“Go home to your mother!”
The AV Club is featuring a list of their editors’ favorite cinematic bad-asses.
I immediately thought of David Carradine from Kill Bill; a man blown up to mythic proportions in the first film — a mysterious, faceless stranger whose reputation suggested that he could take on Superman and have a chance — and somehow, in the second film, actually lives up to the promise. He’d make a widow out of Lois Lane.
Which is to say nothing of the Bride herself, one of only a couple women who gets a nod in the feature. Which got me thinking that Tarantino is arguably the most feminist of “action” film directors:
- Kill Bill 1 & 2
- Death Proof: Ya Ya Sisterhood as revenge porn
- Jackie Brown: revisitation of classic feminist bad-ass icon Foxy Brown — starring Foxy Brown!
- Reservoir Dogs: an all-male cast bereft of female influence spirals into self-destruction (as Mr. Orange presciently murmurs: “Dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick dick” — see what that leads to)
I can’t fit Pulp Fiction into this, haven’t seen Inglourious Basterds yet.
