In addition to his own work, Quentin Tarantino felt like every film had an opinion. He doesn’t keep up either controversial statements about sizes like François Truffaut, whom he recently described as a “clumsy amateur”.
But Tarantino can also be euphoric about films. For example, he loves the Japanese genre classic Battle Royale so much that he would have liked to shoot it himself. If you do violent FSK 18 cracker If you don’t know it yet, you can stream it completely free of charge in Amazon’s free media library Freevee.
You can watch the German Battle Royale trailer here:
Battle Royale – Trailer (German) HD
Battle Royale sparks bloody school class survival struggle
Kinji Fukasaku’s film is set in a future totalitarian Japan. Here the government carries out a merciless educational reform as a bloody struggle for survival by sending a school class to a remote island and… fight each other with all sorts of weapons got to. At the end only one person is allowed to remain.
The bloody hustle and bustle in Battle Royale gets an extra deterrent character precisely through the underage main characters. With a lot of black humor and merciless exaggeration, the director draws the picture of a fascist system that is simultaneously violent escalations of violence like in the bloodiest Tarantino films à la Kill Bill: Volume 1 is connected.
It is also no coincidence that the story of Battle Royale looks very familiar. The (much tamer) hit franchise The Hunger Games has that Success concept clearly from the Japanese genre highlight copied.
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Are you fans of Battle Royale?