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He left a wad of cash—more than enough for a new motor—but Leo never bought one. He just kept that last strip of Kill Bill tacked above his workbench.

Finally, after ruining seven strips of expensive paper, they got it. The title card for Reservoir Dogs was a masterpiece of entropy. It was crooked, slightly grainy, and the yellow had an almost sickly, nicotine-stained warmth. It looked like it had been printed in 1973 and left in a glovebox for twenty years. filmotype quentin

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As the machine coughed its last breath, Quentin picked up the still-wet title. He bowed his head, a moment of silence for a dying art. He left a wad of cash—more than enough

Years later, Leo watched the premiere of Inglourious Basterds . He saw the big, red, sloppy —each one a deliberate, loving homage to the cheap, brutal lettering of 1970s exploitation films. He saw the crooked ‘R’ in Basterds . He saw the bleeding yellow halo around the white. The title card for Reservoir Dogs was a