clownfoot
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Joined: 26/9/2005 From: The ickle town of Fuck, Austria
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ORIGINAL: clownfoot In many ways I don't think Carpenter has been given the credit he deserves for rejuvinating the 90's film industry... Okay, bear with me for a moment. Whilst the ending of Ringo Lam's City on Fire was the more obvious tribute in Reservoir Dogs, which a number of users have subsequently taken issue with, I find that Tarantino's synthesis of Carpenter's The Thing into his first movie a much more subtle one and it's incorporation is what makes Dog's the film that it is. A group of men stuck in one location, arguing amongst each other because one of them isn't who he says he is - sounds rather familiar doesn't it? The increasing paranoia and questioning of identities amongst the thieves hightens the tension until the big reveal, and whilst Tim Roth's Mr Orange (the veritable Thing in Dogs) doesn't rip off Mr White's arms with a set of teeth in his rib-cage, Tarantino owes a huge debt of gratitude to Carpenter's original ensemble troupe of bickering paranoid men for the thematic template of his first film. This tells us two things. One, Tarantino knows his films. And two, Carpenter simply made an inspiriational film that, ten years after it's original release, simply inspired the ethos of intelligent character based film-making that gripped the nineties. What do you mean the link is tenuous at best? Ungrateful bunch of nit-picking monkey's... I do see the similarities, Clownfoot but surely Reservoir Dogs is as close to the classical structure of the whodunnit, as it is The Thing. Just take any number of Agatha Christie stories - usually set in a confined environment, has a group of people, slowly being killed off, one by one. One of their number is the killer. The paranoia ensues... But that's not really as ridiculous a tenuous link now, is it?
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