Scenes from a Movie: Tarantino

I've been meaning to post this for a while, but kept forgetting.  It's from the Scenes from a Movie project that Stephanie organized back in late fall (?).  I only posted it publicly more recently, because originally there was talk of having a show of everyone's photos somewhere, but it's been long enough that I don't think anyone's going to bother organizing that.  If you click through the photo to its page on flickr, I've got links to a couple other people's (if I missed any others that are posted, lemme know and I'll put up the links for those too, I know there were some other great ones but I don't know where they are!).  There's also a link to the original movie poster that I based this on.

How the project worked was a bunch of us got together and picked directors' names from a hat and had 3 weeks to take a photo that represented the director's work.  I got Tarantino, and thought and thought about what to do before settling on this.  Mostly I was stuck on the idea of getting a bunch of guys to dress in suits...  but that seemed a little complicated, and I've been doing self portraits a lot lately, and realized maybe there was a way to combine the two.  The first female character that came to mind was Uma in Pulp Fiction.

I looked through lots of photos of her from the movie, but couldn't figure out how to somehow interpret that into something I could model myself.  That was, until I started looking at the promotional poster for the movie.

All of a sudden it clicked, and I started putting the scene together.  Making it into this pose repeatedly in a matter of seconds was certainly something that made me wish I had a remote for my camera, but I got triggering the timer and hopping into this position just in the nick of time down to an art, and managed to get a good shot.  After that, I photoshopped the heck out of it to mimic the style of the poster and make it look like a pulp novel.

Threw in some customized text, and tada.  Oh, and if you're curious, the list of names are people who I feel gave me their support last year.  A time capsule of sorts.