A character appears several times in the films of Quentin Tarantino and his friend Robert Rodriguez. Do you know which one?
If you love movies, chances are Kill Bill and Death Boulevard tell you something. Emeritus director Quentin Tarantino has given birth to (almost only) cult films, which moviegoers have fun dissecting, scene by scene. By the way, when returning one of his films, you may have noticed a funny detail…
Remember:at the very beginning of Kill Bill , the police are present in a small chapel in El Paso, Texas, where several people have just been massacred. Then appears, driving his racing car, a real caricature of a Texan:Texas Ranger Earl McGraw . Hat, sunglasses, arms around the waist, outspokenness... The Texas Ranger has everything a modern cowboy does.
Flanked by his son, he is moved by the apparent death of the Bride (Uma Thurman), before realizing that the latter is not dead!
So far nothing abnormal, Earl McGraw is a regular secondary character (although quite charismatic). But if you pay attention, you can see him again, again flanked by his son, in the hospital scene of Boulevard de la mort . Endowed with a keen sense of deduction, the Texas Ranger understands that the crazy driver (Kurt Russell) voluntarily caused the death of several young women to satisfy an unhealthy kink :“Well, I think it’s a sex thing ”, he says to his son.
Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez maintain a strong friendship, this is common knowledge. Cultivating the same love for the exploitation film, the two directors have collaborated on numerous occasions, Quentin Tarantino also appearing as Richie Gecko in A Night in Hell .
And it turns out that our Texas Ranger was seen for the very first time in this movie ! Played by Michael Parks, as in the films that will follow, Earl McGraw meets a disastrous fate in A Night in Hell, since he is coldly lowered into a grocery store at the start of the film. Finally, the cowboy's last appearance in the cinema dates back to 2007 with the release of the diptych Planet Terror/Boulevard de la mort . In Planet Terror, his Texas Ranger gear is stained with zombie blood, and we learn that he is the father of Dr. Dakota!
