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This post is about how little work people do, but it starts with stories of unusually high output. Gory Movies Quentin Tarantino is the legendary directory of America’s most violent mainstream movies.

2020-10-23 This post is about how little work people do, but it starts with stories of unusually high output. Gory Movies Quentin Tarantino is the legendary directory of America’s most violent mainstream movies. For a while, he’s been talking about retiring after his 10th film. If you count the Kill Bill franchise as 1, he’s at 9 so far, and now claims the next will be his last. Meanwhile, Japanese director Takashi Miike has made literally 10 times as many movies, finishing his 100th in 2017. His movies are similarly violent, so he’s been compared to Tarantino, and actually cast the American d

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