Quentin Tarantino's films

2013

01/04/2013

Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino was born in 1963, is an american director, screenwriter, producer and

actor. His movies are characterized by nonlinear stories and strong violence.

To the two years his family moved to The Angeles. Movie buff since child, Quentin

Tarantino was a bad student; to the 22 years old began working in a Manhattan

Beach club video, and started interpretation classes. The club video would become

his film school and quickly began to write screenplay.

In 1987 Tarantino wrote the “True Romance” screenplay, which would debut in

1993, from the same era is the “Natural Born Killers” screenplay. He has always

said that the two directors (Tony Scott and Oliver Stone) had “destroyed” his

screenplays.

In 1992 he made his first movie “Reservoir Dogs” with a low budget was a huge

success. He became a director of cult and created enough expectations until the

arrival of his second play, with the support of Danny De Vito, and Harvey Keitel, an

actor always disposed to collaborate in independent productions. Tarantino could

control his first movie in all aspects: He wrote, directed and select the soundtrack,

and even appeared as actor.

In May of 1994 He presented in Cannes his second film, Pulp Fiction, which in a

short time has converted in a cult film. Although the opinions was divided and

some reproached its excessive violence, the truth is that the movie triumph and led

to the consecration of the director; a film with similar starting points and

development, but shrouded in a start cast and a millionaire production, Pulp

Fiction won Palme d´Or in Cannes, and was nominated to 7 academy awards

included best movie and best director, finally Tarantino had to settle with won the

best original screenplay academy award.

In 1995 Tarantino directed one segment of the movie “Four Rooms”, and after

made “Jackie Brown” (1197) starring for the blaxploitation queen, Pam Grier.

In the year 2003 was premiered “kill Bill: Vol. 1”, a martial arts film with Uma

Thurman. “Inglourious Basterds” (2008), is a war movie set in World War II,

starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, and Mélanie Laurent. For this film was

nominated to academy award for best director and best original screenplay.

Tarantino paid tribute to the spaghetti westerns in “Django Unchained” (2012),

movie in which returned to having the participation of Christoph Waltz, Jamie

Foxx is Django. For this film Quentin achieve his second academy award for best

original screenplay.

As regards his private life, he was sentimental pair of the Director and screenwriter

Sofia Coppola, and among other, Julie, actress en “Kill Bill Vol. 2” and “Inglourious

Basterds”

Principal Filmography:

Year Title Work As…

1992 Reservoir Dogs Director, screenwriter, actor

1993 True Romance Screenwriter

1993 Iron Monkey Producer

1994 Pulp Fiction Director, screenwriter, actor

1994 Natural Born Killers Screenwriter

1994 Killing Zoe Executive producer

1995 Four Rooms Director, screenwriter, actor

1996 From dusk till dawn Screenwriter, actor

1997 Jackie Brown Director, screenwriter, actor

2003 Kill Bill 1 Director, screenwriter, actor

2004 Kill Bill 2 Director, screenwriter, actor

2007 Grindhouse Director, screenwriter, producer, actor

2009 Inglourious Basterds Director, screenwriter, actor

2012 Django Unchained Director, screenwriter, actor

Reservoir Dogs (1991)

A group of criminals who do not know each other are gathered to execute a theft

valuable diamonds.

The heist will go wrong since it seems that a police has crept into the group

Amazing thriller full of violence, verbal and physical. The story has time jumps,

with flashbacks very well introduced, defined characters so admirable by a

debutant director which from a personal optical knows showcase your cinematic

influences. Tarantino appears briefly in the film as the Mr Brown. The

interpretations headed by the always outstanding Harvey Keitel (also producer of

the movie) are another important factor in this film.

Are important the sounds of the ‘60s and '70s, people like Stealers Wheel (in the

scene that rips off the ear to police), Harry Nilsson or the popular “Hooked on a

feeling” of Blue Swede.

Curiosities:

Throughout the filming was present a paramedic, to make sure that the

amount of blood of Mr. Orange be maintained in amounts credible.

The only main character who never will get to know his real name is Mr.

Pink.

The word “fuck” was mentioned 252 times along the film.

In the flashback of the theft, before arriving at diamond stock, when Mr

Orange down of the home and enters into the car with the other gangsters,

these have a conversation about a black waitress. Say it resembles to Pam

Grier. 5 years after, Pam Grier starred the movie “Jackie Brown”.

At the scene of the police torture, Tarantino let to the actor two hours tied

for him to get into character.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

The paid Killers Vicent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L.

Jackson) working for a mobster named Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Vicent

will be have protected to the Marsellus girlfriend, Mia (Uma Thurman), who ends

at the edge of death after of the heroin overdose.

Moreover a boxer named Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) seeks to escape the city

after not keep the promise to Wallace.

Second film in which the director squeezed and combines with talent, all his

cultural influences, since the oriental films, T.V series, The Pulp (a illustrated

magazines with striking front pages which contained black genre stories), until

films of classic series B belonging to the genre of action.

Using an episodic structure, the movie tackles the codes of honor between

gangsters and killers, captures the feel and act of American people, seen since the

references of the director in a screenplay rude, funny, and unexpected twists; the

violence, the sex, the drugs, the fast-food, the cars, themed restaurants, the

television, the mix of cultures are marching past for the film with a dazzling visual

format which serves to endow the film with a steady rhythm.

With endless homages to icons and characters of the American culture, a

soundtracks of great songs performed by famous musicians from the past, as the

surfer Dick Dale, el soulman Al Green, the funkies Kool & Gang, the wonderful

british diva of the 60s, Dusty Springfield, the rock &roll father, Chuck Berry;

singular characters well developed that keep intensive talks.

Curiosities:

The police captured by Mr. Blond in Reservoir Dogs, as the black young

accidentally killed by Vicent Vega are named Marvin.

When the Mr. Wolf asks the address of the homes of Vicent and Jules, they

answer “Redondo” (Vicent) and “Englewood” (Jules). Englewood is the

birthplace in real life of John Travolta.

The Jules wallet (Samuel L. Jackson) that says “Bad Motherfucker” was of

Quentin Tarantino

The sword that takes Butch in the store is the same as used Uma in “kill

Bill”.

This film is the compilation of 3 screenplays that Tarantino had written for

make shorts films when was young.

In the scene of the adrenaline Uma uses prosthesis in the front part of the

body. Also the needle was placed in reverse position instead penetrate,

retrocedial into the syringe.

Kill Bill (2003)

The “Bride” (Uma Thurman), woman also knows as “Black Mamba”, has remained

4 years in a coma, after an assassination attempt when celebrated her own

wedding. The responsible is Bill (David Carradine), the chief of a criminal band

called Deadly Viper Assassination Squad in which collaborated the “bride”. When

wakes up tries to seek revenge.

The movie has two parts, because of its duration and the negative of Tarantino to

cut scenes.

Make an epic entertainment which mixes with action, drama and black humor the

pulp stories with the spaguetti western, blaxploitation movies, Swedish film

“Thriller: A Cruel Picture”, the Sam Peckinpah films, the Italian giallo, Akira

Kurosawa, the movies of Asian martial arts, the comic, and cartoons.

This is a film with technical and sensory splurge, by using the ralenti, frozen plans,

voice-off, time jumps, sounds funk, musical loans of Morricone, Bacalov or

Trovajoli.

Curiosities:

Tarantino Appear in the movie, is one of the 88 maniacs that fight against

the “bride” in the restaurant.

The cigarette brand “red apple”, is a fictitious brand that Tarantino used for

all your movies.

Uma yellow shoes in the movie, has written in the soleplate “Fuck U”

500 liters of false blood were used for actions scenes.

The wedding organist is Samuel L. Jackson, not only doing a cameo,

reminding also that in Pulp Fiction , your character says that would

withdraw from the mafia to devote to where god will lead you in life.

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

World War II. In occupied France by Hitler’s army, a group of jewish-American

soldiers known as the “Basterds” and headed by lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt)

tries to kill all the Nazis who were in its path.

At the same time a young woman named Shosanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent)

seeks revenge for the murder of her family ordered by Nazi colonel Hans Landa

(Christoph Waltz).

The style remember the spaghetti western and the Italian war film of the 60s.

Christoph Waltz who interpreted to Standartenführer Hans Landa, He won the

award for best actor in the Cannes Film Festival, the SAG, Golden Globe and

academy award in the same category.

Premiered on May 20, 2009, in the Cannes Film Festival. This movie has criticized

by critics experts for show a story unreal of the World War II, the representation

almost cartoonish of Hitler, and for “Nazify” a jewish-american soldiers. However

for another large sector of critical and for the public is considered a masterpiece,

because it has achieved masterfully scenes, also providing entertainment,

consolidating Tarantino as one of the directors of contemporary cinema most

important of the film industry.

Curiosities:

Eli Roth won 15 kilos of muscle to interpret to Donnie Donowitz “The bear

jew”.

Tarantino began to write the screenplay before the “Kill Bill”, but He could

not think any good end.

Tarantino wanted to do a film of war with the style spaghetti western, so He

decided that the title would be “Once upon a time in occupied France”,

finally rejected but gave this name to the title of the first chapter of the

movie.

The title and “base” of the film is a homage to the Italian film "Quel Treno

Maledetto Blindato" (1978) or also known as “Inglorious Bastards”.

The flammable film segment is narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.

Django Unchained (2012)

Is a western starring Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio and Christoph Waltz;

premiered in U.S theaters on December 25.

Set on the southern states of U.S, two years before the civil war. Django, a slave

whose brutal past, leads him face to face with the “bounty hunter” german, Dr.

King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). The heterodox Schultz has been behind the hunt of

“The Brittle brother”. Need the help of Django after which promises to free him.

Also promises to help liberate to his wife “Broomhilda” from the plantation of

Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Is the first western of Tarantino. Due to the influence of genero in his previous

films, full of gunmen, and his taste for “Mexican Standoff” which have just resolved

in bloody shootouts, was only a matter of time before the director decided to make

his vision of the western, He prefers to refer to his movie as a “southern”. He Takes

as the main reference works of Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci.

Curiosities:

The film is a homage to spaghetti western of Sergio Corbucci “Django”

(1966); of which Tarantino took the scene of the ear cut for “Reservoir

Dogs”.

The character interpreted by Christoph Waltz “Dr. Schultz” remembers the

episode of Kill Bill Vol.2 “The solitary tomb of Paula Shultz”, which is the

part of the movie where they bury to “the bride”, after profaning the tomb of

Paula Schultz.

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