Thursday, May 12, 2016

TARANTINO is Poaching across time and space


The above video that I have created shows that Tarantino's filming style has been poached from Lady Snowblood (1973). The reason I have chosen to use Kill Bill (2003) as an example for poaching across time and space is because the scenes are nearly alike, especially the ending and the music in both films towards the end of the video is also similar. Jenkins described fans as "highly educated" (Jenkins 2013, p.18) and also quoted de Certeau (1984): 

                "readers are travellers, they move across lands belonging to someone else"                        (Jenkins 2013, p.24)
Tarantino as a fan is also an "active producer" (Jenkins 2013, p.23) because he as a fan is "heavily researched" (Booth 2010, p.17) as the content was originally in Japanese language hence the style of the film and made in 1973 it takes a person who is heavily interested in that style of content to find such a specific film and get inspiration from it, such as the fight scenes that are shown in the video and how the blood is heavily exploding, he uses the same style in every single films that he writes and direct. Tarantino has been using the same blood exploding scenes in his films as that is his filming style, to be a fan of something, a person has to be actively doing something; saying this, in every film that he has made, he has used the blood exploding scene which means that he is a fan of that. "The fans assert their own right to form interpretations," (Jenkins 2013, p.18) and Tarantino fits into the community of fans that Jenkins described. 

        "A certain kind of production (real enough, but not the only kind) that set out to produce history by "informing" the whole of a country" (Certeau 1988, p.167) 
Tarantino created the film to make it look realistic in the fight scenes, and in this day and age, people are more likely to discover this scene style from Tarantino first because without Tarantino "informing"  (Certeau 1988, p.167) that this style of scenes does exist, people who watch it would not have been curious about where the style is from but because it is so different, Tarantino must have taken something as an inspiration to make it his own by using a Western Actress (Kill Bill) instead of a Japanese actress (Lady Snowblood) as the main character in the fights. 

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