Thriller Research // "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" VS "Kill Bill Vol. 2"

Three men, one graveyard and a load of confederate gold. All of these combine to make one of the best duels within any western, and within cinema itself.


This scene, the finale in Sergio Leone's western classic "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" set a benchmark of style and tension, with the quintessential anti-hero- Blondie, and the man behind him- Clint Eastwood, assimilating into popular culture. This scene has been referenced many times and often hailed as one of the finest scenes in film-making, cementing the feature as a staple of cinema's history.

Thriller Research // Representation of Suburbia In Hollywood Film

"this is my neighbourhood, this is my street, this is my life"

Suburbia and the associated culture of superficiality, consumerism and ennui it is intrinsically linked to is a common feature of post-modern cultural criticism, and this extends and features extensively in film, especially those made by and about members of the post war, post baby boomer generation of the eighties and nineties, also known as generation X. Though there are many films dealing directly with these themes of angst and existentialism, many films link back heavily to these films using techniques and images such as lines and lines of identical uniform houses, bright colour filters, connoting hyper-reality and superficiality ,and stereotypes of nuclear families, pristine homes and bored consumers buying and smiling their ways through mid life crisis.