The weird glitchy cuts and editing is meant to give the experience of seeing a "grindhouse" movie...low end cinemas, b-movies from the late 60s and 70s that often had damage to the reels, with weird missing sections as they'd just tape the film back together if a section got damaged and had to be cut out. The weirdly abrupt ending is also a common feature in low budget movies from that era. The stories were often very over the top and violent, but just very weirdly executed, though there are some very fun grindhouse films from that time. This film was meant to be watched back to back with Planet Terror (directed by Robert Rodriguez), and had fake trailers in between from other horror and indy directors, with the same grainy 70s vibe. So it was a little less wtf is going on with this film style???
And the random faces with color bars at the end are what was called "China Girl" which were to calibrate color and balance before film has a more universal standard.
They tried to imitate the experience of watching a movie at a Grindhouse but ultimately it wasn’t good. Out of the Grindhouse double feature Robert Rodriguez’ “Planet Terror” was the better movie.
Zoe (the NZ girl from the second half) is played by Zoe Bell, who was the stunt double for Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill movies. Tarantino wanted to give her a "real" role.
Well to be real it was Mostly to get a really good coverage of the stunts because you can show the face. An actor doing the stunt does pull you in, then again she does not do that solid of a job with actual acting (it's just not what she does). So it can then again be even kinda distracting because it is dialoque heavy. I'm not saying she butchered the role, but it does show thru that she is not an actor. It can be given a pass for the bigger concept for the double-feature and the genre gone for, so it does not need to be so clean. Still especially when you put someone who does not really act next to Rosarie Dawson, it shows. It could've also been easier to play it off if this would have gone more Planet Terror route of just going for it while having the card to do every ridiculous idea you have.
The girls in the end credits are called "China Girls", and were local "models" working for the film companies that made the movies. They were included in a few frames at the very begging of classic film media, which were called "leaders" and they were fed into projectors and wrapped around the spools. They were used to help theaters calibrate their color settings so the movies would display their colors correctly for the audiences. Right after they were seen, there would be a short countdown to indicate where the start of the movie actually was. Most audiences never saw the film leaders, just the projectionists.
The second set of girls aren't meant to be realistic. They're Nemesis. They're the perfect answer to Mike's misogyny, and his cruel, cowardly violence. They are fearless, fun-loving, and vengeful when disrespected. And that's hot when it's believable, which it is because Tarantino chose women who actually seem that way (Zoe is an actual stunt woman).
Not only is Zoe Bell an actual stunt woman but she's also a real life martial artist, hence the kick at the end, she's a real badass in angel of death too.
I don't know about not being realiatic. The second set of girls sound exactly like my sister talking to her friends when they were in high school and college. Except it was boxing and skateboarding instead of cars and movies.
Note Zoe Bell as Herself.... she is a Stunt woman and Actress from New Zealand .... she did the stunt work for Lucy Lawless in Xena: warrior, Uma Thurmond in Kill Bill and Cate Blanchette in Thor : Ragnarock. As well as her own Stunts in this film..... yes that was her on the hood of the car in those stunt scenes.
This movie alongside Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a part of a double feature called Grindhouse. Now grindhouse is a name given to certain type of movie theaters that mainly showed low-budget horror or exploitation films for adults. Those theaters declined and eventually disappeared due to the growing popularity of VHS and cable movie channels. The Grindhouse duology is a love letter to those kind of cinemas and movies. That's why the quality looks like that, colors are sometimes missing or there are weird cuts and looses of frames. It's what Tarantino does. Many of his movies are love letters to something cinema related. Kill Bill was a love letter to martial art movies. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a love letter to Hollywood and making movies in general. Jackie Brown was a love letter to blaxploitation movies. And so on. Tarantino didn't go to a film school, he went to films.
They are also characters in Tarantino's, Kill BIll. Plus the Texas Ranger is obviously in Planet Terror too, but the connections between that and Death Proof are obvious if you watch Grindhouse.
Lee fell in love at first sight with Jasper, quit the movie business & they're now happily married with 5 kids, all boys. He builds and drives monster trucks for a living & she designs t-shirts of the truck to sell at the monster truck rallies.
As the only man in an office full of women, who forget your there, yes they talk exactly like that. I know more crap about these women then anyone should ever know
I get really well along with women and it kinda depends a bit ofcourse on who it is, but yes most do talk in detail about A Lot of things and that's a definite topic in most cases (like.. the women might not talk the same to me, but if are as open to me as they are then it's like ten folds when just within female friends). I have also Known for 100% when I have been with someone and they have spoken about something that me and her did, because I'm anyway kinda intuitive and everytime I know because I'm watched by them in a bit of differend way and there might be some sly remarks that I do catch onto immidiatelly even if it's really suddle 😅 It also have happened aa lot with couple of gf's. Them being the ones who would also tell me in detail Some stories about some of their friends (which at that point just seems fair 😂).
I was saying this in Kill Bill vol.2 comments. You kiiinda, not quite but kinda need to know the whole concept and what is the bigger picture is before watching this. All the fake trailers made and such n such. The exploitation movie theme of the double-feature, why there is so called missing film and it's just so called patched together (funny enough, I Just went watch Holocaust 2000 with this woman and had to explain what's propably happening since the movie went 3 times black and propably jumped just a bit 😅 I'm pretty sure they do still use film-projector there since they show a lot of old movies and to the roll was propably patched with some black out transition so people kinda get that ok, like a scene is missing. Clearly jumped but not that it mattered to make confusing). QT himself thinks this is his weakest movie, I'm kinda on the fence with 8. Partly because I kinda hoped it would have more so an aspect of giving suddle clues on who in the bar is the wildcard. Yeah it's on me for having assumptions, but then again, I just also don't think a dialoque heavy period piece is his strong-suit when there is no big larger plot. It does go a lot better in the latter half tho. I still kinda do put Death Proof over Hatefull for all of the irl stunts and some scenes that are just Really good.. as is Kurt. Then so many small details like Eli Roth and the Planet Terror hospital, Michael Parks as the cop from Dusk and Kill Bill etc.
100% I really liked Death Proof, but liked Planet Terror even more. I find it the tiniest bit annoying the number of people I've talked to who saw Death Proof that never saw, and at times have never even heard of Planet Terror, despite the two movies being in the same double feature and Death Proof being the second movie of the double feature originally. I get it now, as the movies are mostly only found as separate movies but when I first saw them it was as the two movies back to back in the same 3 hourish video with an intermission sequence between the two movies.
@@markmccollough1017to this day i think Grindhouse is the best experience I've ever had at a movie theater. Opening night in NYC, theater was maybe only 3/4 full but we all knew this was something different to be experienced. I still haven't seen either standalone movie, just Grindhouse.
So, Italian Vogue...? Magazines have different editions depending on which country they are published in. A German copy of, say, GQ, will have different articles than the UK version. The Italian version of Vogue is generally considered to be the most high fashion minded of the editions. (As opposed to us 'Mercians who will go "Oh, I like them sweatpants") A copy showing up in rural TN is like finding great Mexican food in Reykjavík. Oh, and the random photos at the end? They're called Shirley Cards. In the early days of film processing, to make sure that everything came out properly, the processing team would insert these photos into the film and the recipient would then compare them to a properly processed copy of that image. So, for example, if there's a photo of a girl in a yellow shirt with green stripes and red hair, you can compare the copy in the film to a copy that you know is good to make sure that the brightness and contrast are correct. But these were generally stuck at the end of a film's reel so you only saw them if you literally ran the film reel to the end. By sticking them in the credits, QT was implying that, since this was a grindhouse film, the projectionist did a half assed job splicing the film together, but he did so in a way that would not actually ever been seen in a film in the era.
Dawn Marie, this film was released with another called 'Planet Terror' under the title of 'Grindhouse' which a type of low budget high sex and violence B-Movies popular in the late '60s and early '70s particularly in America, this film was Quentin Tarantino's homage to those kinds of films. 'Planet Terror' was directed by Robert Rodriguez and was a Horror/Comedy, both that and 'Death Proof' were both initially released as a combined package called 'Grindhouse'.
The woman doing the car hood stunt is Zoe Bell, stunt woman extraordinaire. She started her career doubling for Lucy Lawless in "Xena: Warrior Princess".
Dawn: “What did I just watch?!?!!?” Me: What you’ve just had the privilege to Witness, is a movie which features, What is arguably, THEEE Most Dangerous Car Stunt EVER Put on Film!! Zoe Bell is the Best StuntWoman in Hollywood. And, that’s Really her on the Hood of this car. They are Really driving those cars at that speed and banging them into each other while Zoe is actually hanging on to the car, only a foot or so from the 60 mile per hour pavement,by nothing more than the friction between her hand and the paint job of the Hood of the car.
You are one of the Very Few people to react to this film. Zoe Bell is just Amazing.. The special effects in the car crash scenes are ALL Practical effects...No CGI. Same with the car chase.. Zoe Was out on the front of the car, at those speeds..hanging off the front. No security wires, sped up film, or any effects at all...
Yes the chase scene is brilliant, love those big engine muscle cars roaring and the fact someone was really holding on to the front of the car while being rammed trying not to fly off!!!
But the only one he directly was the last scene with Bruce Willis! It was a take on an Alfred Hitchcock short film with the zipo lighter. But yes underrated film
Dawn: "These women are all in their late 30s!" The actresses were between 27 and 33, really. But I suspect the characters were meant to be a bit younger, too. 😅
You're right about how a group of girls don't really talk like that. They are talking like Tarantino. But that is kind of true in all his films. It's okay because it is so damned entertaining. Plus, I can write it off a bit in this movie because it is supposed to be a 1970s grindhouse film, which would actually put in salacious dialogue (written by men) in those movies.
@@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv I guess you didn't read my whole post. Specifically "Plus, I can write it off a bit in this movie because it is supposed to be a 1970s grindhouse film, which would actually put in salacious dialogue (written by men) in those movies."
You're wrong. Girls did talk like that. Overheard plenty, especially when I worked in a bar. Tarantinos words are accurate...ESPECIALLY back then. Remember, he didn't grow up in today's society...he knows.
@@film-maniac I concur. I'm 61 and I've heard plenty of girls talk like that. It was pretty damn common back in the 80s when people had actual face to face conversations instead of texting and living their lives entirely online.
@@film-maniacYeah, I’ve worked in bars, cafes & restaurants. I’ve also been friends with a lot of women & have been shocked on quite a few occasions at the stuff they’ve said. It definitely opened my eyes🤣
The style of movie makes a little more sense with how it was shown in theaters. It was part of a double feature called Grindhouse that included a whole other movie and fake movie trailers by guest directors that was meant to pay homage to the 1970s style cheap movie theaters that would show low budget movies. I'd suggest checking the whole thing out some day.
Texas Ranger Earl McGraw. The Texas Rangers are the state police of Texas. That is to say, their officers have jurisdiction over the entire state. Like most state police organizations, they're pretty selective about who they take. That's why Earl is so sharp.
@@chardtomp Thanks, a different site named him as sherrif. But, yes, the Texas Rangers are true badasses. While the baseball team, aside from last year, is known by many as the Arlington Mall Cops. Cos they're phonies from DC.
THE SHERIFF and son were the same Characters played in Kill Bill. In the 70's "Splatter movies, they used the same characters and Actors from movie to movie. And Zoe Bell ("The Cat") is an actual Stuntwoman in real life! She was Uma's Stunt Double in Kill Bill.
The boring bits are deliberate. The film is a pastiche of the kind of film that kids would pay to see every week just so they could make out with their young crushes. Often the posters for these kinds of films were the only real artistic element. Tarantino was a fan of the rawness of some of the exploitation storytelling and wanted to emulate that in a tribute to the movement.
This was meant to be seen as the second feature film in a double feature called "Grindhouse", along with a movie by Robert Rodriguez called "Planet Terror". It was a full 3hr program with fake exploitation trailers and bumpers meant to emulate what an exploitation movie double feature from the 1970s would look like. That's why there's fabricated film damage and jump cuts. It's supposed to make the film look like it was run through a projector dozens of times by inexperienced projectionists. Pretentious (even more so by QT), but undeniably fun.
What's funny is that most of those fake trailers came to fruition. Machete, Hobo with a Shotgun, and Thanksgiving have been made. Still waiting for "Don't" and "Werewolf Women of the SS".
"Laisse tomber les filles," originally recorded by France Gall, is the cool sixties song in the credits. It means "leave the girls alone," a sentiment that Stuntman Mike really should have listened to. It's yet another perfect song placement by Tarantino whose use of music is second to none.
Actually, if you pay attention to the lyrics (I'm French so I understand all of them) it means "Dump the girls" (as in, dump your girlfriend), and warns about playing with people's heart
Fun Facts: The woman in the Pink tee shirt is Zoe Bell. She is one of the best stunt performers in movies and television. And she has been in every Tarantino movie since Kill Bill. Also, if you are observant, in every Quentin Tarantino movie since Pulp Fiction he tries to slip in a reference to the State of Tennessee. That is why this movie was shot in Tennessee. He is actually from Tennessee but grew up in California.
When this first came out in theatres in the US, this (which played in a slightly different, shorter cut) was part of a double feature called Grindhouse. This played after Planet Terror, and also had trailers for fake movies done by other directors...although at this point two of those fake trailers have become actual movies. The sheriff character in this that was also in Kill Bill also shows up in Planet Terror, and first appeared in the Tarantino written and Robert Rodriguez directed movie From Dusk till Dawn. The sheriff’s son comes from From Dusk till Dawn 2. The sister working in the hospital is from Planet Terror, so when you’re watching Grindhouse you see her their right before Death Proof. The movie never explicitly says they’re the same characters, but the guy the girls leave their friend with is played by the same actor (and would seem to be the same character) that played the trucker from the hospital scene in Kill Bill Vol. 1.
We did a lot of stupid stuff in cars in the 70s. There was way more drunk driving then. The cars were built like tanks but seat belts weren't required until much later. I recall a famous country music star, Barbara Mandrell nearly died in a car crash on 9/11/84. I can't remember if she was wearing her seat belt but she became a very vocal advocate for them and that kick started a lot of media attention then legislation, even in the South, which was very resistant to comprehensive rules like that. The insurance companies did the rest of the work. My wife definitely used to hang her feet out like that and on the dash. God protects fools...thankfully. Dawn, please react to the other half of the double feature, 'Planet Terror'; great reaction!
I love how polarizing this movie is among Tarantino fans. People seem to either love it or hate it. Personally, it's in my top 3 of his filmography. But you were killin' me in the latter half of the movie, those 2nd set of girls must have really been off putting to you, for you to be like "I don't know who's side I'm on." 😂😂😂
@ no, but you, as a gentleman, must concede that you weren’t at East Van Cinemas on commercial drive in 2007. The audience was reeling and laughing whilst choking on their own barfy barf….my apologies. 🙏
I love the deliberately bad B-movie jump cuts in this film. During the final car chase, within a few seconds, you see the blood on the windshield go from obviously paint, to not there at all, to a reddish watery liquid.
I'm sure others are going to be giving u some great trivia. So I will just say I agree about the conversations the female actresses had, they sucked. Please remember it was a man (Tarantino) that wrote the script, not a woman. Written, produced, directed and shot by him. That said I actually love this movie and am familiar with most of the actresses. The second set of female characters were all in show business in one aspect or another in the movie. Stylist, model, stunt women....always entertained by ur reviews Love them 💙
A good chunk of this film's soundtrack was taken from films from the 60s to the 80s. The bassy "Last Race" theme came from _Village of the Giants_ , a raunchy 1964 Bert I. Gordon film where a group of rowdy teens grow into giants and take over a town. There's also a Morricone piece from the Dario Argento film _The Cat O' Nine Tails_ , and the John Travolta and Al Pacino films _Blow Out_ and _Cruising_ .
The second half of this movie is supposed to be in Lebanon, TN. Actually filmed just south of Santa Maria and near Solvang, CA. Beautiful backroad area. The background terrain is a giveaway.
Also, DM, I think you missed the part where Stuntman Mike's motivation was spelled out by the Sheriff. Earl theorizes, correctly we are to assume, that killing women with his car is "the only way (Stuntman Mike) can shoot his goo." In other words, he's impotent, and this is how he gets off, feels virile, and "connects" with women. If I were in his place, I would've settled for the lap dance.
I've been sitting through this movie thinking, oh well, Tarantino has lost his touch. And then in the final 10 minutes I was like WOW WOW WOW:) Seriously underrated movie.
Grindhouse is a 2007 American film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Presented as a double feature, it combines Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles.
The Grindhouse film look is so fun! Those film cuts, film scratches and skips are so well done. This movie is my favorite QT film. Not only is the soundtrack killer but the revenge story is sooo sweet! “Revenge is a dinner best served cold!” 🥶- Black Momba (The Bride, Beatrix Kiddo,Mom)
Hard to believe that this was the very first thing I saw Mary Elizabeth "Ramona Flowers" Winstead in and not Scott Pilgrim. Also funny how Eli Roth mentions BJ and The Bear when he's The Bear Jew from Inglorious Basterds.
Love this film. A guilty pleasure. I agree. A friend doesn’t put another friend on the spot, much less through the radio broadcast. I see where Jungle Julia got her name with her demeanour and now she’s the one at the bottom of that jungle food chain, her friends too.
You can say what you want about this movie, it has one of the best car chase scenes in movie history ❤ Are we going to get *Planet Terror* aswell? Tis the season 😅
I remember watching the Planet Terror/Death Proof double feature on IFC almost 15 years ago now. IFC used to be a lot more raw back then so all of Planet Terror's gore made it to my 10 year old eyes. For some reason that movie hits the stomach differently.
I guess my friends and I are weird. We used to talk about all kinds of stuff. Random weird conversations are hilarious. We can be stupid but, oh, it’s so much fun! 😜😂
It came out as a double feature with Planet Terror, which is fun… both of these are just fun movies.. definitely not to be taken seriously. He did team up btw with Umma for thinking up the story for KillBill, so if you have a good idea, go for it.
the girls in the ending credits are test images from the manufacturer of the film stock to prove the film works and for lab techs to calibrate during processing. back in the day they called them "leader ladies".
I grew up in Los Angeles and loved watching B-Movies on a show called MOVIES TIL DAWN. From Midnight to around 5am on Fri/Sat Back in the day TV went off the air Sun/Thur after midnight until morning newscast. Not enough people watching for advertiser to pay for night operation. On weekends there were enough night owls watching and they could afford to play low-cost, low-budget GRINDHOUSE films. Super low budget films of all sorts of genres Teen Coming of Age films, Horror, Karate/Martial Arts, Aliens, Outlaw Biker Gangs both Male & Female, Rebellious Teens, Teen Prostitute, Racing of all sorts (Car, Motorcycle, Skateboard, etc.), Surfer, and California Summer were just some of the genres. Most of these fell into the so bad they are good category. Scripts were incoherent and would wander off into other genres or introduce random ass "colorful" side characters, who can randomly disappear. Props were terrible (One production company made an alien out of the body of a gorilla suit with a "reptile" head, because it was on discount) & you could periodically see the actor in the suit because of the mismatched head. Acting was horrible ( We won't get into specifics), but it was bad. Often, they would get some washed up actor or a famous sports figure to act in a couple of scenes as a FEATURED ACTOR to give it street cred. Super Un-PC borderline and not so borderline behavior and scenarios. Terrible Editing like in this movie, but on accident, And, of course, Terrible directing. Death Proof is soaked in GRINDHOUSE references & tropes. Somehow, Quinten manages to take all this trash and turn it into an Arthouse Film!!! Quinten Grew up in LA too & we're about the same age, I think he must have been a big fan of MOVIES TIL DAWN too. It's like he lives inside my childhood head.
The whole style of this film was supposed to replicate very low-budget American "grindhouse" movies of the late '60s to mid '70s. They were the type of movies that were grouped together when you went to an Outdoor theater. Grindhouse directors and producers often used the same actors, playing the same basic characters in overlapping movies.
The Texas Rangers Earl McGraw and son Edgar McGraw are played by real life father/son actors Michael and James Parks who appear in other Tarantino/Rodriquez films. Michael as Earl McGraw also played Earl in From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill (also as Esteban Vihaio), and as one of the slave holders in Django Unchained. James Parks as Edgar was also in Kill Bill and Machete. He was also in Django Unchained as a tracker, and in The Hateful Eight as O.B. Jackson.
i think marie really vocalised the core of this movie: all these people are f..king awful, and it's only mike's murderous schemes that turn some of them into victims and some of them into heroes.
Yeah this and Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez) were released together as "Grindhouse".... Saw both didn't like either but did enjoy the car chase at the end, very well filmed... absolute best part of the film. One of the best car chase scenes ever filmed right up there with the Mad Max films car chases, and the Blues Brothers and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
Originally this 'movie' was only part of a movie called Grindhouse. 2 movies in one, with fake trailers. The other movie was called Planet Terror by director Robert Rodriguez. Really you should see it in its original form. Both films are a take on an by gone era.
Glad you enjoyed this. A lot don't and it was regarded at the time as a flop... i have always enjoyed it! But do think Planet Terror which it was released with is the better of the two would love a reaction to that Dawn!
PLANET TERROR was the "pt2" to this...was fun watching in the theater 🤘🔥🤘 it's the better of the two movies imo..more sci-fi.. Robert Rodriguez directed it i believe..not Tarantino.
The end credits song 'chick habit' is also the opening song of the movie 'but, im a cheerleader.' A late 90's queer teen comedy that has just hit it's cult streak. Definitely worth a watch...
This was an intentional spoof/tribute to Drive-In Chick exploitation movies of the 60s and 70s where girls got revenge on guys. Everything about the movie was like a B movie reproduction of a silly violent car chase movie you'd see in an American Drive In movie. From the defects and glitches in the film to the bare bones plot, to the dirty girl talk etc. It was all a PARODY/A SPOOF. Just like JACKIE BROWN was a Spoof/Tribute to Blaxploitation films of the 70s. It helps to read up a little on what you are watching so you get some idea.
You watched a movie in the Quentin Tarantino universe. The same universe that has pulp fiction. This movie would be playing at the theater. I learned that today.
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11:38 this film takes place in the same universe as Kill Bill. The events of Death Proof take place before the events of Kill Bill. One of the other characters in both films in the second part of Death Proof dies in Kill Bill.
The scene where he takes picture of the girl is identical (and has the same music by Ennio Morricone) to a scene from Dario Argento's The bird with Crystal Plumage
"Don't hang your feet out the window, you'll get them chopped off." Dawn had no idea how prophetic her words were!
The weird glitchy cuts and editing is meant to give the experience of seeing a "grindhouse" movie...low end cinemas, b-movies from the late 60s and 70s that often had damage to the reels, with weird missing sections as they'd just tape the film back together if a section got damaged and had to be cut out.
The weirdly abrupt ending is also a common feature in low budget movies from that era. The stories were often very over the top and violent, but just very weirdly executed, though there are some very fun grindhouse films from that time. This film was meant to be watched back to back with Planet Terror (directed by Robert Rodriguez), and had fake trailers in between from other horror and indy directors, with the same grainy 70s vibe. So it was a little less wtf is going on with this film style???
And the random faces with color bars at the end are what was called "China Girl" which were to calibrate color and balance before film has a more universal standard.
@@eZTarg8mk2 Dawn should really do'a B-Movie Night! it'd be'a blast and hella'funny🌎
Don't forget about the trailer of Machete that became so popular it got it's own movie!
They tried to imitate the experience of watching a movie at a Grindhouse but ultimately it wasn’t good.
Out of the Grindhouse double feature Robert Rodriguez’ “Planet Terror” was the better movie.
Zoe (the NZ girl from the second half) is played by Zoe Bell, who was the stunt double for Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill movies. Tarantino wanted to give her a "real" role.
I’ve always thought it would have been fun to see Uma as the stunt woman for Zoe just for one obvious quick cut.
Well to be real it was Mostly to get a really good coverage of the stunts because you can show the face. An actor doing the stunt does pull you in, then again she does not do that solid of a job with actual acting (it's just not what she does). So it can then again be even kinda distracting because it is dialoque heavy. I'm not saying she butchered the role, but it does show thru that she is not an actor. It can be given a pass for the bigger concept for the double-feature and the genre gone for, so it does not need to be so clean. Still especially when you put someone who does not really act next to Rosarie Dawson, it shows. It could've also been easier to play it off if this would have gone more Planet Terror route of just going for it while having the card to do every ridiculous idea you have.
@@aleksisuuronen5969 you really typed all that
@@aleksisuuronen5969 Did you have a brain tumour for breakfast?
@@HappyHarryHardon yes and more. All what? That's nothing to type out..
The girls in the end credits are called "China Girls", and were local "models" working for the film companies that made the movies. They were included in a few frames at the very begging of classic film media, which were called "leaders" and they were fed into projectors and wrapped around the spools. They were used to help theaters calibrate their color settings so the movies would display their colors correctly for the audiences. Right after they were seen, there would be a short countdown to indicate where the start of the movie actually was. Most audiences never saw the film leaders, just the projectionists.
The second set of girls aren't meant to be realistic. They're Nemesis. They're the perfect answer to Mike's misogyny, and his cruel, cowardly violence. They are fearless, fun-loving, and vengeful when disrespected. And that's hot when it's believable, which it is because Tarantino chose women who actually seem that way (Zoe is an actual stunt woman).
Not only is Zoe Bell an actual stunt woman but she's also a real life martial artist, hence the kick at the end, she's a real badass in angel of death too.
I don't know about not being realiatic. The second set of girls sound exactly like my sister talking to her friends when they were in high school and college. Except it was boxing and skateboarding instead of cars and movies.
@@cutekittens228 Rosario Dawson delivers the kick at the end. Not a stunt woman herself, but totally works in this movie.
@@dudermcdudeface3674 Zoe does a kick also, and it is very close to the end.
Everyone in this was an awful person
Note Zoe Bell as Herself.... she is a Stunt woman and Actress from New Zealand .... she did the stunt work for Lucy Lawless in Xena: warrior, Uma Thurmond in Kill Bill and Cate Blanchette in Thor : Ragnarock. As well as her own Stunts in this film..... yes that was her on the hood of the car in those stunt scenes.
She's awesome.
This movie alongside Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a part of a double feature called Grindhouse. Now grindhouse is a name given to certain type of movie theaters that mainly showed low-budget horror or exploitation films for adults. Those theaters declined and eventually disappeared due to the growing popularity of VHS and cable movie channels. The Grindhouse duology is a love letter to those kind of cinemas and movies. That's why the quality looks like that, colors are sometimes missing or there are weird cuts and looses of frames.
It's what Tarantino does. Many of his movies are love letters to something cinema related. Kill Bill was a love letter to martial art movies. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was a love letter to Hollywood and making movies in general. Jackie Brown was a love letter to blaxploitation movies. And so on.
Tarantino didn't go to a film school, he went to films.
Dead soldiers is an old-time bar slang for empty bottles. Also, the Texas Ranger and his son are father and son in real life.
They are also characters in Tarantino's, Kill BIll. Plus the Texas Ranger is obviously in Planet Terror too, but the connections between that and Death Proof are obvious if you watch Grindhouse.
There were also in From Dusk til Dawn.
@@barstro - The son wasn’t in From Dusk Till Dawn, but Michael Parks indeed was.
Lee fell in love at first sight with Jasper, quit the movie business & they're now happily married with 5 kids, all boys. He builds and drives monster trucks for a living & she designs t-shirts of the truck to sell at the monster truck rallies.
I mean, Jasper was in Kill Bill Vol. 1 - climbing on top of Uma Thurman... so we know how he ended up.
1:47 “You can’t have your feet out the window they’re gonna get chopped off.” Oh, the foreshadowing.
As the only man in an office full of women, who forget your there, yes they talk exactly like that.
I know more crap about these women then anyone should ever know
I get really well along with women and it kinda depends a bit ofcourse on who it is, but yes most do talk in detail about A Lot of things and that's a definite topic in most cases (like.. the women might not talk the same to me, but if are as open to me as they are then it's like ten folds when just within female friends). I have also Known for 100% when I have been with someone and they have spoken about something that me and her did, because I'm anyway kinda intuitive and everytime I know because I'm watched by them in a bit of differend way and there might be some sly remarks that I do catch onto immidiatelly even if it's really suddle 😅 It also have happened aa lot with couple of gf's. Them being the ones who would also tell me in detail Some stories about some of their friends (which at that point just seems fair 😂).
I worked in retail and the women I was surrounded by never talked like that, because they were in public amongst customers.
You need to watch Planet Terror.
more fun than DP
I was saying this in Kill Bill vol.2 comments. You kiiinda, not quite but kinda need to know the whole concept and what is the bigger picture is before watching this. All the fake trailers made and such n such. The exploitation movie theme of the double-feature, why there is so called missing film and it's just so called patched together (funny enough, I Just went watch Holocaust 2000 with this woman and had to explain what's propably happening since the movie went 3 times black and propably jumped just a bit 😅 I'm pretty sure they do still use film-projector there since they show a lot of old movies and to the roll was propably patched with some black out transition so people kinda get that ok, like a scene is missing. Clearly jumped but not that it mattered to make confusing).
QT himself thinks this is his weakest movie, I'm kinda on the fence with 8. Partly because I kinda hoped it would have more so an aspect of giving suddle clues on who in the bar is the wildcard. Yeah it's on me for having assumptions, but then again, I just also don't think a dialoque heavy period piece is his strong-suit when there is no big larger plot. It does go a lot better in the latter half tho. I still kinda do put Death Proof over Hatefull for all of the irl stunts and some scenes that are just Really good.. as is Kurt. Then so many small details like Eli Roth and the Planet Terror hospital, Michael Parks as the cop from Dusk and Kill Bill etc.
100% I really liked Death Proof, but liked Planet Terror even more. I find it the tiniest bit annoying the number of people I've talked to who saw Death Proof that never saw, and at times have never even heard of Planet Terror, despite the two movies being in the same double feature and Death Proof being the second movie of the double feature originally. I get it now, as the movies are mostly only found as separate movies but when I first saw them it was as the two movies back to back in the same 3 hourish video with an intermission sequence between the two movies.
That one is my favorite 👍
@@markmccollough1017to this day i think Grindhouse is the best experience I've ever had at a movie theater. Opening night in NYC, theater was maybe only 3/4 full but we all knew this was something different to be experienced. I still haven't seen either standalone movie, just Grindhouse.
So, Italian Vogue...?
Magazines have different editions depending on which country they are published in. A German copy of, say, GQ, will have different articles than the UK version. The Italian version of Vogue is generally considered to be the most high fashion minded of the editions. (As opposed to us 'Mercians who will go "Oh, I like them sweatpants") A copy showing up in rural TN is like finding great Mexican food in Reykjavík.
Oh, and the random photos at the end? They're called Shirley Cards. In the early days of film processing, to make sure that everything came out properly, the processing team would insert these photos into the film and the recipient would then compare them to a properly processed copy of that image. So, for example, if there's a photo of a girl in a yellow shirt with green stripes and red hair, you can compare the copy in the film to a copy that you know is good to make sure that the brightness and contrast are correct. But these were generally stuck at the end of a film's reel so you only saw them if you literally ran the film reel to the end. By sticking them in the credits, QT was implying that, since this was a grindhouse film, the projectionist did a half assed job splicing the film together, but he did so in a way that would not actually ever been seen in a film in the era.
Dawn Marie, this film was released with another called 'Planet Terror' under the title of 'Grindhouse' which a type of low budget high sex and violence B-Movies popular in the late '60s and early '70s particularly in America, this film was Quentin Tarantino's homage to those kinds of films. 'Planet Terror' was directed by Robert Rodriguez and was a Horror/Comedy, both that and 'Death Proof' were both initially released as a combined package called 'Grindhouse'.
You should watch _Duel._ It was Steven Spielberg's first film and parts of this kind of give me _Duel_ vibes.
The woman doing the car hood stunt is Zoe Bell, stunt woman extraordinaire. She started her career doubling for Lucy Lawless in "Xena: Warrior Princess".
Dawn: “What did I just watch?!?!!?”
Me: What you’ve just had the privilege to Witness, is a movie which features, What is arguably, THEEE Most Dangerous Car Stunt EVER Put on Film!!
Zoe Bell is the Best StuntWoman in Hollywood. And, that’s Really her on the Hood of this car. They are Really driving those cars at that speed and banging them into each other while Zoe is actually hanging on to the car, only a foot or so from the 60 mile per hour pavement,by nothing more than the friction between her hand and the paint job of the Hood of the car.
The Miles to go before you sleep is from a famous poem, but I know it from Charles Bronson's movie Telephon with Donald Pleasance.
You are one of the Very Few people to react to this film.
Zoe Bell is just Amazing..
The special effects in the car crash scenes are ALL Practical effects...No CGI.
Same with the car chase..
Zoe Was out on the front of the car, at those speeds..hanging off the front.
No security wires, sped up film, or any effects at all...
Yes the chase scene is brilliant, love those big engine muscle cars roaring and the fact someone was really holding on to the front of the car while being rammed trying not to fly off!!!
Often overlooked bit of early Tarantino writing/directing, "Four Rooms" (1995) Worth a watch!
But the only one he directly was the last scene with Bruce Willis! It was a take on an Alfred Hitchcock short film with the zipo lighter. But yes underrated film
Directed*
Yes I liked this one too... another 'flop' for many, but still worth watching and an enjoyable movie!
Dawn: "These women are all in their late 30s!"
The actresses were between 27 and 33, really.
But I suspect the characters were meant to be a bit younger, too. 😅
You're right about how a group of girls don't really talk like that. They are talking like Tarantino. But that is kind of true in all his films. It's okay because it is so damned entertaining. Plus, I can write it off a bit in this movie because it is supposed to be a 1970s grindhouse film, which would actually put in salacious dialogue (written by men) in those movies.
No, they are talking like girls in grindhouse exploitation films. Women in Tarantino films are invariably rich in depth and diction.
@@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv I guess you didn't read my whole post. Specifically "Plus, I can write it off a bit in this movie because it is supposed to be a 1970s grindhouse film, which would actually put in salacious dialogue (written by men) in those movies."
You're wrong. Girls did talk like that. Overheard plenty, especially when I worked in a bar. Tarantinos words are accurate...ESPECIALLY back then. Remember, he didn't grow up in today's society...he knows.
@@film-maniac I concur. I'm 61 and I've heard plenty of girls talk like that. It was pretty damn common back in the 80s when people had actual face to face conversations instead of texting and living their lives entirely online.
@@film-maniacYeah, I’ve worked in bars, cafes & restaurants. I’ve also been friends with a lot of women & have been shocked on quite a few occasions at the stuff they’ve said. It definitely opened my eyes🤣
Zoey the blond Kiwi was Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill. She's the one who did the fight.
The style of movie makes a little more sense with how it was shown in theaters. It was part of a double feature called Grindhouse that included a whole other movie and fake movie trailers by guest directors that was meant to pay homage to the 1970s style cheap movie theaters that would show low budget movies. I'd suggest checking the whole thing out some day.
I remember watching this and planet terror in the theater and you should really find the fake trailers he made to get that grindhouse vibe
Texas Ranger Earl McGraw same guy in "Planet Terror," "Kill Bill" and "From Dusk Till Dawn."
Texas Ranger Earl McGraw. The Texas Rangers are the state police of Texas. That is to say, their officers have jurisdiction over the entire state. Like most state police organizations, they're pretty selective about who they take. That's why Earl is so sharp.
@@chardtomp Thanks, a different site named him as sherrif. But, yes, the Texas Rangers are true badasses. While the baseball team, aside from last year, is known by many as the Arlington Mall Cops. Cos they're phonies from DC.
Context is so important with this movie.
THE SHERIFF and son were the same Characters played in Kill Bill. In the 70's "Splatter movies, they used the same characters and Actors from movie to movie.
And Zoe Bell ("The Cat") is an actual Stuntwoman in real life! She was Uma's Stunt Double in Kill Bill.
The boring bits are deliberate. The film is a pastiche of the kind of film that kids would pay to see every week just so they could make out with their young crushes. Often the posters for these kinds of films were the only real artistic element. Tarantino was a fan of the rawness of some of the exploitation storytelling and wanted to emulate that in a tribute to the movement.
I am so happy that these RUclips people are not moviemakers.
Jungle Julia actress it´s Sidney Tamiia Poitier; daughter of the legendary actor Sidney Poitier.
This was meant to be seen as the second feature film in a double feature called "Grindhouse", along with a movie by Robert Rodriguez called "Planet Terror". It was a full 3hr program with fake exploitation trailers and bumpers meant to emulate what an exploitation movie double feature from the 1970s would look like. That's why there's fabricated film damage and jump cuts. It's supposed to make the film look like it was run through a projector dozens of times by inexperienced projectionists. Pretentious (even more so by QT), but undeniably fun.
What's funny is that most of those fake trailers came to fruition. Machete, Hobo with a Shotgun, and Thanksgiving have been made. Still waiting for "Don't" and "Werewolf Women of the SS".
"Laisse tomber les filles," originally recorded by France Gall, is the cool sixties song in the credits. It means "leave the girls alone," a sentiment that Stuntman Mike really should have listened to. It's yet another perfect song placement by Tarantino whose use of music is second to none.
April March is so underrated. Attention Cherie is a great track by her.
@@reservoirdude92 Agreed!
Actually, if you pay attention to the lyrics (I'm French so I understand all of them) it means "Dump the girls" (as in, dump your girlfriend), and warns about playing with people's heart
Fun Facts:
The woman in the Pink tee shirt is Zoe Bell. She is one of the best stunt performers in movies and television. And she has been in every Tarantino movie since Kill Bill. Also, if you are observant, in every Quentin Tarantino movie since Pulp Fiction he tries to slip in a reference to the State of Tennessee. That is why this movie was shot in Tennessee. He is actually from Tennessee but grew up in California.
When this first came out in theatres in the US, this (which played in a slightly different, shorter cut) was part of a double feature called Grindhouse. This played after Planet Terror, and also had trailers for fake movies done by other directors...although at this point two of those fake trailers have become actual movies.
The sheriff character in this that was also in Kill Bill also shows up in Planet Terror, and first appeared in the Tarantino written and Robert Rodriguez directed movie From Dusk till Dawn. The sheriff’s son comes from From Dusk till Dawn 2. The sister working in the hospital is from Planet Terror, so when you’re watching Grindhouse you see her their right before Death Proof. The movie never explicitly says they’re the same characters, but the guy the girls leave their friend with is played by the same actor (and would seem to be the same character) that played the trucker from the hospital scene in Kill Bill Vol. 1.
We did a lot of stupid stuff in cars in the 70s. There was way more drunk driving then. The cars were built like tanks but seat belts weren't required until much later. I recall a famous country music star, Barbara Mandrell nearly died in a car crash on 9/11/84. I can't remember if she was wearing her seat belt but she became a very vocal advocate for them and that kick started a lot of media attention then legislation, even in the South, which was very resistant to comprehensive rules like that. The insurance companies did the rest of the work. My wife definitely used to hang her feet out like that and on the dash. God protects fools...thankfully. Dawn, please react to the other half of the double feature, 'Planet Terror'; great reaction!
I love how polarizing this movie is among Tarantino fans. People seem to either love it or hate it. Personally, it's in my top 3 of his filmography. But you were killin' me in the latter half of the movie, those 2nd set of girls must have really been off putting to you, for you to be like "I don't know who's side I'm on." 😂😂😂
Best Tarantino ever. When this was in the theatres as a double feature with PLANET TERROR, the audience was laughing, dry heaving and walking out. 😂❤
No they weren't. If they were walking out it's because they were bored.
@@QuagmiresDooflab go jerk yourself bud. You weren’t there. You disgusting troll.
@ troll
@@niteowlsongs erm.....no. Is that your answer to anyone who disagrees with you or who calls out rubbish?
@ no, but you, as a gentleman, must concede that you weren’t at East Van Cinemas on commercial drive in 2007. The audience was reeling and laughing whilst choking on their own barfy barf….my apologies. 🙏
I love the deliberately bad B-movie jump cuts in this film. During the final car chase, within a few seconds, you see the blood on the windshield go from obviously paint, to not there at all, to a reddish watery liquid.
You can't have your feet out the window, they're gonna get chopped off! Hohahahaha!
My thoughts exactly.
I'm sure others are going to be giving u some great trivia. So I will just say I agree about the conversations the female actresses had, they sucked. Please remember it was a man (Tarantino) that wrote the script, not a woman. Written, produced, directed and shot by him. That said I actually love this movie and am familiar with most of the actresses. The second set of female characters were all in show business in one aspect or another in the movie. Stylist, model, stunt women....always entertained by ur reviews Love them 💙
It's a 70s Drive in B Film homage/tribute, that's why all the grainy motions were in the film, chicks, murder/slasher movies and powerful cars
This is a very underrated gem by Tarantino. The music, cinematography, casting, scenes... specially Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike.
Tarantino's music taste is immaculate. Staggolee is suuuuch a great track.
My favorite Tarantino film. The lap dance scene is spectacular.
A good chunk of this film's soundtrack was taken from films from the 60s to the 80s. The bassy "Last Race" theme came from _Village of the Giants_ , a raunchy 1964 Bert I. Gordon film where a group of rowdy teens grow into giants and take over a town. There's also a Morricone piece from the Dario Argento film _The Cat O' Nine Tails_ , and the John Travolta and Al Pacino films _Blow Out_ and _Cruising_ .
The same cop in Kill Bill! You’re right, I didn’t notice until you did!
Tarantino's ode to '70's car movies.
The second half of this movie is supposed to be in Lebanon, TN. Actually filmed just south of Santa Maria and near Solvang, CA. Beautiful backroad area. The background terrain is a giveaway.
Now that you mention it, it definitely looks like the area around Solvang.
Also, DM, I think you missed the part where Stuntman Mike's motivation was spelled out by the Sheriff. Earl theorizes, correctly we are to assume, that killing women with his car is "the only way (Stuntman Mike) can shoot his goo." In other words, he's impotent, and this is how he gets off, feels virile, and "connects" with women. If I were in his place, I would've settled for the lap dance.
As always, Tarantino's soundtrack choices were perfection for this one.
20:05 He is!
I've been sitting through this movie thinking, oh well, Tarantino has lost his touch. And then in the final 10 minutes I was like WOW WOW WOW:) Seriously underrated movie.
Kurt Russell in "Captain Ron" ... Good Comedy
Grindhouse is a 2007 American film written and directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Presented as a double feature, it combines Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles.
The Grindhouse film look is so fun! Those film cuts, film scratches and skips are so well done.
This movie is my favorite QT film.
Not only is the soundtrack killer but the revenge story is sooo sweet!
“Revenge is a dinner best served cold!” 🥶- Black Momba (The Bride, Beatrix Kiddo,Mom)
Been waiting for you to do this one, this is the Tarantino film I find myself re-watching the most
Nice to see Eli Roth making a cameo in the bar.
The guy who's selling the challenger is the same guy in Kill Bill who the bride bite his lip before killing him after trying to rape her.
18:30,,,,"Yaaayyy We're Gonna Get Some Murdering"-Dawn,,,,😂🎉
“You’re going to have to start getting scared……..immediately.”
'They look a lot like my feet' - she knows what she's saying to a certain audiance.
Yeah she just needs to post a picture!!!!!!!
With French tips 😢
@@HonRevPTB sadly, it will never happen. I think a lot of what she says is very much toung in cheek
@@zaftra It would be like dying and going to paradise if she did though wouldn't it??? LOL 🤣😆🤣
Isn't she the funniest @13:40 saying "I never talk about my Sexuals" 😂
Hard to believe that this was the very first thing I saw Mary Elizabeth "Ramona Flowers" Winstead in and not Scott Pilgrim. Also funny how Eli Roth mentions BJ and The Bear when he's The Bear Jew from Inglorious Basterds.
Who are the other pictures of? Most likely Stuntman Mike's other victims. Thankyou for doing a reaction to one of my fave films! Much respect
Love this film. A guilty pleasure. I agree. A friend doesn’t put another friend on the spot, much less through the radio broadcast. I see where Jungle Julia got her name with her demeanour and now she’s the one at the bottom of that jungle food chain, her friends too.
You can say what you want about this movie, it has one of the best car chase scenes in movie history ❤
Are we going to get *Planet Terror* aswell? Tis the season 😅
I remember watching the Planet Terror/Death Proof double feature on IFC almost 15 years ago now. IFC used to be a lot more raw back then so all of Planet Terror's gore made it to my 10 year old eyes. For some reason that movie hits the stomach differently.
I guess my friends and I are weird. We used to talk about all kinds of stuff. Random weird conversations are hilarious. We can be stupid but, oh, it’s so much fun! 😜😂
Possibly my favourite Tarantino and I don't really know why. Maybe that fly-on-the-wall feel witnessing Quentin's industrial strength Girl Banter.
It came out as a double feature with Planet Terror, which is fun… both of these are just fun movies.. definitely not to be taken seriously. He did team up btw with Umma for thinking up the story for KillBill, so if you have a good idea, go for it.
Immediately clicked out the vid i was watching to watch this !
Me too!
the girls in the ending credits are test images from the manufacturer of the film stock to prove the film works and for lab techs to calibrate during processing. back in the day they called them "leader ladies".
I grew up in Los Angeles and loved watching B-Movies on a show called MOVIES TIL DAWN. From Midnight to around 5am on Fri/Sat Back in the day TV went off the air Sun/Thur after midnight until morning newscast. Not enough people watching for advertiser to pay for night operation. On weekends there were enough night owls watching and they could afford to play low-cost, low-budget GRINDHOUSE films. Super low budget films of all sorts of genres Teen Coming of Age films, Horror, Karate/Martial Arts, Aliens, Outlaw Biker Gangs both Male & Female, Rebellious Teens, Teen Prostitute, Racing of all sorts (Car, Motorcycle, Skateboard, etc.), Surfer, and California Summer were just some of the genres. Most of these fell into the so bad they are good category. Scripts were incoherent and would wander off into other genres or introduce random ass "colorful" side characters, who can randomly disappear. Props were terrible (One production company made an alien out of the body of a gorilla suit with a "reptile" head, because it was on discount) & you could periodically see the actor in the suit because of the mismatched head. Acting was horrible ( We won't get into specifics), but it was bad. Often, they would get some washed up actor or a famous sports figure to act in a couple of scenes as a FEATURED ACTOR to give it street cred. Super Un-PC borderline and not so borderline behavior and scenarios. Terrible Editing like in this movie, but on accident, And, of course, Terrible directing. Death Proof is soaked in GRINDHOUSE references & tropes. Somehow, Quinten manages to take all this trash and turn it into an Arthouse Film!!! Quinten Grew up in LA too & we're about the same age, I think he must have been a big fan of MOVIES TIL DAWN too. It's like he lives inside my childhood head.
Planet Terror first, then Death Proof. That's the full-length Grindhouse film.
"the bonnet of the car"
LOL
The whole style of this film was supposed to replicate very low-budget American "grindhouse" movies of the late '60s to mid '70s. They were the type of movies that were grouped together when you went to an Outdoor theater. Grindhouse directors and producers often used the same actors, playing the same basic characters in overlapping movies.
The Texas Rangers Earl McGraw and son Edgar McGraw are played by real life father/son actors Michael and James Parks who appear in other Tarantino/Rodriquez films. Michael as Earl McGraw also played Earl in From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill (also as Esteban Vihaio), and as one of the slave holders in Django Unchained. James Parks as Edgar was also in Kill Bill and Machete. He was also in Django Unchained as a tracker, and in The Hateful Eight as O.B. Jackson.
Zoë Bell is a badass. She was Uma Thurman's stunt double in Kill Bill.
I remember seeing this in the theater. It was a cut down version along with planet terror that also had fake trailers and an intermission.
As kids we used to watch movies like this at the drive-in and make out! What a date.
i think marie really vocalised the core of this movie: all these people are f..king awful, and it's only mike's murderous schemes that turn some of them into victims and some of them into heroes.
21:42 "What if she accidentally let's go?"
Then she accidentally dies.
Yeah this and Planet Terror (Robert Rodriguez) were released together as "Grindhouse".... Saw both didn't like either but did enjoy the car chase at the end, very well filmed... absolute best part of the film. One of the best car chase scenes ever filmed right up there with the Mad Max films car chases, and the Blues Brothers and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
12:25 she got that Clair Dunphey behavior 😂
That whistling theme is from Kill Bill, but it's originally from Twisted Nerve (1968).
Hell yea! Amazing reaction, still need that Once in the west to drop on here 🔥
"Aww those bonnie cows"
Originally this 'movie' was only part of a movie called Grindhouse. 2 movies in one, with fake trailers. The other movie was called Planet Terror by director Robert Rodriguez. Really you should see it in its original form. Both films are a take on an by gone era.
Glad you enjoyed this. A lot don't and it was regarded at the time as a flop... i have always enjoyed it! But do think Planet Terror which it was released with is the better of the two would love a reaction to that Dawn!
PLANET TERROR was the "pt2" to this...was fun watching in the theater 🤘🔥🤘 it's the better of the two movies imo..more sci-fi.. Robert Rodriguez directed it i believe..not Tarantino.
11:43 he also shows up in From Dusk Till Dawn - remember?
The end credits song 'chick habit' is also the opening song of the movie 'but, im a cheerleader.'
A late 90's queer teen comedy that has just hit it's cult streak.
Definitely worth a watch...
Zoe Bell and Kurt Russell played a husband/wife stunt team in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
This was an intentional spoof/tribute to Drive-In Chick exploitation movies of the 60s and 70s where girls got revenge on guys. Everything about the movie was like a B movie reproduction of a silly violent car chase movie you'd see in an American Drive In movie. From the defects and glitches in the film to the bare bones plot, to the dirty girl talk etc. It was all a PARODY/A SPOOF. Just like JACKIE BROWN was a Spoof/Tribute to Blaxploitation films of the 70s. It helps to read up a little on what you are watching so you get some idea.
You watched a movie in the Quentin Tarantino universe. The same universe that has pulp fiction. This movie would be playing at the theater. I learned that today.
Hi Dawn (& chat) Halloween is just around the corner heres a classic movie for you....
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) 🎃
Cary Grant Priscilla Lane Peter Lorre Ramond Massey many great character actors and the household 2 aunts and uncle
(all 3 have been playing those roles on Broadway for yrs)
It's a laugh a minute with a few scares thrown in for Halloween 🎃
11:38 this film takes place in the same universe as Kill Bill. The events of Death Proof take place before the events of Kill Bill. One of the other characters in both films in the second part of Death Proof dies in Kill Bill.
The scene where he takes picture of the girl is identical (and has the same music by Ennio Morricone) to a scene from Dario Argento's The bird with Crystal Plumage
Zoe Bell ❤
The pictures during the closing credits came from a copy of Italian Vogue magazine, which is mentioned in the movie
Dropped everything to watch!!!!