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Ordell thinks long and hard. The camera lets him, just holds on to it. "It's Jackie Brown!" Odell is right. It was Jackie Brown who stole the $500,000. It's unusual that a black gun dealer in the movie even gets the chance to think. With Tarantino, however, things are quite different. He has filmed the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard, in which all the protagonists are clever. A question of survival, the smartest one will make it. Jackie (Pam Grier) knows that she has to look naïve in order to survive. Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson) would kill her immediately. She's cunning, like everyone else in Tarantino's movie. The bail bondsman (Robert Forster), the AFT agent (Michael Keaton) - they all know what happens. Just ask if they're fast enough to keep up with Jackie. With Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino not only proved that he was more than a hype! His third film remains his best! Never again did he arrange such perfect scenes as those between the constantly stoned ex-Con (Robert de Niro) and Ordell's lover (Bridget Fonda) discussing a photo in Ordell's booth. Never again did Tarantino stage such a precise production! Although mistakes in suitcases have been popular since the 60s, it's not the plot that convinces here. It's the structure of the film. Jackie Brown, 44 years old, works for the worst airline as a stewardess. She also smuggles money for Ordell. Then Beaumont (Chris Tucker) is caught and the AFT (personified by Michael Keaton) is on her heels. She is arrested. But Ordell sends the bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) to buy her out. Here begins the great love story, the heart of the film. Slowly the affection between the two grows (in a worse movie a sex scene would have spoiled everything). Jackie fears to be murdered by Ordell. She has to kill him first, but she's not a killer. In Gunde Max knows that Jackie is using him. Nevertheless, her feelings are real. Jackie is helpless. She can't help it. We get to know all these characters (and in most thrillers they just get to know each other). I think the fact that Tarantino lets us participate in his characters makes the difference! That's what makes his movies "cult movies". Tarantino's strengths are his dialogues and his timing. And of course his casting! Pam Grier, the sex bomb of the Blaxploitation cinema of the 70s, seems tired and desperate here. It still attracts everyone's attention, but Jackie knows life. Robert Forster as a security agent plays the role of his life! A quietly working professional and a sensitive, melancholic lover. Samuel L. Jackson seems even colder and more dangerous than ever before and Robert de Niro can be simply stupid. One of the best is the almost invisible performance of Bridget Fonda, who is only interested in one thing: being high. At the time, some people said Jackie Brown was too long. They're just the ones who can't cope with old-fashioned movies. On the other hand, I wish Tarantino's characters would talk to each other, cheat and live much longer.

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