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reenkaSaw Kill Bill. (No spoilers, I think). Wish I had something coherent to say about it, but you know, one tires of long rambling over-intellectual posts on the nature of teenage gay wizard sex, ahahahah. <3 What Diane Duane's book really should've said was, "so you want to be a Teenage Gay Wizard (tm)", ahahaha. Nevermind me, I amuse mysef, thank you.
Love the soundtrack, so so soooo much. Love the movie, I think. In retrospect, it's better than the second Matrix and definitely better than Underworld (heh). Quentin Tarantino is my sort of guy, believe it or not. Him and David Lynch-- ohyes. I actually really really liked Pulp Fiction, though I'm guessing most people wouldn't think I'd be "the sort" at first glance, but I actually adore well-done action & violence & dark humor & the works. I mean, if I was a movie buff only for stuff like Waking Life and Ghost World and Willow, I'd never end up going to the movies. Dude, who can resist a movie with -style-? That's what they're -made- of, aren't they? That's where the child-like joy is, isn't it?
Kill Bill has enough style to basically carry off its comicbook antics. It's all flashy and smooth and like a shiny slice of pop-culture, drenched in Japanese sensibility sexily entwined with bright garish splatters of Americana. The bits shot in Japan were just-- so fannish, in a way, it just made my fangirl heart happy. I don't even know what to say about the anime bits, because they were obviously tailor-made to make me melt into a gooey puddle of squee. Some gorgeous, gorgeous animation, the best I've seen since Waking Life.
Kill Bill is such an odd little pop-culture confection, both deeply traditionalist and significantly post-modern in its sensibilities-- taking pieces from a dozen different cinematic and storytelling traditions and twisting them into something glittery and brilliant. The Bride is a brilliant character, like a ready-made legend, and yet there's this sincere life in her that is partly the brilliant writing and partly the equally brilliant acting. The femmeslash and Lucy Liu were just-- OMFG. I realized that the only reason I don't "do" femmeslash is because the chemistry is usually nowhere -near- this quality, though obviously this didn't really go anywhere. Mmmm, subtext. So many winks to so many quarters in this movie; guh.
I adored the stylistic aspects of this movie-- the "chapters", the sporadic voice-overs and other methods of experimental storytelling, the lighting shifts-- going from anime to normal footage to b&w to silhouettes was just amazing. I mean, usually the creativity you see in popular film these days is all special effects and bigger badder monsters-- this is all a breathless combination of old-style and new, all made startling and smooth and fitting.
Sigh. I love how tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating and totally-in-genre Tarantino's movies are at the same time. Wah. I love how he plays to convention while distoring it and innovating simultaneously. I love Japan. I love swords (OMG TEH SEXY!!1 >:O aaack). I love homicidal bubblegum-popping Japanese school-girls (hello, fetish! shwiiiing!!-- I kept thinking that throughout). I love showdowns in snowy gardens. I love funky badass kung-fu mind-power!heroines. In the end, I'll remember that last scene in the snow and the guh-omg-the-sex sword-fight and just. All the swords. And the tidbits of Japan. I'm a mad otaku and I was Pleased, man. heeeeeeee. And did I mention the anime bit? Because that was seriously orgasmic.
And the soundtrack kicks just a -scary- amount of ass. Nancy Sinatra. Who knew?~:))
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Also. eeeeee, Caaasssiiiiieeeeee!.....!..!!! <3333!
*does the OMGMAILOMG dance and squeeeeees* :D :D :D.
Love the soundtrack, so so soooo much. Love the movie, I think. In retrospect, it's better than the second Matrix and definitely better than Underworld (heh). Quentin Tarantino is my sort of guy, believe it or not. Him and David Lynch-- ohyes. I actually really really liked Pulp Fiction, though I'm guessing most people wouldn't think I'd be "the sort" at first glance, but I actually adore well-done action & violence & dark humor & the works. I mean, if I was a movie buff only for stuff like Waking Life and Ghost World and Willow, I'd never end up going to the movies. Dude, who can resist a movie with -style-? That's what they're -made- of, aren't they? That's where the child-like joy is, isn't it?
Kill Bill has enough style to basically carry off its comicbook antics. It's all flashy and smooth and like a shiny slice of pop-culture, drenched in Japanese sensibility sexily entwined with bright garish splatters of Americana. The bits shot in Japan were just-- so fannish, in a way, it just made my fangirl heart happy. I don't even know what to say about the anime bits, because they were obviously tailor-made to make me melt into a gooey puddle of squee. Some gorgeous, gorgeous animation, the best I've seen since Waking Life.
Kill Bill is such an odd little pop-culture confection, both deeply traditionalist and significantly post-modern in its sensibilities-- taking pieces from a dozen different cinematic and storytelling traditions and twisting them into something glittery and brilliant. The Bride is a brilliant character, like a ready-made legend, and yet there's this sincere life in her that is partly the brilliant writing and partly the equally brilliant acting. The femmeslash and Lucy Liu were just-- OMFG. I realized that the only reason I don't "do" femmeslash is because the chemistry is usually nowhere -near- this quality, though obviously this didn't really go anywhere. Mmmm, subtext. So many winks to so many quarters in this movie; guh.
I adored the stylistic aspects of this movie-- the "chapters", the sporadic voice-overs and other methods of experimental storytelling, the lighting shifts-- going from anime to normal footage to b&w to silhouettes was just amazing. I mean, usually the creativity you see in popular film these days is all special effects and bigger badder monsters-- this is all a breathless combination of old-style and new, all made startling and smooth and fitting.
Sigh. I love how tongue-in-cheek and self-deprecating and totally-in-genre Tarantino's movies are at the same time. Wah. I love how he plays to convention while distoring it and innovating simultaneously. I love Japan. I love swords (OMG TEH SEXY!!1 >:O aaack). I love homicidal bubblegum-popping Japanese school-girls (hello, fetish! shwiiiing!!-- I kept thinking that throughout). I love showdowns in snowy gardens. I love funky badass kung-fu mind-power!heroines. In the end, I'll remember that last scene in the snow and the guh-omg-the-sex sword-fight and just. All the swords. And the tidbits of Japan. I'm a mad otaku and I was Pleased, man. heeeeeeee. And did I mention the anime bit? Because that was seriously orgasmic.
And the soundtrack kicks just a -scary- amount of ass. Nancy Sinatra. Who knew?~:))
~~
Also. eeeeee, Caaasssiiiiieeeeee!.....!..!!! <3333!
*does the OMGMAILOMG dance and squeeeeees* :D :D :D.
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Date: 2003-10-24 10:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-24 10:22 pm (UTC)(Oh, and in case you are wondering who the heck I am, I was reading Manna's journal and wandered over to this post.)
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Date: 2003-10-25 02:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-25 08:43 am (UTC)I think I've got it!! wheeeee! >:D<
Dunna worry, I know how to spread the wealth. *giggles* :D
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Date: 2003-10-25 10:21 am (UTC)Kill Bill
Date: 2003-10-25 10:30 pm (UTC)Gooo GOGO!