She’ll Kill Bill While You Chill-Pierzchala
Today’s article, titled “She’ll Kill Bill While You Chill by Dr. Thomas Zengotita, was similar in focus Monday’s reading. This article, however, took a slightly different direction. While Monday’s reading focused on the satirical irony present in Tarantino’s depiction of intense gore and violence and his mastery over the subject, today’s focused more on the social connotations and effects these violence-driven films have on today’s society. This article also followed and documented Quinton Tarantino’s rise to fame and his “heroic” accent to the top of his world. The article opens telling just how Tarantino got to where he is. It speaks of his seemingly-overbearing affection toward film of every genre and make. It tells of his astonishing memory of every aspect of these films from leading roles to cinematography to musical arrangements. Zengotita then proceeds to depict how Tarantino landed a job at a local video store and this ultimately put him in place to make the contributions to modern film that he ultimately did. The article then takes a different direction and begins to talk about the effects these uber-violent films have on society as a whole.
In my opinion the most, and quite frankly only interesting thing about this article was the portion at the beginning about how Tarantino got to where hi is today. It is fascinating to read about the events that transpired to hoist him to become the acclaimed director he is today. This is also quite inspiring as it shows how powerful passion really is. Film was one of the most important things to Tarantino as a boy and his devotion to his dream is what ultimately allowed him to get to where he wanted to be. I feel this is one lesson everyone could possibly take from Tarantino.