1. I think a lot of critical confusion over recent Tarantino films comes from mis-genre-ing them. What if Inglourious Basterds and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood aren't historical films. What if they are science fiction?
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3. The point of alternative history, at least when it's done well, is to cast some light on real history, to present a thought experiment that highlights what made the historical event what it was. Similar to how utopias & dystopias both function as social critique.
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4. An alt-history precursor to Tarantino is Philip Jose Farmer's "Sail on, Sail on" which is set in an alternative world where medieval science is largely true. Story ends with Columbus sailing off the edge of the the world. That's the cognitive estrangement Tarantino achieves.
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5. I pursue the argument about Tarantino working in Alternative History here: https://www.thenation.com/article/tarantino-sly-science-fiction/ …
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Both serve as excuses for him to indulge his fetish of portraying faces being bludgeoned in.
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Yes but if the main goal of the historical inversion is to give an excuse to show the brutal abuse and torture of women...
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This is why he should direct a Star Trek movie.
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Tarantino has none of the grace and nuance that Dick brought to "The Man In The High Castle." Also the point of "The Man In The High Castle" is the malleability of perception and reality. All the time Dick spent musing on that, Tarantino spent watching slasher movies.
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I see this less as sci-fi and more a statement about movie endings satisfying where life endings don’t. Less PDK and mire Woody Allen (Bullets over Broadway, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Broadway Danny Rose).
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