Why did you get your driving license? Maybe because you didn’t want to depend on the bus or your parents; because you needed the car for work or simply because you wanted to drive. In the case of Quentin Tarantinothe reason was very different. Having a car allowed him to drive to the most remote movie theater in Los Angeles in search of the movie he wanted to see. And with none of them did he spend more gas than with Former Korean prisonernot available on any platform in Spain.
Former Korean prisoner This is one of the most bizarre translations of a title ever made in our country, and the price is in competition. Rolling thunder (something like thunderous storm) was transformed in Spain into Former Korean prisonerperhaps in an effort to comically pair it (even though neither film gives much to laugh about) with The midnight expresswith whom he shared the billboard. Another who suffered the same fate was The Chicago Expresswhose original title was Silver series.
The film that changed Tarantino’s life
The joke may seem grandiose, but it is Tarantino himself who recognizes this honor in his book Cinema meditations. Written by Paul Schraderthe screenwriter of Taxi driver (from 1976, a year before Former Korean prisoner) returns to its heroes tormented by a past in the Vietnamese jungle (which makes it all the more unjustifiable that “the express” comes from Korea) and unable to leave the war behind them.
The protagonist of Former Korean prisoner He discovers, upon arriving home, that his family has been murdered by Mexican criminals. This will open two fires in the film: that of its protagonist’s revenge against these men and, also, against those who made him a useless weapon of death in times of peace. “What appealed to me so much about the film?“, asks Tarantino. Throughout the chapter he devotes to him in Meditations on cinemawe come to understand that the director of pulp Fiction he loved absolutely everything The former Korean prisoner.
However, one of the reasons why this film stands out »wild, fascist, vengeful and grandiose“the thing is This is the first time he feels like a film critic.. Former Korean prisoner This introduced him to the analysis of films, which until then had been his great passion, but a passion which faded with the credits. Additionally, Tarantino defines Rolling Thunder as “the best combination of a character study and an action film ever made“.
His dedication to Former Korean prisoner It is such that, when he traced the main lines of The film critic (finally canceled because “who is going to want to see a film about a film critic”), asked Paul Schrader for permission to change the ending of Rolling Thunder. The director and screenwriter granted it, but we will never know what Tarantino intended to do with this creative license. Or rather, we’ll never know what the man who decided that Brad Pitt had machine-gunned Hitler or that DiCaprio had burned the Mansons with a flamethrower was planning to invent.
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