Film Dangerous Relationship (1997) American Blu-ray Edition Cover
In fact, it is very reluctant to call the heroine of the movie "Dangerous Relationship/End of Black Jackie Brown" (1997) Ms. Jackie Brown (played by Pam Greer) as a "liar", even if she is no less powerful and courageous than those clever deceitful people.
Images of Pam Greer in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
Dangerous Relationship is probably the least well-known of quentin Tarantino's films, presumably because its style is too unquenchable.
Adapted from Elmore Leonard's (1925–2013) novel Ram Punch, it was a hodgepodge of crime comedies and the first adaptation of a screenplay by Quentin Tarantino.
Author: Elmer Leonard Publisher: World Book Publishing Company Original title: Rum Punch Translator: Yao Xianghui Published: 2016-8
The work of the original author, Elmo Leonard, had a huge impact on Quentin Tarantino, and Quentin Tarantino's respect for him made the film's plot and dialogue decent, seemingly lacking Quentin Tarantino's signature black humor, flowing dialogue, and bloody violent scenes from other works.
This is also another breakthrough for Quentin Tarantino.
Location of the film Dangerous Relationship (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino (left) and Pam Greer
But Elmo Leonard is still a popular novelist, with a thrilling story background and a universal resonance of character dilemmas — this is the golden match for the success of Elmo Leonard's novels.
The characters in his book seem to be experiencing midlife crises, whether they are robbers, policemen, detectives or gangsters, they are all in a state of "stuck".
Images from the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
They are all tired of their work, and they are full of fear of aging, wanting to give it a final shot, and the ending is always unexpected.
Elmo Leonard's creation on the principle of earning fees naturally does not have any in-depth level, so the natural story of "Dangerous Relationships" restricts Quentin Tarantino's free creation, without the flexibility and variability of Quentin Tarantino's original script, the story lacks jumps and flashpoints, and it looks more simple and boring.
And Jackie Brown in "Dangerous Relationship" deceived the two hostile camps of the police and the arms dealers, one used the police gun to solve the small life of the arms dealer; the second let the police collect both money and "satisfactorily" the case; and finally saved himself to retreat and earn $450,000.
As for the infighting in the arms dealer group, it has also become a by-product of Jackie Brown's "cheat-in-deception" trick.
Image of Samuel L. Jackson in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
Jackie Brown went from being the main anti-guest in the dilemma of the left and right attacks, and turned into the behind-the-scenes black hand that controlled the entire chess game, there was a lucky factor, mainly because of her lan xinhui's ingenuity and courage several times beyond the men, she made the "Sun Tzu Art of War" various schemes make the gods without traces, which really made people sigh at her IQ points.
Image of Michael Keaton in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
On the other hand, in addition to these glorious achievements, Jackie Brown is a woman who is very easy to identify with, and she desperately plays black and white between the palms of her hands, after all, only for a way to live.
Jackie Brown, a black woman, now 44 years old, because she has the experience of hiding drugs for the pilot's husband, so she left a case and could only mix with Keppel Air, the last in the American aviation industry, to be a flight attendant with an annual salary of only 16,000 US dollars.
Images of Robert Foster in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
This air hostess, who is darker than her skin tone, has been calmed in a few places on the face, wrinkles occupy the corners of the eyes, and expand more to the corners of the mouth and forehead, her figure is about to deviate, the age is about to run five, fortunately, there are still some remnants of the beautiful style, left in the cosmetics to stay still.
Jackie Brown has been having a hard time lately, and the police, in a self-proclaimed clever interrogation, revealed two things: one is that they have long known that she helped arms dealer Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson) transport black money from Mexico into the United States; and second, she is not a target of the police, and they want to catch the rampant Robbie.
Stills from the film Dangerous Relationship (1997), Chris Tucker
Jackie Brown heard the news and responded perfectly — he didn't answer, unlike Bemon the Black Kid (Chris Tucker), who had also been brought into the police station before, with a big mouth.
Soon, Robbie is out of his usual trick of paying 10,000 bail expert Max (Robert Foster Robert Forster) to get Jackie Brown out of jail.
Images of Robert De Niro in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
In the darkness of the night, Jackie Brown, who is gradually approaching, has a unique beauty in Max's eyes, and Jackie Brown certainly understands that Robbie is so "kind" for a reason.
Because she also learned from ATF agent (Michael Keaton) that Bemon was shot twice and died in the trunk of the car.
Image of Brigitte Fonda in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
It was night, when Jackie Brown took advantage of the darkness to quickly take away the arms dealer Robbie's pistol and save herself from the same fate as Bemon, she realized two things: one is that the police will not give up, and that Robbie will not stop here, the former can use official forces to keep her in prison for a long time, and the latter can use the underground black forces to kill Qingqing before she enters the police station twice.
Jackie Brown's most likely fate is to die an unknown death— when police power loses an insignificant informant, Robbie loses a small pawn.
Fortunately, bail expert Max showed unusual concern for her, becoming a backup for Jackie Brown, and fortunately, Jackie Brown hatched a "bureau" in the process of wrestling with a police and arms dealer, and the prey was Robbie lying in Mexico waiting for the 500,000 to be shipped to the United States.
Stills from the film Dangerous Relationship (1997), Pam Greer and Robert Foster (right)
Jackie Brown's confident claim to the program as "Sting" quickly conjures up images of Paul Newman Newman (1925-2008) and Robert Redford's blockbuster 1973 smashingly perfect "Deception within a Scam/Trickster The Sting" (1973) that was 24 years apart, both of which were about a hefty $500,000 sum.
Image of Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson (right) in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
From the above analysis, it can be concluded that Ms. Jackie Brown wants to play this game, the disadvantage is both inferior and advantageous, the advantage is that she is brave and knows how to judge the situation; the disadvantage is that she has become the object of joint vigilance between the police and Robbie, and has to deal with two teams at the same time.
Judging from the results, she really has the potential to bottom out, and counting the successful mutiny of Ms. Jackie Brown is nothing more than her flexible use of military tactics.
First of all, she was really in a desperate situation: the police asked her to cooperate in providing evidence of Robbie's crime, and Robbie asked her to keep her shut.
Jackie Brown, if he wants to be guilty on both sides, the easiest way to do that is to kill himself.
Jackie Brown certainly does not want to sacrifice himself, and the only way to get out of this desperate situation is to save himself on both sides, that is, to use the situation of the game to make a small force - to strengthen his own power with the help of others' existing situations, and finally "blossom on the tree".
To this end, on the one hand, she persuaded the police to believe that as long as she was restored to the status of flight attendant, she could continue to transport 50,000 black money back for Robbie, so that the police could catch her.
On the one hand, she lobbied Robbie to authorize her to bring her $500,000 in Mexico into the United States at one time, provided that the 50,000 yuan was sacrificed for the police to see.
Jackie Brown's trick of "hiding the sky and crossing the sea" is really clever, and the police think that if they catch her 50,000, they can successfully catch Robbie.
Images of Robert De Niro and Brigitte Fonda in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
Robbie was convinced that the money would go well into his hands through the "package plan", so he sent his confidants Melanie (Brigitte Fonda) and Luis (Robert De Niro) to help.
At this point, both the police and Robbie believe that Jackie Brown is their partner, and the reality is that Jackie Brown and bail expert Max are really "good partners."
After a premeditated practical "exercise", both the police and Robbie self-righteously "confirmed" the details of the drama, and they both couldn't wait to catch each other off guard, except forgetting the warning of the old saying "mantis catching cicadas, yellow finches behind".
Images of Robert De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
The "stage" for the show was actually the dressing room of the clothing store, and jackie Brown tied 450,000 of the $500,000 to the bottom of his satchel before getting off the plane, and then spread a few pieces of clothing on it, and put another fifty thousand dollars on the clothes.
As usual, she met with the police in the parking lot, who used a marker to mark each of the $50,000 sheets.
Then Jackie Brown went to a clothing store as planned, and when he tried on clothes in the locker room, Robbie sent a connector who received $500,000, and Jackie Brown exchanged shopping bags with only two towels in the former bag, and only $50,000 in the latter bag, lying under the $50,000 was just a pile of books.
The remaining 450,000 lay in another shopping bag, still lying quietly in the dressing room as Jackie Brown left.
Stills from the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
It turned out that Robbie thought he had retrieved 500,000, but it was less than 50,000 (the connector swallowed some of it himself), and Jackie Brown's partner Max managed to get the shopping bag lying in the locker room with a huge amount of money.
Annoyed and enraged, Robbie killed his men in a fit of rage, and listened to Max's words and followed him to his office, but before he could stand still, he was successfully killed by the police hiding in the darkness.
Stills from the film Dangerous Relationship (1997), Samuel L. Jackson
Like Bemon, who died at his hands, he gasped in total darkness, except that he had eaten three shots and fell on a much wider floor than the trunk—Jackie Brown's knife-killing skills.
The film Dangerous Relationship proves that Quentin Tarantino, known as the "Ghost Director," is real, not just the Wonder Boy who directed only one or two films at the time.
Stills from the film Dangerous Relationship (1997), Robert Foster
Moreover, it is not a rework of "Falling Dogs/Overbearing Reservoir Dogs" (1992) or "Pulp Fiction/Dangerous People" (1994), but a new style of film that does evoke the unique charm of the original author, Elmer Leonard, who elevated the crime novel to a form of social comedy.
The appeal of Dangerous Relationship stems from Quentin Tarantino's trust in the film's original footage, and his reverence and love for Pam Greer and Robert Foster (1941-2019), two 1970s character actors, and the B-movies they represent.
Location of the film Dangerous Relationship (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino (front row squatter, right) and Samuel Jackson (inside the car, left)
The most touching relationship in the film is the strong trust between Pam Greer and Robert Foster, and the chemistry of the two actors through just a few glances, friendship and love between each other, are enough to make the audience feel very emotional.
Having two actors play their first work after Pulp Fiction undoubtedly required a lot of courage from Quentin Tarantino, but importantly, Quentin Tarantino didn't lose.
Quentin Tarantino was filmed on location in the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
This is the most plain film of all Quentin Tarantino's works, with no non-linear narrative, no off-line plot, no showmanship.
Aside from the double-digit long shots; the most unexpected was the 50-minute orgasm, which was really refreshing.
Although this film is not as majestic as Quentin Tarantino's other works, Quentin Tarantino is a good player in controlling the rhythm.
Location of the film Dangerous Relationship (1997), directed by Quentin Tarantino (right) and Pam Greer
Quentin Tarantino this time absolute feminism, he let Robert De Niro from beginning to end a nest like a nest, love the oil of the brothers and women, nervous and dizzy in case of trouble, can not find the north of the same thing is not as good as a female stream, the behavior of two shots robbed of the woman, but also let people not see how manly; and the other "amazing" is the trunk of the wronged soul Chris Tucker, who did not have Jackie Chan at the time to set off his tall and mighty classmate, standing opposite Samuel Jackson, like a schoolboy, Without a few words, he lay in the trunk and swallowed two hot bullets.
Stills from the film Dangerous Relationship (1997), Robert De Niro and Brigitte Fonda
However, Jane Fonda's niece Brigitte Fonda, can open up, and the whole film, except for Robert De Niro's intense exercise and the final death of the bullet, wears a tank top shorts, and the rest of the time is bra hot pants, standing next to the powerful Robert De Niro, still eye-catching.
Poster for the American edition of the film Dangerous Relationship (1997).
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