Death Proof
Two separate sets of voluptuous women are stalked at different times by a scarred stuntman who uses his “death proof” cars to execute his murderous plans.
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
- Tagline: A White-Hot Juggernaut At 200 Miles Per Hour!
- Runtime: 114 minutes
Cast
Kurt Russell : Stuntman Mike
Zoe Bell : Herself (as Zoë Bell)
Rosario Dawson : Abernathy
Vanessa Ferlito : Arlene
Sydney Tamiia Poitier : Jungle Julia (as Sydney Poitier)+
Three friends – Arlene (Vanessa Ferlito), Shanna (Jordan Ladd) and radio disc jockey “Jungle” Julia Lucai (Sydney Tamiia Poitier) – are driving down Colorado Street in Austin, Texas to celebrate Jungle Julia’s birthday. While drinking at Güero’s Taco Bar, Jungle Julia reveals that she made a radio announcement earlier that morning, offering a free lap dance from Arlene in return for addressing her as “Butterfly,” buying her a drink and reciting a segment of the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” As the women bar crawl, the scarred “Stuntman” Mike (Kurt Russell), a Hollywood stunt double, quietly stalks them; only Arlene catches a quick glimpse of Mike’s souped-up, matte black, white skull-decorated 1970 Chevy Nova. When Pam (Rose McGowan) canvasses the bar patrons for a ride home, Mike offers to give her a ride, assuring her he is a teetotaler and a safe ride.
Mike spends the night chatting with Pam about Hollywood stuntwork and Julia, for whom Pam nurses a grade-school grudge and a low opinion. Mike flirts alternately with Pam and Julia and finally works his way to Arlene, calling her out for the lap dance promised by Julia. Arlene accuses Mike of following them, but Mike only admits to having seen Arlene once outside of Güero’s. Affecting a candid manner, Stuntman Mike threatens to call Arlene a coward for failing to live up to the offer. Arlene then orders Mike to pick a song on the jukebox and performs the dance. Arlene, Julia, Shanna, and their marijuana dealer, Lanna Frank (Monica Staggs), leave for Shanna’s father’s lake house, and Mike shows Pam to his Nova’s seatbeltless, enclosed, bare-metal-and-Plexiglas front passenger compartment. Mike explains that the interior film camera is usually set up in that area and assures her that his car is “death-proof.”
Stuntman Mike has seemed to be a normal, if overly intense, guy, but as he locks Pam into the passenger compartment, Mike looks directly into the camera and cheerfully smirks. Pulling out of the parking lot, he asks for directions, and when Pam says right he sighs and says they’re going left, and he wished she had said left so she wouldn’t get scared right away. He reveals himself to be a sadist, and begins to ride at extreme speeds and swerve the car around, thrashing Pam around the box. She pleads with Mike to let her out of the car, but Mike ignores her and informs her that the car is “100% death proof, but to get the benefit of it, honey, you really need to be sittin’ in my seat!” He then slams on the brakes, smashing her skull on the dashboard and killing her. Then it’s “time to find me my other girlfriends,” and he tosses his voyeur photographs of the girls out the window so the police will not find evidence of premeditation. Mike then chases after the other four girls. Finding their car on an empty road, he speeds past them and spins his car around. He proceeds to race at the girls’ car head-on at full speed with his headlights off, and turns them back on at the last moment. Mike crashes into them, killing them.Read more
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