At the time of its release 2 Days In The Valley was advertised as 
a Quentin Tarantino-esque film which offered the same kind of 
dialogue and character development as its Pulp Fiction 
counterpart. Although it introduced the beautiful Charlize Theron 
as the conniving femme fatale Hlga Svelgen, 2 Days in the Valley 
failed to create the same pizzazz as Tarantino’s first two films.

Other films came out of the blue in later years, including Doug 
Liman’s forgettable "Go" and Christopher Nolan’s interesting but 
weak "Memento" and the studios also linked them to Quentin 
Tarantino’s disjointed style of storytelling.

Since then, there have been no movies to equal the resonance of 
those first two films. Interestingly enough, many believe that 
Quentin Tarantino has lost it. It took him 7 years to make 
another movie after Jackie Brown’s mild success at the box 
office.

For QT fans, finally there seems to be a film that really brings 
together all the elements of storytelling and manages to make 
sense out of it all. This film is called Crash, the feature debut 
by Million Dollar Baby writer Paul Haggis. 

Crash intertwines the lives of multiple characters and studies 
their interactions with different races. "It’s a very raw film 
and the plot really makes you think about how different and 
racist of a society we live in," says Claire Denman, one of the 
moviegoers at a Burbank showing.

Although Haggis doesn’t make as drastic cuts in time continuity 
as Tarantino, he does utilize flashbacks for plot development. 
Pulp Fiction was extremely cubical, it seemed that Tarantino 
originally had four different stories and later on, simply pasted 
them together. The beauty about Crash is that Haggis makes it 
seem like it is all part of a whole and there is no separation in 
the different plot lines.

With all this talk about Haggis’ tour-de-force feature debut, 
there is also wind that there is a sequel in the works entitled 
Machiavelli Hangman. While Haggis is not directing, he is rumored 
to have co-written the script with Tom Cruise. Although nothing 
has been confirmed as of yet, fans of Crash are filling 
message boards with encouragements to start production on 
Machiavelli Hangman.

"When I heard about it, I couldn’t imagine exactly how they would 
pull off a sequel for the movie. Unless, they take the racism to 
a different city or country everytime. I think that just like My 
Greek Fat Wedding failed when they adapted it into a TV show they 
might be running the same risk of shooting themselves in the foot 
by doing a sequel of Crash." 

Charlie Bullock is a movie reviewer. 
He is talking about the upcoming movie 
Machiavelli Hangman
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