comment #1

googs says ...

that's a great anecdote but he's recounted it several times before. I love how he uses the glasses for dramatic effect.

comment #2

BurmaShave says ...

Wait he owns the New Beverley, does D.Z. know this

comment #3

BurmaShave says ...

excuse the second e

comment #4

DeeZee says ...

Burma: He has a stake in it, if I recall. He's still a plagiaristic asshole, though.

comment #5

boldnative says ...

Also not the only repertory house in LA. Check out cinefamily.org at the Silent Movie Theater.

comment #6

TulseLuper says ...

Is he talking about P.T. Anderson at the beginning of that clip?

comment #7

googs says ...

DeeZee, Shakespeare borrowed most of his plots...does that make him a plagiarist?? You have a naive understanding of how storytelling works.

comment #8

Punchdrunk says ...

"He's still a plagiaristic asshole, though. "

DZ,

What are your favorite films of all time? I'd be interested in dissecting their plots to see how original they are.

Please list at least five or six that you really love. I'll know if you're listing bullshit nobody has ever heard of.

comment #9

Phreaker says ...

You need a "Hollywood Elsewhere" Youtube channel. It's time.

comment #10

DeeZee says ...

googs: He didn't borrow, and probably.

Punchdrunk: Happy Together, Millennium Actress, Cannibal the Musical, Black Dynamite, A Woman is a Woman, Days of Being Wild,

comment #11

googs says ...

DZ, yes he did. Clearly you haven't taken a basic freshmen lit class.

Also, we need to learn to start ignoring DZ or else this is going to turn into the Dear, John thread where it's just 90 comments of people trying to correct the uncorrectable.

comment #12

DeeZee says ...

googs: "Clearly you haven't taken a basic freshmen lit class."

Neither did he, hence why he had to crib from others.

comment #13

Punchdrunk says ...

"Angela,a striptease artist, wants to have a baby and tries to persuade her boyfriend Emile to go along with the idea. Emile will have none of it so she goes after Emile's friend Alfred. "

This is an original idea?

comment #14

DeeZee says ...

That summary doesn't really do justice to the execution of the flick.

comment #15

Dan Revill (formerly Aladdin Sane) says ...

I'd love to see a video of the whole panel. Time to scour the internets.

comment #16

Chris Willman says ...

I hope he didn't really say the New Beverly is the only repertory house in L.A. Because the Cinefamily/Silent Movie and the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo are two kick-ass repertory houses. And though they're run under a different model, you'd have to count the Egyptian and Aero as more or less in the same ballpark. But only repertory house open seven days a week, yes. Anyway, not to get bogged down in verbiage... It is fantastic that he bought the place, and that the programming has gotten far less predictable under his ownership.

comment #17

Punchdrunk says ...

"That summary doesn't really do justice to the execution of the flick."

So now it's not the story that's important but the execution? That goes against many things you've said in the past.

comment #18

DeeZee says ...

Punch: But my point is that's not really the "story". It's just a set-up more than anything.

comment #19

Fortunesfool says ...

BEEP.BEEP, Clear behind, DeeZee reversing.

comment #20

Punchdrunk says ...

"But my point is that's not really the "story". It's just a set-up more than anything. "

Which makes you a hypocrite.

comment #21

Punchdrunk says ...

Another DZ prediction from a month or so ago:

The only Academy Award Nomination that IB would receive is best supporting actor.

Another epic fail on his part.

comment #22

lazarus says ...

Boldnative & Chris Willman: correction, the New Beverly is the only repertory house in Los Angeles that doesn't try to gouge its customers. I'd have a lot more respect for Cinefamily if they weren't charging $10 for every screening when I can see a fucking DOUBLE FEATURE at the Beverly for $7 (and it's even cheaper with one of their admission cards). And of course the Beverly's concession stand is dirt cheap as well.

Even more greedy are those rapists at Cinespia/Hollywood Forever and their "suggested" (read: mandatory) donation of $10, and I still have no idea where that money is going to. They rake in probably $3000-$4000 per screening; no way it costs anywhere near that much to rent the prints, pay the DJ, etc.

comment #23

DeeZee says ...

Punchdrunk: "Which makes you a hypocrite."

Not really. I don't like QT, because he just rips off other people's ideas and does nothing original with them, except insert pointless con versations into 'em. That's his whole fucking career right there, and he'll never be known for anything else.

lazarus: The Nuart charges about that much for re-prints, but my only gripe with them is that they're out of the way and I gotta deal with SMB's traffic.

comment #24

Colin says ...

Rip-off would imply that he steals the whole story and makes no nods that it was not his idea.

QT has stated several times every one of his films are inspired by pre-existing concepts and uses nods to pop culture.

And your argument was immediately refuted when you said you like Black Dynamite.

comment #25

CitizenKanedforChewingGum says ...

^And Troma, for that matter (even though I like them, too).

comment #26

Gordon27 says ...

"he just rips off other people's ideas and does nothing original with them, except insert pointless con versations into 'em. "

That summary doesn't really do justice to the execution.

comment #27

Gordon27 says ...

Oh, wait, if I don't explicitly cite that comment that everybody already knows was initially written by you, does that make me a *gasp* plagiarist?!?!?

comment #28

DeeZee says ...

Colin: "Rip-off would imply that he steals the whole story and makes no nods that it was not his idea."

And?

"QT has stated several times every one of his films are inspired by pre-existing concepts "

Except for City on Fire.

"And your argument was immediately refuted when you said you like Black Dynamite."

Black Dynamite is a spoof which takes itself seriously, like Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. It's not pretending it's an original take on a subject or an extension of the director inserting himself into the movie when he's not wanted.

comment #29

Gordon27 says ...

Hey, DZ, it's been a while since I watched any Troma movies... can you recommend even a single one with a wholly original plot?

comment #30

Gordon27 says ...

Fun fact: the imdb lists thirty or forty movies that 'Reservoir Dogs' is derived from; none of them is 'City on Fire'.

Also, DZ: Can you remind me where the ear cutting off scene in 'City on Fire' is? You know, the most famous scene in 'Reservoir Dogs'? I mean, you're saying he stole the entire thing from one very specific source (based largely, if not entirely, on a two minute clip reel you saw on Youtube). So, can you remind me of that?

Or maybe you can point out when in 'Reservoir Dogs' they stole the major setpiece of 'City on Fire' which, as far as I remember, is a robbery. Do they show a robbery in 'Reservoir Dogs'? Because that was such an exciting scene in 'City on Fire', I'd really like to see it in English. But, for some reason, I am completely blanking and can't remember that part of 'Reservoir Dogs'. But it must be there, because you've already said that you can forgive a lot of story similarities when the executions of those elements are different.

comment #31

DeeZee says ...

Gordon: "Hey, DZ, it's been a while since I watched any Troma movies... can you recommend even a single one with a wholly original plot?"

Terror Firmer's not bad. Woody Allen seemed to liked the blind director bit.

"Fun fact: the imdb lists thirty or forty movies that 'Reservoir Dogs' is derived from; none of them is 'City on Fire'."

IMDB also took down Stealth being a remake of Macross Plus, even though Rob Cohen acknowledged the influence. They can be dicks nowadays with that category.

" Do they show a robbery in 'Reservoir Dogs'? Because that was such an exciting scene in 'City on Fire', I'd really like to see it in English. "

They show half a robbery.

comment #32

Colin says ...

They show a getaway.

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