![]() ![]() He’s on a road-trip holiday with his two kids, driving a Winnebago around the country, when the Geckos take them prisoner. * Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) is a pastor who’s going through a crisis of faith, having recently lost his wife in a car accident. * Gloria Hill (Brenda Hillhouse) is the bank teller, who we first see tied up in the Geckos’ car boot. Later, when the characters reach a bar called the Titty Twister, he’s turned into a vampire. He rapes and kills one hostage, then hallucinates that another is coming on to him. * Richie Gecko (Quentin Tarantino) is the less levelheaded, more psychotic half of the team. It’s a terrifically cool performance, full of vim and swagger. Clooney was then a TV actor but is filmed here like a movie star he often dominates the frame. As the story begins they’re on the run, having stolen a chunk of money, kidnapped a bank teller, and killed a few cops and bystanders. * Seth Gecko (George Clooney) is a bank robber who works with his brother, Richie. There’s then sudden violence, black comedy, flames and gunfire, and it ends on a grandstanding shot of the brothers arguing as they walk away from an exploding building. ![]() It’s not about what you think it’s about, but is still feeding us important information. Unbeknown to McGraw, Pete is actually in the middle of being held up by two criminals. * Pete Bottoms (John Hawkes) is the guy working in the liquor store. The part was written for the actor, making use of his slow-talking cadences and world-weary manner. * Texas Ranger Earl McGraw (Michael Parks) is a cop who stops at a liquor store in the first scene to shoot the breeze and use the toilet. Creepy and committed, it’s – by some distance – the best acting performance of his career. He convinced Quentin to play the part of Richie Gecko. (Kurtzman gets a ‘story by’ credit.) It took a few years for the film to go into production, by which time Tarantino’s friend Robert Rodriguez had been hired as director. ![]() It was a commission from Robert Kurtzman, a special-effects designer who wanted a project to showcase his new company’s talents. What does QT do? Working on From Dusk Till Dawn in about 1990 was Quentin Tarantino’s first paid scriptwriting job. Spoiler alert: these reviews reveal plot twists.Ĭriminals Seth and Richie Gecko force a family to smuggle them across the border into Mexico, where they all end up in a bar run by vampires… ![]()
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