Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Mr. Blonde
Mr. Blonde was a Jekyll and Hyde type of character. At times he was calm and controlled, but when there is an opportunity for violence, he definitely took advantage. He loves killing and torture, but he doesn't like blood on his hands (literally). Not really sure why it bothers him. For one that enjoys violence, you would think that a little blood on him would come with the territory.
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Now I have no idea how the mind of Mr. Blonde works, but maybe we views people (cops especially) as being worthless. Like they are not humans. He doesn't care about anything other than how it feels to torture them. He takes pleasure in their pain. He doesn't seem to have any kind of empathy or conscience. He clearly thinks they are beneath him which is why he doesn't want their blood to get on his hands.
ReplyDeleteBut this is just my guess.
That's what I think as well. Wiping the blood off appears less out of a sense of tidiness or distaste for blood than an act of contempt towards his victims.
DeleteYou could say Jekyll and Hyde, except the Jekyll part is merely the facade he shows the world. He's a total psychopath with no regard for anyone, except maybe Joe, who he's protected in prison. So even Blonde has a limit. But really he's only apparently a Jekyll. He's actually completely a Hyde. A complete monster.
ReplyDeleteI hope it doesn't say something about me as viewer that even though I know he is a complete psychopath, he still seemed so suave and cool. Then again, his brother Vincent was a heroine-injecting junky but also oozed cool. Say nothing else about the Vega brothers, but they sure do know how to dance.
ReplyDeleteGood point! I didn't think about the brothers' terpsichorean similarities. Blonde's appeal, his cool, is what Tarantino's critics complain about. In a way, though, it may not only reflect on Tarantino as the glamor of evil, which seems cool, but of course is really just evil finally.
DeleteBut then again that's typical of Tarantino's gangsters. With Tarantino's popculture infused mind, he has his own definition of what cool is and what he wants to see on screen. He makes films that he wants to see and creates characters he thinks are cool. Looking at his list of favorite films, its easy to see how he shapes his characters.
DeleteIts funny you mention the cool factor of the brothers or cousins. In Pulp Fiction, Vincent slowly becomes less cool and his clothes get ruined and tarnish his image. Only instead of that being a Dorian Gray type thing, Tarantino makes it comical.
I LOVED Blondes' whole demeanor throughout the film. His cool and the way he carried himself was so interesting even though he was COLD inside. I do question Tarantinos viewpoint of evil, as Professor Kaufmann said... If indeed this is a correlation to what Tarantion thought of as evil, I find that very interesting. COLD BLOODED!
DeleteI think Tarantino shows us these "cool" characters to throw us off and show that the monsters are the everyday people we see and sometimes look up to cause we think their cool. So many people like the violence in movies and games. They see the warriors, bikers, gangsters and think it's cool or badass, but could they really hang with these people; or be one of them. Do we really know who the monsters or the evil people are just by how they look.
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