“The key difference between a geek and a critic is that acritic digs deep and tries to get behind the surface of things,for better or worse, while a geek is interested in his own hedonism,the thrill of discovery.A geek is expansive and associativeand doesn’t necessarily care what a film or a scene ‘means’. It’sthe difference between the encyclopaedia and the scholar. Acritic likes an interesting association, a nice phrase; the geekadmires the beau geste, a pulpy story and its codes of honourtaken seriously.Tarantino rather combines those two roles. He is encyclopaedicbut also interpretive. He is a human Rolodex ofcredits. His films are like stuffed overnight bags breaking at theseams. The Handel of filmmakers, he takes the whole ofcinema as his resource. But he also provides new meanings,new interpretations of old moments by the way he recontextualizesthem.”

D.K. Holm

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