3. Just a little something about him
In January of 1992, Reservoir Dogs (1992) appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, by firsttime writer-director Quentin Tarantino. The film garnered critical acclaim and the director
became a legend immediately. Two years later, he followed up Dogs success with Pulp Fiction
(1994) which premiered at the Cannes film festival, winning the coveted Palme D'Or Award.
At the 1995 Academy Awards, it was nominated for the best picture, best director and best
original screenplay. Tarantino and writing partner Roger Avarycame away with the award only
for best original screenplay. In 1995, Tarantino directed one fourth of the anthology Four
Rooms (1995) with friends and fellow auteurs Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez and
Allison Anders. The film opened on December 25th in the United States to very weak
reviews. Tarantino's next film was From Dusk Till Dawn(1996), a vampire/crime story which
he wrote and co-starred with George Clooney. The film did fairly well theatrically.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Kale Whorton
4. My favourite of his trade marks
Often casts comedians in small roles: 'Stephen Wright' as the DJ in Reservoir Dogs(1992), Kathy Griffin as an accident
witness and Julia Sweeney as the junkyard guy's daughter in Pulp Fiction (1994), 'Chris Tucker' as Beaumont in Jackie
Brown (1997), 'Mike Myers' as 'General Ed Fenech' in _Inglorious Basterds (2009)_, and Jonah Hill in Django Unchained
(2012).
Widely imitated quick cuts of character's hands performing actions in extreme closeup, a technique reminiscent of Brian De
Palma.
Long closeup of a person's face while someone else speaks off-screen (closeup of The Bride while Bill talks, of Butch while
Marsellus talks).
Often frames characters with doorways and shows them opening and closing doors
Interjects scenes with introduction of a character's background (Hugo Stieglitz is introduced in the middle of the Nazi
torture scene in _Inglorious Basterds (2009)_, O-Ren is introduced with a interuption in the main story in _Kill Bill: Vol.1
(2003)_).
Often interjects titles to tell the audience of a new portion of the story (Character names in Reservoir Dogs (1992), Chapter
form in Inglourious Basterds (2009), Explanations of what audience will see such as in Pulp Fiction (1994)
Prefers to start most of his films with a scene before the main titles are shown
Characters often utilize sharp, bladed weapons. (Mr. Blonde uses a straight razor to cut off Marvin Nash's ear in _Reservoir
Dogs (1993)_, Butch uses a samurai sword to kill Maynard in Pulp Fiction (1994), The Bride uses a samurai sword to kill
several characters in _Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)_ and _Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)_, Lt. Aldo Raine uses a Bowie knife to cut a
swastika in Col. Hans Landa's forehead in _Inglorious Basterds (2009)_, Vernita Greene fights The Bride with a butcher
knife in _Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)_)
5. Funny Fact
He was sued by Don Murphy for $5,000,000, accused of assault.
Tarantino attacked Murphy in restaurant, slammed him against the wall
and punched him.
Another cool fact is that he shares the same favourite slasher movie as
me...My Bloody Valentine
(Man this guy is cool!)
6. Seriously my favourite quote ever.
When people ask me if I went to film
school, I say no I went to films. - Quentin
Tarantino
8. Reasoning
The reason I have decided to do some background
research on this director is because, 1. I love his work
and 2. The ending part of the new idea has quite an
stereotypical doorbell at the end and sounds quite out
of place, however it is meant to be memorable for the
audience, Tarantino does these out of the place
sounds/scenery to mark key aspects of his films, and
I would like to do the same!
