by an amateurish director.
Two slave traders are leading a chain gang of negroes through the night.
A very articulate German-born doctor, riding in a funny carriage, approaches
them and asks for Django.
He needs him to identify three brothers who are wanted dead or alive for murder.
The slave traders are not friendly, the doctor shoots both and kills one.
He then takes off with Django and lets the other slaves off free armed with
a gun (that they use to kill the surviving slave trader).
The doctor tells Django that he is a bounty hunter. He takes Django to
town and walks straight into the saloon with the negro. The townfolks have
never seen a negro on a horse, let alone enter a saloon. The doctor has to kill
the town's sheriff who wants to evict the negro. The marshall's men surround
the saloon, but the doctor exhibits a warrant for the sheriff, who was a wanted
man. The doctor and the negro ride out of town with the bounty money.
They ride into a plantation, Django dressed like a valet and treated like
a free man. They kill the three wanted men and Django collects his first bounty.
Then they have to get rid of a posse of pathetically incompetent
hooded horseriders that attacks them at night.
Flashbacks have shown us the white man who tortured Django and who flogged his wife.
The doctor offers Django a partnership and promises to help Django recover his wife Broomhilda.
After a lucrative winter the doctor accompanies Django to the cotton plantation
where Broomhilda is kept
The owner, Calvin, forces blacks to fight each other to death.
To prove that he is a tough businessman, Django watches coldly when Calvin
orders that his dogs be allowed to eat an escaped slave alive.
Calvin is convinced that Django belongs to their club of sadistic businessmen
and lets him stay with the doctor in his mansion, but
Calvin's black butler, apparently even more racist than his master, is shocked.
Broomhilda just tried to run away so she is being kept naked in a pit.
However, she speaks German and this is the pretext that the doctor (whose
first language is German) uses to be introduced to her. She is dressed nicely
and presented to him. When they are alone, the doctor tells her that Django is
there and she faints when she sees him. The doctor pretends to be interested
in buying one of Calvin's deadly fighters, but the black butler senses that
the doctor is really after Broomhilda and guesses correctly that she must be
Django's wife. Calvin gives the doctor a lecture on the biological
inferiority of blacks and then blackmails the doctor to pay a huge amount for
Broomhilda or he will kill her. The doctor pays and gets the bill of sale
but Calvin also wants a handshake. The doctor smiles and then shoots Calvin
dead, but is in turn killed by his bodyguard.
In what must be the most ridiculous scene of western cinema, a colossal
gunfight ensues during which Django massacres lots of white men.
The black butler, loyal to the end to his white masters, holds Broomhilda
hostage and Django has to surrender. He is kept hanging upside down in a
dungeon until he is sold as a slave. However, Django tells his escort that
he is a bounty hunter and talks them into releasing him, after which he kills
them and rides back to the mansion. He kills more people, waits for the others
to return from Calvin's funeral, kills more of them. Finally, he can elope
with his wife and the papers signed by Calvin that declare her free.
Last he confronts the black butler, sets fire to the mansion and leaves him to
burn alive in it.
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(Translation by/ Tradotto da Gabriele Di Siena)
Django Unchained (2012) è
una scarsa parodia degli spaghetti western anni ’60, un film dolorosamente
lento realizzato da un regista amatoriale.
Due commercianti di schiavi stanno guidando un
gruppo di neri durante la notte. Un medico tedesco molto eloquente, che cavalca
una buffa carrozza, si avvicina e chiede di Django. Ha bisogno di lui per
identificare tre fratelli che sono ricercati vivi o morti per omicidio. I
commercianti di schiavi non sono amichevoli, il dottore spara ad entrambi
uccidendone uno. Quindi parte con Django e lascia gli altri schiavi liberi e
con un’arma (che usano per uccidere il commerciante di schiavi ancora in vita).
Il dottore dice a Django di essere un cacciatore di taglie. Porta Django in
città e cammina dritto nel saloon insieme al nero. I cittadini non hanno mai
visto un nero a cavallo, figuriamoci entrare in un saloon. Il dottore deve
uccidere lo sceriffo della città che vuole sfrattare il nero. Gli uomini del
marshall circondano il saloon, ma il dottore mostra un mandato per lo sceriffo,
che era un ricercato. Il dottore ed il
nero cavalcano fuori dalla città con i soldi della taglia. Cavalcano fino ad
una piantagione, con Django vestito come valletto e trattato come uomo libero.
Uccidono i tre ricercati e Django riscuote la sua prima taglia. Devono quindi
uccidere un gruppo di cavallerizzi pateticamente incompetenti che li attacca di
notte. Dei flashback ci mostrano l’uomo bianco che ha torturato Django ed ha
frustato sua moglie. Il dottore chiede a Django di diventare soci per aiutarlo
a ritrovare sua moglie Broomhilda. Dopo un inverno redditizio il dottore
accompagna Django alla piantagione di cotone dove viene tenuta Broomhilda. Il
proprietario, Calvin, costringe i neri a combattere tra loro fino alla morte.
Per provare di essere un inclemente uomo di affari, Django osserva freddamente
quando Calvin ordina di lasciar liberi i suoi cani di mangiare uno schiavo
fuggito. Calvin è convinto che Django faccia parte del loro club di sadici
uomini d’affari e lo lascia rimanere nella sua dimora insieme al dottore,
lasciando basito il maggiordomo nero di Calvin, apparentemente ancor più
razzista del suo padrone. Broomhilda ha appena tentato di fuggire via, per cui
viene tenuta nuda in una fossa. Comunque, parla tedesco ed è questo il pretesto
che il dottore (la cui prima lingua è il tedesco) utilizza per presentarsi a
lei. Questa viene ben vestita e presentata a lui. Quando sono soli, il dottore
le dice che Django è lì e lei sviene quando lo vede. Il dottore finge di essere
interessato nell’acquisto di uno dei combattenti mortali di Calvin, ma il
maggiordomo nero percepisce che il dottore è in realtà venuto per Broomhilda ed
intuisce correttamente che questa è la moglie di Django. Calvin dà al dottore
una lezione sull'inferiorità biologica dei neri per poi ricattarlo al pagamento
di una grossa somma di denaro per Broomhilda, altrimenti la ucciderà. Il
dottore paga e prende il documento di pagamento ma Calvin vuole anche una
stretta di mano. Il dottore sorride e quindi spara a Calvin uccidendolo, ma
viene ucciso a sua volta da una sua guardia del corpo. In quella che potrebbe
essere la scena più ridicola del storia del cinema western, ha luogo una
sparatoria colossale durante la quale Django massacra molti uomini bianchi. Il
maggiordomo nero, fedele fino alla fine nei confronti dei suoi padroni bianchi,
prende in ostaggio Broomhilda e Django deve arrendersi. Viene tenuto appeso a
testa in giù in una prigione finché non viene venduto come schiavo. Tuttavia,
Django dice alla sua scorta di essere un cacciatore di taglie e li induce a
rilasciarlo, dopo di che li uccide e torna alla villa. Uccide diverse persone,
aspetta che gli altri tornino dal funerale di Calvin, ne uccide altre.
Finalmente, può fuggire con sua moglie e le carte firmate da Calvin che la
dichiarano libera. Alla fine affronta il maggiordomo nero e dà fuoco alla
villa, dove lo lascia bruciare vivo.
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Inglourious Basterds (2009), one of his best films,
is a farcical war movie that images a
different ending of World War II. Tarantino here excels at humor, not violence.
The film opens in 1941, when Germany has just occupied France and a German
colonel, the calm, rational and multilingual Hans, is in charge of hunting
down Jews. He visits and interviews a farmer whose farm has already been
searched multiple times after a Jewish family mysteriously disappeared.
(Very odd that they switch from French to English, even if one is French and
the other one is German).
As they are talking, initially the farmer looks credible but then the camera
moves down and shows us the Jews hiding under the floorboard. Hans hints that
he knows that the farmer is lying, the farmer breaks down and points at the
floorboard, the colonel orders his soldiers to shoot through the floorboard.
One little girl manages to escape, Shosanna. As she is running desperately
through the open fields, Hans spares her life and mutters "see you later",
certain of catching her some other time.
In 1944 Germany is losing the war. A ragtag Jewish militia trained by the USA
has infiltrated France and is carrying out guerrilla attacks under the command
of the ruthless Aldo, who takes no prisoners and orders his men to scalp any killed German.
Hitler in person is alarmed by the activities of this group and by the
fame of one of them, nicknamed the Bear Jew. A German soldier personally
related to Hitler how his platoon was captured in an ambush and everbody
except him was killed. The truth is that this soldier was the only captured
German willing to betray his comrades and that's why Aldo spared his life.
A voiceover narrates the flashback in which the Bear Jew (or Donny) uses a club
to savagely smash the head of the German colonel who refuses to collaborate,
while an infamous renegade, Hugo, which another flashback shows killing
13 German soldiers, cheers. (The soundtrack mocks Morricone's western
soundtracks). Aldo tattooed a swastika on the traitor's forehead.
Shosanna now runs a movie theater in the capital under the false name of
Emmanuelle. One day she is approached by a handsome German soldier, Frederick,
who later stalks her in a restaurant. She learns that Frederick is a famous
war hero in Germany. He tells her that
Goebbels, who is in charge of German propaganda and has a sexy Italian
girlfriend, Francesca, ordered him to make a movie of his legendary action
(he, left alone, killed 300 French soldiers).
Frederick has her driven to a lunch with Goebbels in person: Frederick wants
the premiere of his film to be shown in Emmanuelle's small theater, and
Emmanuelle cannot say no. Suddenly colonel Hans shows up. He is now in charge
of security and interrogates her. She maintains her cool but recognizes him.
She immediately works out a plan to assassinate Goebbels and any other German
notable who will attend the premiere in her theater, and enlists her partner
and lover, a black Frenchman, Marcel, to stage a fire in the theater using
highly flammable film. She also wants to alter Frederick's film in some
way that we are not told.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to her, the British are planning an attack of their own.
They have learned that the premiere will be attended by several German leaders
and want Aldo's "basterds" to blow up bombs in Shosanna's theater.
Aldo learns that a famous actress, Bridget, is actually a British spy who
has pretended to defect to the Germans. She will find a way to get Aldo and
his men inside the theater.
When Aldo's men, disguised as German officials, meet Bridget for what should be a secret rendezvous in a tavern, they
are spotted by a German official who easily finds out that they are not German.
This causes a massive shootout in which all the people in the restaurant are
killed except a German soldier and Bridget. Aldo promises to spare the German's
life if he surrenders but Bridget coldly executes him. Aldo then tortures the
wounded Bridget because he suspects that she set up a trap for his men.
Bridget proves her innocence and tells Aldo that the premiere has been moved
to Shosanna's small theater and that Hitler in person will attend.
Bridget can smuggle Aldo and his men inside the theater as her Italian
assistants.
However, Hans investigates the massacre and suspects foul play, especially
when he finds high-heel woman shoes and an autograph that Bridget signed for
a fan.
The day of the premiere comes. Shosanna and Marcel are ready to project the
film and then set fire to the theater. Bridget introduces Aldo and his men
as her Italian friends. Alas, Hans speaks fluent Italian and easily figures
out that those Italians are not Italian at all. He confronts Bridget in his
office and, certain of her guilt, strangles her on the floor. He then orders
the arrest of Aldo and he correctly guesses his real identity: the legendary
guerrilla leader. However, Hans neither kills Aldo nor tries to stop the plan.
Hans has his own plan: he wants to make a deal with the enemy. He asks
Aldo to put him in touch with a general who can grant him immunity from
prosecution for war crimes and grant him a nice resettlement in the USA
in return for letting the attack continue as planned. Aldo's men will kill
Hitler and all the other leaders and this will end the war.
Hans wants a promise that he will be described as the double agent who
singlehandedly ended the war. Aldo's superiors accept the deal.
They don't know that Shosanna is planning her own attack. Just then Marcel
is locking all the doors of the theater, while Aldo's men are deploying the
explosives.
The projection of the film causes an ecstatic rapture in Hitler and the
other leaders. Frederick leaves his seat to visit Shosanna in the projection
room and she shoots him to make sure he doesn't interfere with the plan;
but he shoots her too before dying, so they both lie dead on the floor.
Suddenly the movie stops showing Frederick's epic mission and shows a
close-up of Shosanna telling the audience that they are all going to die
and Marcel sets fire to the theater.
Just then Aldo's basterds launch their own attack with machine guns and
explosives. The panicking audience tries in vain to leave the theater.
All the German leaders are killed.
The screen shows Shosanna laughing as the Germans die, including Hitler, burned alive.
Meanwhile, Aldo is obeying orders. Hans surrenders to him and Aldo is supposed
to take him to the other side of the border. However, Aldo first tattoos
a swastika on Hans' forehead which, unlike the Nazist uniform, Hans will not
be able to remove.
The Hateful Eight (2015) was another western, a sort of sequel to
Django Unchained. The most relevant fact is that it was
the first western scored by Morricone in 34 years.
Like many other Tarantino films,
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019) is little more than an elegant
revisitation
of old cinema stereotypes, carried out with narrative tricks that are meant to
stimulate the viewer's attention. In this case, however, the film within a film
is rather a waste of time, and in any case the protagonist of that film within
a film is not particularly well developed (nor well acted).
The violent scenes are rather lame and dejavu.
The main narrative attraction of the film is that it twists a famous real-world
event, grafting an imaginary happy ending upon a historical tragedy;
it creates an alternative reality, a mock-documentary.
It could be the beginning of a new form of historical and costume dramas: "what
could have happened if..."
There is one memorable portrait: the loser and loner who serves his boss well
but whose destiny is to be abandoned with no friends other than his dog.
In 1969, during the age of the hippies, a former star of western movies for the
television, Rick is told by an older agent, Marvin, that his career is goind downhill. Marvin advises him to move to Italy and work on spaghetti westerns.
When he leaves the meeting, Rick has a nervous breakdown in front of his best
friend, chaffeur and stuntman Cliff.
On the way to Rick's home they spot the famous director Polansky and his
gorgeous wife Sharon, who live next door.
Rick lives in a luxurious villa while Cliff lives
in a trailer with his trained dog.
Rick is chosen for a new film by director Sam, who wants to cast him in a new
role although still in a western movie.
Polansky and Sharon attend a jetset party at the Playboy mansion, where someone
gossips that Sharon was engaged to Jay and then married Polansky, and Jay is
still hanging out with Sharon.
Rick tells Cliff that he cannot possibly work as the stuntman on the new film
because the person who is in charge, Randy, hates Cliff.
A flashback shows up why: once Rick begged Randy to hire Cliff, despite the
rumors that Cliff had killed his wife, and Randy accepted, but then Cliff got
into a fight with kung-fu star Bruce Lee and almost injured him.
We see that Cliff has combat-level fighting skills.
One day Jay sees a car pull into the street and walks out to see who it is.
It is Charles Manson, who is looking for music producer Terry Melcher, but Jay
tells him that he moved out.
Meanwhile, Rick meets a little girl on the set of the new movie. She is only
eight years old but very serious about her acting career.
Rick also meets the co-star of the film, Jim.
Sharon drives out alone and stops by the theater that is showing a movie
in which she has a small part. She tells the staff that she is in the movie
until they believe her and treat her like a star, which she is not.
The shooting of the new movie begins. Rick plays Caleb and Jim plays Johnny.
Rick fails miserably to remember a line and goes home angry and desperate
that he is failing. Driving around, Cliff runs again into a pretty teenager
who always seems to be hitchhiking in the same place. This time he stops
and picks her up. He can tell that she's a teenager and refuses to be
seduced but takes her to the place where she lives with friends,
Spahn Ranch, because he and Rick used to shoot movies there and he knows
the owner, George. When they get there, Cliff realizes that the ranch has
been taken over by a hippy commune, mostly girls.
In fact, some of them are disturbed that
the silly girl brought a stranger inside. Cliff realizes that something
is wrong and demands to see George, but finds a blind man who lost his memory.
Obviously the hippies are taking advantage of him. When he walks back to the
car, he sees that a male hippie has cut one of the tires. Cliff beats him up
ferociously in front of the hippy girls and forces him to replace the tire
despite a bloody face.
The shooting of the new movie continues with a scene in which Rick is holding
the little girl hostage. He plays the part so well that both the director,
Sam, and the little girl congratulate him. Cliff picks up a happy Rick at
the movie set and drives him home where the two friends watch a serial in which
Rick plays a part. Marvin is also watching the show and is impressed.
For the next six months Rick and Cliff work in Italy at a series of spaghetti
westerns. At the end of the gig Rick is married to an Italian girl and tells
Cliff that their collaboration is coming to an end after nine years.
Cliff has no prospects but doesn't complain.
Meanwhile, Sharon is pregnant and still hangs out with Jay when Polansky is
not home. Cliff takes Rick home one last time and then goes to pick up his dog.
Just then a handful of the Spahn Ranch hippies drive by. They are first
kicked out by a furious Rick but then they decide to come back and kill
the people inside.
The Italian wife is aleep,
Rick enjoys the pool, and Cliff smokes an LSD cigarette that the
hippy girl sold him while trying to feed the dog.
They break into the house armed with a gun and knives.
Cliff recognizes them as the hippies of Spahn Ranch and orders the dog to
attack. Then he uses his combat skills and quickly kills two attackers and
disfigures the face of the third one, but is seriously wounded. The hippy
who is still alive cannot see anymore and runs hysterically outside falling
into the pool and shooting in the air. Rick, who was listening to music on
headsets, is frightened, runs to get a flamethrower that was given to him for
a movie, and incinerates her. The cops arrive and write a report based on
what Cliff, the Italian wife and Rick tell them. Then an ambulance carries
Cliff away. Rick thanks him for being a good friend. Jay comes from the
Polansky villa to inquire about the commotion and Sharon invites Rick to
have a drink at the Polansky villa.
(In reality Charles Manson and his hippies that night killed Sharon).
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