Yes, I thought of Friends watching Coupling also. But Coupling is so much more fun, plus it plays with the form often. (Admittedly, I almost never watch "Friends," so I might be wrong about that show.)
The one critique of QT that I've seen that gives me pause is the amount of sexual violence in his films; an example is the scene with Marcellus Wallace and Butch in the cellar in Pulp Fiction, or the Bride's being raped while in a coma in Kill Bill, vol. 1. The criticism is that his films don't really take this matter seriously enough and sensationalize it, whereas most of the rest of the violence is so clearly not what most people will experience in any form that it doesn't seem as big a problem. I'm not personally offended by the sexual violence in his movies, but I wonder if maybe I should be. Oh well.
I agree on Inglourious Basterds and also found it distancing. There is a great review by Chris Stangl at http://explodingkinetoscope.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-bravery-das-unheimliche-and.html, where he talks about the film and reveals his emotional attachment to it. But it's not something I personally felt.
(Someone once pointed out the Sleeping Beauty parallel with the Bride in KB1, though, and the way the original fairy tale involved something more than a kiss.)
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Date: 2010-04-20 05:25 am (UTC)The one critique of QT that I've seen that gives me pause is the amount of sexual violence in his films; an example is the scene with Marcellus Wallace and Butch in the cellar in Pulp Fiction, or the Bride's being raped while in a coma in Kill Bill, vol. 1. The criticism is that his films don't really take this matter seriously enough and sensationalize it, whereas most of the rest of the violence is so clearly not what most people will experience in any form that it doesn't seem as big a problem. I'm not personally offended by the sexual violence in his movies, but I wonder if maybe I should be. Oh well.
I agree on Inglourious Basterds and also found it distancing. There is a great review by Chris Stangl at http://explodingkinetoscope.blogspot.com/2009/09/for-bravery-das-unheimliche-and.html, where he talks about the film and reveals his emotional attachment to it. But it's not something I personally felt.
(Someone once pointed out the Sleeping Beauty parallel with the Bride in KB1, though, and the way the original fairy tale involved something more than a kiss.)