![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the film so much that I convinced my whole family to see it with me. For the rest of the picture, I was grinning from ear to ear, and my enjoyment only deepened upon seeing “Kill Bill: Vol. Suddenly, I found myself laughing, and that’s when I had the epiphany that movie violence could be so many things-absurd, artful, cathartic and operatic. 1.” I was simultaneously fascinated and appalled by its gory spectacle, but my disgust evaporated as soon as Lucy Liu sliced off a guy’s head, and cartoonish blood began spraying out of his neck like a sprinkler system. It remains one of the greatest scenes ever written by Tarantino, yet I didn’t become a true fan until Steve dragged me to the theater in the fall of 2003 to see “Kill Bill: Vol. ![]() What stuck with me though was the hypnotic dialogue exchanged between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken during a quietly epic confrontation set to Léo Delibes’ “Flower Duet.” Our exuberant chats in the cafeteria inspired him to lend me what was his favorite film at the time, Tony Scott’s hyper-stylized 1993 thriller, “True Romance.” It featured so many brutal killings that they left me feeling like the guy who cries next to an exhilarated Christian Slater after they ride the roller coaster. Having grown up Catholic pre-Gibson’s “Passion,” I was not at all accustomed to graphic onscreen violence-that is, until I befriended a fellow movie buff, Steve Sandberg, in high school. I’ll never forget the moment I first fell in love with the cinema of Quentin Tarantino. Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood.” Courtesy of Columbia Pictures. ![]()
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