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Summary: 2 masters at work here.
Review: From the Elmore Leonard book, Quentin Tarantino is the best filmaker to take his work and turn it into the perfect movie that it is. Leonard's book was already good, but Tarantino understood how you need the extras in the story to make it great and the movie does all of that and more!
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Summary: It wasn't good as I expected...
Review: I liked Jackie Brown so much that I read the screenplay and Rum Punch. The story was just a brilliant caper. However, I have this to say to Quentin Tarrantino: why all the "N" words?
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Summary: Great screenplay from a great writer
Review: I liked Jackie Brown so much that I read the screenplay and Rum Punch. The story was just a brilliant caper. However, I have this to say to Quentin Tarrantino: why all the "N" words?
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Summary: 2 masters at work here.
Review: I saw this movie. In fact I watched it several times, because it was near perfect. One of my favorite scenes was the bailing out of jail of Jackie Browne by the bail bondsman. Here is a guy who is firmly fixed within his niche in life, is used to dealing with criminals in a professional capacity - purely business wise. Then he meets Jackie Browne.As she walks toward him from her cold confinement, compassion for her plight embraces him, not effusively, but tentatively. He is a professional bail bondsman, after all. But he wants to get to know her, and so he does. The intersection of their lives is arrived at from two quite distinct cultural lines. Yet they become friends, for both want it, mostly him. He even stops into a music store and buys a Motown sound, the Shawndells (sp?). That is great characterization, simply superb, for it is a real parsing out of the humanity even the most lonesome, the most calloused of us can at times feel for another, and rendered in the movie perfectly. They are basically decent people and it shows. That's just one of the things about this movie I like.
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Summary: I am lying when I say I have read this book, but so what?
Review: I saw this movie. In fact I watched it several times, because it was near perfect. One of my favorite scenes was the bailing out of jail of Jackie Browne by the bail bondsman. Here is a guy who is firmly fixed within his niche in life, is used to dealing with criminals in a professional capacity - purely business wise. Then he meets Jackie Browne. As she walks toward him from her cold confinement, compassion for her plight embraces him, not effusively, but tentatively. He is a professional bail bondsman, after all. But he wants to get to know her, and so he does. The intersection of their lives is arrived at from two quite distinct cultural lines. Yet they become friends, for both want it, mostly him. He even stops into a music store and buys a Motown sound, the Shawndells (sp?). That is great characterization, simply superb, for it is a real parsing out of the humanity even the most lonesome, the most calloused of us can at times feel for another, and rendered in the movie perfectly. They are basically decent people and it shows. That's just one of the things about this movie I like.
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Summary: THEY GOT THE MONEY!
Review: Jackie Brown is a wonderfully acted movie! It does go a little too long and is a little boring at times. It's a movie about a girl, a killer, a cop, and a loan man trying to get to the money (robbing it). Kids wouldn't like this. They wouldn't get it. Rated R: for language, violence, a brief scene of sexuality
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Summary: It wasn't good as I expected...
Review: Jackie Brown was pretty good, but it didn't have too much action. It concentrated on the charcters, which is not a bad thing...but it pretty much took up most of the space. I was expecting more dark comedies and violent actions. Especially if it's an adoption of Quentin Tarantino.
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Summary: Jackie Brown is much like "Dogs" in its set-up of events
Review: The screenplay to Jackie Brown is much like Tarantino's critically acclaimed movie "Resevoir Dogs" The screenplay itself follows the same pattern as "Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" but is an easier read because of the simplicity of its characters. A stewardess, a beach bum, A freshly out of jail pot smoker(played very well by Dinero in the movie) a bondsman and the usual Samuel L. Jackson character who fits into almost every character that Tarantino has in his movies or creates on his own. Each character is drawn with a bold line of simplicity and, as in his earlier movies, the ending is never cut and dry. The screenplay brings you to the plot point where you think that you see teh ending then he spins you around and upside down until you are slightly confused but even more interested in the ending then he springs it on you and when the smoke clears you can see the creativity to his work.. all of his movies that he casts in or writes is barraged with ideas and characters and varieties of endings that keep you wondering what is this man going to come up with next.. an excellent read for the scriptically addicted and a muse see for anyoen who wants to know where movie directing is heading in the future.
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Summary: a great plot, who's playing who?
Review: This is a great screenplay you wont wan't to put it down. Elmore Lenord does it again, you can't wait for the end, but you don't wan't the book to stop.
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Summary: A reader
Review: Why this wasn't well recieved i have no idea but qt is the most naturally talented screenwriter since Robert Towne. He seems to good to be true - however i saw him in wait until dark, and he does, in fact, exist.
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