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Jackie Brown was supposed to be the way it was because it was playing off the old blaxploitation films.

And S.L. Jackson yells in all his films. ALL of them.

And ... the "petitie white chick" if you had been paying attention... was already proficient in a few forms of combat before she trained with Pai Mei.

In fact if I'm not mistaken.. there were two unarmed styles she already knew.. and she knew how to use a katana. To which Pai Mei scoffed and insulted the Japanese.

And what QT does is make references to older films that he really enjoyed. Things that can be recognized. Aka paying homage.

But let's go back to this "what it takes an asian years to perfect"...

If you watched any combat sports at all you'd know that while training time plays big a factor... there's far more than that to fighting. As those who have trained since very young lose to opponents who have not put in even half the time they have to the fight game.

In fact.. Asians were thought to be among the most talented in MMA... until they came to America.

But that's going even further off topic.

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I dunno but you just seem like one of those people who inject race into everything. If the lead character had been black, it seems as though you'd think it different. Even though the "absurdities" would still be the same.

You could play with the ethnicity of all the characters in the film and it would still be just as absurd for just about all the reasons you named. There's just no way around it.

In fact you could make them all ONE ethnicity and the movie would still be absurd.

Salt was an absurd movie.. because it featured just about two hours of a white woman with no visible muscle tone beating up and outsmarting men of her own kind every other frame. (And I love that movie)

And Kill Bill was nothing like that movie.

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Now if you had pointed to something like "The Last Samurai" and said what you are saying. I might understand. But the theme of that movie and Kill Bill are radically different.

You should focus on enjoying and encouraging more than criticizing and scrutinizing.

I can't enjoy sexual violence any more than I can enjoy seeing ANY culture get characterized maybe just maybe if Hollywood stop promoting such things I wouldn't have to feel the way that do. I am not about to just look at thing at face vaule. Way too many people do that already. Disney is evil and I'm glad that "traditional" media is dying. Though it doesn't matter since the crap will carry over into the digital market anyway only it's worst since people actually believe the internet is like the wild west. rolleyes

Actually, can i just say something. Blackifying is actually a word. It's in the ebonics dictionary. Look it up. 3nodding