The Police and the Private

31st May 2012

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peterwknox:

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INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Fits Perfectly into Quentin Tarantino’s Movie Universe and Influences the Entire Filmography

By now, most Quentin Tarantino fans are aware of the connections interlaced throughout all of his films. John Travolta’s Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction is the brother of Michael Madsen’s Vic Vega in Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel’s Mr. White worked with Alabama from True Romance, the plot basis for Kill Bill is described as the synopsis for a TV series in Pulp Fiction, etc.

Now the epiphany that Eli Roth’s character of Donny Donowitz aka “The Bear Jew” in Inglourious Basterds is the father of the movie producer Lee Donowitz in True Romance has inspired a truly mind-blowing theory that the rest of the films (chronologically speaking) in Tarantino’s filmography take place in a world where [Inglorious Basterds spoiler] World War II came to an end when Adolf Hitler was brutally murdered in a movie theater by the Basterds.

This initial connection was brought up in an article on Cracked, but a poster on Reddit (via David Chen’s Twitter) has more eloquently summed up what this means for Tarantino’s movieverse:

As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, ‘The Bear Jew’, is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance – which means that, in Tarantino’s universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker. Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc. You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino’s movies are technically two universes – he’s gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn take place in a ‘movie movie universe’; that is, they’re movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.) What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn? That they’re crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America’s crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits – and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer. Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.

THIS has always subconsciously made sense and now is just so awesome to see.

Ugh I love this interpretation

Internet why you gotta meta so hard? 

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28th May 2012

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With Tyrion as Ferguson and Stannis as Sam (bc he climbs a ladder…)! 

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28th May 2012

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Automatic puppy pun reblog #iguessthisiswhoiamnow?

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5th May 2012

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sarahluz:

Jason and Andrew playing “Sabotage” tonight in the basement.

Just a great scene. 

I haven’t actually been able to really take in the loss today because of some oppressive paper about the effect of the Volcker Rule on corporate bond markets blah blah blah. But I remember in 6th or 7th grade going to my very first party as a middle schooler (I was usually not able to be very social because I had gymnastics practice basically every night of the week until 9pm), showing up and feeling very out of place. All of the kids I saw as the cool ones were singing this weird song about girls (and how cool it was to hear them talk) that I could barely follow, but remember desperately wanting to understand and be a part of their revelry. I’m not sure if that’s the first time I ever heard the Beastie Boys (I was pretty sheltered musically up until high school), but I remember the amount of fun that they brought to the party, even if it was more of a moment of isolation for myself. 

Much later, I remember having incredible times at basically every party in and after college where someone (note: almost definitely Jason), would put this song on and the entire group of people would erupt and start singing and yelling along. That’s what I like to remember, that and how awesome the Body Movin’ music video was. 

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