The Long Kiss Goodnight 1996 is how you make a feminist film

September 28, 2025

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Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".

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At one point in time ( roughly before Tarantino ) Shane Black was the hottest writer in Hollywood. He wrote stuff like Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero ( the man is obsessed with Last anything ). And his Last film before he recovered from Tarantino induced depression and returned to the scene with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, was the 1996 movie he wrote for director of things like Cliffhanger Renny Harlin The Long Kiss Goodnight, starring Harlin's wife at a time Geena Davis. ↩ Reply

When I compare Shane Black to Quentin Tarantino I have a point. Shane Black's writing style ( specifically his dialogue ) is very on point. Tarantino does it better, which ultimately, probably, maybe, sort of could have been the reason, that Black didn't do shit between 1996 and 2005. And when he returned in 2005, he actually fucking directed the script he wrote. So I suppose he had an unfinished business there with Mr. Tarantino. c:1 ↩ Reply

In any case, listening to the dialogue written by Shane Black, performed by Samuel L. Jackson 2 years after that same Samuel L. Jackson performed the iconic "with great vengeance and furious anger" monologue, in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, here in The Long Kiss Goodnight, made me think, the two motherfuckers are very motherfucking similar motherfuckers. Shane is of course a slightly different motherfucker in many instances. But his dialogue is good. And his dialogue works in conjunction with Tarantino's. It is absolutely not a coincidence that both motherfuckers worked with Tony Scott. ↩ Reply

The sensitivities of story between the two are rather different. I wouldn't expect a movie like The Long Kiss Goodnight ( or anything else from Shane Black ) from Tarantino. Tarantino has his own way to write shit. And his way makes his shit wholly unique to Tarantino. Even in dialogue, there are enough differences, like the way Tarantino uses his pop-culture knowledge, while Shane Black is just being merely clever. Still something about the movies written by Shane Black reminds me a lot of Tarantino. There is this sauce they share. ↩ Reply

The film is about a woman that had amnesia and that tries to figure out who she was before. She has a family and everything. A little girl, who Shane Black being Shane Black uses in the action scene because for some reason Shane Black has to write a little girl into the climax of every movie he writes. Wasn't Kiss Kiss Bang Bang about how you hate people who like little girls too much, Shane? Anyway... so... this woman starts to piece it together, that before she was a mother she was an assassin working for the US government. The CIA or some shit. And during one of the missions she got shot in the head, which didn't kill her, but made her forget everything. So now the bad motherfuckers learn that she starts to remember who she was and want to fuck her up before she fuck them up. ↩ Reply

The main character is both the everyman ( an ordinary person in extraordinary circumstances ) and also a fucking kick ass assassin spy type of character. Kind of, if you think about it, she is a proto-Jason Bourne. The Bourne Identity was released only in 2002. And Brian Cox is somehow in both movies. ↩ Reply

Yvonne Zima plays the little girl in the film and does a very good job at it. Funny, the movie says she is 8, but she is 7 actually. Or could even be 6, because she was born in 1989. So the movie has no clue how old the girl is. Now, one person involved with the project, probably stalked her a bit. Maybe. I don't actually know. But she appears in Ironman 3 and then in The Nice Guys both of which were written and directed by Shane Black. And in The Nice Guys she plays a porn queen. Wasn't Kiss Kiss Bang Bang about how you hate people who like little girls too much, Shane? Ah... Anyway... c:2 ↩ Reply

It's not like Tarantino didn't do shit like this. The Nice Guys had Margaret Qualley at one of her first roles. And Tarantino snatched her for his Once Upon The Time... in Hollywood where her character is assumed to be underage and her name is Pussy. Where he also snatched Julia Butters from Michael Bay's 13 hours and made her a Shane Black type of a little girl, but better, cause he is a Tarantino. Still... in that same movie, Tarantino almost does a butt shot of Perla Haney-Jardine that sells drugs to Brad Pitt's character. And she was the 4 year old girl in Kill Bill Volume 2. ↩ Reply

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No mention of "The American Psycho". It was written by 2 feminists.

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which ultimately, probably, maybe, sort of

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That is one strange string of adverbs

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And in The Nice Guys she plays a porn queen. Wasn't Kiss Kiss Bang Bang about how you hate people who like little girls too much, Shane? Ah... Anyway...

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And the proceeding sentences... Shane, wasn't "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" about your disgust of pedomaniacs?

The Matrix 1999 and how people misunderstand it

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"Red Pill" became the go-to word for the right-wing thinkers of the 21st century. They equate taking the "blue pill" to being ignorant. To not questioning what they believe to be "harmful" leftist ideologies. While the "red pill" is the pill towards awakening. Towards enlightenment. Or some bullshit like this. The irony is that the blue pill and red pill was taken from the 1999 film by The Wachowskis called The Matrix. By The Wachowskis, who, if you know anything about the two, are really not the kind of people who would be calling themselves "conservatives".

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Le Dernier Combat 1983 doesn't need subtitles

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French 1983 Luc Besson film Le Dernier Combat has 2 spoken words throughout its 1 and a half hour runtime. Both of those words are Bonjour, which I bet you already know the meaning of. The film is about a post-apocalypse future where humans lost the ability to talk. The one time two characters in the film have an exchange of Bonjours doesn't even require the understanding of the word to get the impact. It's about them finally being able to utter a word. It is not about them exchanging information.

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Caught Stealing 2025 is a bit dark for a comedy, but way too bright for Aronofsky

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Vincent D'Onofrio pops up on my radar lately. I somehow get attracted to the same movies as the actor, which probably means that I need to review Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick, where D'Onofrio had his, probably, most iconic role. In any case D'Onofrio played an Ashkenazi Jewish gangster motherfucker in a Darren Aronofsky 2025 film Caught Stealing. Something that I had to see, just based on the absurdity of it.

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