Tarantino's Angst
Jackie Brown and its worried-man blues
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Exploring the emotional pitfalls of middle age, even if through the eyes of lowlifes, was an unexpected move for the then–34-year-old wunderkind, and even critics who were more or less friendly to Tarantino's project couldn't resist calling his lack of life experience into question. The Weekly's own Ella Taylor concluded that Brown was "a noble failure ... less from a deficit in filmmaking than a deficit in living ... thus far Tarantino has spent his life either hermetically sealed in movies or hermetically sealed in celebrity." But I wonder if, for all of his cockiness, Tarantino wasn't all too conscious that his own time as "Flavor of the Year" would soon run out. It's possible that the filmmaker brought something more personal than his love for blaxploitation into his only fully adapted script to date.
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