Cult Movie Songs: The Original Music Videos

This was inspired by my search for the original song for the crash scene in Death Proof on YouTube. Here is a selection of original "music videos" for songs from cult movies:

Death Proof: "Hold Tight," Dave Dee, Dosy, Beaky, Mick & Tich


Blow: "Black Betty," Ram Jam


The Craft/Charmed The TV Series: "How Soon Is Now?," The Smiths


Donnie Darko: "Never Tear Us Apart," INXS


Reservoir Dogs: "Stuck In The Middle With You," Stealer's Wheel


The Big Lebowski: "Condition," Kenny Rogers And The First Edition


American Psycho: "Hip To Be Square," Huey Lewis And The News


Boogie Nights: "It's A Living Thing," ELO


Trainspotting: "Lust For Life," Iggy Pop


Say Anything: "In Your Eyes," Peter Gabriel

Quentin Tarantino To Make Quirky 1970s European Sex Movie

With the sideburns and tan lines and everything.

But the cult film director cautions:

"If I actually do an erotic movie, I'm going to have to reveal what I find sexy, what turns me on..."

Which of course means:

Tarantino Nixes "Heroes" Episode 'Cause He's "Never Seen The F**king Show"

Quentin Tarantino turned down directing an episode of "Heroes," because he's never watched it & isn't a fan.

In the past the "Kill Bill" director has worked on such TV shows as "CSI" and "ER."

But "Heroes?"

“They were trying to get me to do one. I haven’t even seen the f**king show.”

Tarantino Lashes Out At Bond

Quentin Tarantino tells the UK film mag "Total Film" that remaking Casino Royale was his idea and that he's kinda sore about the producers not using him and all.

"I never saw Casino Royale because I was so mad at those guys," he said.

Lil' Beans had this to say:

A Feel-Good Tarantino Romp

Here is the trailer for the extended overseas release of Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof." The film will be released in theatres separately from its original double-bill in the movie "Grindhouse," and will be an extended cut.

Noticeably absent from this trailer in comparison to the original are the more sinister scenes, including the ones with Rose McGowan in the car -- opting instead for a "feel good" sexy Tarantino romp with plenty of badonkadonk grinding action.

Original Death Proof (with "Grindhouse")


Overseas Death Proof

Kill Bill 3 & 4: Actually Coming To A Theater Near You

"Executive producer Bennett Walsh has revealed it is possible Quentin Tarantino will return to China to shoot "Kill Bill" parts 3 and 4."

Also mentioned in the Earth Times article are the possible plotlines for the two movies:

1) "The third film tells the story of the revenge of two killers whose arms and eyes Uma Thurman hacked off in the first stories..." -- ah, this would be Sofie & Elle. Nice.

2) "...and the fourth is said to concern a cycle of reprisals and daughters who avenge their mothers' deaths." -- Most likely scenario being that Vernita's daughter offs Beatrix Kiddo and then Beatrix's daughter BeBe goes after her.

Could the lackluster box-office perfomance of "Grindhouse" have pressured Tarantino to get these babies made sooner rather than later?

Whatever the case, "Occasional Superheroine" is excited.

Still no "Wonder Woman" movie, though.

Get Ready To Fly, Bitch -- Death Proof, Lonely Manifestos, and Killer Chick Flicks

Arlene: Yeah? Why don't you go get ready for your lapdance?
[Stuntman Mike gets up and walks back into the bar]
Arlene: Hey, Mike.
Stuntman Mike: Yeah?
Arlene: No touch.
Stuntman Mike: No.
Arlene: I touch you, you don't touch me.
Stuntman Mike: I know.
Arlene: Good.
--Grindhouse

“Young women now seem to want to behave like men and have sex without commitment. The signals they are giving are very confusing, and rage and humiliation build up in boys who are spurned again and again.”
-- Somewhat-Feminist Commentator Camille Paglia on the Virginia Tech shootings

WARNING: SPOILERS

I nearly walked out on Quentin Tarantino's "Death Proof" after the car accident scene. Actually , my boyfriend hid my eyes during most of it (after the brutal face-smashing of Rose McGowan's character), but I had already saw the gory photos in Fangoria.

Basically, a guy turns four young women into hamburger with his car after stalking them. His name is Stuntman Mike. It seems like such a random, inexplicable act, intentional vehicular homicide -- but really, it's not. Tarantino's loving, lingering shots of the women being sexy, flipping their hair or shaking their ass in slow motion, tell you everything you want to know. These girls are *teases*. They intentionally tease and unintentionally tease, but their message is clear -- they have the power, the power of pussy. And Mr. Middle-Aged StuntGuy in the Icy Hot jacket and the Baron Strucker scar just ain't gettin' any.

I almost walked out of "Death Proof." Several people did. I'm not sure if it was because of the extreme violence or the fact that they've been listening to several women yakking around a table "My Dinner With Andre" style for a half-an-hour.

I almost walked out of "Death Proof" and went home and wrote Quentin Tarantino a long e-mail telling him what a bloody misogynist he was. But I stayed. And Tarantino, as if reading my mind, "apologized." Because in the second half of the film, the women "win."

Stuntman Mike stalks and hunts down another set of girls. But, little does he know that these are badass stuntwomen who will turn the tables on him and rip him another asshole. I'm not sure if he dies by the end of the film, but he sure as hell takes a nasty beating.

So, is "Death Proof" a feminist film?

Um...

Here's my problem.

The way Stuntman Mike dispatches the first set of girls is brutal and realistic to the extreme.

The way "The Girls" dispatch Mike at the end of the film is comical.

Stuntman Mike literally tears his victims apart, obliterates them, wipes their "prettiness" off the map.

By the final credits, "The Girls" do a slapstick number on Mike, hitting him in slow-motion and jumping in glee when he falls defeated. It is not even clear whether he is dead, the way it is not clear if Wily E. Coyote is ever really killed.

Why are these deaths handled differently?

Does gender play a role?

Would realistic, brutal revenge against Mike at the hands of The Girls be too disturbing, would it ruin the "mood?"

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In a Times Online article social commentator Camille Paglia placed the responsibility for the Virginia tech slayings partially at the feet of a society that, in her view, has "feminized" men and encourages women to be "teases." The author of the article itself goes a step further and seems almost to point the finger at the women on campus that reported the future killer for stalking them:

"Then there were the college girls who reported him to the police for stalking and got him carted off to mental hospital after he sent them shy love messages full of yearning."

Hey, maybe the "Death Proof" girls *were* teases. Maybe the girls at Virginia Tech's rejection of Cho's advances did send him over the edge. Maybe this culture *is* feminizing men.

Teases, rejectors, feminizers. Doesn't mean chicks gotta be ground into hamburger.

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Is Quentin Tarantino anti-feminist or not? And hey, don't I get into a lot of trouble for these posts? A woman bringing up topics like: "is this misogynist or not?" I mean, I remember my "Black Snake Moan" post...

"But you didn't actually *see* Black Snake Moan," David G. says. "I mean..you didn't actually see the movie so you couldn't actually tell if it really was misogynist."

"Yeah, but I saw the marketing."

"But the marketing is just the marketing."

I sit and ruminate over this for a while. David adds,

"But you actually *saw* "Death Proof. So I think this is a good thing."

Is "Death Proof" pro-feminist or anti-feminist? Did Tarantino get off on the misogynist antics of Stuntman Mike or is this film ultimately a love-letter to the Tough Chick?

Tarantino's films, I think, are ultimately a reflection of society -- a reflection of the tough choices and messy, oft-amoral situations that keep making our species interesting.

But no, "Death Proof" isn't a feminist movie.