"Jackie Brown": Quentin's Saint Thousand Concerns

Effie 2021-10-20 17:34:52

Looking back now, any fan who can count the chronology of Tarantino's work will have a familiar and unfamiliar feeling about the movie "Jackie Brown". Because no matter from the narrative structure and the image style, which are the two most recognizable aspects of Quentin's film, "Jackie Brown" seems quite satisfactory. It is no wonder that this film is the Tarantino movie I have watched the least. The film is now included in Xiaoxitian's April screening, so I would like to chat about it here. "Jackie Brown" is adapted from the text of the best-selling crime novel author Elmer Leonard. Quentin has a great admiration for Leonard, and even went to bookstores to steal Leonard's works when he was young. Because of the thrilling plot of black humor and the complex and absurd relationship between Leonard's novels, it has a sense of cinematic imagery, which has attracted countless filmmakers to adapt. Steven Soderberg’s slightly under-assured "Strategic Master" and this film, of course, the most classic is the "Dwarf in the Way" starring Travolta and its sequel "One Cool to the End" "NS. Quentin's early two scripts "True Romance" (including "Born Murderer") and "Falling Water Dog", which were written by Quentin, revealed a strong Ehrlich style. Therefore, being able to adapt Leonard's novel can be regarded as satisfying Quentin's wish. However, various restrictions also follow.
Pam Grier plays a flight attendant who is about to face the problem of over-age of professional age, or a gang escort dressed in a flight attendant's coat, responsible for dealing with the liquidity of the gang leader played by Samuel Jackson at home and abroad, like It is a middle-aged female evil star who came out of "Coffey" or "Cunning Brown". She saw through Jackson's hypocrisy and cunning, so Robert Foster, a bail who admired her, planned to blackmail a huge sum of money from Jackson privately, and handed Jackson to the police played by Michael Keaton and others to alleviate their worries. However, because of Jackson's decadent friends Robert De Niro and sex slave Brigitte Fonda joined, things became more and more out of control. Leonard is still a popular novelist after all. The creation based on the principle of earning manuscript fees will naturally not have any in-depth aspects. The natural story of "Jackie Brown" limits Quentin’s free creation, without Quentin’s original script. This kind of flexible and changeable, lack of jumping and breaking point in the story, it seems relatively simple and boring. Possibly because of the strong commercial atmosphere of the film, Quentin gave up the narrative tricks and adopted the most common and popular single-line narrative. In addition to the slightly naughty subtitle reminder, almost no "Pulp Fiction" style was left. The circular narrative or the biographical integration color of "Falling Water Dog". However, Quentin still seems to want to let the audience know who the director of this film is, so "Jackie Brown" is still very chatty, but a lot of dialogue is grafted on the less colorful non-Quentin story, lacking The foothold of the topic and the richness of the discussion have also stretched an old-school street crime comedy that could be described in 90 minutes to two and a half hours, even if the audience watching the film can’t stand the boring characters on the screen. I ran the train and closed my eyes for a few minutes, and I could still understand the film when I watched it later.
Perhaps the biggest success of "Jackie Brown" is that the character of Jackson is still three-dimensional, but because of the flatness and monotony of other characters, this character has become unreal and stupid. Quentin has also entered a not-short period of penumbra because of this film. In fact, at that time, Quentin was still Quentin, but the movie secretly betrayed him like a joke for a little while.

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  • Lois 2022-04-21 09:01:19

    No wonder it's an unknown part of Quentin's work. It's really procrastinating and boring. In the past, the broken mouth that was crowned with personal style was completely reduced to nonsense. The multi-party power game was tripled and the surprise was weakened. The long shot is very important, but it also Failed to enhance the effect, De Niro's cameo is so stupid.

  • Norberto 2022-03-20 09:01:14

    Quentin is still making a cult movie this time, but the narrative structure is linear. The switching of the lens is just right, but it makes me feel boring. The actor's performance was quite satisfactory, and it was this kind of satisfactory performance from beginning to end that made me feel sleepy. I hope I don’t make this kind of movie anymore. Of course, the subtitles of this version I watched are very problematic; but in terms of the lines I understand, the script written by Quentin is really not very attractive, even for someone like me who is used to watching gangster movies. For Comrade Quentin, movies of this level should be classified as inferior. I think the ugliest one of Quentin's five films-there is no way, I am not a film critic, and I am always hard to be interested in studying the artistry of films that are not well-watched.

Jackie Brown quotes

  • Simone: [picks up the ringing phone] Hello. Oh, hello, baby. Well, you know, I'm just doin' that thing I do, baby.

    [laughs]

  • Ray Nicolet: Jackie, I hope you don't mind if I call you Jackie. Those guys down in Customs? They're a bunch of fuckin' pricks. Excuse me, but they are. There's something about that job makes those people really hard to get along with. Now, you can go down and talk with those guys, who are really suspicious and just really disagreeable human beings or you can talk with a couple of good-hearted guys like Mark and myself. Its up to you.