Friday, 03 January 2003, 1622
Quentin Tarantino's new film Kill Bill, promoted by studio Miramax as "The 4th film by Quentin Tarantino," has released a teaser trailer that is available to download from who else but Apple. There is also an official Flash-only website for the film that does not contain much content at this time.
I cannot say that the teaser really got me excited about the film, but I have to give Quentin Tarantino some leeway since he is Quentin Tarantino and has yet to lead me up the garden path.
As much as I generally steer away from such materials, Jean-François Allaire has a (non-spoiler) script review posted at TNMC that rekindles my interest a bit. My only fear is that this homage to traditional Kung-Fu will be all too reminiscent of the recent trendy Asian-themed film, which not to say I do not enjoy, but does not really meld with the Tarantino style as far as I am concerned. Again, I wait for him to prove me wrong. As it stands, a piece of alleged trivia listed in the IMDb page for the movie indicates Tarantino "forbade the use of digital effects and 'professional' gags and squibs" for a more tralatitious look and feel. That at least improves my confidence in the film.
Currently the only release date indicated is Fall 2003, so we will have to wait a bit before we have the opportunity to see if this film can prove itself worthy of the tradition and legacy already established. And I will give it that chance, even sans the guns and drugs we look to expect from arguably one of the finest and most influential directors of film in the 90's.
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I read earlier that supposedly Tarantino loves the old kung-fu movies, and his new film is supposed to be a homage to them. Which may be a bad thing. I doubt that this sort of thing is Tarantino's forte.
But I'll see it anyway. I hope it's good.
I saw the Kill Bill trailer and I thought it looked GREAT. I love it when "good" directors make movies in the off beat genres where they get inspiration and originality. It's like the horror movies of Coppala, or De Palma's erotic thrillers, even Martin Scorsese's mob movies are a take on mob movies of the 40's and 50's
I would love it if Tarantino took a stab at a western at some point in his career.
But I will say the Kung Fu movies that Tarantino is getting insparation from are very different from the ones comming out today so I wouldn't be surprised if the people (Ash) who like new kung Fu movies don't like this one. Sorry, no Jet Li or Jackie Chan.