Quentin Tarantino’s film pays homage to B-movies and stunts at the same time. While in the first half of Death Note we get to know the story of a serial killer car stuntman and his victims, in the second part the newly selected victims are film women: a make-up artist, a model, a hairdresser and a stuntman. Those who don’t let themselves go, so the film that starts out as a slasher turns into a female revenge film in the second part.
Tarantino pays tribute to an era when real men – and women – collided with real cars: the stuntman member of the female avengers team is played by New Zealander Zoë Bell, who undertook life-threatening stunts in films such as Kill Billthe Catwomanthe Iron Man 3 or the Thor: Ragnarök.
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Drive – Gas! (2011)
If we have already created our current compilation in connection with Ryan Gosling’s The Stuntman, we cannot forget one of the star’s best films, Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and awarded the director’s prize at the Cannes Film Festival, in which Gosling plays a car stuntman. who, for the sake of the woman who lives next door and her child, gets involved in ever steeper underworld adventures.
Refn’s film draws inspiration from the best car chase movies a Bullittfrom the At a deadly pace-to cinemas, and in its atmosphere and visuals, it created an independent world among stunt films.
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Tarantino’s latest (in part) stunt film, the end of Hollywood’s golden age, commemorates the pre-1960s, with some clever stunts, praise of the stunt craft itself and, of course, subtle references to his own previous stunt films (for example, the main villain of The Deathly Hallows, Kurt Russell and Zoe with Bell as a stunt couple).
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The most exciting supporting character in the film is Cliff Booth, played by Brad Pitt, who stops the Manson gang as a one-man army – for his performance, Pitt won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first actor to receive the American Academy Award for stunt performance recognition…
Who knows, maybe the one in theaters now The stuntman after that, the stuntmen themselves can be Oscar winners.
