Mallick and Tarantino

Rating: Null/10 (5 June 2012)

Has it ever occurred to anyone else that "True Romance" (aside from being a completely wonderful movie) is a long homage to Terrence Mallick's "Badlands"? The langorous voice-over narrative, the despicable controlling male figure, right down to the music, etc.,etc. Both films are wonderful variations on a theme. As Tarantino is quite the student of film, I don't think that these similarities are any accident. And I don't think it's a kind of thievery either. As T.S, Eliot once said, "Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal". I'm a huge fan of both these film makers, and I find it really interesting to see what they do with similar subject matter.