Quentin Tarantino, the best independent director of recent times, with a characteristic style to tell stories: shocking, bloody, violent and sometimes with a mixed timeline.
Now, I'm going to talk about two of his movies: Death Proof and Inglourious Basterds. And an especific subject of those movies: the fear.
As we know, one of the most important things about Quentin is his direction of cameras, or cinematography, and from there is where he gets our attention. With highly violent scenes, with enthusiastic characters on "their mission" and intriguent dialogues that only get you more into the movie.
Death Proof
Death Proof is the story of Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), who stalks 2 different groups of girls to get them into his "Death proof" car.
Tarantino portrays the fear through this evil, weird looking and mysterious character, Mike.
But it goes beyond the character. It goes to the locations, the places where the story takes... place (worth the redundancy) like a bar in the night, raining or in the mountains in a car chase.
Along with the locations is the effects that really impresses you and leaves you astonished. It is bloody, violent, really "explosive" in some way. Is real and unreal at the time, it's exaggerated, but that's the way Tarantino wants it, and he says it and demonstrates it in his last movie: Django: Unchained, where the blood is flying around the whole movie and it looks more thick than in the Basterds or Death Proof.
Inglourious Basterds
Tarantino uses the same technics that in past movies, and that I've highlighted in the post earlier.
You know, if the formula works, use it again. But he knows he can't repeat all the time, and that's why he doesn't play with the timeline since Kill Bill. He knows that it must rest some time because if not, it gets boring and tedious.
In this film, it is much more obvious and easy, maybe, to portray the fear, because it is a war film.
But, wait, Tarantino doesn't make it fear for the audience, like the horror films, is fear in the movie, to the characters and to get our attention.
The basterds are a group of american jews who fight against Nazis in germany during the World War II. These are very clever and violent too. The sign of the movie is the swastika they mark on the foreheads of the nazis they left alive.
Also, Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent), the french jew with the cinema, with her vengeance plans and her boyfriend, Marcel, are very violent against the nazis and it shows a lot of fear from their faces.
And a shocking part, is the first scene, where SS Colonel, Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) interviews a french family to know about the presence of jews hiding there. The whole scene goes in an increscendo of mystery, intelligence, fear and violence. It's absolutely awesome.
The best experience I've had there, is the premiere of a shortfilm of wich I was editor. It was awesome, we even had to change from one cinema to the biggest one so the people could fit.
