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Article: Bloodied Cotton Unplugged

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"When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them no, I went to films" Quentin Tarantino "mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal" T.S.Elliot "I don't invent, I steal" Ingmar Bergman Tarantino is thought of, by many, as the king, the archetype of 'borrowed' movie making due to his extensive use of popular cultural references. His new movie  Django Unchained  may be labelled his utmost intertextual enterprise. His most ecstatic visual 'text'. It is not a recycle or a remake, I must hasten to assert. * A single frame. A fleeting glimpse had me searching the web. Ok. what search terms should I use? The most unused, I guessed. Image Bloodied Cotton. Got it. Amazing to find someone with identical pursuits. But, maybe different purposes. "The (...) shot of blood spray hitting blooms of cotton is going to be remembered for a long time." Wrote blogger Fiero Fredo Thanks Fredo. Watch the movie shot ...