grindhouse

i saw grindhouse on monday and i wonder a few things: did tarantino screw daryl hannah's stand-in during the filming of kill bill? or did he want to?

pomo movies. do we need plots anymore? all elements of this double feature existed outside of all narrative. narrative generic devices (cliches? odes? allusions?) were still necessary, at least formally. cars needed blazing car crashes. zombies needed oozing pustules. but the joke of "reel missing" is that in fact it doesn't matter for these two films if plot elements are deleted. and perhaps rodriguez and tarantino are saying that for b genre films plot was never necessary, but i think they do a disservice to filmmaking by so offhandedly doing away with the nuances of narrative such as character development, etc. i wonder if i'm the only one who thinks this.....