Such an interesting comment from Quentin Tarantino...Jim Brown and other black males were always referred to as 'the black Bruce Lee' or 'the Black etc'. There was no white female equivalent to Pam Grier. She was and still is unique.
@@crumdoggy I always thought it was bad bc I watched it as a teenager back in the day but I re-watched it yesterday and yea, its a little slow, but its a great great movie. Def now in my top 5 QT rankings
@@TheTrueMasterOfTheFisthey. There’s some gems still being made. It’s rare but they’re out there. Great writing. Direction. Cinematography. Acting. There’s still a decent amount of gems that are relatively modern. Within the last 20-30 years. One of the most important pieces for me of the many many many that create the masterpieces is the music composition. Ennio morricone blessed us with a lot in the last few decades before his death. 😢. Quentin Tarantino still alive The coen brothers are still alive. Wes Anderson, Ridley Scott. Steven Spielberg. John Williams is still alive. Zimmerman. Sam Raimi. There’s still a lot of potential out there. And new master directors actors and composers as well are coming one day or already amongst us. Sometimes it’s indie films. Sometimes we get lucky and it becomes main stream. Either way I still have hope for them. Do you know what sounds good right now? Either a band of Brothers style mini series or a movie that uses a little bit of historical accuracy, but still enough fiction and plot armor to keep it interesting like fury. But instead it a B-17 flying Fortress crew story.
It's a decent movie. Far from great. De Niro was shockingly miscast. People automatically fawn over his performance because "De Niro", but he was absolutely dreadful in that role.
@@coolnamebro What an L take. De Niro was an AMAZING cast as Louis Gara, the way he made his character really feel like a guy that has been locked up for 4 years that is trying to rediscover the outside was so good. The parking lot scene was just as great. You don't know what you're watching. It's an easy 8/10 movie.
@@kellyf5004 Bernadette Stanis was the daughter on the 70's show "Good Times". Janet Jackson was a child actor on the show It's called Google 🙄 This woman was a beautiful woman too. There doesn't have to be just ONE version of black beauty. Be nice and don't insult our elders. Who raised you? Shame on you👆🏿👆🏾
I know QT thinks it’s a failure now but I think Jackie Brown is one of his best films. And it’s because of the sentimentality. His movies are always interesting and have these interesting characters but there’s something about the character of Jackie that’s refreshing to me because she’s so real.And I might be biased because she’s a black woman like me, but I like how grounded this movie and protagonist is as much as I like how outlandish and surreal Inglorious Basterds is. The hardcore Tarantino fans who overlook Jackie Brown don’t know good cinema imo. It’s about more than ‘cool shots’ and ‘badass moments’. It’s about story and character and I love it. It really warms me whenever I watch it or hear that Delfonics song.
Absolutely stunning. Honestly 90% of the time, plastic surgery winds up backfiring on these people. The golden rule with plastic surgery tho is “less is more.” You want just very slight alterations and in small numbers.
Lord JESUS!! This was the first crush I ever had. I had to be like 5 years old when Foxy Brown came out in 72-73. I looked up at that screen, saw her and thought an angel has descended from heaven to be among us. One of the best lookin women I ever saw. She's nearly 50 in THIS interview.
Pam Grier came here to Birmingham to show 'Coffy' a couple of weeks ago and was still so alluring, so full of charisma - a true old-fashioned movie star!
I've seen QT in interviews. I can only imagine how hard he's having to bite his tongue to not jump in. Props to him for doing so. I love his movies, Jackie Brown may be his best; but, he loves the sound of his own voice almost as much as he loves making movies.
Billy Dee Williams was always the Black Clark Gable. With the Black community they were just our gorgeous Stars. There is definitely only one person that comes close to being Pam Grier and that IS Pam Grier. Nice, ultra talent and rare beauty. She's gained legend status. Beautywise they compared her to Rachel Welch.
Loved Grier in Jackie Brown. Loved her answers toward the end of the interview about not having expectations of a dream coming true but just being there doing the work in her "tenure of Earth". Perfect attitude and man...what a knockout she is.
I bet even at this time, she thought she was getting old or past her prime, just because she was middle aged. Fast forward to 2018 and it's obvious how young she is in 1997
Jennifer Lawrence was so delusional, both blaxploitation and Hong Kong Kung Fu movies had heroines and action women. Moreover Alien, Nikita, Terminator and a lot of other mainstream movies had much more "badass" female characters. Jennifer Lawrence's Hunger games is the American weaker version of the Japanese movie Battle Royale. Oscar winning actress ahhaahha.
Pulp Fiction, True Romance & Jackie Brown 🔥 Those 3 ones are just perfect, great casting, acting, storytelling And Tony Scott really respected Quentin Tarantino's material with true Romance too
I had a friend who would see this older lady in the grocery store. One day she saw Pam Grier in the store with her. It slowly dawned on her that she was Pam's mom. She told me, (this was about 2014) "She is one of the most beautiful people I've ever seen." She was no makeup, in a grocery store...
Wow. The woman is even cooler than the cool as heck character she was portraying. Thank you for posting!!! Love the film and now appreciate her even more.
It's really bad how our collective unconscious biases just write certain films with Black performances out of history - even when we enjoyed them at the time. People forget Jackie Brown in the Quentin Tarantino filmography just like they forget one of Denzel Washington's most important performances, Malcolm X. It's like a White balance in our heads. I think Jackie Brown is among the very best of QT's films and it's a shame it's never translated into a Pam Grier renaissance.
@@nekitamol1k242 The fact that it was never a hit is partly about race. It’s weird that you changed what I said to make it sound like I pretended this was a big film when it’s one of the least talked about of Tarantino’s works. As it stands, it is a truly excellent Elmore Leonard adaptation while still retaining QT’s unmistakable voice.
@@PurushaDesa not really.. it's a victim of circumstance coming out after Pulp Fiction and being so different and slow. Django Unchained didn't have any trouble because it follows the crowd formula.
@@tonywords6713 Don’t know about that. Jamie Foxx has been due a major career bounce for a while and he certainly earns it in Django - alas it didn’t really happen. All the attention went to Christoph Waltz from what I recall.
Ms. Grier is so well-spoken and - more importantly - able to address the inappropriate questions from the host, who, let's face it, is out for dirt in whatever color, sex, etc., he can produce.
Paul Staker well actually Charlie Rose had Quentin as a guest for an hour, and then came Pam for the 15min. That’s why he said at the beginning we talked enough about him, now you.
Having never heard an interview of hers I imagined her a completely different person… but now I see, apart from her being stunning, she was articulate, charming, funny…one hell of a gal.
Great interview for a great movie. I'd say Jackie Brown is maybe #2 (for me) in my rank of Tarantino movies, with Pulp Fiction at #1 ... oh, but, Reservoir Dogs... anyway. AWESOME role, epic role. Pam Grier has always been a queen and goddess whose altar I would kneel before. Ohh she's great. Pam's reclaiming her own fame and her own career was and is the main reason why I like the movie. Plus, it is a damn good movie. The soundtrack is also perfect! Oh yeah! It's my favorite Tarantino soundtrack, BECAUSE of Pam Grier, walking away, then driving that car, "Up on 110th Street" blasting! OH that ending, Pam's face; she owns the movie. Tarantino really was at his best here and so was she. Heck, the entire cast (and crew, and all who worked on this movie) were excellent. Pam Grier deserves all honors for her work in the title role. Quentin Tarantino deserves his props for writing the role, having the vision to do so, and for all of this, too. It is beyond entertainment; the movie Jackie Brown is way beyond just some show you put on the TV. I liked Bridget Fonda, as an actor, too; she was also fantastic. Everyone was good in this movie. Samuel L Jackson was so slick. Superb screenplay,; perfect 1997 time capsule, with all the actors at their best. PAM Grier though! Her look on her drive away from the drama was so satisfying to me, who'd found 1991's Thelma and Louise drive away to be not as pleasing for so many years, until I got to groove to Jackie Brown's determination and freedom as she made her epic escape. It was like, daaaaamn.
“Jackie Brown” endeared both Pam Grier and Quentin Tarantino to me - I felt like she brought bravery to a movie that QT wrote without gratuitous violence usually a part of his “spaghetti western” styled films. Pam Grier is also beautiful.
