What was your prep for, I mean because the character was very specific with the clothes, the car and stuff. Death Proof has that kind of sort of just off thing. I always thought that Vanishing Point was on the existential level really cool in that world and I kind of liked Death Proof in that regard. Well, the one that qualifies I guess was Vanishing Point. What were some of your favorite grindhouse movies of all time? I never really did anything that qualified for that world so I just go watch them. I have to put food on the table.” What about that scene where you're eating the rat? Hey, man, I don't even know how they're going to do that but I'll worry about it when it happens. I do remember sitting around the room sort of look at each other and say how did he get this part, are you actually going to play it? We look at each other and say "Man, I really need the work. I went to double features all the time and I was also interviewing for them because I was an actor. I think it's going to be a hoot of a night and I was really happy to have a part of that. I want people to have fun at this night which I think is a tremendous invention of the 2 fellows-Tarantino and Rodriguez. Like anybody else I'm concerned about Grindhouse. My personal statement was “wait until stuntman Mike hears about this.” He might want to rethink that. Good luck to everybody and see if you can keep up. Listen, I had a long career and I'm only happy to have had it. They did a television series off of Backdraft. They've done a television series off of Stargate. It was a John Carpenter creation the Snake Plissken character and how it plays - my creation. New York? I was just kidding around I think that a long time ago John and I had a lot of fun making the movie. How about the comment that Entertainment Weekly reported about Gerard Butler and Escape from (The sex scenes, naturally, which in the old days might well have gone missing, off in some projectionist's private collection.) No doubt they'll be on the DVD version.You were awesome in this film. Now, to make this movie experience resemble what you'd have gotten in a real grind house, both halves of the double feature have been carefully marred with deep film scratches, broken sprocket holes and even missing reels. It's a chase you're free to enjoy just as a thrill ride or for its "cinematic" virtues - swooping, continuous shots where cars disappear and erupt from clouds of dust, white-knuckle stunt work that's clearly not being digitally faked, and so on. And it sets up - after a second bout of chatter with a second set of gorgeous young women - what is maybe the most rip-roaring chase ever captured on film. This is, let's note, Tarantino spoofing Tarantino movies, not films you'd have seen on a double bill decades ago, but hey, it's energetic. Eventually, some doomed young beauty is bound to forget she shouldn't accept rides from strangers, and get into Stuntman Mike's supercharged Dodge. It's Tarantino showing off, both in the dialogue and in the camerawork, in ways that the no-budget movies to which he's paying homage generally didn't. Actually, the second half of the second half, because Quentin Tarantino's car- and babe-crazed epic, Death-Proof, starts off with some seriously extended talk, filmed in seriously extended takes. They're the draw in the second half of the Grindhouse double bill.
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