As it turns out, Donny Donowitz, ‘The Bear Jew’, is the father of movie producer Lee Donowitz from True Romance – which means that, in Tarantino’s universe, everybody grew up learning about how a bunch of commando Jews machine gunned Hitler to death in a burning movie theater, as opposed to quietly killing himself in a bunker.
Because World War 2 ended in a movie theater, everybody lends greater significance to pop culture, hence why seemingly everybody has Abed-level knowledge of movies and TV. Likewise, because America won World War 2 in one concentrated act of hyperviolent slaughter, Americans as a whole are more desensitized to that sort of thing. Hence why Butch is unfazed by killing two people, Mr. White and Mr. Pink take a pragmatic approach to killing in their line of work, Esmerelda the cab driver is obsessed with death, etc.
You can extrapolate this further when you realize that Tarantino’s movies are technically two universes – he’s gone on record as saying that Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn take place in a ‘movie movie universe’; that is, they’re movies that characters from the Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Death Proof universe would go to see in theaters. (Kill Bill, after all, is basically Fox Force Five, right on down to Mia Wallace playing the title role.)
What immediately springs to mind about Kill Bill and From Dusk ‘Til Dawn? That they’re crazy violent, even by Tarantino standards. These are the movies produced in a world where America’s crowning victory was locking a bunch of people in a movie theater and blowing it to bits – and keep in mind, Lee Donowitz, son of one of the people on the suicide mission to kill Hitler, is a very successful movie producer.
Basically, it turns every Tarantino movie into alternate reality sci fi. I love it so hard.
From: CherryCokes | #003 Considering skipping Christmas with my family. I wouldn't blame ya. I'm honestly hoping I can convince whoever I'm spending Christmas with this year to catch a DiCaprio double feature with Gatsby followed by Django. It would be glorious.
ha, I remember skipping most of Easter to go see Grindhouse in theaters with my brother nobody in my family was offended... except my mother who was like "how... how could you?"
And of course, it was fun that a Vega brothers movie was rumored way back in the day.
Do you think Tarantino would put Grindhouse: Death Proof in the universe universe or movie universe? It does tie-in with Planet Terror which would be a bit wacky to tie into Pulp Fiction and whatnot, ha.
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I'm going to link this to my friends tonight over beer. And because they're my friends, they're going to love it every bit as much as I did. And you did.