Re: Tarantino and J.D. Salinger
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Fri, 28 Aug 1998 10:08:22 +1000
> > I knew that Tarantino was influenced in his film writing with the way a
> > novel is
> > structured, but I never dreamed he'd
>
> ...rip off a story from the obscure Scorsese documentary American Boy
from
> 1978, pass the script off as Pulp Fiction and then not say anything when
he
> shares the Oscar for Best Screenplay.
There is a difference between ripping off and homaging. And Tarantino is
quite happy to admit he's on the former team (: But it's like I said - a
major feature of postmodernism is the collage; the retextualisation of
found objects into a new meaning; the transition from the Campbell's soup
can in your supermarket to the Warhol masterpiece on the wall of your art
gallery. I doubt Andy Warhol ever thanked Campbell's Soup for his
inspiration. In fact Campbell Soup sales went up and they actually decided
not to change the old label because it had been so enshrined by Warhol.
And, well ... I never would have heard of American Boy, or Straw Dogs, or a
lot of the other movies Tarantino utilises if he hadn't borrowed from them.
Camille
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