The Shave

"Setting down his basin, the Negro searched among the razors, as for the sharpest, and having found it, gave it an additional edge by expertly stropping it on the firm, smooth, oily skin of his open palm; he then made a gesture as if to begin, but midway stood suspended for an instant, one hand elevating the razor, the other professionally dabbling among the bubbling suds on the Spaniard’s lank neck. Not unaffected by the close sight of the gleaming steel, Don Benito nervously shuddered, his usual ghastliness was heightened by the lather, which lather, again, was intensified in its hue by the sootiness of the Negro’s body. Altogether the scene was somewhat peculiar, at least to Captain Delano, nor, as he saw the two thus postured, could he resist the vagary, that in the black he saw a headsman, and in the white, a man at the block. But this was one of those antic conceits, appearing and vanishing in a breath, from which, perhaps, the best regulated mind is not free."
Benito Cereno (1855)
Herman Melville

"I spent my whole life here, right here in Candieland, surrounded by black faces. Now seein' 'em every day, day in and day out, I only had one question: why don't they kill us? Now right out there on that porch, three times a week for fifty years, old Ben here would shave my daddy with a straight razor. Now, if I was old Ben, I woulda cut my daddy's goddamn throat, an' it wouldn't-a taken me no fifty years of doin' neither. But he never did. Why not?"
Django Unchained (2012)
Quentin Tarantino

from trixrabbi

The Traffic Stop

Notorious (1946)
dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Sin City (2005)
dir. Robert Rodriguez, this scene guest directed by Quentin Tarantino

from Dack Janson

The Coffin Escape

Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Bargaining, Part 2" (2001)
dir. David Grossman

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)

dir. Quentin Tarantino

from Jim

The Chain Poster

Rejected Schindler's List poster (1993)
Saul Bass

Django Unchainged (2012)
dir. Quentin Tarantino


from Kite Flub

The Clenched Teeth

I Married a Strange Person! (1997)
dir. Bill Plympton

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
dir. Quentin Tarantino

The Accident

Pulp Fiction (1994)
dir. Quentin Tarantino

The Boondock Saints (1999)
dir. Troy Duffy


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The Threat

"You know what kind of people they are? They're gonna strip you naked and go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch."

Charley Varrick (1973)

written by John Reese, Howard Rodman, & Dean Riesner

"I'ma call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers, who'll go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch."

Pulp Fiction (1994)

written by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avery

The Batusi

Batman (1966)

dir. Leslie H. Martinson

Pulp Fiction (1994)

dir. Quentin Tarantino