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For your reading pleasure, I drag back.. The Tarantino 'borrowed' list.
If you have any new editions or corrections, please email!

Also, if this gets cut up in posting, I can email it to you.


The Films that Tarantino has perhaps borrowed from - a FAQ v1.9

Started By - pa...@tropwen.demon.co.uk
Co-conspirator, editor, and present keeper - za...@hub.ofthe.net

Paul's Original Intro:

This FAQ contains a list of films from which Tarantino has appeared to
borrow plots, camera shots, dialogue or whatever else we can think of. The
FAQ will merely point out similarities; it makes no judgment as to whether
similarities constitute plagiarism, borrowing, influences or plain
coincidence. That is up to you to decide so please don't involve us!

This FAQ has been compiled primarily from usenet posts from
alt.fan.tarantino, combined with extensive contributions from Zach
(which he/I often read from usenet posts). Any inaccuracies or additions
should be mailed to either myself or Zach using the email addresses
supplied above.

Thanks to:

Thomas Miale for the majority of the Taxi Driver points.

Jesse Nickel Christopher Marges
Kenneth J. Cheek Adam Rixey
Bullit Michael Brooke
The Lanky Californian Chris Margeson
Pjk Adrian Spink

The Tarantino FAQ writers. Some additions here look curiously similar
to those listed there already. I believe Kale Whorton is in charge of
that FAQ. Sorry for any "Homages" to the FAQ!

NOTE: Please help out in pointing out mistakes in movie references,
character names, spelling errors, grammatical errors,
punctuation, etc.

Also please contribute anything you might know that has been
left out or if you want to help supply dates and directors for
the films please do. I didn't have time to look each up.

New Additions 11-1-97
NEAR DARK
DEAD ZONE, THE
MAD MAX George Miller
FEAR AND DESIRE Stanley Kubrick

Movies/People listed thus far:

AIR FORCE, Howard Hawks, 1943 USA
ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS Alfred Hitchcock, 1960 USA
ALL THAT JAZZ Bob Fosse, 1979 USA
AMERICAN BOY Martin Scorsese, 1978 USA
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 John Carpenter, 1976 USA
BADLANDS Terrence Matlick, 197
A BANDE A PARTE
BIG SLEEP, THE
BODY AND SOUL
BODYGUARD, THE
CHARLEY VARRICK
CITY ON FIRE Ringo Lam,
CLOCKWORK ORANGE, A Stanley Kubrick
CURDLED
DAWN OF THE DEAD George Romero
DELIVERANCE
DEERHUNTER, THE Michael Cimino
DJANGO Sergio, Corbucci, 1966 ITA?
DOWN BY LAW Jim Jarmusch
DRUGSTORE COWBOY Gus Van Sant
EVIL DEAD II Sam Raimi
FANDANGO
FRENCH CONNECTION ,THE
IN COLD BLOOD
JULES ET JIM
KILLING, THE Stanley Kubrick
KILL ME AGAIN
KISS ME DEADLY
LA FEMME NIKITA Luc Besson
MYSTERY TRAIN Jim Jarmusch
ON THE WATERFRONT Elia Kazan
PAWNBROKER, THE
PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS,THE Wes Craven
PSYCHO Alfred Hitchcock
REPO MAN
RIO BRAVO Howard Hawks
SCHOOL DAZE Spike Lee
SIMPLE MEN Hal Hartley
SOLAR CRISIS
STRAIGHT TIME 1978, Ulu Grosbard USA
TAXI DRIVER Martin Scorsese
TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3, THE
THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, THE 1968, Jewison, USA?
VAMP
WILD BUNCH, THE Sam Peckinpaw


AIR FORCE
In this 1941 WWII air force movie in which a character played by John
Garfield named Winaki (Chris Walken's name in PF) gives a dog (not a
watch) to a transport pilot to get it off Wake Island.

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS
The story, titled 'The Man from Down South', was originally written
by Roald Dahl and featured on his 'Roald Dahl's Tales of the
Unexpected'.
It was most notably done by Alfred Hitchcock on 'Alfred Hitchcock
Presents' in 1960, and stared Steve McQueen and Peter Lorre. This
specific version was mentioned as the inspiration for the bet within
Tarantino's story in Four Rooms. A newer version of Alfred Hitchcock's
starred John Huston and Kim Novak.

ALL THAT JAZZ
When bleeding Tim Roth is getting driven by Keitel in getaway car in RD,
he says something like "Oh, god...I'm dying!" In the 1979 film, there
is a
stand-up comedian who has a monologue that contains the exact same line
and
is also said in the exact same manner (both films sound identical).

AMERICAN BOY
Scorsese's "American Boy": Here's Steven Prince talking: "...this
girl once O.D.'d on us and she was out, man, and it was myself and
her boyfriend, and her heartbeat was dropping down and we got everything
out. And oxygen, and nothing was working, and he looked at me and he
says,
"Well, you're going to have to give her an adrenaline shot." And I said,
"What are you talking about?!" I said, "You give it to her!" He said,
"I can't! It's like a doctor working on someone in his own family."
And I said, "That's bullshit, you've known her two days! What the fuck
is that?!" And he said, "I can't do it!" So I had the medical
dictionary,
you know how you give an adrenaline shot? Okay, the adrenaline needle is
(measures with hands) this big, and you've got to give it in the heart,
and you've got to put it in a stabbing motion, then you plunge down on
the thing. I got the medical dictionary out, looked it up, got a magic
marker, made a magic marker where her heart was, measured down two or
three ribs and measured in between there, and then just stood there and
went (brings arm down identical to Travolta's) and she sat up like that
(snaps fingers)..."

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
At the end of Dusk Till Dawn, Clooney and Lewis are surrounded by a
bunch of vampires from all sides and the proceed to fight them off. Just
like the end of Assault On Precinct 13 (In the basement)

Also.... Scott wears Precinct 13 t-shirt during the film.

In Assault on Precinct 13...

"Shall I save the last two bullets for us?"
"No, you'll save them for the first 2 assholes that come through that door."

In From Dusk Till Dawn...

"Shall I use the last bullets on us?"
"No, you'll use them on the next fuck that tries to bite you."


THE BODYGUARD
The Sonny Chiba film called "The Bodyguard" contains the exact same
biblical quote that Jules says in Pulp Fiction. The quote used in
pulp fiction is NOT the exact quote from the Bible, but IS the exact
quote from the Sonny Chiba film. Sonny Chiba says it to people before
he kills them as does Jules.


BADLANDS
Alabama's voice over in TRUE ROMANCE is very similar to Sissy
Spacek's voice-over Badlands. The jangly music at the end
of True Romance is also from Badlands. Note that Roger Avary
added the voice-over and the addition of the music was by
directory Tony Scott.

The first half of NBK follow the same plot-line as Badlands
Dad doesn't like boyfriend, Dad (and Mom) killed, kid's flee
to start life of crime. If my memory is correct, a similar vow is
made in NBK as in Badlands that if the two are separated and they
want another chance to find one another they shall meet on such
and such date and such and such place. In Badlands I think it's
New Years day at the Grand Cooly Damn. (Zach)

BANDE A PARTE
The PF dance competition is clearly influenced by Jean Luc Godard's
1964 film 'Bande A Parte' which Tarantino has named his production
company after.

THE BIG SLEEP
In this noir classic, Humphrey Bogart's character hires a taxi cab
to stake out a book store. It is driven by a woman and of course
has the projected scenery on the back window since that was
standard then! SEE ALSO: ON THE WATERFRONT

BODY AND SOUL
When Butch suddenly wakes up after the "Gold Watch" story, QT
reproduces this action the way it was done by boxer John Garfield
in this 1947 film.

This film is also about a boxer who doesn't throw a fight and is
then on the run from the mob. (Verified?)

CHARLEY VARRICK
In this movie about a gang of small town bank robbers led by Charley
Varrick, (Walter Matheua) some bank owners who are working with the mob
begin to worry that the mobsters think it was an inside job. The two
discuss this matter, and one says to the other, "they will strip you
naked and go to work on you with some pliers and a blow-torch". Part of
this dialogue is used in PULP FICTION in the pawn shop as Marcelus
says he is going to call up some guys to 'go to work on the holmes with
some pliers and a blowtorch'.


CITY ON FIRE
Plot elements concerning an undercover cop who infiltrates a ring of
thieves have been expanded to create Reservoir Dogs. There are claims
that camera shots are used also, but no verification of which.

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Both movies contain famous torture scenes in which the protagonist
sing a song as they do there dirty work. Blonde sings along to
"Stuck in the Middle" and Alex sings "Singing in the Rain" and
punctuate lines with slashes/kicks.

CURDLED
The cab ride in Pulp Fiction with Esmerelda Villa Lobos (Angela
Jones) is borrowed from the short film curdled. In Curdled, Jones
plays a character who cleans up messy homicide scenes and takes
a job as a cab driver to pick the minds of passengers as she does
in Pulp Fiction. This short film was later remade in to a full
length film with Tarantino's help.

DAWN OF THE DEAD
In From Dusk Till Dawn, Sex Machine (a biker) is played by Tom Savini.
Well Tom Savini also played a biker in the 1978 film Dawn of the Dead
Tarantino also put Dawn of the Dead on his acting resume because
he had little acting experience and resembled a charcter in the
film (see below).

Note from Zach: A few years ago, I asked which character it was
Tarantino said he had played (because it was mentioned Tarantino
had a physical resemblance to a charcter and thus thought it would
be pretty easy to get away with). I received email from a
guy who's name and email was Roger Avary (you make the call) who I
believe said it was the biker who gets hit by the truck. I tried to
keep the email as a memento but I lost it so I can't verify that was
the character he spoke of as I hadn't seen the movie then.

Also, in the opening melee in Dawn of the Dead the white cop and
the black cop wheel and fire on a zombie. Tarantino's now famous
POV shot of Jules and Vincent firing towards the camera at off
screen Hand Cannon is very similar to Romero's.

DEAD ZONE, THE
The Wolf's utterance of "In your future I see... a cab ride!"
while holding on to Vincent's (Jules?) wrist is a funny emulation
of Christopher Walken's psychic powers in the film adatption of
Stephen King's "The Dead Zone".

THE DEERHUNTER
Chris Walken's character in PF is very much like his DH character (they
were bother POW's).

DELIVERANCE
The pawn shop scene in PULP FICTION where Butch and Marcellus are
assaulted by red necks is much like the scenes in DELIVERANCE. Both
films have two rednecks, and only one is armed with a shotgun, and
proceed to pick one man out of a group of two to sodomize. They also
refer to the victims as 'this one' or 'that one' as they dehumanize
them.

DJANGO
In this one, we actually see the victim get his ear cut off.
Whether any shots are similar is unknown.

DOWN BY LAW
Jarmusch's 'Down by Law' was an "escape from prison" movie where we
didn't see the escape from prison. 'Reservoir Dogs' was a "heist"
movie where we didn't see the heist.

Also, Dusk Till Dawn has a jail break AND bank robbery that isn't
shown.

DRUGSTORE COWBOY
Closup shots of Heroin preparation and injection in Pulp Fiction
resemble shots from the heroine shooting sequences in DRUGSTORE
COWBOY.

EVIL DEAD 2
In From Dusk Till Dawn, Harvey Keitel said "Don't be a fool, he'll
kill us all" and in the original FDTD script, he said "Don't be an
idiot, he'll kill us all". Bruce Campbell (Ash) said in Evil Dead 2:
"Don't be an idiot, they'll kill us all".

Also: Stepping on severed head to stop it from rolling, and
then blasting it - Ash/Kate?

FANDANGO
Dictionary definitions of movie's title displayed at beginning of film.
This is also used in other films such as "My Own Private Idaho"

FEAR AND DESIRE
Clarence tells Lee Donowitz in TR to "Come to terms with your fear
and desire". Fear and Desire was Stanley Kubrick's first movie
that he was so embarassed about he decided to buy all the copies
of it so know one could ever see it again.

THE FRENCH CONNECTION
The chase scene in RESERVOIR DOGS where Mr. Pink is being chased by
police men is shot in the same manner as the chase scene in the
beginning of THE FRENCH CONNECTION. There are some medium shots from
directly across the street and also some shots with the bad guy
approaching
that are almost identical.

An innocent lady by-stander is shot by the sniper in The French
Connection. Innocent lady by-stander shot down in Pulp Fiction.

IN COLD BLOOD
In this film, the killers are referred to as "Natural Born Killers".

JULES AND JIM
'The Bonnie Situation' contains Jules and his friend Jimmy, clearly
a reference to Francois Truffaut's film, 'Jules et Jim' ,1961.

LA FEMME NIKITA
The character of Wolf in this story is taken from Jean Reno's
portrayal of a 'cleaner' in Luc Besson's 'La Femme Nikita', a role
reprised by Keitel himself in the American remake 'Point of No Return'.

THE KILLING
Stanley Kubrick used a non-linear timeline in this classic heist
movie as Tarantino has done in both Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and
the screenplay of True Romance.

Also Mr. Blonde shares characteristic's of Timothey Carey's character,
Nikki Arane. Both are the calmest of the gangs, but turn out to be
a little off-kilter when it comes time to do the job. They look a bit
alike also and have the same mannerisms.

KILL ME AGAIN
1989 film starring Val Kilmer features Mr. Blonde, Michael Madsen
in a role as another psychopath. In this film he also ties a
character to a chair, interrogates him, and threatens him with a
knife. Madsen's character's name is also Vic.

KISS ME DEADLY
The notorious glowing briefcase is similar to a mysterious glowing box
in the 1955 noir classic KISS ME DEADLY.

LE SAMOURAI
One of the earliest three way stand offs appears in this Jean Pierre
Melville film. Many of Melville's noir classics are concerned with
honor and ethics among gangsters. Also, the gangster attire popular
with the Dogs can be traced back to Melville's and other early French
New Wave director's gangster films.

MAD MAX
I thought this one was far fetched until I learned that Tarantino
was fond of Mad Max. Honey Bunny's utterance of "Any of you
fucking pricks moooooove, and I'll excute every muther fucking
last one of ya's" appears to be a paraphrased line said with the
exact rhythm and similar fury of the shot-gun toting Granny
in Mad Max as she holds the biker thugs at gun point.

Mad Max is mentioned in TR.

MYSTERY TRAIN
The ghost of Elvis appears to a character in 'Mystery Train'. The ghost
of Elvis appears to a character in 'True Romance'.

NEAR DARK
In this great little vampire flick from the same year I believe as
The Lost Boys (mentioned in RD) are some similar elements to DOTD.
Well, the one I remember most easily is where the vampires are
holed up in a house and as the police shoot holes in the walls,
the rays of light beam in and burn them. Many of QT's scenes also
share the same rhythm, dialouge, and violence of the scene where
the vampires shut down the bar and kill all the patrons.

ON THE WATERFRONT
Some say the black and white projection of a city street used in
the cab ride in Pulp Fiction is a tribute to this movie, as it
also features a boxer on the run taking the cab drive. SEE ALSO:
THE BIG SLEEP.

THE PAWNBROKER
The character Marsellus is very much modeled after Brock Peter's
character in the 1965 film.

THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
QT's Gimp looks much like the father of the 'people under the
stairs' in Wes Craven's bizzarre horror/comedy.

PSYCHO
When Butch stops at the lights and sees Marsellus crossing the road,
we are reminded of Alfred Hitchcock's film 'Psycho' when Janet Leigh
stops at a set of lights to see her boss crossing the road.

REPO MAN
Some people say the glowing briefcase is a reference to the glowing
trunk in the 1984 film REPO MAN. There is also a multiple protagonist
gun-fight that takes place in the convenience store in which most of
the participants are gunned down which takes place in a number of
Tarantino movies (TRUE ROMANCE, RESERVOIR DOGS). Also pop culture
dialogue and character interactions are similar as well. Plus Dick
Dale Surf music, and a Red Chevy Malibu.

RIFIFI (1955)
French New Wave directed by Jules Dassin which involves a diamond
heist. Specific links beyond that are not known.

RIO BRAVO
The crook is bending for his gun and John Wayne lifts his Shotgun and
says, "You want that gun don't cha?". Butch restates this to Zed
once the tables are turned on him and he reaches for his gun in the
pawn shop scene. (Rio Bravo is a Tarantino's favorite)

SCHOOL DAZE
The line "My name's Paul, and this is between ya'll" was first
spoken in Spike Lee's look at black college life, School Daze.

SIMPLE MEN
In Hal Hartley's film, Simple Men, the Sonic Youth dance sequence,
where, just for a second, Elina Lowensohn -- sporting the same
hairdo as Uma Thurman-- does the same shimmy that Mia Wallace
does to Dusty Springfield in Pulp Fiction.

The dance scene in Simple Men is followed by a discussion of Madonna and
how she exploits her sexuality, by 4 people sitting around a table.
This last link is a wee bit tenuous since Reservoir Dogs and
Simple Men were released in close proximity to eachother.

SOLAR CRISIS
In this film starring Charlton Heston, Jack Palance, and Peter
Boyle (Taxi Driver) a company trys to stop a group of scientists
from keeping a solar flare from roasting the earth. The company
trying to stop them is iXL. In Dusk Till Dawn a trailer truck at
the end of the movie bears the same iXL logo as in Solar Crisis.

STRAIGHT TIME
In this 1978 film with Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton, and
Eddie Bunker the guys on a job say, "We shoulda had shotguns for
this....". Other dialogue in the movie includes a line along the
lines of "This is very unprofessional...we've got to act like
professionals here!". The first line is repeated in Pulp Fiction
as Jules and Vince go to Brett's apartment and the second is
paraphrased by Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs. Straight Time was also
written by Eddie Bunker (Mr. Blue).

THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3
In the 1974 movie, THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1-2-3, the gangsters who hijack
the subway train all have anonymous 'colored' names. In Pelham the
colors
are: Blue, Green, Grey, Brown. There are also some similarities in the
character of Mr. Green (Hector Alonzando) and Mr. Blond in RESERVOIR
DOGS.
Both are thought to be psychotic or at least off-base by their cohorts.
Both also go on a shooting spree in which they reason were necessary
because the people he commanded didn't do what he told them to.

TAXI DRIVER
Harvey Keitel tells Jodi Foster "Bitch, be cool" -The same thing that
Sam Jackson tells Pumpkin to tell Honey Bunny in PF.

Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) asks Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) to have
coffee. He then has pie with a slice of yellow cheese. This is
mentioned
in:

A. Natural Born Killers original script in the opening diner scene.
B. True Romance - when Clarence takes Alabama to the diner.
C. Pulp Fiction when Butch gives Fabienne money for breakfast.

"any time of the day is a good time for pie. ... And on top, a thin slice of
melted cheese."

One scene in Taxi Driver a fellow cabby is overheard talking about
someone getting his ear cut off. The cop Marvin Nash has his ear cut
off by Mr. Blonde. The cabby also refers to him as a 'sick fuck' which
is what Marvin calls Mr. Blonde also.

Albert Brooks talks about gangsters cutting off fingers as does Mr.
White while he and Mr. Orange go over the heist plans.

The scene where the Presidential candidate scans Travis' license for his
name is the same as the scene where Butch gets Esmerelda Villa Lobo's
(the cuts are identical even).

Travis Bickle always seems to have a fountain drink in hand to slurp
on as do Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs and Jules when he borrows
Bretts. Jules appears to hold the drink like Bickle did also.

There are elements in the scenes where the salesman sells Travis guns,
and Lance sells Vince heroin that are very similar. Both the salesman
comment that they are selling to a white man like themselves and are
therefore out to give him a better deal. Also, there is a shot of the
guns/heroin bags laid out in a row where the salesman's hand goes down
to touch each one as he states it's price.

And, as crazy as it might sound, there are very similar shots of
Lance/Travis eating cereal. In both cases the box/milk is visible in
the shot and they hold the bowl and eat cereal.

THING, THE (1951, 1984)

OK, in Howard Hawks, well Christian Nyby's original The Thing, the
alien attacks the artic base from outside as the poor researches
inside try and ward them off. This is also the case in Rio Bravo
as well as John Wayne and The Kid (Dean Martin)

THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR, THE
Possible links with bank heist and black girl who works at bank
mentioned in Reservoir Dogs.

VAMP
Grace Jones greatest moment with the exception of her role in
Conan. The film's premise bears some resemblence to Dusk Till
Dawn. Two fraternity brothers, not paternal brothers, go to a
seedy strip joint where the dancers and the strippers are
vampires. They fight their way through the vamps until dawn.
Also, the sexiest, leader of the strippers is also the sexiest
leader of the vampires.

THE WILD BUNCH
In DUSK TILL DAWN Richie (Tarantino) says, Were going to Mexico and
Kate (Juliette Lewis) says, "What's in Mexico?". Then Richie
says, "Mexicans". This dialogue is taken from The Wild Bunch.

Woo, John
Woo brought back the French New Wave gangster movies, bringing with it
more action in the form of stylized gun, rapid fire, gun-play. Woo's
influence can be seen in Tarantino's films, especially Reservoir Dogs.

Shooting innocent by-standers?

In Pulp Fiction the "Shot Lady" (Also the "Shocked Lady" in
Reservoir Dogs) gets hit by Marcellus Wallace's errant gun fire.
I believe a innocent by-stander is tagged in Woo's "The Killer" as
well. See also FRENCH CONNECTION.

Mr. White's double semi-automatic pistol firing action in RD is a
Woo trademark as are 3 way "Mexican" standoffs seen in RD, PF, and TR.

More specific Movies? Better Tommorrow II?

More information is needed on these films if anyone can provide it:

-Any Pam Grier films, i.e. Coffy, Sheba Baby, The Bird Doll House
-A Better Tomorrow Part 2, John Woo
-Rolling Thunder (1977), used dialog?
-Mr. Majestyk (1974), mentioned in True Romance
-The Losers

Things people mentioned but never verified...

The girl... the unseen young black girl who pulls the alarm in Reservoir
Dogs during the unseen bank scenes .. Such a black girl is actually shown
in another bank heist movie ?

Ear cutting as a tribute to John Woo, who also wanted to do an ear
cutting scene but couldn't show the actual cutting?



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Stan

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In article <64v4cp$t3r$1...@usenet48.supernews.com>, za...@SPAMhub.ofthe.net
(Zach Douglas) wrote:

> Woo, John
>
. . .


>
> More specific Movies? Better Tommorrow II?


I just saw BTII for the first time--got it on VHS, pan&scan
unfortunately--and there is one scene that is *very* similar to Reservoir
Dogs. At the funeral of a fallen comrade, the "good" gangsters (the ones we
are supposed to like, anyway) stand up from their positions next to the
coffin and walk outdoors. They are wearing suits and sunglasses, and the
camera even tracks them in a way very similar to scenes in RD.

--Stan

Chris Chan

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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 14:09:35 -0400, ive...@utk.edu (Stan) wrote:

>In article <64v4cp$t3r$1...@usenet48.supernews.com>, za...@SPAMhub.ofthe.net
>(Zach Douglas) wrote:
>
>> Woo, John
>>
>. . .
>>

>> More specific Movies? Better Tommorrow II?
>
>

>I just saw BTII for the first time--got it on VHS, pan&scan
>unfortunately--and there is one scene that is *very* similar to Reservoir
>Dogs. At the funeral of a fallen comrade, the "good" gangsters (the ones we
>are supposed to like, anyway) stand up from their positions next to the
>coffin and walk outdoors. They are wearing suits and sunglasses, and the
>camera even tracks them in a way very similar to scenes in RD.
>
>--Stan

ABTII is also the film Alabama is watching on Clarence's TV while
Clarence is getting her stuff from Drexel in "True Romance." I don't
have the TR script, so I don't know if this is just coincidence or
not. A very good movie, nonetheless.

Harvey Keitel's double semi-automatic firing, while a Woo trademark,
owes more to Ringo Lam's City on Fire. In that scene, Danny Lee fires
two guns into the front window of a police car, as Keitel did in RD.
Whether that qualifies as QT using the exact scene or not, I don't
know. COF also has a "Mexican stand-off" scene at the end.

For Stan's peace of mind, a letterbox version of ABTII exists. It is
marketed by Tai seng video (www.taiseng.com).

chris

Stan

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In article <347359d...@news.wired2.net>,

chri...@po.eecs.berkeley.edu (Chris Chan) wrote:
> For Stan's peace of mind, a letterbox version of ABTII exists. It is
> marketed by Tai seng video (www.taiseng.com).

Hey, thanks. I'll check it out. I've had trouble getting their website to
load lately, but I'll try it again.

--Stan

SKaravasil

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How about Mia's coke habit and hairdo is similar
to Phiffers character in Scarface.

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