Theories behind the contents of the briefcase and Marsellus Wallace’s faustian bargain have been mostly debunked, or at least disregarded, over the years. But it shouldn’t be overlooked that Vincent Vega uses the phrase “black magic marker.” Besides the everyday meaning as used in the film, a “marker” can also mean an IOU. So what would it mean if someone in the movie was a black magic marker?
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Blood Meridian
I’m going to say this right now (if this thing ever actually goes into production), great novels almost never adapt well to the screen. Have you ever heard someone mention John Huston’s Moby Dick as anything more than a footnote? Has there ever been a great movie of Huckleberry Finn or The Great Gatsby (I know Baz Luhrmann gave it the old college try, but that movie is ultimately pretty mediocre)? These questions are important because Blood Meridian is one of…
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Inherent Vice 2014
In the future, the small group of monks or whatever that still care about films will ponder why no one got this film in its time. And the answer is because you have to watch it five times and study it like a dense book. It is an adaptation of Pynchon, after all. Now, who’s up for some Gravity’s Rainbow?
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