Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Death Proof











The script gets off to a slow start and middle, but there's a point to it. And that point is the final third of the movie - which is brilliant, and completely justifies casting Zoe Bell as herself.

The dialogue almost never reaches super-quotable Tarantino levels from 16 years ago, but the action at the end makes up for it, for me.

Also, funniest ending to a feature film in recent memory.

8 comments:

JY said...

Dude, your blog is REALLY detailed about scriptwriting. However you have had about 200 more hits that Richard who I work with and is always telling me how many views his blog has had. This is good. It gives me something to rub his face in tomorrow. Not that I'm petty....

Richard (of RBB) said...

JY, that is childish! Anyway, how do I know that this guy isn't adding hits to his own site?

hix said...

Actually, I do check in pretty regularly to see if I've posted anything new, so that may be skewing the stats.

And how do you know how many hits I've had, JY? I mean, that's just creepy.

JY said...

I'd like to say a few things:

(1) JY is my teacher code at school and my real name is John-Paul, you may have heard of me from earlier parts of your life.
(2) I apologise for Richard. He "teaches" music at my school (yes, that's right, "MY" school).
(3)Why is it creepy? Richard's entire self esteem is attached to his number of hits.

JY said...

I found out from a third form girl the other day that dude means camel penis and dork means whale penis. I only mention this because I see that my first comment begins: "Dude, your blog..." and I wanted you to know that I wasn't intentionally calling you a camel's peinis.

JY said...

You haven't added anything to your blog for a month. Please explain. If I don't ask these questions Richard will.

hix said...

I know who you are, JP. I just thought you were one of those freaks who like to cruise the inet pseudonymously - so that their students don't recognise them. I'm looking at you ... "Seraph".

And, seriously, don't get invested in my rate of posting. Me and multi-dimensional, we're having a fight at the moment. But I'm sure things'll all work out for the best after we get some counselling.

Your blog, on the other hand, is awesome. Dude.

JY said...

Hiff whiff piffle jiff.