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honest-broker.com

He uses up more ammo in a single scene than John Wayne required for an entire career. But there's no catharsis here. Just a huge body count, and a tiny number of survivors. In a way, this was a western to end all westerns.
— Ted Gioia

1mo ago

The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

1mo ago

theparisreview.org

Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists

He hadn't been sure if he was supposed to fight back or just take the beating, if he could dodge the blows or cover his face or what, but it wound up not mattering.

2mo ago

longreads.com

My Mother Died On Screen But Survived Hollywood

It's a legendary scene in a movie, an opening described in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation, and yet she is unnamed almost everywhere, her purpose reduced to an anonymous but iconic moment of violence, perpetually dying but looking good while doing it.

3mo ago

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