who will be the next orson welles

[jaime marzol]

undoubtedly, the tarentino penis is prominently warbling in the mouth of the world. i am not in that group. i thought Pulp Fiction was just ok. a bit long actually. did not like Reservoir Dogs at all. thought Jackie Brown sucked. but that's ok, we are not supposed to like the same stuff. i think the best thing tarentino has done was the screenplay for TRUE ROMANCE. other than that i could go a lifetime and never see anything he's done so far.

[Jaime N. Christley]

undoubtedly, the tarentino penis is prominently warbling in the mouth of the world.

You sure have a way with words.

It's not like that, though - in some of the film groups I interact with, Tarantino is long out of fashion.

[jaime marzol]

LET ME RECAST MY STATEMENT:

"undoubtedly, for a few years after PULP FICTION, the tarentino penis was prominently warbling in the mouth of the world."

so, he's yesterday's dish already? did not know he was so out of fashion. so who's is prominently warbling in the mouth of the world today?

last i heard (and i avoid such news like the pleague) the director of MOULING ROUGE (and i avoid such films like the pleague) was receiving lots of oral sex.

what about that guy who did EL MARIACHI, he was hot for a while. but DUSK TILL DAWN i thought SUCKED. was very dissapointing. only thing i liked about it is that blues tune by TITO AND TARANTULA, great tune.

[jaime marzol]

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i was going to say the guys who did BLAIR WITCH were THE guys today, but they are over now too aren't they? it's hard to keep up with who 'the latest guy' is. they come and go like pop stars. only the very talented remain. branagh is still around, and untarnished. in actying tim robbins i respected for a long time because he was in good film after good film, never letting his pants down in the back. but that ended.

[jaime marzol]

jaime c wrote:
You sure have a way with words.

after i wrote:
undoubtedly, the tarentino penis is prominently warbling in the mouth of the world.

i answer:
metaphorically connection oral sex with the world at the feet of a certain individual is close enough to the mark, and was entertaining enough to think about that i bothered to come on line and post it. had it popped into my brain in a more clinical form it would not have driven me to come here and share with you lucky folks. but if i get to throw in penis, or blowjob, while not straying from the topic at hand? well, that's different.

certainly both penis, and blowjobs, metaphorically, have been giant motivators of characters in fiction, and non-fiction, and are prominent spicers, narratives, and motivatiors in a grerat many of the ouvres discussed here on this board.

the penis, and oral sex, metaphorically speaking, have been directly responsible for spurring into action some of our time's greatest triumphs, and defeats, greatest leaders and tragedies, greatest conductors, actors, and pop stars of our time.

then once the penis was associated with the oval office, it was legitamized. you can now say 'penis' at cocktail parties, and i bet even on the Ophra show, without being hissed by the feminist rightwing in the audience.

but it's possible i've reached my quota for the month on typing "blowjob."

can we imaging a shakespeare play with no 'penis' motivations? maybe only king lear which was that topsy-turvy story, and deals with greed, betrayal, senility.

tell it like it is, i say.

[Rick Schmidlin]

Do you really have to resort to that kind of language to make your point. By doing so you take a great discredit for the good comments you make.

[Jeff Wilson]

I agree with Rick here. I'm not sure what a discourse on penises and oral sex achieves in the general progress of this thread, other than to indicate it's run its useful course...

[aggie]

King Lear? hardly:

Fool:
The cod-piece that will house
Before the head has any,
The head and he shall louse;
So beggars marry many.
(King Lear III iii 27-30)

Fool:
Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney did to the eels when she put 'em i' the paste alive; she knapped 'em o' the coxcombs with a stick, and cried, "Down, wantons, down!" 'Twas her brother that, in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his hay.
(King Lear II iv 123-128)

Lear:
Thou shalt not die: die for adultery! No:
The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded fly
Does lecher in my sight.
Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son
Was kinder to his father than my daughters
Got 'tween the lawful sheets.
To 't luxury, pell-mell! for I lack soldiers.
(King Lear IV vi 114-120)

etc etc

[jaime marzol]

i stand corrected, the 'male member' looms prominently in shakespeare's lear, but i was refering to motivations, not to the mere mention of the little fellow.

i was having a bit of fun. did not mean to offend any one and will refrain from metaphoring. the name tarentino just seemed to call for such words, and 'sh*t-head', and '*sshole' too, i don't know why.

[jaime marzol]

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i seem to get my hand slapped a lot around here.

[jaime marzol]

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maybe, sometimes i have a slappable hand.

[PT Caffey]

Before I'll annoint Tarantino "the next Orson," I shall first have to see what he does with radio.

[Obssessed_with_Orson]

i'll agree to that one, brother!

i don't really think any can beat what he did on the radio.

bye now!

[mteal]

I doubt that Tarentino - or anyone else for that matter - will ever get the chance to do what Welles did on radio, since radio doesn't really exist as a dramatic medium anymore. Instead, they would have to do it on television. Haven't seen much from Tarentino yet in that regard, but David Lynch has done some outstanding work on the small screen, including the only TV show I've been hooked on in the past 20 years: Twin Peaks (The show fell apart somewhat after the resolution of the Laura Palmer mystery, but up until that point it was some of the best television I'd ever seen). Lynch also did a fine docu TV series called American Chronicles, and his recent masterwork, Mulholland Drive, even started out as a TV pilot. Lynch, IMO, is much closer to assuming Welles' mantle then Tarentino is.