His son thinks he knows better: "Dad - I watch the reality shows!" The charm of the dialog in these scenes has a lot of competition from the state-of-the-art mayhem, which leaves blood and brains spattered everywhere. The minister is inclined to cooperate with the desperadoes. Now the minister and his kids are heading south in a mobile home the Gekkos hope to hide in while crossing the border. The minister has left the church after the death of his wife, leaving an opening for another of Tarantino's passages of theological dialog. Holed up in a sleazebag motel, they take hostages: a former Baptist minister ( Harvey Keitel) and his children ( Juliette Lewis and Ernest Liu). Richard has helped Seth break out of prison, and now they're heading for the Mexican border with the bank loot, and Richard, who is a rabid loony, is blasting everyone in sight, including innocent bystanders. They've robbed a bank and left a trail of dead and wounded (all toted up by a TV news reporter's digital carnage readout). After the title sequence, we get to know the central characters, Seth and Richard Gekko ( George Clooney and Tarantino). Those who liked the shoot-outs in Rodriguez's " El Mariachi" and " Desperado" will like the second half, which is non-stop mayhem in a scuzzy bikers' and truckers' strip joint, with lots of vampires, exploding eyeballs, cascading guts, and a weapon made out of a powered wooden stake (I guess you could call it a Pneumatic Vampire Drill). Those who loved the invention of Tarantino's dialog in " Pulp Fiction" will like the first half, especially a brilliant pre-title sequence featuring Michael Parks as a Texas Ranger who creates a whole world out of a little dialogue. And, yes, there is still a character nicknamed “Sex Machine”.Actually, a lot of people will hate half of the movie and like the other half. Given the breadth of the show, there’s also a larger supporting cast, with room for some of the offbeat bit players that Rodriguez, who wrote and directed some of the episodes as well as overseeing the project as executive producer, is so fond of. Added to the ensemble mix is a young Texas Ranger, Freddie Gonzalez, pursuing the Geckos in the name of his veteran partner Earl McGraw. Also featured is the suspect Carlos, with his links to an underworld that plainly means different things to different people, as well as the seductive Santanico Pandemonium, a representative of the undead with a taste for humans. Here’s our comparison guide to the movie and the series: CharactersĮssentially they’re all present and correct: on the run bank robbers and brazen killers Seth and Richie Gecko, the RV-owning Fuller family – former minister and widower Jacob, his daughter Katie and adopted son Scott, who the Gecko boys kidnap to help them cross the Mexican border. The latest hopeful is From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, a reinvention from the creatively fertile mind of Robert Rodriguez, the one-man Austin, Texas production house, of the low-budget horror and crime mash-up he concocted with Quentin Tarantino in 1996 in the wake of the duo’s ascension with the likes of Desperadoand Reservoir Dogs.Ī pulpy hostage thriller overtaken by a fight against vampires, the movie gives way to a 10-part series that screens on SBS 2, Tuesdays at 8.30pm (watch episode 1 above). Turning a successful movie into a television show is a tricky matter, as the demands of two hours versus 12 or even 24, the limits of small screen production budgets and the necessity of a contained storyline against that of a long form work can all swiftly become fatal flaws for every Fargo, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and M*A*S*H, there is a Clueless, Highlander and Casablanca (don’t know about the terrible 1983 television series? Keep it that way).
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