From Dusk Til Dawn

[eroeoplier]

I can't get any responses at all from doing a search of this board, don't know what's with that.<br><br>Has this Tarantino movie been discussed here? I'm no movie buff, and I haven't actually seen all of From Dusk Til Dawn (I turned it off 10 minutes after it went "all wierd") but I was writing a blog entry a while ago and I used it as an example to demonstrate how thoroughly perverted our little old world seems to actually be, compared to how normal I thought the world actually was prior to...9/11. That is, the movie seems to parallel reality. I might be the kind of guy that turns it off after it gets too silly, but, rude shock, the movie might have a better grasp of reality, metaphorically, than me after all.<br><br>I'm thinking HMW has been all over this at some point in the past. Does it hold any profound meaning for any of y'all? <p></p><i></i>

[xsic bastardx]

<br><br> yeah...the fact that when I saw it in the Theatre. I had no idea what it was about and I was on about 3 hits of LSD.<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :eek --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/eek.gif ALT=":eek"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <p></p><i></i>

[IanEye]

3 hits of acid, huh?<br>Salma Hayek's "Snake Dance" must have been very entertaining... <p></p><i></i>

[xsic bastardx]

<br><br> yeah it went from being "wtf is this sh....Oh damn this is the coolest fucking movie ever!!!!!" <p></p><i></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I'm thinking HMW has been all over this at some point in the past.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Actually, I haven't.<br><br>I accidentally saw this movie unprepared for the relentless slaughter.<br><br>After a grotesquely bloody shoot-up in a lonesome truckstop in the desert, the main characters go on the run and end up over the Mexican border in a huge surreal casino-like bar which, surprise surprise, is loaded with all vampires.<br><br>The fleeing characters are locked into a building full of monsters they must survive.<br><br>So it is another 'zombie' movie where they just keep a-comin' and all you can do is run and shoot while your friends die horrible deaths one by one.<br><br>Gee, what possible themes might that reinforce?<br><br>Terror<br>Violence<br>Good vs Evil<br><br>You know, 'entertainment.'<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=hughmanateewins>Hugh Manatee Wins</A> at: 7/30/06 12:32 pm<br></i>

[eroeoplier]

"After a grotesquely bloody shoot-up in a lonesome truckstop in the desert..."<br><br>Ahh, I was forgetting how violent it was in the first half. I stopped watching 10 minutes into the vampire scenario. It struck me as childish and preposterous in my sober and serious state at the time, but years later it seems to suit our time. Before enlightenment the world is simply a cruel and violent place. During enlightenment one discovers that it is cruel and violent, but also that people are out there sucking other people's blood, and you yourself are being targeted. After enlightenment I don't know what happens - I haven't seen the ending! <p></p><i></i>

[bvonahsen]

re: Hugh<br>I think it is sad that horror has become mainstream. In the forties, fifties and sixties it wasn't so, but I am not convinced that this is the result of planning. It's demographics. The movie going audience today is the 18-24 year old crowd. Us older folks just don't go to movies so much these days. We watch our movies, as a demographic, on pay-per-view or rent them from blockbuster or netflicks. Unlike fifty years ago when the primary movie going audience was older.<br><br>So, with a lot of your arguments I think they can be better explained by social and demographic changes rather than a deliberate psyops campain. I do think there are elements of that going on. Especially with DRM issues and anti-piracy disinfo. The Priates of the Carribean is Hollywoods' anti-piracy campain and today on <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/07/30/miami_vice_movies_an.html">boingboing</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> Cory writes about anti-piracy dialog planted in "Miami Vice".<br><br>We know that there is some crap going on but we don't <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"know"</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, as in having irrefutible evidence one could take to court, that there is a wide ranging psyops campain that invloves all aspects of media everywhere. That's where I disagree. <p></p><i></i>

[Hugh Manatee Wins]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The Priates of the Carribean is Hollywoods' anti-piracy campain and today on boingboing Cory writes about anti-piracy dialog planted in "Miami Vice".<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>'Pirates' is loaded with sexism, racism, and militarism. Disney's holy trinity of social engineering mind viruses in service of the National inSecurity State.<br><br>'Miami Vice' is a recharging of the image of 'those evil south of the border-types who are the drug problem' when it is the CIA and Pentagon that have taken over control of drug-smuggling profits to pay for covert wars and funnel billions into Wall Street to prop up a failed criminal economy.<br><br>Remember, Hugo Chavez is sitting on perhaps six times the oil that the Arabs are sitting on and thus is the new South American Hitler which Americans should think ill of.<br><br>See the recent discussion here of 'CIA plane captured in Mexico with 5.5 tons of cocaine.'<br><br>See 'Manuel Noriega.'<br><br>Time for bad guys to speak Spanish again.<br> <p></p><i></i>

[FranklinCase Admin]

The only interesting piece of the movie I thought came at the end. The last scene pans to the base of this huge Aztec temple, they had been at the bar at the peak of the temple....looked a little like this picture...<br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://knowledge4africa.co.za/images-worldhistory/a1inca05.jpg" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--> <p></p><i></i>

[Et in Arcadia ego]

That movie royally sucked, but Selma's dance was the hottest thing ever caught on celluloid. <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>

[OpLan]

The scene where she pours champaigne down her leg into his mouth-is that from somewhere else?<br> <p></p><i></i>

[bvonahsen]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>The scene where she pours champaigne down her leg into his mouth-is that from somewhere else?<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Don't know but it's a clear subliminal golden shower. You pay extra for that. <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>"G.I. Joe want suckie suckie? Five dolla' me love you long time."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>Porn rules the world. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> ... <p></p><i></i>

[OpLan]

LMAO!<br>ahhh.. of course!I feel so .. inexperienced!Here's me thinking it was from a highbrow movie or book..but no-it's water sports..eww..ew ew ewwwww <p></p><i></i>

[orz]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>I think it is sad that horror has become mainstream.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br>Me too... mainstream horror movies are almost always just terrible, and not particularly scary/horrific. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START |I --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/tired.gif ALT="|I"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br><br>re that scene, it may well be from another movie... most things in tarantino-related movies are 'homages' (aka less well done ripoffs) of scenes from other films. <p></p><i></i>