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Quentin Tarantino

Salvatore Satullo COM 329: Contemporary Film Dr. Neuendorf. Quentin Tarantino. Mini Bio. Only went to school until he was 16, where he dropped out of High School to pursue film making. Commonly has the protagonist of his film’s win against the antagonist via sheer brutality.

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Quentin Tarantino

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  1. Salvatore Satullo COM 329: Contemporary Film Dr. Neuendorf Quentin Tarantino

  2. Mini Bio • Only went to school until he was 16, where he dropped out of High School to pursue film making. • Commonly has the protagonist of his film’s win against the antagonist via sheer brutality. • Single, even though he has been linked to many people that are in show-business. • Commonly follows non-linear storylines in his movies

  3. Interesting Facts • Prefers to use a long closeup shot of a person’s face while someone speaks off-screen (for instance, a closeup shot of the Bride while Bill speaks). • While he conveys violence in his films, there is a large degree of assumed violence offscreen due to language he chooses. • Scenes are usually loaded with homages / visual references to other director’s works • Films usually feature one character who is visibly trying to rectify their faith.

  4. Awards • Pulp Fiction (1994) – Cannes (best film), Academy Awards / BAFTA Awards / Golden Globes (best screenplay). • InglouriousBasterds – Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards (Critic’s Choice Award for Best Original Screenplay) • Django Unchained- Academy Awards / BAFTA Awards / Golden Globe Awards (Best Screenplay) • Nominated for many other awards for all of his movies that he has done

  5. Reservoir Dogs • Crime / Thriller • Simple jewelry heist goes wrong, and makes the surviving criminals believe that one of them is a police informant. • Starred Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, and Tarantino himself. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5MEv7eXRw = trailer

  6. Pulp Fiction • Crime / Thriller • Stars Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Therman, John Travolta, Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, and Tarantino himself. • Interwoven stories of 2 mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZBfmBvvotE = trailer

  7. Jackie Brown • Crime / Thriller • Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, and Chris Tucker. • A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between police and an arms dealer. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pfU3Sd3Aw = trailer

  8. Kill Bill 1/2 • Action / Crime / Thriller • Stars Uma Therman, David Carradine, Michael Madison, Vivica Fox, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, and Julie Dreyfus. • The journey of redemption and murder for a girl that was attacked and left to be killed by her former lover, Bill. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT8QZtj1n28 Kill Bill 1 Trailer • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSR7xRGBnOE Kill Bill 2 Trailer

  9. InglouriousBasterds • Drama / War • Starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, and Diane Kruger • In an alternate timeline, Nazi-occupied France during WW2, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by Jewish US Soldiers coincides with a theatre owner’s plans. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQhTVz5IjQ&bpctr=1366856853 = trailer

  10. Django Unchained • Adventure / Crime / Drama • Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington • With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUdM9vrCbow = trailer

  11. Tarantino Interviews • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9wKVjWKHdo • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAK3aUq25fo • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3b2dH6n3Qg • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foRhVd7id9s • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZkHS1Fqc10 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtYc7fNI9jw

  12. Sources • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino • http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000233/?ref_=sr_1 • http://www.everythingtarantino.com/

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