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2008-01-09 Britain

Schoolboy battered to brink of death with claw hammer in savage attack resembling Tarantino film

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Posted by anonymous5089 2008-01-09 11:29|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 The claiming it resembled a Tarantino film is out of place. Despite his reputation Tarintino rarely showed violence on screen. In Reservoir Dogs for example the ear chopping was not actually shown, instead a wall was shown and the viewer filled in the blanks. In Pulp Fiction the shootings were not shown, nor the bodies, but instead the screen flashed red and we saw reactions.

This is similar to what Hitchcock did in Psycho with the knife but people don't refer to his films as ultraviolent.

Journalists should try a little harder for a decent metaphor.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-01-09 12:31|| 2008-01-09 12:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Wasif Khan, 18, Amjad Qazi, 19, and two boys aged 15 and 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons...

Nigel? Clive?
I've always thouught that Quentin Tarantino movies are some of the most overrated pieces of crap ever made.

Posted by tu3031 2008-01-09 12:58|| 2008-01-09 12:58|| Front Page Top

#3 This assault/murder attempt is symptomatic; I'd venture that all over the West, the most common victim of an hate crime is a young urban white male, with possibly a young white female as an alternate, sex crimes included.

As for tarantino, agreed, his movies are bloated and hollow; "Reservoir dogs" was ok, "Jackie Brown" was good, IMHO, but all the others are all show, and no substance, just what you'd imagine from a videoclub geek.

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-01-09 13:08|| 2008-01-09 13:08|| Front Page Top

#4 too hell with the critics corner on the tarantino film viewers, how about the names of these young men described as asian sounds like alot of muzzies too me

Posted by sinse 2008-01-09 13:27|| 2008-01-09 13:27|| Front Page Top

#5 This is well known here, but "asian" is the briton PC word for "pakistanese" (can from the whole indian peninsula too, but since it's mostly used now for race riots, crime, terrorism and islamic militancy...).

Posted by anonymous5089 2008-01-09 13:34|| 2008-01-09 13:34|| Front Page Top

#6 What century does Henry think he is living in? He is 6'2 and looks pretty beefy. He thinks some guy is going to show up to an appointed fist fight alone and unarmed?

Posted by Penguin 2008-01-09 13:39|| 2008-01-09 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Mr Patrick said: "It was to be a fair fight. A one- on- one - or so Henry thought.

Savages do not fight this way. Their preferred method is ambush.

In a more civilized time the correct response would not involve the police.

Posted by Excalibur 2008-01-09 14:40|| 2008-01-09 14:40|| Front Page Top

Qazi "the Nazi" 19, sure looks like an Islamic terrorist to me.

Posted by Crealing Wittlesbach2692 2008-01-09 15:04|| 2008-01-09 15:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Qazi

Posted by ed 2008-01-09 17:11|| 2008-01-09 17:11|| Front Page Top

#10 In the British press, the term "Asian youths" usually means Pakistani youths, i.e., Muslims. It's a politically correct way to refer to Muslims involved in heinous crimes.

Posted by Gazoo 2008-01-09 17:34|| 2008-01-09 17:34|| Front Page Top

#11 "'savage beating' by 16 ~~Asian~~ moslem youths"

Imagine my surprise....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-01-09 18:01|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-01-09 18:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Given the lack of hammer attacks in Tarantino films, wouldn't it be more correct to say this is a scene straight out of the British daily papers? Seems like the whole country is turning a little clockwork orangish.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-09 20:25|| 2008-01-09 20:25|| Front Page Top

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