I'm so sick of hearing that. I've seen most of the films and tv shows people claim tarantino ripped off when he made kill bill--dead and buried, shogun assassin, master killer, circle of iron, kung fu, game of death, mishima, and so on--and I still don't buy it. the same people said that the title scene in jackie brown was a rip-off of the graduate, when it was clearly trying to capture a kind of nostalgia. for whatever reason, they perceived that be a threat. they've forgotten that twenty-five years ago airplane! came out and did the same thing, and no one ever complained that it was plagiaristic. tarantino has made an art out of parodying other films, and that pisses a lot of people off. but all filmmakers steal, even the bad ones. are you fond of taxi driver? go rent medium cool. did you like blue velvet? check out belle de jour. amélie? ikiru. whether they admit it or not, almost every filmmaker has stolen his or her technique from someone else.
