Baby it's You

"Death Proof is bloody, stupid and buoyant in a kind of infantile way, celebrating mayhem and flesh and gore…” (Stephen Hunter in The Washington Post). No offense taken by the director, I can imagine. This one is supposed to be silly and stupid. In the theatre where I saw it, people were wetting themselves laughing out too loud. In my head I heard Tarantino giggle non stop and I saw him in the movie enjoying himself to death surrounded by ugly girls. Death Proof is a tribute to Road-, Carchase-, Slasher-, Exploitation- and Sexploitation-movies from the sixties and seventies. It’s a tribute to B-movies and that B might stand for bad. There’s a lot of conversation. Girltalk. Yeah, boring. But it's the kind of conversation you’re not familiar with as a man so you keep listening with an embarassed grin on your face. Be always aware that it’s girltalk written by a man. So, double fun.

Sidney Tamiia Poitier & Brigitte Bardot: barefooted

This is what makes this one different and unforgettable to some of us:
Lapdance (Vanessa Ferlito from CSI: New York); baby it’s you by Smith (from A Group Called Smith, 1969); Zoe Bell (Uma Thurman’s stunt double in Kill Bill) as herself; Lebanon, Tennessee; could Pete Townshend have been a member of Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich?; jump cuts; Kurt Russell crying and drinking Four Roses Bourbon in his wrecked car; Sidney Poitier’s daughter in her thong style bodyshorts; Willy Deville’s it’s so easy (from the soundtrack of Cruising, 1980) on the radio; the Soldier Blue-filmposter; the yellow Mustang; laisse tomber les filles by Serge Gainsbourg=chick habbit by April March …
I Had a good time!

Tip: Enjoy baby it’s you by Smith on YouTube.

Smith is/was a one hit-wonder from Saint Louis, Missouri. The singer is Gayle McCormick.

Gayle McCormick from Smith

Smith performs the weight (original by The Band) on the soundtrack of Easy Rider. It’s also from the A Group Called Smith album.

V & A & Kylie & WWII, London_2007