Over the weekend I watched Alex Cox's Repo Man for the first time and before even seeing it I knew it employed the glowing MacGuffin a la the nuclear briefcase in Kiss Me Deadly (1955), which was later used by Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction. However, like Kiss Me Deadly, Repo Man uses such items as symbolism rather than the simple homage Tarantino uses it for. Cox plays a similar homage to Kiss Me Deadly as he scrolls the closing credits from top to bottom rather than bottom to top and while I wasn't watching the brand new Criterion release of the film, the previously released version from Universal Home Entertainment includes a nearly 30-minute featurette in which Cox and producers Peter McCarthy and Jonathan Wacks contemplate the idea of whether or not the film could be made today. Cox responds by saying you couldn't make a film as political...
- 6/24/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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