The filmmaker has created numerous memorable female characters, but their suffering is treated differently than that of their male counterparts.
Honey Bunny leans across the table and asks what happened to the child. "There probably never was a little girl," Pumpkin responds. "The point of the story isn't the little girl. The point of the story is they robbed a bank with a telephone."
However, the conclusion was reached by murdering those young adults — two of them young women — in a comedic and explosively violent manner. The so-called Manson girls had been brainwashed by a madman. While they're certainly responsible for their own actions, it seems short sighted to mark them strictly as villains worthy of slaughter. Even more distressing is the fact that violence against women is generally played for laughs in a Tarantino picture.
But, when men are in pain, or their lives are in danger, it isn't played for laughs. When Major Warren receives a bullet to the groin, his pain elicits groans. The camera sympathizes with his plight. When men are in pain, the camera lingers as they howl and contort in agony. When Melanie is shot, we never see her face again. When four of Domergue's men shoot three unsuspecting women, two are given small moments to beg for their lives, but they are mostly silent before quickly being shot.
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