Re: Tarantino and J.D. Salinger

Malcolm Lawrence (malcolm@wolfenet.com)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:25:29 -0700

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?

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