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Of course, it was not Quentin Tarantino directing “From Dusk Till Dawn”, but his friend Robert Rodriguez. But the screenwriting of the screenwriter set its accents in the staging: the prologue with the hiding game in the petrol station, the foot fetish dance performance of Salma Hayek, the “These six pistols are my friends” lecture George Clooney, and the idea of filling someone with Clooney in the main role of an action film that was previously only known from one art series.
Now Clooney no longer treated the people in the “Emergency Room” – as a killer Richard Gecko, he sent her there.
When “from Dusk Till Dawn” came to the cinema 20 years ago, the film world had longed for a new work of Tarantino. According to “Reservoir Dogs” (1992) and “Pulp Fiction” (1994), the 33-year-old was on the summit, everyone wanted to hear new divine dialogues from him, admire new killers in blood-smeared smoking, see new old heroes on the screen, as recently the dug John Travolta.
Tarantino is, expressed the least, no acting talent
In fact, Tarantino wanted to direct himself for “From Dusk Till Dawn”. But then he decided to try it behind the camera, in the second leading role next to Clooney, as a paranoid brother Seth Gecko. Tarantino is, expressed the least, no acting talent. Here, however, his sometimes hectic, sometimes rustic speaking fits the figure.
It was not until his eleven years later film “Death Proof”, which was published as a “Grindhouse” contribution, “from Dusk Till Dawn” also fulfilled at least a criterion-the unimaginable genre switch in the middle, which is just as great as stupid as megalomaniac. The film changes from the action genre to the horror compartment, as if a child was throwing away the old, well-running toy and turning something new just because that shines more.
Sea from blood
The Gecko brothers and the pastor family they have kidnapped must suddenly deal with vampires while asking whether dad, daughter, daughter and son can free themselves from the criminals. The border pub “Titty Twister”, where the Geckos are waiting for help through a Mexican drug boss, becomes the scene of a slaughter. Fang teeth, machine guns, plants, holy water, Danny Trejo, Tom Savini as “Sex Machine”, everything in it.
In 1996, “From Dusk Till Dawn” was alone in the 1996 hallway. In the cinema, romantic bloodsucker dramas like “Interview with a vampire” ruled, the zombie genre in turn only existed underground in the mid-nineties. Light years away from being accepted by people who otherwise cannot do much with Gore; Light years away from “28 Days Later”, “Zombieland”; Light years away from an incredibly successful television series like “The Walking Dead”, which has become an integral part of pop culture.
Little is known about the division of labor Tarantino/Rodriguez
“From Dusk Till Dawn” pushed everyone to the head that could not have guessed what happened in the course of the film. The internet began to grow at the time, social networks in today’s form were unknown: nobody could spoil that blood fountains await you here.
Little is known about the Division of Labor Tarantino/Rodriguez. Perhaps the director, who has become popular by “Desperado”, was allowed to let off steam, especially in this second film section. The splatter scenes are entertaining, but of course they lack the joke of the dialogues with which Clooney, Tarantino and especially Harvey Keitel (as a spiritual Jacob Fuller) had previously held their grave battles. The most successful is Keitel’s explanation of the pub rockers why, as a motorhome driver, he is also a trucker.
Now they are all united against the undead, let’s see who can stand until dawn. Priest Fuller, who had concluded faith after the death of his wife, finds its way back to old strength.
Rodriguez and Tarantino as “Executive Producers”
With a pick -up result of almost $ 26 million, “From Dusk Till Dawn” was anything but a hit, but had a certain radiance.
There were two straight-to-video continuation, for which Rodriguez and Tarantino appeared as “Executive Producers” (there is probably no job in the film business that is defined as vague as this), as well as a television series (meaningless) that started in 2014).
Juliette Lewis as Fuller’s daughter Kate had her last big cinema appearance here at just 23 years. According to “From Dusk Till Dawn”, director Rodriguez continued to shoot in Hollywood, even if he initially stumbled something with the zombie comedy “The Faculty”. George Clooney was of course the biggest winner, the 35-year-old experienced his breakthrough in Hollywood-and proved that it could definitely make TV faces on the big screen, as early as the 1990s.
Even the Titty-Twister-Hausband Tito & Tarantula got its short fame: With “After Dark”, the blues rockers have only landed a single hit. Tito Larriva and Band could not stop this from realizing a live career at German festivals at least for a few years from the mid-nineties.
And then there was Quentin Tarantino. Another year, then it was so far for the first director’s work since “Pulp Fiction”. “Jackie Brown” was already waiting.