Jackie Brown

Title: Jackie Brown

Date: 1997

Genre: Crime, Heist.

Plot Summary: A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer. ‘Six players on the trail of a half a million in Cash. There's only one question... Who's playing who?’

Feel: Smooth, slick, clever.

Key Characters: Jackie Brown, Ordell Robbie, Max Cherry, Ray, Melanie. 

Key Scenes + Quotes:

Louis: Who's that?

Ordell Robbie: That's Beaumont.

Louis: Who's Beaumont?

Ordell Robbie: An employee I had to let go.

Louis: What'd he do?

Ordell Robbie: He put himself in a position where he was going to have to do ten years in prison, that's what he did. And if you know Beaumont, you know ain't no god damn way he can do ten years. And if you know that, then you know Beaumont's gonna do anything Beaumont can to keep from doing them ten years, including telling the federal government any and every motherfucking thing about my black ass. Now that my friend is a clear cut case of him or me. And you best believe it ain't gonna be me.

Ordell Robbie: [Ordell has bailed Beaumont out of jail] Look at you and your free ass. Come here, boy, gimme a motherfuckin' hug.

Beaumont: Good lookin' out, man. I don't know what to say. Thank you, thank you...

Ordell Robbie: Uh-huh. Who was there for your ass?

Beaumont: You were there for my ass.

Ordell Robbie: Who?

Beaumont: You.

Ordell Robbie: Who?

Beaumont: You!

Ordell Robbie: Whooo?

Beaumont: You nigga, damn!

Ordell Robbie: You goddamn right. That's how that shit works: you get your ass in trouble, I get your ass out. That's my motherfuckin' job. And I don't mind telling you, nigga, it's steady work.

Tarantino Interview:

Inspirations:

Rum Punch

Opening Sequence: