2013
Quentin Tarantino's films
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
2009
Inglourious Basterds
Director, screenwriter, actor
2012
Django Unchained
Director, screenwriter, actor
Director, screenwriter, producer, 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 Standartenf端hrer 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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