----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On March 1 00dphawthorn wrote: "I saw an interview on "American Cinema" (pbs) with Quentin Tarantino in which he defended his use of violence by comparing it to tap dancing. His argument was that if the viewer didn't like the dance, they wouldn't watch." ------------------------------------------- I saw the same interview, and at first had a hard time making the connection between Keitel and Astair. It's almost as if Tarantino was saying that people will come to his films specifically because they are _drawn_ to the violence. If so, he may be right. In an increasingly volatile and nihilistic world, Tarantino's violence does little to glamorize or justify the current human condition, or even to portray violent acts as heroic or even rightfully defensive. I would wager a guess that for some, this rawness is like an easy familiarity, a confirmation of a dance step learned but not quite perfected. It leaves me with a sickly sort of feeling, but I somehow think that's the idea.