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The Protégé – 2021 – exquisite dialogue

At the first glance, The protégé doesn’t seem to be anything special. If you read about it, it seems to be your run-of-the-mill revenge story. You know, the kind where the person acting out the revenge seeks out and kills the responsible person for a close friend’s death. This is also what happens. Someone close to the revenger gets killed and she goes on a spree to seek her revenge. I really can’t put my...

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Drama / FILM / Western

2021-05-13

The Hateful Eight – 2016 – Tarantinos eighth film

I will still claim that Quentin Tarantino isn’t a great filmmaker. Many of his films are entertaining to be sure but he’s not a great filmmaker. He is a great imitator of what other already have done before him. And he’s very good with dialog of course. He could write a whole film with just dialog and it would probably be spellbinding. That’s a good quality of course. It doesn’t hurt to select great actors...