We continue to explore treasured tourist destinations based on films by our favorite directors. The next destination was America, and the guide was the renowned self-taught film buff Quentin Tarantino.
The United States is the land of opportunity. Criminals too. Here you can freely buy weapons, and even the police will never attack some places – the local underworld confidently holds its position. At the same time, boss and famous gangster Joe Cabot (Lawrence Tierney) gathers six experienced but unknown criminal professionals. The goal is to pull off the perfect jewelry store robbery, but early on something goes wrong and the seemingly meticulous crime turns into a bloodbath.
The cult film, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, combines several stories: in one, two freedom-loving and philosophically minded bandits Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winfield (Samuel L. Jackson) have deep conversations between confrontations and decisions. problems with his boss’s debtors. In another, Vincent spends an unforgettable evening with Marsellus’s (Ving Rhames) wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), while her husband buys boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) to fight. And in the third, Vincent and Jules, due to an absurd accident, continue to get into trouble. The name refers to pulp magazines, popular in the mid-20th century in the United States, whose style was used to create posters and, later, cover designs for soundtracks, video tapes and DVDs featuring this tape.
It is commonly believed that the United States is a land of opportunity. The main thing is to have the courage to grab them and hold on to them. Thus, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) lives in Los Angeles and works as a stewardess in a small Mexican company. The pay is meager, but the position allows him to smuggle cash from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), an arms dealer who in the meantime is under attack by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms. Fire and Explosives. Everything is going very well until she is arrested by federal agents. You can only remain free by pawning the dealer. The risky girl makes a bold decision: embezzle half a million and get rid of the dealer.
Another cinematic religion in the United States is westerns. In 2011, Tarantino announced the start of production on Django Unchained, whose plot tells about the slave Django (Jamie Foxx), who is freed by Schultz (Christoph Waltz), an eccentric bounty hunter who tracks and shoots the most dangerous criminals. . Once free, Django goes in search of his wife, as well as bandits with whom he has his own scores to settle. “I want to make a film about the terrible pages of American history associated with slavery and in the “spaghetti western” genre. “I will try to address something that the United States has not yet addressed because they are ashamed of it and others do not talk about it because they think they have no right to it,” the director later said.
The setting is Los Angeles, a global factory of dreams for all those who have dreams, ambitions and the desire to show themselves to the whole world. In February 1969, Hollywood actor and former star of the 1950s western television series Hunting Law, Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), complains to his best friend and former stuntman, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), that his career is over and he can now act in television series to catch up in a rapidly changing film industry. Meanwhile, actress Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) and her husband, Polish director Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha), move into a house next door to Dalton. Rick dreams of befriending the couple to regain his star status and return to the A-list. The plot is intertwined with the true stories of the Charles Manson sect and the murder of Sharon Tate, but deliberately distances itself from the real events and shows a fictional and alternative version of them. Tarantino noted that he dedicates the film to the golden age of cinema and considers that the main character of the film is Hollywood.
