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UTB -> RE: What would you like to see Quentin Tarantino do with his remaining films? (4/12/2012 1:01:57 PM)
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The cinema of the 1970s is something of an artistic inspiration for you. You've done blaxploitation, action movies, and martial arts. What was your inspiration this time around?
Quentin Tarantino: Two things. My starting off point was that I wanted to do a slasher film. I thought that fit in really well with the whole idea, but when I started thinking about the slasher film, that genre is so rigid. I thought if I did that, it'd be too self-reflective and [the audience] would be too outside of the experience. But I still kind of liked that genre, so I tried to do a completely different thing and use the structure of a slasher. People are asking me, "Is this a revenge film?" or "Is this a feminist film? Because the film empowers women and that's not like the exploitation movies you took this from." And I say, "That's not 100 percent correct." Actually, exploitation movies dealt with female empowerment in violent genres in ways that Hollywood never did. You just brought up blaxsploitaiton and there was no A-list, white, Hollywood equivalent of Pam Grier in the 1970s. She stood alone. There was [an equivalent] in Japan, there was in Hong Kong, and there was in the last act of every slasher film. There's always a final girl that stands up and has the moral fortitude to beat the boogeyman. That's always been the staple of that genre and here there isn't one final girl, its three, and they all play it chipperly but it still follows the basic rules of the genre.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_proof/news/1672079/qt_talks_death_proof_whats_different_in_the_dvd_release/
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