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"Dazzled by so many and such marvelous inventions, the people of Macondo ... became indignant over the living images that the prosperous merchant Bruno Crespi projected in the theater with the lion-head ticket windows, for a character who had died and was buried in one film and for whose misfortune tears had been shed would reappear alive and transformed into an Arab in the next one. The audience, who had paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. The mayor, at the urging of Bruno Crespi, explained in a proclamation that the cinema was a machine of illusions that did not merit the emotional outbursts of the audience. With that discouraging explanation many ... decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings."
--Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Death Proof (Quentin Tarantino, 2007)

Zoë Bell in Death Proof

Cast: Kurt Russell, Zoë Bell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Tracie Thoms, Rose McGowan, Jordan Ladd, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Quentin Tarantino, Mary Harriel, Eli Roth. Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino. Cinematography: Quentin Tarantino. Production design: Steve Joyner. Film editing: Sally Menke. 

Quentin Tarantino's parody of quick-and-dirty "grindhouse" movies, Death Proof, is sometimes dirty but not always quick enough. It's almost two hours long, when the originals were rarely more than an hour and a half. Kurt Russell plays a psychotic killer, an aging stuntman who uses his "deathproofed" car as a weapon against young women. Eventually, of course, it's young women who get their revenge against him. But we have to wait a long time for that revenge to take place, as it does after a spectacular car chase. It's a movie for Tarantino fans and people who like to see fast cars destroyed. 

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