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Django Unchained | Hype Thread | QT Goes Western

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dave is ok said:
All I ask is for no fourth wall breaking exposition about useless shit like how to develop film in the 1940s.

Those completely unnecessary sequences really ruined Inglourious Basterds. Were they in the original script, or did the films pacing just not work with a Hugo Stiglitz prison break in the middle of it?
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Respectfully disagree. It wasn't fourth wall breaking because it was narrative. It wasn't like the main characters looked at the camera and explained the circumstances. And I don't think most movie goers realized film would burn like that. However, the couple running the theatre would be very well aware of it, so one of them explaining to the other how flammable their film was would seem clumsy and unnatural.
 
King Of Fuh said:
Respectfully disagree. It wasn't fourth wall breaking because it was narrative. It wasn't like the main characters looked at the camera and explained the circumstances. And I don't think most movie goers realized film would burn like that. However, the couple running the theatre would be very well aware of it, so one of them explaining to the other how flammable their film was would seem clumsy and unnatural.
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Maybe fourth wall breaking is the wrong term. Anytime you need to a.) use a celebrity voice over out of nowhere, b.) put words on screen with fonts from a different time period or c.) use stock footage from yet another time period of your period film, it hurts suspension of disbelief.

Tarantino is stylish, so apparently he gets a pass. But I considered it clumsy
 
dave is ok said:
Maybe fourth wall breaking is the wrong term. Anytime you need to a.) use a celebrity voice over out of nowhere, b.) put words on screen with fonts from a different time period or c.) use stock footage from yet another time period of your period film, it hurts suspension of disbelief.

Tarantino is stylish, so apparently he gets a pass. But I considered it clumsy
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I personally enjoyed the break up in style, but I'm sure you're not the only one who felt that way. I think using Sam Jackson's voice was the best voice that could be used, the way he's in almost every one of his movies. I saw it kind of like how John Ratzenberger makes an appearance in every Pixar film somewhere/somehow. I thought the stock footage added credibility to the plot, that this was common knowledge of the day and is true. I don't remember the font thing you talked about.

Still, even if the scene wasn't good in your eyes, I can't imagine how it could ruin the entire movie.
 
GCX said:
Well we do know the role was pretty much tailor-made for Waltz.
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It was written for him. He was fantastic in Carnage, so I'm 100% confident he's going to bring it.

Foxx is pretty good but like Elba he didn't seem right for the part reading the script. Michael K Williams would have been fucking perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Leo and Sam Jackson will be great though.

Messypandas said:
That Synopsis is incredible. Do i read the script!?!?
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I always liken reading Tarantino scripts as akin to reading the book of a film. You know what's coming but the pleasure is in bringing that script to life; best thing is its by the person who wrote it so their vision isn't distilled at all. It's a very good script, which'll work better on screen that written as it is, so I'm very excited.
 
Wilbury said:
I always liken reading Tarantino scripts as akin to reading the book of a film. You know what's coming but the pleasure is in bringing that script to life; best thing is its by the person who wrote it so their vision isn't distilled at all. It's a very good script, which'll work better on screen that written as it is, so I'm very excited.
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Yeah you're right. I remember reading IB and still finding the movie fresh, i was actually kinda surprised by scenes i had interpreted differently. Could anyone PM me it?
 
squidyj said:
I'll be honest, they really need to nail the score for me to be able to get into this movie.
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Wasn't Ennio Morricone planned to compose IB but scheduling conflicts or something arose? Seems like the perfect movie to get him on board, and if not then half the tracks used will be old Morricone tracks anyways lol.
 
Is the Foxx hate because the guy's an arrogant asshole (or said to be one. I have no clue what he's like) or is it because people think he's a bad actor? He's not a bad actor at all, he's just the same guy in so many of his movies. Minus Ray.
 
theignoramus said:
Is the Foxx hate because the guy's an arrogant asshole (or said to be one. I have no clue what he's like) or is it because people think he's a bad actor? He's not a bad actor at all, he's just the same guy in so many of his movies. Minus Ray.
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Is the more of a problem with the roles he is given or his range as an actor? Wasn't the "Soloist" different for him?
 
Wiggum2007 said:
I have nothing against Foxx, just would've really loved to see Willl Smith in this role.
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I dunno. Foxx is just as good a choice if not better. I think Foxx is just the right amount of ugly and I don't have to work at forgetting who he is as much as Will. Don't get me wrong will is a great actor, but even in excellent roles like Ali, I caught myself thinking this is Will Smith playing Muhammad Ali rather than just accepting the role and forgetting the actor.
 
Scullibundo said:
I'm still angry at Plainview for ruining the movie for himself by reading the script.
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I did it too. Book of the film, motherfucker!!!

Leo looks awesome, as does Waltz. Like I said the other day, Foxx will have to convince me a lot that Michael K Williams wouldn't have been better.

Also Kerry Washington is gorgeous
 
Solo said:
Agreed. Why spoil a QT movie for yourself? We only get one every few years.
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Maybe I should have avoided it but it won't ruin the movie for me at all. It's like reading Lord Of The Rings; I knew what was coming but it was still fantastic seeing it on screen. Tarantino's a very visual director so a lot of the brilliance of the film will be the way the actors deliver their lines, the look of the film, the soundtrack... I'll love it just the same. Read Basterds as well and loved it even more.
 
I have ZERO problems reading the script. It has helped immensely on providing better coverage of the film and it's also going to be amazing to see how Tarantino translates all of his words to the screen. I did get the Gravity script though, holding off on that one :)
 
Pretty much going to be between this and Killing Them Softly for my MOTY, if both live up to their potential.
 
Solo said:
Pretty much going to be between this and Killing Them Softly for my MOTY, if both live up to their potential.
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What's Killing Them Softly?

This doesn't actually come out until next year in the UK but I'll count it as such, and while I'm very hyped for TDKR the trailers haven't completely sold it to me yet, so it's between this, Prometheus and Cogan's Trade.
 
Wilbury said:
What's Killing Them Softly?

This doesn't actually come out until next year in the UK but I'll count it as such, and while I'm very hyped for TDKR the trailers haven't completely sold it to me yet, so it's between this, Prometheus and Cogan's Trade.
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Assasination of Jesse James reunion.
 
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