Voici un montage hommage à l’un des plus grands réalisateurs américains du XXème siècle, j’ai nommé Quentin Tarantino :
Tous les articles sur la thématique "violence"
24 saison 7
La septième saison de 24 commence avec Jack Bauer en train d’être interrogé lors d’un procès à Washington D.C., promptement interrompu par un problème de sécurité nationale dû à une intrusion dans un firewall, permettant de prendre le contrôle des communications aériennes.
La personne que tout le monde croyait morte, Tony Almeida, est à l’origine de ce problème.
Pendant ce temps, la nouvelle présidente des Etats-Unis, Alison Taylor, doit gérer la situation traînante à Sangala. Et la CTU a été dissoute, ce qui n’arrange pas les choses…
Underbelly saison 1
Underbelly est une série australienne diffusée depuis février 2008 sur Nine Network.
La série, composée initialement de 13 épisodes, est basée sur le livre Leadbelly: Inside Australia’s Underworld qui donne un aperçu du monde criminel de Melbourne.
Underbelly raconte donc l’histoire de la guerre des gangs de factions rivales de Melbourne, basée sur des faits réels qui ont eu lieu entre 1995 et 2004, et qui a donné lieu à une série de meurtres.
Organized Crime : Expression and Repression
There is a parallel between Organized Crime and the movie industry. Organized Crime was one of the ways for social climbing, of getting out of poverty and ethnic matters.
In the main Hollywood studios, many directors were ethnics: Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Mayer (M.G.M. studios: Metro Goldwyn Mayer), David O. Selznick, Charles Chaplin…
The cinema was a new technology founded by the elite, the ethnic entrepreneurs and the W.A.S.P. businessmen. Some innovative sections of business were opened for the same reason (legitimate, profitable). These people found a renovation of the American Dream either in Organized Crime or in cinema.
Producers did not push gangster films for the simple reason that it was not that popular at the time. They gave the public what they wanted (and the WASPs were rather conservative). It is only when it generalized that gangster movies “took off”.
Another connection: several actors became movie stars because of their ethnic origins: James Cagney was Irish. (Public Enemy), Paul Muni was (Scarface)…
They brought the ethnic accent to the screen. They would have never been movie stars in classic films. It is thanks to the gangster movies and to the parallel made with Organized Crime.
The Black Donnellys saison 1
Les frères Donnelly, au nombre de 4, sont prêts à tout pour se protéger les uns les autres, même à mentir, tricher, voler ou tuer. Par ordre d’importance, nous avons Tommy (Jonathan Tucker), Jimmy (Tom Guiry), Kevin (Billy Lush) et Sean (Michael Stahl-David).
L’histoire est racontée par une tierce personne, l’aspirant gangster Joey “Ice Cream” (Keith Nobbs), au moment même où les Donnelly s’apprêtent à faire leurs premiers pas dans le crime organisé.
Don’t you mess around with SuperGranny…
Parce que SuperGranny, elle n’aime pas les petites frappes qui essaient de s’imposer !
“There are varying degrees of evil…”
Connor (Sean Patrick Flanery) : Now you will receive us !
Murphy (Norman Reedus) : We do not ask for your poor, or your hungry.
Connor : We do not want your tired and sick.
Murphy : It is your corrupt we claim.
Connor : It is your evil that will be sought by us.
Murphy : With every breath, we shall hunt them down.
Connor : Each day we will spill their blood, ’til it rains down from the skies !
Murphy : Do not kill. Do not rape. Do not steal. These are principles which every man of every faith can embrace.
Connor : These are not polite suggestions, these are codes of behaviour, and those of you that ignore them will pay the dearest cost.
Murphy : There are varying degrees of evil. We urge you lesser forms of filth, not to push the bounds and cross over, into true corruption, into our domain.
Connor : For if you do, one day you will look behind you and you will see we three, and on that day you will reap it !
Murphy : And we will send you to whatever god you wish.
Connor, Murphy, Il Duce (Billy Connolly) : And shepherds we shall be, for thee my Lord for thee, Power hath descended forth from thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out thy command, we shall flow a river forth to thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be.
Il Duce : In nomine patris…
Connor : … et filii…
[All cock their guns]
Murphy : … et spiritus sancti.
[Gunshots]
– From The Boondock Saints
Pulp Fiction : it’s the one that says “Bad Motherfucker”
Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer): I wanna go home!
Jules (Samuel L. Jackson): Just hang in there, baby, you’re doing’ great, I’m proud of you and Ringo’s proud of you! It’s almost over. Tell her you’re proud!
Pumpkin (Tim Roth): I’m proud of you Honey Bunny.
Honey Bunny: I love you!
Pumpkin: I love you too Honey Bunny.
Jules : (to Pumpkin) Now. I want you to go in that bag and find my wallet.
Pumpkin: Which one is it?
Jules: It’s the one that says Bad Motherfucker.
(Pumpkin seeks in the bag)
Jules: That’s it! That’s my bad motherfucker. Open it up and take out the money.
(Pumpkin opens the wallet, and takes the cash)
Jules: Count it!
(Pumpkin counts)
Jules: How much is there?
(Pumpkin counts again)
Pumpkin: About fifteen hundred dollars.
Jules: Okay, put it in your pocket, it’s yours. Now with the rest of those wallets and the register, that makes this a pretty successful little score eh?
– From Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction : “This was divine intervention…”
Shooter: [busting the door, emptying his gun] Die you motherfuckers !!!
[Gun clicks, no ammo left]
[Pause]
[Jules and Vincent look at each other then reply with their guns]
Vincent (John Travolta): [to Marvin] Why the fuck didn’t you tell us somebody was in the bathroom? Slipped your mind? Did you forget that somebody was in there with a goddamn hand cannon?
Jules (Samuel L. Jackson): Did you see the size of that gun right in front of us? It was bigger than him!
[Pauses]
We should be fucking dead man!
Vincent: I know, we was lucky.
Jules: No no no no… that just wasn’t luck.
Vincent: Yeah maybe.
Jules: This was divine intervention. You know what “divine intervention” is?
Vincent: I think so. That means that God came down from Heaven and stopped the bullets?
Jules: That’s right! That’s exactly what it means. God came down from Heaven and stopped these motherfucking bullets.
Vincent: I think it’s time for us to leave Jules.
Jules: Don’t do that! Don’t fucking blow this shit up! What just happened here was a fucking miracle!
Vincent: Chill Jules, this shit happens.
Jules: Wrong! Wrong, this shit doesn’t just happen.
Vincent: Do you want to continue this theological discussion in the car or in a jailhouse with the cops?
Jules: We should be fucking dead my friend! What happened here was a miracle and I want you to fucking acknowledge it!
Vincent: Alright, it was a miracle. Can we go now?
– From Pulp Fiction
Tommy DeVito : “what do ya mean, funny ?” (GoodFellas)
Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci): Oh, oh, Anthony. He’s a big boy, he knows what he said. What did you say? Funny how?
Henry Hill (Ray Liotta): It’s…
Tommy DeVito: What?
Henry Hill: Just… ya know, you’re, you’re funny.
Tommy DeVito: What do ya mean, funny? Let me understand this cause, I don’t know maybe it’s me, I’m a little fucked up maybe, but I’m funny how? I mean, funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh… I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
Henry Hill: You know, how you tell a story, what?
Tommy DeVito: No, no, I don’t know… you said it. How do I know? You said I’m funny. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me! Tell me what’s funny!
Henry Hill: Get the fuck outta here, Tommy!
Tommy DeVito: Ya motherfucker, I almost had him, I almost had him! Ya stutterin’ prick ya! Frankie, was he shakin’?
– From GoodFellas (1990).
Jake La Motta : Raging Bull’s opening speech
In voice-over, Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro) speaks, as the film cuts to La Motta, alone in his dressing room where he rehearses for his nightclub appearance reciting bits of Shakespearean tragedy, wearing a tuxedo and open shirt.
His fantasy of disrobing in the ring presents the film’s recurrent theme of sexual anxiety, violence, fear, and confusion :
I remember those cheers
They still ring in my ears
And for years they’ll remain in my thoughts
Cuz one night I took off my robe
And what’d I do
I forgot to wear shorts.
I recall every fall, every hook, every jab
The worst way a guy could get rid of his flab
As you know, my life was a jab…
Though I’d rather hear you cheer
When I delve into Shakespeare
“A Horse, a Horse, my Kingdom for a Horse,”
I haven’t had a winner in six months (he lights his cigar)…I know I’m no Olivier
But if he fought Sugar Ray
He would say
That the thing ain’t the ring
It’s the play.
So gimme a stage
Where this bull here can rage
And though I can fight
I’d much rather reciteThat’s entertainment !
That’s entertainment.
– From Raging Bull
Anime : Bakuretsu Tenshi
J’ai fini il y a quelques jours de visionner l’anime Bakuretsu Tenshi et il est tout simplement magnifique.
Si vous êtes fan d’anime, d’action et de bonne musique n’hésitez plus et jetez-vous dessus car c’est vraiment l’une des meilleurs séries 2004.
L’histoire se passe dans un Tokyo futuriste où reigne la violence et où la RAPT, une section spéciale armée par les autorités, est chargée de faire régner la loi. Et nous avons 4 jeunes femmes adeptes de gunfights, explosions et combats de cybots pour mettre fin aux gangs.
L’univers du western-punk est magnifiquement rendu, les personnages sont sublimes et l’histoire tient (vraiment) debout, mêlant à la fois humour et action. La série s’adresse à un public adulte, vu la taille des habits vous comprendrez aisément. ^_^
J’en viens à la bande son qui est absolument énorme. Honnêtement après quelques épisodes, vous ne pourrez plus vous en passer : elle est déjà en playlist permanente chez moi. Définivement une série à classer aux côtés de Hokuto No Ken (Ken le Survivant) et Hellsing.
