Re: Tarantino and J.D. Salinger
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 21:16:24 +1000
Aha! Extremely, extremely interesting! I've just finished an assignment on
that very film and even and ol' pacifist like me (now let's not open that
particular can of worms again) is constantly fascinated by it. I knew that
Tarantino was influenced in his film writing with the way a novel is
structured, but I never dreamed he'd be talking about the Glasses ... but
now it all makes perfect sense! Boy this makes an even bigger and better
case for the research thesis I hope to apply for next year ... something
along the lines of `Salinger and Postmodernism'
> 'A few things are particularly noteworthy for this film in relation to
> other films.
> The most notable thing is that in "real" time, the prologue is
> immediately
> followed by the epilogue. This is a feature Tarantino attributes to J.D.
>
> Salinger; "When you read his Glass family stories, they all eventually
> add up to
> one big story. That was the biggest example for me"'.
Camille
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