Author of this article: Li Xiaotian
Great directors all like to pay tribute to their youth.
Spielberg's "Giant" and Martin Scorsese's "Hugo" are completely different from their usual shooting techniques. They pay tribute to their youth and are full of childlike fun and surprises.
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" by the Coen brothers is a stunning collection of elements from their Western films.
Quentin Tarantino was born in a movie rental store. When he was young, he watched a lot of DVDs, including a large number of B-level movies. After he became a great director, in order to pay tribute to his youth, he teamed up with B-movie director Robert Rodriguez to shoot a "Grindhouse" to pay tribute to the "grindhouse" of the 1960s and 1970s. Movie). "Grindhouse" can't be said to be excellent, but it is definitely good-looking and tasteful enough. It is a standard B-level movie and has captured the attention of B-level and cult movie fans around the world.
What is "Grindhouse Movie"? It was originally set in the 1930s. During the Great Depression in the United States, in order to attract more people to the cinema, movie theaters began to screen double movies, offering buy one and get one free. When the economic crisis passed and everything returned to normal in the 1960s and 1967s, the big movie theater chains stopped doing double-picture releases and returned to normal.
However, in some small cinemas, especially those that have been in disrepair and have outdated facilities, they look like an old-fashioned mill with air leakage from all directions, so they are called "mill cinemas". It is cold in winter and hot in summer, and a group of people are crowded together. Watching a movie together is almost like being tortured. They compete directly with big movies with luxurious decorations, so they naturally have no advantage. In order to survive, they retain the buy-one-get-one-free model. Sometimes big-budget movies won't release copies to them. In order to have movies for broadcast, they simply specialize in showing small-budget movies with sex, violence, and gore as selling points to attract customers. In such movies, there is often a kind of movie called " The "bump and grind" personal dance, coupled with the decoration issues mentioned above, is why it is called a "grindhouse movie". Due to their low cost, this type of movie is often only about 60 minutes long. This type of movie is a standard B-level movie, and these "grindhouse theaters" have become the prototype of B-level movie theater chains. Similar to the video hall in mainland China.
In order to pay tribute, Quentin Tarantino and Rodriguez originally planned to make a short film of about 60 minutes each, and then put it together, but the name was directly called "grindhouse". However, in the end they shot it too long, and the final director's cut lasted more than 3 hours.
Previous "grindhouse movies" were full of sex, violence, and gore. "Grindhouse" is also full of violence and gore, but with reservations about sex. After all, this is a real theater movie, not an pornographic film. But in order to make it "similar", Quentin and Rodriguez still tried their best to use their imagination. For example, when the heroine in "Planet Terror" meets her boyfriend, she naturally wants to blow out the lamp and pull out the wax, and it's almost like Wushan Yunyu.
As a result, this scene only has the beginning, when the audience feels that the real climax is about to come. However,
, the
screen has become like this:
"Video is missing", this is really missing time. In fact, I just can’t really shoot it. But it needs to be serious and look like a real "grindhouse movie". I filmed it, but 5,000 words were deleted here.
Furthermore, in order to continue operating, the original "Xingfang Cinema" would play several trailers when two films were screened in succession. In order to make "Grindhouse" more like a "grindhouse movie", Quentin suddenly asked Rodriguez to arrange two trailers in the movie.
Rodriguez recalled: "Quentin's request was very strange. He wanted the two trailers to look like we were shooting another feature film. When I first heard this idea, I was confused and didn't understand it at all. I knew what Quentin wanted to do. It wasn't until I saw Quentin's shooting plan that I knew what this guy wanted to do. We all had a lot of ideas about the pseudo-trailer at the time, and I shot "Machete" using the previous script. Later I gave this preview to Quentin and he loved it so much that he couldn’t put it down.Because this trailer looks really serious, it will definitely scare a lot of people. Later, Quentin began to show this trailer to others. Eli Roth and Edgar Wright saw it and thought they could make a trailer, so they made "Thanksgiving." "
"Machete", "Thanksgiving", "Werewolf women of the s.s.", "Don't", respectively, by Robert Rodrigo Here are Eli Roth, Rob Zombie, and Edgar Wright.
These are several standard "pseudo-trailers". Their purpose of existence is to make jokes and fun, and to play a role in the film. There will not really be such a movie, just to make the film more like a "grindhouse movie".
Quentin will do anything to pay tribute to his youth.
However,
However, in "Grindhouse" After the release, many people believed it, thinking that since the trailer was released, the feature film should be released soon. Moreover, they believed that the directors of the feature film should be Rodriguez and Quentin.
Until this time, Rodrigues Getz and Quentin realized that their joke had gone too far.
However, on second thought, they and the producers realized that this was a huge opportunity, because with the increasing popularity of the fake trailer, these few A non-existent movie became a long-awaited work for movie fans, and the early promotion of the film was completed so simply and easily. Rodriguez said: "I didn't expect that the trailer I shot would have such great energy. , it seems that after "Grindhouse", the cult film of mine that movie fans are most looking forward to is "Machete". Faced with such good popularity and market, I had no reason to give up, so I discussed with Quentin whether to make a feature film after the trailer. Quentin actually had this intention, so without much trouble, the feature film plan of "Machete" was funded, and filming started quickly. ”
That’s how the two-part “Machete” came about, and Rodriguez put it in great detail.
So, now that “Machete” is getting a full-length feature, another highly anticipated trailer for “Grindhouse” It is logical that "Thanksgiving" is put on the agenda.
Therefore, "Thanksgiving" released in 2023 is an extended version of the 2 minutes and 42 seconds of "Thanksgiving" in 2007's "Grindhouse". The director is still Eli Roth.
This is worth watching.
Eli Roth is Quentin's good friend. He played an important role in Quentin's "Inglourious Basterds" and directed "Hotel" Classic thrillers such as "The Bodyguard" and "Tick Tock House", as well as dramas such as "Hemlock Grove" and "Eli Roth: A History of Horror Movies".
To talk about the feature-length version of "Thanksgiving", you have to recall The fake trailer for "Grindhouse" in 2007. It can be said that it is full of malicious cult fun, very pornographic and violent, including the sudden beheading at the Thanksgiving parade and the blade of a girl in a short skirt being stretched out while jumping on a trampoline. Revealed, the girl who was in love with the car found out that the man had been decapitated when she touched her head after finishing the blow job. The girl who was kissing passionately suddenly found that she was holding only the head. During the Thanksgiving dinner, the roast chicken was found to be a tied body. A female corpse that looks like a chicken...
This trailer uses several short clips to show the bloody massacre caused by a serial murderer one by one. It is very shocking and scary, and it also creates enough suspense. Want people to know what exactly happened? Also want to know how many more detailed details are there?
The 2023 feature film "Thanksgiving" unfolds this plot to tell this story.
Compared to "Machete" Generally speaking, the completion of "Thanksgiving" is not that good. After all, "Machete" conquered cult movie fans after its release. Then, a sequel "Machete Kills" was also filmed.
The official trailer of "Thanksgiving" The film is also well done, basically continuing the look of the pseudo-trailer in "Grindhouse", and starting to have a plot.
The biggest change is time.The fake trailer is to match the theme of "Grindhouse", and the atmosphere of the story matches the feeling of the 1960s and 1970s. The feature film "Thanksgiving" changes the time directly to the present, and it is time to enter the mobile phone era.
As for the official feature film of "Thanksgiving", what about it? It can only be said that it is okay. The cool feeling left in the original pseudo trailer is told in a story, and it also leaves a hole for the sequel.
As for "Grindhouse", it's good enough to watch, but it's not high quality. That's the result of Quentin directing it. As for "Thanksgiving", let's not talk about high quality. It is just a low-cost thriller. Just watch the exciting killing time. Just watch it.
At least, this is definitely not a bad movie.
Moreover, the suspense is well done. Until the end, it is basically impossible to guess who the real murderer is. The revelation of the real culprit was really surprising, as we didn't expect it to be him.
The story of "Thanksgiving" takes place in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. The story puts the Double Eleven "Black Friday" and Thanksgiving together in the United States. On Black Friday the previous year, as the local supermarket opened its doors, crowds of people swarmed in, resulting in stampedes and fights, resulting in the tragedy of multiple deaths. The supermarket daughter brought a group of high school friends to the venue early and provoked the audience outside the door, which aroused even more conflicts.
One year has passed since the tragedy, and Thanksgiving is coming again.
As a result, a killer appeared wearing the mask of John Carver, Plymouth's first mayor. Based on what was shown in public information, he killed the people who had an impact on last year's tragedy one by one and brutally killed them.
Yes, "Thanksgiving" is a typical murder film. Using various forms of torture as the selling point of the film, selling plasma and creating horror. Similar to "A Nightmare on Elm Street", "Moonlight", "The Hills Have Eyes", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and "Horror House of Waxwork".
As for the method of killing and the method of death in "Thanksgiving", they are connected with the pseudo-trailer in "Grindhouse", and even retain a lot of scenes from the pseudo-trailer. As for the various murder scenes in the specific film, they are all shocking and similar to "Death is Coming". Everyone's death method is different, but they are all extremely cruel, extremely horrifying, extremely bloody, extremely crazy, and extremely barbaric. , cool enough and cult enough.
Finally, the human-shaped roast chicken is even more shocking and can be considered very creative.
Again, watching "Thanksgiving" lasts two hours, which is quite good.
This is because the shooting cost of this kind of film is low and it is easy to make money. There is a high probability that this series will continue to be filmed. The killer wearing a John Carver mask is expected to appear many times on Halloween in the future.
