Quentin Tarantino

His Most Famous Films

• Reservoir Dogs• Pulp Fiction• Jackie Brown• Kill Bill : Vol. 1• Kill Bill : Vol. 2• Grindhouse• Inglorious Basterds• Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino has a list of celebrities, much like Baz Lurhrmann, who have appeared in more than one of his movies. Samuel. L. Jackson has been cast in six of Tarantino’s films, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained and True Romance even though Quentin Tarantino didn’t direct it. Um Thurman, Zoe Bell and Christoph Waltz are some of the celebrities on the list.

Violence and Race

Quentin Tarantino uses a fair amount of violence in his movies, Pulp Fiction & Reservoir Dogs, and he has said that “violence in movies doesn’t inspire violence in real life”.

Whilst on The Graham Norton Show in 2012 promoting Django Unchained, he told everyone that whilst filming Inglorious Basterds, the scene that Diane Kruger's character was being strangled, he strangled her himself saying that “when it’s fake it isn’t believable.”

Quentin Tarantino often uses offensive racial words in his movies, Jackie Brown and Django Unchained, and has been penalised for it but he responds saying that when he is writing “he demands the right to be that character” and Samuel L. Jackson has backed him up saying “black artists think they’re the only one who can say the word. Well that’s bull.”

Style

Quentin Tarantino has quite a sinister style when it comes to his movies. In Reservoir Dogs, he uses Contrapuntal Sound, in the torture scene. He plays a upbeat popular happy song whilst the main character is cutting someone's ear off which gives the scene, or the movie a much more sadistic and dark feel.

Tarantino often plays cameos in the movies.

He also doesn’t like using Non-Digetic Sound, music/sound which the characters in the movie can’t hear. A good example of this is in Pulp Fiction. The song which is played in the credits, is then being played on the radio in the car in the beginning of the movie.