@@taylorhornbeak6447 It´s one of my favourite opening and closing scenes in any movie ever! The song is so amazing to begin (and end) with! And then we have this call-back to The Graduate for the opening scene and that HEARTBREAKING moment when she´s driving away, quietly singing along...it´s just perfection! QT might have composed more thrilling and more elaborate scenes and set-pieces, but he never topped this emotional tour de force!
Isn't it in the end as well? I remember it bookending the movie which still gives me shivers when I think about it, but haven't watched it in ages so maybe I edited it in my head lol
Leave it to QT to borrow the theme song of another movie, one that shared a title with the movie itself, and make it his own for Jackie Brown! Ain't complaining, he's a master and Jackie Brown is my favorite movie of his. Forster and Grier have some of the best chemistry you'll ever see in a movie and easily SLJ's best performance ever.
Quentin’s best, indeed. Top 10 of the 90’s… La Belle Noiseuse Chunking Express Fallen Angels Eyes Wide Shut Close-up A Brighter Summer Day Satantango Beau Travail Heat Double Life of Veronique Flowers of Shanghai The Puppetmaster The Scent of Green Papaya I could continue just naming Kiarostami, Hou, Kieslowski, WKW, some Tsai even (though he peaks in the early 2000s), Kaurismaki, Almodovar, etc. I mean, I’m only barely scratching the surface off the top of my head. Maybe Jackie Brown ranks, but it’s hard to make it into the top 10. Top 10 American films, maybe. Up there with Unforgiven, Heat, To Sleep With Anger
@jon4715 Damn, people forget how the early 1990s were a Golden Age for foreign and independent films. A new amazing film out of China (CHINA!?!!) every other week, not to mention the rest of Asia, Europe, Middle East and Latin America. And the small indies...we had no idea how good we had it!
@@jon4715 Great list. Not excluding the others, but La Belle Noiseuse, Chunking Express, Close-up, Beau Travail, Heat, Double Life of Veronique are in my fast list also, along with Dellamorte, Dellamore, Underground, Carlito's Way...
Q.T. wasn't showing off when he directed Jackie Brown. I don't say the same about Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction or any of his other films. Q.T. is definitely overrated, but Jackie Brown is UNDERRATED.
It's the Tarantino film that feels closest to resembling a Paul Thomas Anderson film I feel. It's always been Tarantino's most underrated of his films.
i love it as much as pulp fiction. all the more so because i'm no fan of anything he made later. even once upon a time in hollywood felt really contrived and gimmicky to me.
I think it's one of this best really .. and it's one I watch now more than any of the others. Tarantino dropped off for me after this one .. Sure I watched all of his movies after but none really got me like Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Jackie Brown .... A lot of what he did afterward felt gimmicky and I just wasn't involved with what he was doing.. at least until Once Upon a Time in Hollywood which was fantastic. People who say Jackie Brown was his weakest movie are complete idiots.
@@gregh5061 Yes .. So was Kill Bill and Django .. I didn't like Inglorious Basterds or Django, but I have Kill Bill in my collection. I never revisit it though. Jackie Brown and Reservoir Dogs I pull out often. I kinda loved Once Upon A Time in Hollywood too. .... I didn't enjoy Hateful Eight either.
Whenever I watch Breaking Bad, I feel like Robert Forester’s bail bondsman character went on to become a vacuum cleaner salesman who makes people disappear for vast amounts of cash. He seems like he’s genuinely the same character in both pieces of media.
@@grizzlywhisker I knew Bob a little. We'd become friends right before he died. Went to dinner a few times, and then he was gone. But I really appreciated him. That energy you see in both of those roles was just him. Supremely relaxed, but also kind and almost like a big kid. Imagine that guy sitting across the table from you at a Mexican restaurant telling you about his life and the movie business. A good memory. God bless you, Bob.
I was underwhelmed by Jackie Brown in the 90s when I first saw it but rewatching it recently I really loved it. Probably because im middle aged now myself! But it was a bold move to do something mature after pulp fiction, he could have done more of the same. And thats exactly what the film is, its still cool but its more grounded in reality. It doesn't have the hyper cool factor of Pulp or Dogs
Yeah and sadly it's why he doubled down on all his dumb gimmicks and shit ever since and never really returned to making a mature introspective confident film like this one
@@liamramsey6 yes, but he says in the video "what Quentin wrote" and it's a little annoying to give Tarantino full credit without mentioning Leonard as well.
I think you're correct. My top 3 would be: Inglorious Basterds Jackie Brown Once Upon A Time In Hollywood... But I genuinely love all his films and pretty much 8 out of the 9 so far could all pop into the top 3 for me personally at any given moment.
Once Upon A Time is arguably his worst, in my opinion. His movies fell off after he lost Sally Menke. It's Jackie Browne and Inglourious Basterds for me.
I've never been what one would call a hardcore Tarantino fan, but dammit, I got to give credit where it's due, AND DAMN DO I LOVE ME SOME "JACKIE BROWN." From the minute I first saw it back in the 90's , it became and has remained my favorite Quentin Tarantino film. "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" and "Inglorious Basterds" can wrestle for the no.2 spot. I don't mind being in the minority when I say that Ordell Robbie is one of Samuel L. Jackson's greatest and most underrated performances that surpasses Jules Whinfield of "Pulp Fiction."
Just curious, this editor of Quentin's named Sally that Paul mentioned....I believe he stated that she died? Does anyone know what she passed away from??
Its such a surprisingly mature,nuanced and restrained work. I love its depiction of middle-age,still being capable and hungry but not sure if you got the stones for ot anymore,love least of all. Robert Forster killed it in JB,and Pam Grier was of course wonderful,whole cast was.
I always liked Jackie Brown, but didn't love it like his other films because it wasn't as boisterous. It didn't strut like his other films. It felt smaller than his other works to me. His other films all have an identifiable, off-kilter hook. At first glance, Jackie Brown does not. But it does indeed when you look below the surface. And it's exactly what PTA is talking about here. THAT is the hook: "What if I made a cool crime caper about two aging people at a crossroads?" More and more people in film communities online would post comments along the lines of "Jackie Brown is QT's best film, actually" and I always scoffed at this like it was typical film twitter preciousness. Because as some of you may know, film twitter LOOOOVES being precious and going against the grain to sound more enlightened. But after my most recent rewatch...I'll be damned if I didn't feel the same way. Inglorious Basterds will probably always remain my favorite QT film, but Jackie Brown is stunning. Probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite. It's so well rounded, so empathetic, so funny - it's a perfect little small scale crime caper with a lot on its mind. Everything about it feels perfectly calibrated from the plotting to the editing to the performances to the humor to the suspense...it's a perfect gem of a film. There is such a sense of interior life to these characters. They feel the most real, the most lived in - like this story is unfolding in real life just down the street from you.
Came right after Pulp Fiction, initially I was so disappointed, but I didn't give the movie a chance. Many of my friends praised it but I didn't respect their 0pinions, turns out I'm the one that doesn't know what makes a film great.
I agree....his stuff after this has been the law of diminishing returns for me. Some great set pieces and exchanges of dialogue to be sure....but his films after this barely work as films to me.....and they're often way too long and way too self-indulgent.
Jackson's best role ever IMO for starters. He's fantastic as is Grier and Forster. Beautiful and so much more of a light hand than the usual QT schtick. Only film Tarantino didn't write, thanks Elmore, and it makes a big difference. I kinda wish we got another 'only directed by' QT flick
Such an underrated movie to the point that many people don’t even know it exists. He doesn’t mention it but I love De Niro in this movie even though it is such a different role to see him so inadequate and spaced out, honestly some hilarious scenes with him 😂
How I would love the opportunity to plant a kiss on Pam Grier like that . She is a spectacular example of feminine beauty and power . So many of the most famous men on earth dated her and fell in love with her .
I been saying this the people who have a hateboner for Quentin won't admit it but he's able to mature in a way we haven't seen in ANY of his 21st century films even though I do enjoy some of them OUATIH is another level man a ride down the end of days of Hollywood through the foggy haze of Quentin's childhood nostalgia yet not indulgent and heavily critical of nostalgia and Hollywood itself but we can see through it all that he loves Hollywood even though the feeling is not reciprocated from Hollywood itself it almost always fucks it's best artists at the end of it all
