One of the major differences between the exploitation films of the 1970s and what passes for exploitation cinema today is that such sentences appear in the scripts of the latter as dialogue and in the former as stage directions ("Jonah kills Piper and defiles her corpse"). When Jonah says these words in Drive Angry, the audience recognizes that the threat is an idle one. In the exploitation films of the 70s such dialogue is unnecessary because the individual to whom these words would have been spoken has already been shot and the person who would have spoken them is already balls-deep in the bullet hole.
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August 7, 2011
Piranha (2010) vs Drive Angry (2011)
"I am going to kill you, and then I'm going to defile your corpse."
One of the major differences between the exploitation films of the 1970s and what passes for exploitation cinema today is that such sentences appear in the scripts of the latter as dialogue and in the former as stage directions ("Jonah kills Piper and defiles her corpse"). When Jonah says these words in Drive Angry, the audience recognizes that the threat is an idle one. In the exploitation films of the 70s such dialogue is unnecessary because the individual to whom these words would have been spoken has already been shot and the person who would have spoken them is already balls-deep in the bullet hole.
One of the major differences between the exploitation films of the 1970s and what passes for exploitation cinema today is that such sentences appear in the scripts of the latter as dialogue and in the former as stage directions ("Jonah kills Piper and defiles her corpse"). When Jonah says these words in Drive Angry, the audience recognizes that the threat is an idle one. In the exploitation films of the 70s such dialogue is unnecessary because the individual to whom these words would have been spoken has already been shot and the person who would have spoken them is already balls-deep in the bullet hole.
August 6, 2011
Pump Up the Volume (1990) vs Vision Quest (1985)
"My theory is that when it comes to important subjects there's only two ways a person can answer. Which way they choose tells you who that person is. For instance, there's only two kinds of people in the world: Beatles people and Elvis people. Now, Beatles people can like Elvis and Elvis people can like Beatles but nobody likes them both equally. Somewhere you have to make a choice and that choice tells you who you are." -- Mia Wallace, from a deleted Pulp Fiction scene
It's reductive but it's a conversation starter so let's use it as a way to frame this. How you felt about high school can be determined by whether you're a Pump Up the Volume person or a Vision Quest person. The main characters, Mark Hunter/"Hard Harry" and Louden Swain, are complete opposites in many ways, among them attitude, lifestyle, aspirations and musical taste. Teenagers want to be or feel like Mark or they want to be or feel like Louden.
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