Kill Bill Volume 1 (2nd Blog Entry)
"Kill Bill" was an awesome movie! This film should have warned everone about the action and blood, but if you know Tarantino's style, you would have already known. It was beautiful to watch, full of color and imagery. Quentin Tarantino (director) has put together a masterful presentation that invokes shock and awe.
It has created a stylish environment that is as artistic as it is violent. It is a highly stylized display that pays homage to the genre of martial arts, yet simultaneously transforms what we know to a higher art form. Here, Tarantino presents film in a multitude of artistic forms. There is the use of slo-mo, animation, silhouettes, and more.
The background of this story is about revenge. Black Mamba (Uma Thurman) was shot and left for dead on her wedding day by a squad of killers. She miraculously recovers from a 4-year coma, and her will, her drive, and her seething hatred takes her fearlessly around the world so that she can dispense her own brand of justice. Her ultimate goal is to finally kill Bill (David Carradine), and in this first installment, she hunts down assassin-turned-suburban mom Vernita (Vivica A. Fox) and Japanese crime lord O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu).
Kill Bill, brings us into the frenzied, violent and sexual world of anime. The film is all about the setup and the settings. There isn't a whole lot of dialogue. There's just enough exposition to lead us into the next scene, give us some basic background information, and slightly expound upon a character's motivations. It's emotionally powerful
posted by Layla E. @ 4/28/2005 04:15:00 PM
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Harlem Nights (2nd Blog Entry) (Brandon Macklin)
Harlem Nights was one of the funniest movies that I have every seen.
This movie was a comedy that involved most of the best African American comedians around. This movie was based on a under cover night club owner named Sugar Ray, played by Richard Pryor. His right hand man was his son played by Eddie Murphy. Most of the movie shows the wacky arguements, and unheard of situations that go on in a Black night club in the the 1930's. The cast that played the workers in the night club were filled with comic greats like Redd Foxx,Arsenio Hall, and Della Reese. Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy end up being threatened by a Rival White night club owner to pay him a ridical amount of money to stay open or the choice to move out of Harlem. Having no choice Sugar Ray (pryor) and Quick (murphy)end up agreeing to depart form Harlem. Before they leave from New York Quick, Sugar Ray, and his night club staff develope a crazy, comical, scheme to pay back the rival night club owner Mugsy, played by Michael Lerner. While this plan slowly unravels, you are taken on a comic adventure with the greatest black comedians of the modern era. What is so special about this film is the people who made up the cast have never done a movie together since then, thus making this film quite rare.
Harlem Nights (2nd Blog Entry) (Brandon Macklin)
Harlem Nights was one of the funniest movies that I have every seen.
This movie was a comedy that involved most of the best African American comedians around. This movie was based on a under cover night club owner named Sugar Ray, played by Richard Pryor. His right hand man was his son played by Eddie Murphy. Most of the movie shows the wacky arguements, and unheard of situations that go on in a Black night club in the the 1930's. The cast that played the workers in the night club were filled with comic greats like Redd Foxx,Arsenio Hall, and Della Reese. Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy end up being threatened by a Rival White night club owner to pay him a ridical amount of money to stay open or the choice to move out of Harlem. Having no choice Sugar Ray (pryor) and Quick (murphy)end up agreeing to depart form Harlem. Before they leave from New York Quick, Sugar Ray, and his night club staff develope a crazy, comical, scheme to pay back the rival night club owner Mugsy, played by Michael Lerner. While this plan slowly unravels, you are taken on a comic adventure with the greatest black comedians of the modern era. What is so special about this film is the people who made up the cast have never done a movie together since then, thus making this film quite rare. Many people say this film was a classic. I agree.
I agree that Kill Bill was a great movie. It was at he same time an homage and a parody to all the cheesy fung-fu movies that were so popular in the seventies. Tarantino, who is a self proclaimed fan of such films combined overdramatized action sequences with an intriguing story and characters that we could empathize with. His use of deep colors and detailed sets really gave the film a chracter of its own. The catchy music (one song from the movie has been used in a TV commercial already) also gave it a memorable quality. The story was a variation on an old theme: a betrayed friend out for revenge against those that left her for dead. Tarantino however, gave it a rich detail and history that these films rarely have. At first I was skeptic of his choice of Uma Thurman for the lead role but she gave the character a depth that Im not sure many other actresses could have. David Caradine was a phenomenal choice hor her nemesis and father of her child. He was another example of homage to the past movies of this gernre. Caradine was a quintessential actor in those films and gave this one an authenticity rarely achieved in stylized action movies. All in all a great film, and a must see for any fans of this style.
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