Molly From Reverence to Rape Haskell weighs in like the good second-wave feminist she is on "Tarantino's gynophile opus" in the Guardian. [via ceerock]
[T]he greatest difference between Tarantino's lethal lovelies and their antecedents is that hard-boiled dames rarely had kids, and certainly weren't pregnant. (If they had children, or were past 40, it became another kind of film, Mildred Pierce stopped being a babe and became a mother.) The Bride with a swollen belly is a wonderfully incongruous image; try to imagine Crawford in Johnny Guitar, or her co-star Mercedes McCambridge heavy with child. The incompatibilities between a woman's sexual and maternal being, or between her sleek and streamlined action persona and the contrary figure of the madonna are self-evident....
Sweet vindication: Haskell also caught the Kiss Me Deadly nod.
