When Pulp Fiction came out, everything changed about action movies - instead of no acting and no real memorable lines, Quentin Tarantino changed the genre into what's now called "genre" pictures. He gave Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta some of the most quoted dialogue in film history.
Quentin Tarantino embodies all that is new about Hollywood. He works within the studio system because he knows that's where the big money is, and he routinely thumbs his nose at that system while grabbing all the cash off the table. And his targets love him for it.
In 2007, he and Robert Rodriguez got together to pay homage to exploitation films with their hit, Grindhouse.
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The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time. In this witty collection of articles, no subject is too taboo for the writers to tackle. From an aesthetic meditation on the use of spraying blood in Kill Bill to the conundrum of translation and reference in Vincent and Jules' discussion about French Big Macs in Pulp Fiction, Tarantino and Philosophy shies away from nothing. Is The Bride a heroic figure, even though she?s motivated solely by revenge? How is Tarantino able to create a coherent story when he jumps between past, future, and present? The philosophers in this book take on those questions and more in essays as provocative as the films themselves.
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At the beginning of 1992, no one had heard of Quentin Tarantino. By mid-1995, Quentinmania was in high gear, and he was being hailed as the hip new Oscar-toting messiah of film making. In this irreverant personal biography and in-depth study, Jeff Dawson interrogates Tarantino about his early influences, his use of violence, and accusations of plagiarism. Dawson takes the reader behind the scenes of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Destiny Turns on the Radio, to get a glimpse of Quentin through the eyes of Harvey Keitel, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth and other Tarantino gang members interviewed for this book. Includes dialogue that didn't make it into the final cut, as well as the original plot twists for True Romance and Natural Born Killers that got axed by the censors. Includes great color and black and white photos throughout.
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Worshiped like a film star by fans of his ultrahip and violent movies, reviled and condemned by the self-appointed guardians of mortality, Quentin Tarantino has become the cult hero of the nineties.
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With the furor over Reservior Dogs, the triumph of Pulp Fiction, and the bitter conflict over Natural Born Killers, Tarantino's meteoric rise has been perspective of those who have worked, played, and done battle with him, Jami Bernard looks beyond the media icon and reveals the man--and his message.
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From Reservoir Dogs in 1992 to the recent Kill Bill series, the films of Quentin Tarantino have always provoked a reaction from audiences and critics alike, many attracting a cultlike following. In this book, Edwin Page discusses each of the eight films that Tarantino has either written or directed, or both, in an attempt to find out how the former video store clerk has realized his fantasy and become one of the world's most successful and well-known directors.
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For the first time since Hitchcock, moviegoers have embraced a film director whose name is synonymous with his own genre ? a culmination of the crime, gangster, and film noir genres that both celebrates and comments ironically upon itself. Part of the Ultrascreen series, Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Files charts the controversial success of Tarantino's self-directed films and screenplays. From Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, and Pulp Fiction to Natural Born Killers, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill, Tarantino has created a unique aesthetic drawing on pop-culture icons and ideals gleaned from movies, TV shows, comic strips, and old Top Ten records. This definitive, illustrated book provides the most essential interviews, essays, and reviews of Tarantino's career ? from geekish video-store clerk to a cult figure of rock-star status. Aimed at a young, literate, moviegoing audience, Quentin Tarantino is a colorful guide to the brash, media-saturated world that spawned the premier filmmaker of his generation. Includes 70 black-and-white illustrations.
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Not since Martin Scorsese in the mid-1970s has a young American filmmaker made such an instant impact on international cinema as Quentin Tarantino, whose PULP FICTION won the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prix Award. A manic talker, Tarantino obsesses about American pop culture and his favorite movies and movie makers.
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Bold, pioneering, and always unpredictable, Quentin Tarantino is the ultimate movie director with a fascinating story. This gripping account of his life and times describes a film buff determined to join the industry who studied, wrote scripts, and polished his already vast knowledge of all things cinematic by working in a video store. Tarantino stunned the world with his debut Reservoir Dogs, and his rise to fame is chronicled, as the hits kept on coming with Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill. The whole of Tarantino's dazzling career, his motormouth reputation, and his latest chiller, Grind House, are revealed in a book which draws on sources close to the director, including Connie, Tarantino's mother.
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Natural Born Killers is a disturbing and brilliant indictment of violence in the media and American celebrity culture. Mickey and Mallory Knox, outlaw lovers on the run, go on a killing spree of startling viciousness -- and find themselves transformed into cult celebrities by the tabloid media. The film, directed by Oliver Stone, departed significantly from Tarantino's original screenplay, so much so that Tarantino removed his name from the screenplay credits. Now available in America for the first time, the original screenplay offers fans and film buffs of all stripes the opportunity to compare Tarantino's original vision with Stone's version of the story of Mickey and Mallory.
• Four More Posters for Tarantino?s Basterds
The folks over at Empire have scored four new character posters for Quentin Tarantino?s highly anticipated next flick Inglourious Basterds . Check out the posters below and see them here in better quality. The film opens August 21 and stars Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, B.J. Novak, Til Schweiger, Michael Bacall, Omar Doom, Julie Dreyfus, Mike Myers, Cloris Leachman, Maggie Cheung and Samuel L. Jackson. Set in Nazi-occup
• Inglourious Basterds Sequel: Already in the Works?
On August 21, Inglourious Basterds hits movie theaters. Directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, the movie is so anticipated that talk of a sequel is already in the works. At least if you ask movie producer Harvey Weinstein. "Brad wants to do Inglourious II. We all want to do it. And the movie hasn't even come out yet," Weinstein told GQ . So, what is Inglourious Basterds actually about? Weinsten said: "It isn't funny; it isn't exciting; it isn't a realistic war
• The TIFF/NYFF buzz builds
Someone sent me this blog post from the web site ?The Playlist,? and I find all the conjecture and excitement infectious, so I?m going to share: 7/01/2009 More Fall Film Festival Speculation/Predix: Venice, Telluride & NYFF Alright, we already made our 2009 Toronto International Film Festival predix and then people asked, what about ? The Informant ,? what about ? The Road ? or ? Where The Wild Things Are ?? The truth of the matter is TIFF is
• New Inglourious Basterds Character Posters
The posters , trailers and images for Quentin Tarantino?s Palme d?Or nominated, WWII film Inglourious Basterds really are shooting out at a rapid pace. In terms of posters, we?ve had nine already and today Empire has premiered four more to add to that list. They are separate character posters that expand on the International (Italian) poster we saw a few weeks ago . We have those four for you - plus the International one now in English! The four new posters featur
• Inglorious Basterds? Rated G?
In what appears to be simply an error, Sony Computer Entertainment accidentally assigned a ?G? rating to the new* Tarantino World War II epic Inglorious Basterds . While I?ve heard of studios recutting movies to a PG-13 rating for certain markets, taking a Tarantino movie from a hard R to a G? Sounds as good as American Psycho edited for tv. * - it?s sort of new. It?s a revision of the 70?s Italian movie of the same name. But spelled correctly.
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