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Jackie Brown - Quentin Tarantino [Pdf - Eng] [TNTvillage]
JACKIE BROWN
Film
Quentin TARANTINO
Author: Quentin Tarantino
Title: Jackie Brown
Year: 1997
Language: English
Genre: Film
Format: Pdf
Living in the Los Angeles area in 1995, Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is a flight attendant for a small Mexican airline, the latest step down for her career. Despite the low pay, the job enables her to smuggle money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), a gun runner under the close watch of the ATF.
Ordell learns that another of his workers, Beaumont Livingston (Chris Tucker), has been arrested. Fearing that Livingston will become an informant in order to avoid jail time, Ordell arranges for his bail with bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) and promptly leads Livingston to his death. Acting on information Livingston had indeed shared, ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and LAPD detective Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen) intercept Jackie as she arrives in the United States with Ordell's cash and some cocaine that Brown was unaware was stashed along with the cash. She initially refuses to deal with Nicolette and Dargus, so is sent to jail on possession of drugs with intent to sell. Sensing that Jackie may be just as likely to inform as Livingston had been, Ordell arranges her bail. Max Cherry arrives to pick her up and, only partly masking his physical attraction, offers to buy her a drink and help determine her legal options.
Later that night, Ordell arrives at Jackie's house intending to murder her. But using a gun she borrows from Cherry, Jackie barters a deal with Ordell whereby she will pretend to help the authorities while still managing to smuggle $500,000 of Ordell's money, enough to allow him to retire. To carry out this plan, Ordell employs a woman he lives with, "my little blond surfer girl" Melanie Ralston (Bridget Fonda), plus his friend, Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), a former cellmate. He also uses a naïve Southern girl, Sheronda (Lisa Gay Hamilton). With Jackie's help, Nicolette and Dargus arrange a sting to catch Ordell, unaware that Jackie and Ordell plan to double cross them by diverting the actual money before the authorities make an arrest. Unbeknownst to the others, Jackie plans to deceive them both with the help of Cherry in order to keep the $500,000 for herself. After a dry run, during which Nicolette could observe the operation, the stage is set for the actual event. In a large shopping mall near Los Angeles (the real Del Amo Fashion Center, which is portrayed as it exists in the film), Jackie buys a new suit and enters a dressing room. Her real intention is to swap bags there with Melanie and Louis, supposedly passing off the $500,000 under Nicolette's nose. Instead, she gives Melanie only $50,000 and leaves the rest behind in the dressing room for Max to pick up. Jackie then feigns despair as she calls Nicolette and Dargus out from hiding and claims Melanie took all the money and ran.
In the parking lot, Melanie gets on Louis' nerves more and more, finally leading him to shoot and kill her while making their escape after she smarts off one too many times. Ordell discovers that Louis has only $40,000 in the bag (Melanie having kept $10,000 for herself after being tricked into doing so by Jackie). Then Ordell realizes that it was Jackie who took his money, and in anger, a suspicious Ordell kills his friend Louis. He is also concerned about the involvement of Max Cherry, having been told by Louis that he spotted Max in the store before the pickup. Lured back to Max's office, where Jackie is said to be frightened and waiting to hand over his money, Ordell arrives armed and dangerous. Jackie yells out that Ordell has a gun and he is shot by Nicolette, who was hidden in another room.
In the clear with the law and in possession of the money, Jackie decides to go away for a while and invites Max to go along. Max is tempted, clearly in love with her as they kiss. But he declines to go with Jackie for reasons that the audience are left to interpret for themselves. There are a number of hints during the movie given by Cherry in his dialogue with Jackie about why he makes the choice he makes. Some include Max's wanting to get out of the bail bond business and find something else to do to being too old to start a new adventure in life ("I'm just tired in general...."), but his reasons for turning down a woman he is obviously in love with remain intentionally ambiguous at the film's closing.
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (pronounced; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and occasional actor. In the early 1990s he began his career as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His most notable films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009), all of which enjoyed critical success to varying degrees. His films have earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Palme d'Or and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy awards. He is also a MENSA member, an organization with members with high IQ.
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