Tarantino's best are IMO his earliest. Jackie Brown > all, IMO, then pulp, then Reservoir. Then again, I haven't seen all his movies, so maybe I shouldn't be so dismissive, but this is how I see it with my current level of experience anyway.
What a campy-looking picture you picked.
Tarantino's best are IMO his earliest. Jackie Brown > all, IMO, then pulp, then Reservoir. Then again, I haven't seen all his movies, so maybe I shouldn't be so dismissive, but this is how I see it with my current level of experience anyway.
Yeah! It's one of those movies I can just watch over and over and not get tired. I'm roughly same age as Billy the character (not Jamie Bell the actor), a few years older perhaps, so I'm a kid of the same era. Of course, this is a very regional picture as far as the setting and millieu is concerned; Sweden had very little in common with northern England during the Thatcher era in general and the coal miners' strike period in particular. Even the music is foreign to me as I was much more of a europop/early techno than the punkish sound featured throughout. Still, the tunes suits the movie perfectly, I can't imagine it any other way!
Now now, don't exaggerate... There's about as many "twat" as there's "fuck" in that movie, and there's still plenty room for regular words too!
Jamie Bell's apparantly a very accomplished dancer from reading his bio, coming from a family of performers IIRC. If he looked like Bambi on ice, that's merely a compliment to his acting ability, as his character is just a beginner, and initially a reluctant and throughout most of the movie, a downtrodden one.
