Death Proof

[pozorvlak]

My flatmates and I went to see the new Quentin Tarantino film, Death Proof, last night. In this off-beat thriller, Tarantino turns his trademark blend of hip dialogue and beautifully-shot ultraviolence to the world of pure mathematics. Kurt Russell stars as an embittered former number theorist who plots revenge on the profession that wronged him by

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[half_of_monty]

Tarantino turns his trademark blend of hip dialogue and beautifully-shot ultraviolence to the world of pure mathematics.

i.e. Tarantino is writing a film for pozorvlak.

Actually, from your summary of the plot, it sounds like he pinched it from the fabulous half-written play, ``Harry Potter and the Hodge Apple'', in which a tram, hijacked to Vladivostok, ends up washing the proof of the Hodge conjecture off the blackboard as it surfs down the river Liffey - at which point the conjecture ceases to be true and magic enters the world.

Now I come to think about it, that was a marvellous play. I should get back in touch with people and finish it!

[pozorvlak]

Er, not quite...

[half_of_monty]

Aw.

*headdesk*

Snigger.

[half_of_monty]

Mind you your version sounds better.

Do you think there's a market in Edinburgh for insane pure maths based thriller? Sounds like we have a lot of good ingrediants between us.

[pozorvlak]

Besides, he already made a film perfectly tailored to my interests. It was called Kill Bill. I suppose it could have been slightly improved if all of the assassinations had in some way been a metaphor for Yoneda's lemma, but I think it was pretty good as it was :-)

[footnotetoplato]

I think that I would like to see this play.

[pozorvlak]

"Proof by induction: when you absolutely, positively have to prove your theorem for every motherfucker in the set of natural numbers, accept no substitute."