bathrooms

helena kim (helenak@geocities.com)
Sat, 03 Jan 1998 13:47:32 +0000

they were discussing this same kind of thread on alt.fan.tarantino.

willie williams <airborne@nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> There's a simple reason why bathrooms appear in all of Tarantino's
> flicks...  and that is... bathrooms are real.  I don't know about you,
> but I can't really relate to a Jack Rabbit Slims because I have never
> been to a restaurant where I sat in a car and had dance contests.  But
> I've been to the bathroom in almost every restaurant I have ever gone
> into.  And I'd be willing to bet my life savings that everyone reading
> this post has been to a bathroom too...
> 
> Bathrooms are something that even though we don't think about, are
> almost never uncertain.  Its a private place, its got a sence of
> security that allows characters to reveal their inner self, which really
> can't be done with the types of characters Tarantino displays.  Nothing
> bad ever happens to a character in the bathroom, its safe.  Sure they
> might find things different on their way out, but that's when we know
> the characters are leaving the safety, they are entering the dangerous
> world where anything is possible.
> 
> This is one of the subtle qualities in Tarantino's work that makes the
> movies feel real, but which usually go unnoticed.

i think this also applies to salinger.

anyone interested in bathrooms and tarantino should visit

http://www.gatecom.com/~cashiers/issue2_a.html

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