Remarkable

Tarantino steals lots of stuff, sure, but in a good way. He takes from the past in order to write the future -- and Kill Bill is his bid for...

Tarantino's Kill Bill is almost like a collage of other movie moments. But not like a high school girl's best friends collage. Like ...

Quentin Tarantino has a point when he has bits of his movies look like other movies. He is remixing images with purpose, giving new life to ...

Quentin Tarantino movies do look like he took scenes from other people's movies and put in a blender. But only if it is some kind of sup...

Tarantino sure has seen a bunch of movies. And those movies often show up in his movies. They do so not because he does not have good ideas ...

John Milton quotes epic poetry and comments on the history of the genre in Paradise Lost, placing himself as the culmination of a tradition....

"Tarantino just steals from other peoples movies! That's bullshit." It's not bullshit and its not stealing -- it is allusi...

Tarantino steals from other movies, sure, but he has a GOOD REASON. He is using other movies to makes comments on the history of the film, t...

I continue in my quest to save Tarantino from the eight people in the world who say he is not a real filmmaker but a rip-off artist. It is m...

Tarantino makes bits of his movies look like bits in other peoples movies. He is not a plagiarist -- far from it. He wants to remind you of ...

Tarantino studies 101. First lesson. Tarantino allusion are like Milton's allusions: they have a point. And the point of an artist is al...

I continue my weekly look at movies that have influenced Kill Bill. It is my opinion that Tarantino positions his film in relation to these ...

My project of following Tarantino's allusions to other movies in Kill Bill rolls along. Tarantino's action movie surveys the history...

Tarantino's Kill Bill often looks like other movies. Why? Because he wants to remind you of the past in order to re-write the past. Beca...

Tarantino is obviously EXACTLY like John Milton, because both men quote the works of others, arrange those quotes in relation to each other ...

Tarantino. Not stealing things. Re-interpreting. Tarantino smart like Milton not dumb like Rob Liefeld. FROM GAME OF DEATH [Bruce Lee being ...

I argue that Tarantino does not just steal from other movies but repurposes them, as Milton did with epic poetry and as you might with magaz...

I continue to say, hey, maybe Tarantino is not so much stealing from other movies as transforming them into a new whole -- not unlike how Mi...

I continue to insist that Tarantino is JUST LIKE JOHN MILTON. They both allude to earlier works as part of a large interpretative project, w...

I continue to look at Tarantino's influences as they factor into Kill Bill. Some jerks claim he just steals things, but I think it is mo...