Camille Scaysbrook wrote: > 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. Have you actually seen American Boy? > > > Camille > verona_beach@geocities.com > @ THE ARTS HOLE > www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 > THE INVERTED FOREST > www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest