

And if you break that up, you aren't really doing it anymore. Tarantino remembers, "I realized I couldn't do a straight slasher film, because with the exception of women-in-prison films, there is no other genre quite as rigid. This inspired Tarantino to create a slasher film featuring a deranged stuntman who stalks and murders sexy young women with his "death-proof" car.
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Tarantino developed a fascination with the concept and the story for Death Proof developed from the way stuntmen would "death-proof" stunt cars so a driver could survive horrific, high-speed crashes and collisions.


The women are en route to pick up Abbie and Kim's friend, stuntwoman Zoë Bell, from the airport while Mike inconspicuously photographs them. They stop at a convenience store, where Mike watches them from his car. Sheriff McGraw believes that Mike killed the women intentionally, but because Mike was sober while the women were intoxicated, he cannot be charged.įourteen months later, three young women - hair and makeup artist Abernathy "Abbie" Ross, stuntwoman Kim Mathis, and up-and-coming actress Lee Montgomery - are driving through Lebanon, Tennessee, where they are shooting a film together. He catches up with the women's car and drives into it at high speed, killing them. He speeds and slams on the brakes, smashing Pam's skull on the dashboard, killing her. Mike takes Pam to his Hollywood stunt car, which is rigged with a roll cage, and tells her the car is "death proof." Once Pam is in the passenger seat, he reveals it is only death proof for the driver. Pam, Julia's old classmate, is in need of a ride home and accepts Mike's offer. The women prepare to depart with Lanna, another friend, to Shanna's family lake house. She is suspicious, having seen Mike's car earlier that day watching her outside a restaurant, but he convinces her to give him the lap dance. He returns to sit with the group and recites the line to Arlene. He notes that Julia is on billboards across town, and she is cold towards him.
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In a bar, Julia reveals that she made a radio announcement offering a free lap dance from Arlene in return for addressing her as "Butterfly," buying her a drink, and reciting a segment of the poem " Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Aging Hollywood stunt double Mike McKay trails the women to a bar and claims the lap dance. Three friends, Arlene, Shanna and radio DJ "Jungle" Julia Lucai, drive down Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas, on their way to celebrate Julia's birthday.
