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Jackie Brown (1997)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino · Shot by Guillermo Navarro · Cut by Sally Menke · Music by Bobby Womack · 154 min
How it was made
- Tarantino changed the ethnicity of Elmore Leonard's protagonist from White to Black and renamed her from Burke to Brown while adapting the novel Rum Punch, waiting until shooting was about to start to discuss the change with Leonard, who called the result possibly the best screenplay he had ever read.
- Pam Grier had earlier read for a role in Pulp Fiction, but Tarantino felt audiences would not find it plausible for her to be yelled at by Eric Stoltz's character, so he wrote Jackie Brown for her instead.
- The typeface used for the film's opening titles was the same one used on Foxy Brown, and part of the score is lifted directly from Roy Ayers's original music for Coffy, both earlier Pam Grier vehicles.
- Tarantino considered Paul Newman, Gene Hackman and John Saxon for the role of Max Cherry before casting Robert Forster.
- Rather than commission a new score, Tarantino built the soundtrack from period funk and soul tracks, including Roy Ayers's Coffy score and Bobby Womack's "Across 110th Street", and added separate tracks of dialogue lifted straight from the film.
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