NC-17 For GRINDHOUSE?
GRINDHOUSE may need significant edits to avoid an NC-17 rating. Page Six has the dirt on some of the more problematic scenes (one example after the jump).
QT had similar problems with Kill Bill – thats why some of the Crazy 88 scene is in black and white (so that the blood is black instead of red). For whatever reason, its OK to hack someone to pieces on screen, just so long as they don’t bleed red blood.
“In one scene, a cute, topless girl is roughly tied down on a table by evil female Nazi experimenters who begin draining her blood and, as she screams in agony, they brand her like livestock with a coal-hot steel swastika,” our source said. “And every girl in the Nazi concentration camp is topless.”
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about 4 years ago
Wow.
Um, yeah, he’s a pretty good action director.
I just guess that you equate “poor writer who can direct a pretty good action scene” with genius. I don’t. I recognize him as a pretty decent director. He’s no genius though. I would lump him in with such directors as Eli Roth, Rob Zombie and, to a lesser degree, James Wan, as decent directors who could make much better movies if they worked with a good writer instead of insisting on writing crappy scripts.
I think From Dusk Till Dawn is easily Rodriguez’s best movie, and it isn’t lost on me that it is based on a script by an excellent writer, even if the script is not that writer’s best script by a long shot.
And yes, of course Rodriguez is an inspiration, but it’s mainly because he was noticed by Hollywood for making a competent action movie on a tiny budget. Good for him, I just don’t think he’s a genius in ANY form (though I think his scores are always really fucking cool).
about 4 years ago
I’m shutting down this thread since GRINDHOUSE Got an R Rating.