[CJFusco]

Originally posted by dd74
Hey CJ, sans the canned analysis you make about Tarantino with pace and momentum, sound and music and dialogue - blah, blah, blah; let's get to the heart of the issue with the pure fact that had it not been for Harvey Keitel, Reservoir Dogs, partly because of its content, would have never been made. Had it also not been for Harvey Keitel, RD, would have received an NC-17 rating. Had it not been for Keitel financing much of Reservoir Dogs and taking on the financial risk, partly because he wanted to regenerate his own snoozing career, Reservoir Dogs would not have been made.

So save all the undergrad film school regurgitation; you're missing the point of the business by confusing it with tech stuff that doesn't matter if the film can't be made at all.

As for Pulp Fiction, your mention of that film proves what, exactly? That Tarantino has a legal obligation to fulfill a previously established contract with Miramax? That the movie was ten to twelve years old and produced in a much different time than movies today? As I said, try pitching a movie like that TODAY, not ten years ago.

I think you're missing the point. My point was that it was RESERVOIR DOG's success that allowed Tarantino to make PULP FICTION - which I still insist wasn't even remotely racially-charged!

You seem angry for no good reason.