Jackie Brown

On the data. Two things: a 1992 novel and a 1997 film, and this is the only time Tarantino has adapted anybody. Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch is the fourth book with Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara in it, after The Switch from 1978. Tarantino bought the rights to several Leonard novels at once and this is the one he made. He changed the lead character's race and name specifically to cast Pam Grier, who had carried a run of blaxploitation films in the 1970s and had not had a part like it since. Leonard, who was not easy to please about adaptations, said it was the best film made from any of his books. It is the quietest film Tarantino has made. Long scenes of two people in a room not saying much, a plot you can follow, and no set piece. Coming directly after Pulp Fiction it was received as a disappointment, and its reputation has climbed steadily ever since. A lot of people now name it as his best. Robert Forster was nominated for the Academy Award for supporting actor. His career had collapsed to the point of doing almost anything that paid, and Tarantino cast him off a meeting in a coffee shop. One argument about it has never gone away. Spike Lee publicly objected to how often the racial slur is used in the film and to a white director writing it. Samuel L. Jackson answered him directly and publicly, defending Tarantino. Both positions are still quoted; the film does not settle them and neither does this page.

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