10 Quentin Tarantino Characters Who Deserve Their Own Movie
8. Ordell Robbie (Samuel L Jackson) - Jackie Brown
His lips move when he reads and he cant tell Rutger Hauer from Helmut Berger, but if you absolutely, positively have to kill every motherf**ker in the room, Ordells your guy. Hes a small-time gun-runner who supplies AK-47s to L.A.s scummier elements, securing their interest with a promotional video where swimwear models stroke their weapons while purring, Nothing comes between me and my AK. Hes also a man of principle, the principle being that if he gets in a situation where its either you or him, then you better believe it aint gonna be him, brother. When his employee Beaumont (Chris Tucker) faces a ten-year prison stretch, Ordell reasons that Beaumont will do anything he can to keep from doing time, including telling the federal government about his operation, so he shoots his colleague and dumps the body. Its Darwinism, can you dig it?
Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'
