ARE YOU GONNA BARK ALL DAY LITTLE DOGGY? OR ARE YOU GONNA BITE?
A book dedicated to feature films directed by
QUENTIN TARANTINO
CONTENTS Introduction Tarantino What do we mean by Tarantino style? Tenuous Links Product Placement Directors Trademarks What’s in the briefcase? Cameo Appearences Soundtrack
WELCOME In this book you will be taken through every detail of completed feature films directed by Quentin Tarantino
TO
to date. All your favourite characters, scenes, and music will be scrutinised and examined in this book, including the people who help and influence Tarantino. Along with a detailked look at the Taratinoverse.
Reservoir Dogs (1992) Pulp Fiction (1994)
THE
Jackie Brown (1997) Kill Bill Vol I (2003) Kill Bill Vol II (2004) Death Proof (2007) Inglorious Basterds (2009) Django Unchained (2012)
TARANTINOVERSE
Q
uentin Jerome Tarantino born in Knoxville,
Quentin Tarantino has professed a desire to segregate
Tennessee in 1963, is an American film director,
his art from the unrealistic to the realistic. His scripts
screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films have
have always existed in one of two universes, the “Movie
been characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical
Movie” Universe and the “Realer Than Real World”
subject matter, and an aestheticization/glorification of
Universe. The “Movie Movie” Universe (Kill Bill) are
violence that often results in the exhibition of neo-noir
the kinds of films the characters in his Realer Than Real
characteristics. In this book I will be detailing completed
World Universe (Pulp Fiction) would go to see. They
feature films he has directed. But first it is important to
are not based in reality at all, they are hyperrealistic.
understand a bit more about the man behind the films
Tarantino has explained that his 5th film Death Proof
and what may influence him.
takes place in the “Realer Than Real World” Universe along with his films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
His mother took him to the cinema from an early age, he saw films like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Tarantino, along with his friends Lawrence Bender and
(which was a major inspiration), The Wild Bunch at age
Michael Bodnarchek, was a co-founder of ‘A Band Apart’,
6, Carnal Knowledge at age 8 and Deliverance at age 9.
a production company through which he produced most
From these early introductions to cinema, Tarantino fell
of his films up till and past Jackie Brown.
in love with the movies and went at every opportunity. At the age of 22, he landed a job at the Manhattan Beach Video Archives, a now defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach, California where he and fellow movie buffs like Roger Avary spent all day watching, discussing and recommending films to customers. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of Reservoir Dogs in 1992, now regarded as a cult classic, and the beginning of many successful and widely regarded films of our generation.
What do we mean by Tarantino style ? H
is films have been characterized by nonlinear storylines, which is probably inspired by the New
Wave (French: La Nouvelle Vague) which is a blanket term coined by critics for a group of French filmmakers of the late 1950s and 1960s. Filming techniques included fragmented, discontinuous editing, and long takes. The combination of objective realism, subjective realism, and authorial commentary created a narrative ambiguity in the sense that questions that arise in a film are not answered in the end. He is also noted for including satirical subject matter, and an aestheticization/glorification of violence that often results in the exhibition of neo-noir characteristics within his films. Of course he has many other director trademarks that i'll be featuring later on in this book
TENUOUS Quentin Tarantino, has spent the 20 years between
These connections – however subtle they may be – rarely
Reservoir Dogs and Django Unchained crafting an
interrupt plots in Tarantino’s movies. Instead, they’re like
intricate, instantly recognisable movie universe – one
Easter Eggs that reward observant onlookers: in-jokes that
which boasts a family tree of miscreants that overlap
might mean nothing to us, but mean the world to their
between movies in weird and wonderful ways.
creator.
First things first, the connections will be easier to understand once you know that QT has seperate Universes for his films, they are as follows... Jackie Brown which apparently doesn’t meet any of these criteria and is in it’s own universe called the Elmore Leonard Universe. It seems this is set in its own universe because it was an adaptation of someone else’s work, therefore it is set in its own universe. Reservoir Dogs True Romance Pulp Fiction Death Proof Inglorious Basterds Django Unchained Are all a part of the Realer than Real Universe While... Natural Born Killers From Dusk 'Till Dawn Kill Bill 1&2 Are all a part of the Movie Movie Universe
LINKS
Another notable aspect of Tarantino’s movies is the extreme violence. I myself have always wondered why the cops rarely come after most of the characters. Why isn’t Beatrix Kiddo penalised for slaying many people quite publicly? Acoording to many Tarantino fans and from interviews with the man himself, It becomes clear that due to Inglorious Basterds, QT’s movie world changed. They live in a world where WW2 did not end with an under siege Hitler dying in a Berlin bunker. They live in a world where Hitler was machine-gunned to death in a Parisian cinema-come-incinerator. Due to this monumental change in modern history, a softening in people’s attitudes toward ultra-violence has also occurred, and, a shift in the way people view popular culture has also transpired. Since 1944 the characters of this world have been brought up in the knowledge that the entire Nazi hierarchy was taken out in one act of extreme violence, and has in turn, slightly desensitised the way they view violence. Mr Blonde casually carving the ear off a police officer in Reservoir Dogs, and Jules & Vincent’s reasonably casual reaction to blowing off Marvin’s face in Pulp Fiction are classic examples. The fact that the most significant moment in modern history now took place in a movie theatre also provides an explanation as to why everyone is so obsessed with popular culture and movies. The movie theatre itself has become one of the most significant locations in modern history and has become the basis for a far greater importance being bestowed upon the world of movies, music and comic books.
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
TARANTINOVERSE PRODUCT PLACEMENT Tarantino Brands To further show the depth of his unique cinematic worlds, QT has created fake brands of items ranging from cigarettes to foods and drinks.
G.O. Juice
Jack Rabbit Slims
The Acuna Boys Tex-Mex
Fictional Tarantino brand juice drink.
The fifties style theme restaurant
Featured in Jackie Brown.
First appeared on a billboard in Kill
Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace go
Featured in Death Proof.
Bill:Volume 1 and appears in Death
into in the film Pulp Fiction. Later
The Acuna Boys is the name of the
Proof. Abernathy is drinking G.O.
on in the film you can hear a
gang that is run by Esteban Vihaio in
Juice in the car.
radio ad. Jack Rabbit Slim’s is also
Kill Bill:Volume 2.
mentioned in an ad on the radio in Reservoir Dogs.
Teriyaki Donut
Big Kahuna Burger
Red Apple Cigarettes
Fictional restaraunt in Quentin
Fictional Hawaiian themed burger
A fictional cigarette brand. They
Tarantino's films.
chain created by Quentin Tarantino,
can be seen in Pulp Fiction, From
Teriyaki Donut serves Japanese
and featured in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp
Dusk Till Dawn, Four Rooms, Kill
Food and Donuts. Featured in Pulp
Fiction. It is also mentioned as being
Bill:Volume 1, Grindhouse’s Planet
Fiction and Jackie Brown.
a sponsor for Jungle Julia's billboards
Terror, and Inglourious Basterds.
in the Death Proof segment of Grindhouse.
I steal from every movie ever made.
Directors Trademarks The Trunk & Hood POV Shot
The Corpse POV
Quentin Tarantino has trademarked the trunk shot camera
In Pulp Fiction, When Marsellus wakes up after being hit by
angle and he’s used it in every movie he has directed.
Butch’s car. Later when Butch hits Maynard.
He also uses reverse trunk shots with characters being
In Jackie Brown - Jackie and Ray looking at Ordell dead. In
watched from outside the trunk.
Kill Bill: Volume 1 - The Deadly Vipers and Sheriff McGraw looking at The dead Bride, many more.
Long Takes & Tracking Shots
The 360 Shot
These kinds of shots let us follow the characters and spend
As Quentin Tarantino noted, his use of this shot was
time with them without cuts/edits. There is a real beauty
inspired by Director Brian DePalma who often used the
and daring to these kinds of cinematic sequences.
360 tracking shot to emphasize the feeling of love or togetherness. It can also be used to emphasize confusion as in DePalma's Blow Out (the scene when Jack's tapes are erased) and in QT's Jackie Brown where the camera spins around Jackie. This is actually a trick on the viewer because as we find out, Jackie plans out the entire caper and is merely acting confused
D I R E C T O R S T R A D E M A R K S The God’s Eye POV
The Use of Black and White
This shot is filmed with the camera directly above
QT has had black and white sequences in two of
the actors. It is used to convey something bigger
his films. They appear in Kill Bill and Death Proof.
than the characters is watching them and what
These sequences are definitely inspired by his
they are doing. In other words, a cinematic inner
love of the way movies looked in the early days
conscious. In Kill Bill, the Gods Eye POV seems
of cinema up to the way it was used in the French
to be accompanying The Bride on her justified
New Wave era.
journey of revenge.
The Map Shot
Record Player Close Ups
Used in Jackie Brown and again in Kill Bill:Volume
To give a nod to his favorite way of listening to
1 to show you the Bride’s trip to Okinawa.
music, QT uses shots of record players
D I R E C T O R S The Bathroom Scene In Reservoir Dogs : 1) Mr Orange tells a story in the men’s bathroom at the bar. 2) Mr White and Mr Pink smoke in the warehouse’s bathroom. In Pulp Fiction : 1) Vincent reads in toilets at the coffee shop 2) Vincent is killed in Butch’s bathroom. 3) Jules and Vincent clean blood on their clothes in Jimmie’s bathroom. 4) Vincent takes a break in Mia’s bathroom. 5) Mia is snorting coke in Jack Rabbit Slim’s bathroom. 5) Butch and Fabienne are in the motel’s bathroom.
The Restaurant & Bar Scene In Reservoir Dogs : Opening sequence at the coffee shop. In Pulp Fiction : 1) Pumkin and Honey Bunny at the same coffee shop as later Jules and Vincent. 2) Mia and Vincent at the Jack Rabbit Slim’s. In Jackie Brown : 1) Ordell and Jackie at a bar. 2) Jackie eating with Ray at a restaurant. 3) Jackie eating in the mall with Max. In Death Proof : The girls and Stuntman Mike drink at Guero’s and the Texas Chili Parlor in Austin, Texas. In Inglourious Basterds 1) The secret Operation Kino meeting is held at La Louisianne tavern in France.
T R A D E M A R K S
D I R E C T O R S The Car Scene Featured in Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill Vol I & II, Death Proof and many more times this classic trademark reaccurs time and time again.
The Mexican Stand-Off A Mexican Stand-Off is when more than two opponents aim at each other with guns. It was originated in Sergio Leone’s classic 1966 spaghetti western The Good The Bad and The Ugly, which is one of QT’s favorite films. QT has used it for several of his own films.
T R A D E M A R K S
D i r e c t o r s What’s on t.v.? His characters are quiote often shown to be watching various films and t.v. series in all his films.
Trademarks Case of goodies Another common theme of Tarantino’s, is his use of briefcase’s or bags containing something the characters seek or want. Sometimes you never even see the contents.
D I R E C T O R S Don’t Be Such a Square In Pulp Fiction : Mia does the “Don’t be such a square” sign talking to Vincent when they arrive at the Jack Rabbit Slim’s In Kill Bill:Volume 1 : The Bride does the square sign talking to Vernita Green.
T R A D E M A R K S The Black and White Suits QT has stated that these are his characters’ suits of armor.
What’s with the
F
E
There’s no doubt that feet seem to be a reaccuring theme within Tarantino’s films. Time and time again we see close up shots of feet. Bridget Fonda’s ringed toes propped up on the table in Jackie Brown. Kurt Russell gives Rosario Dawson’s feet a tongue ‘n’ tickle in Death Proof. Thurman’s paralysed toes dominate the screen in Kill Bill. Christoph Waltz ominously undresses Diane Kruger’s in Inglourious Basterds. And there’s QT himself, drinking fromSalma Hayek’s feet in From Dusk Till Dawn.
E
T
"If you want to portray somebody moving, you show their feet walking, It creates a staccato effect... and you're
moving... and good! If I had a lot of shots of people where
?
the camera is just past the shoulder, it doesn't mean I
have a shoulder fetish. You want to see feet? Watch The Virgin Suicides. There's a lot of feet in that movie."
In Pulp Fiction, the containments of a briefcase, which runs much of the plot, is never shown.There's an omnious glow which comes out of the briefcase that is so bright and beautiful that it disarms anyone who looks inside.This, of course, has sparked much speculation about the film.The most popular beliefs include:
2. 3.
The Jewels from Reservoir Dogs; Pulp Fiction happen roughly the same time as the film, and Vince and Vic
Vega are brothers. Simply put, the briefcase does not have any concrete object, but a manifestation of someone's destiny.
Everybody who looks into it is transfixed, but has a
The briefcase contains the soul of Marsellus Wallace.
1.
different reaction.Vincent looks confused and almost
He made a deal with the devil to sell his soul for
scared because it shows how he dies. Honeybunny and
immense criminal power, and the devil tore it out of the
Pumpkin see that they give up their lives of crime thanks
back of his head (hence the Band-Aid). Note the password
to Jules, hence "It's beautiful." Jules never actually sees
on the briefcase is 6-6-6.
what's inside, so he's able to become a free man with no knowledge of his future.
WHAT’S IN THE BRIEFCASE?
I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western
to samurai movie.
QUENTIN
1.
heard twice: a half-second of the clip about 90 minutes
4.
into the film and the remainder of the scream about 20
the manager only says “No, I’m just a coffee shop–” before
minutes later, when a soldier is shot and falls to his death
Roth cuts him off and starts yelling again.
In Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film, Inglorious Basterds, the Wilhelm Scream (a stock sound effect originally recorded for the 1951 movie Distant Drums) is
in Nation’s Pride. The Wilhelm Scream is also heard twice
In the end credits to Pulp Fiction, the coffee shop manager is credited as simply Coffee Shop. This is because when Tim Roth’s character holds a gun to
the manager’s head and says “Are you gonna be a hero?”,
sidewalk. The Wilhelm Scream is also used twice in Kill Bill:
5.
Vol. 1 (2003) during the battle at the House of Blue Leaves.
“Death List Five”, it is Lucy Liu (O-Ren Ishii),Vivica A. Fox
in Reservoir Dogs (1992) — when Mr. Brown (Tarantino) is shot in the car and when Mr. Pink (Steve Buscemi) pushes someone out of the way while running down the
2. 3.
During the end credits of Kill Bill:Vol 2, the names of actors playing characters on The Bride’s “Death List Five” list are crossed off, referencing the fact
that their characters died onscreen. In order, as per the (Vernita Green), and Michael Madsen (Budd). However, a
During the filming of Reservoir Dogs, a paramedic
question mark appears over Daryl Hannah (Elle)’s name,
was kept on the set to make sure that Mr. Orange's
since her condition is unknown. Also, David Carradine (Bill),
(Tim Roth) amount of blood loss was kept
who supposedly dies onscreen, has his name appear before
consistent and realistic to that of a real gunshot victim. Sid Haig was considered for the role of Mr. Stonesipher in Django Unchained, and the casting director,Victoria Thomas informed Haig’s agent, “It’s
a lock.” Tarantino personally scheduled, and later canceled at the last minute, two auditions for Haig. Two months later, the role instead went to David Steen. This prank is believed to be Tarantino’s witty method of retribution for Haig turning down the role of Marcellus Wallace in Pulp Fiction 17 years previously.
the aforementioned cast members, yet his name is not crossed off.
6.
The same white Honda Civic is used in Pulp Fiction by Butch, (Fabienne's Honda) by Jackie in Jackie Brown, and shows up in the parking lot of
the My Oh My Strip Club in Kill Bill:Vol. 2.
CURIOSITIES
7.
carved on The Bear Jew (Eli Roth)’s bat is
11. 12.
Anne Frank.
Marvin because he thought it’d be funnier.
In Reservoir Dogs, Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) has a poster of The Silver Surfer on his apartment wall. This is an homage to one of Tarantino’s favorite
films, Breathless (1983), a remake of the 1959 Jean-Luc Godard film. In the remake, Richard Gere’s character reads The Silver Surfer comics obsessively.
In Pulp Fiction, the shot of Marcellus (Ving Rhames) turning his head to see Butch (Bruce Willis) in his car is taken directly from Psycho
(1960).
In Pulp Fiction,Vincent Vega (John Travolta) was originally supposed to shoot Marvin twice, once
8.
In Inglorious Basterds, one of the Jewish names
17. Madonna – who is the main subject of the opening dialogue in Reservoir Dogs – liked the film a lot but refuted Tarantino’s interpretation of her song, “Like a Virgin.” She gave him a copy of her Erotica album, signed “To Quentin. It’s not about dick, it’s about love. Madonna.”
9. 10.
accidentally in the throat and again to put him
out of his misery. Tarantino changed it to one bullet killing
13.
In Kill Bill, before the fight between O-Ren and The Bride (Uma Thurman), O-Ren says, in Japanese, “I hope you saved your energy. If you
haven’t you might not last 5 minutes.” After she says this, it is exactly 4 minutes and 59 seconds from when the music
In the first mall scene in Jackie Brown, Max Cherry
cues the start of the fight to when the fatal blow is dealt,
is seen exiting a movie theater while the music for
ending the fight.
the ending credits of a movie is playing. This end
credit music is in fact the closing music to Jackie Brown. In Inglorious Basterds, during the final card game at the LaLouisiane tavern, the card that Hellstrom (the Gestapo major) has to identify
is King Kong. King Kong was actually one of Adolf Hitler’s favourite movies.
Imitative Pastiche
Aaron Barlow in his book “Quentin Tarantino: Life at the Extremes” claims that there are mainly two different types of references to other films, pastiche and decoupage. Pastiche freely imitates another work of art; in its depiction it may be bordering on satire, sometime even lacking in the humor department. In fact, pastiche can also be interpreted as a lack of imagination, a failure to come up with new ideas, and hence choosing what another person has done out of laziness or merely because it looks “cool” with no other purpose at hand.
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S
Creative Decoupage
However, decoupage involves more skill, hindsight and purpose. It is a way of organically and creatively incorporating and weaving another person's work and even saying and creating something new through the whole filtering process. Many artists and critics tend to complain that everything has been said and done, yet in decoupage the old is made anew through careful and skillful positioning of particular scenes of reference; these scenes then benefit and add to the work. Tarantino falls into this latter category since his references to cinema are not senseless or superficial; they build a body within his own work and are embedded into the history of cinema itself, in the similar way, French director Jean-Luc Godard approaches and deals with the medium of film. And let's face it, Tarantino has never pretended otherwise.
Here's a list of movie references that Tarantino appears to have used‌
RESERVOIR DOGS A Better Tomorrow II (1987, John Woo) - The
Dillinger (1945, Max Nosseck) - Joe says Mr. Blue
black-and-white
suits
worn
by
is
taken
from
'A
Better
team
'Dead
as
Dillinger'.
Lawrence
Tierney,
who
plays Joe, also starred in this film in the title role.
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938, Michael Curtiz) - Mr.
Django (1966, Sergio Corbucci) - The ear cutting scene.
White's line "You shoot me in a dream, you better wake
Fingers (1978, James Toback) - Both films contain shots of
up and apologize." is paraphrased from Rocky Sullivan.
Harvey Keitel's character shooting someone just offscreen.
Baretta
to
Freebie and the Bean (1974, Richard Rush) - Mr. White's
dogs.
"taco" quote is taken from Freebie and the Bean.
Breathless (1983, Jim Mc Bride) - The Silver Surfer poster
Get Christie Love! - Is mentioned by several characters
visible in Freddy's apartment is intended as an homage to
when Nice Guy Eddie is telling his 'Lady E' story.
Richard Gere's Silver Surfer-obsessed character in 'Breathless'.
Honey West - Mentioned when the team tries to remember
City on Fire (1987, Ringo Lam) - This is very controversial
who played Christie Love; one of them guesses Anne Francis,
since Tarantino has denied any knowledge of this
but Mr. White corrects them, "No, that was Honey West".
film prior to making Reservoir Dogs. The plots are
'Millers
basically identical, the ending is the exact same.
The
Cruising (1980, William Friedkin) - The shot of Mr. Blonde
My Best Friend's Birthday (1987, Quentin Tarantino) - The
pulling a blade from his cowboy boot taken from Cruising.
K-Billy radio station takes it name and origins from 'My
-
mirror
Mr.
Orange
before
says
meeting
Tomorrow
are II.'
the
directly
the
he's with
"Baretta" the
Crossing' beating/torture
(1990, scene
The in
Coen
Brothers)
the
warehouse
Best Friend's Birthday', Tarantino's unfinished debut effort.
Mystery Train (1989, Jim Jarmusch) - The finger-snap
The Lost Boys (1987, Joel Schumacher) - Mr.Orange mentions
lighter trick Mr. White does is taken from Mystery Train.
trying to watch the film during "The Commode Story".
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) -The scene where Freddie
The Partridge Family - Mentioned briefly during the
talks to himself in a mirror in a similar fashion as Travis Bickle.
K-Billy DJ's announcements at the beginning of the film.
The Fantastic Four - Mr. Orange compares Joe to The
The
Thing, and has a Silver Surfer poster in his apartment.
Joseph Sargent) - The Code Name system used
The French Connection (1971, William Friedkin) -
by the bank robbers is taken from this movie.
The dolly shot
following
chased
The Wizard of Oz (1939, Victor Fleming) - Immediately
by
in
his flashback mirrors the shot
before being shot, Mr. Blonde asks the tortured cop,
of Popeye Doyle chasing a suspect in this film.
"How 'bout some fire, scarecrow?," which the Wicked
The Fury (1978, Brian De Palma) - The scene when Mr.
Witch of the West says to the Scarecrow in the film.
White shoots the policemen through a car windshield.
Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967, Martin Scorsese) At
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone) - The
one point Mr. Blonde says he bets Mr.White (Harvey Keitel)
scene where Mr. Blonde tortures a man to music; Nice Guy
is a Lee Marvin fan; in 'Who's That Knocking at My Door',
calls Mr. Blonde "Blondie", which is the nickname of Clint
Harvey Keitel's character is a self-professed Lee Marvin fan.
the
cops
Mr. Pink
being
Eastwood's character in the film; the Mexican Standoff climax. The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges) - Mr. Brown mentions the film during his 'Like a Virgin' speech.
Taking
of
Pelham
One
Two
Three
(1974,
Air Force (1943, Howard Hawks) - Captain Koons
character of this short film, also played by Angela Jones
mentions an air force gunner named Winocki in his story;
Daddy-O (1958,) A poster is visible in Jack Rabbit Slim's
the name and military position were taken from this film.
Deliverance (1972, John Boorman) - The rape sequence
American Boy: A Profile of: Steven Prince (1978,
with the satisfactory salvage. In both movies, the
Martin Scorsese) - Lance's explanation on how to
largest guy gets raped while the other victim is tied up.
administer the adrenaline shot is taken practically
Dragstrip
verbatim from an anecdote related in this documentary.
A
Attack
Eddie Presley (1992, Jeff Burr) - Duane Whitaker's
of
the
50-Foot
Woman
(1958,
Nathan
poster
Girl is
(1957, visible
Edward in
L.
Jack
Cahn)
Rabbit
-
Slim's.
Juran) - A poster is visible in Jack Rabbit Slim's.
character
Black
the same question as he asks in Eddie Presley.
Sabbath
(1963, Mario
Bava)
- The
three-
asks
"Is
it
Tuesday
or
Wednesday?"
story plot of Pulp Fiction was inspired by the three-
The
story plot of Black Sabbath. Director Mario Bava is
Ed Sullivan is the maitre d' of Jack Rabbit Slim's.
namechecked in the form of a type of heroin named Bava.
God of Gamblers (1989, Wong Jing) - In Pulp Fiction
Bodyguard
-
something bad happens every time Vincent goes to the
Ezekiel 25:17, does this remind you of anything?
bathroom;this is taken from God of Gamblers,where something
Bonnie and Clyde (1967, Arthur Penn) - The diner
bad always happens when Knife goes to the bathroom.
scene where the waitress pours coffee for Ringo
Green Acres - During the discussion of what constitutes a
and Yolanda is shot almost identically to one of
filthy animal, Jules says that in order for a pig's personality
the scenes at the beginning of Bonnie and Clyde.
to be enough to outweigh it's filthiness, it would have to be
Charley Varrick (1973, Don Siegel) - The "pair of
at least as charming as Arnold the pig from Green Acres.
pliers and a blowtorch" line was taken from this.
Gunsmoke -The "Get the hell out of dodge" line said byTheWolf.
Clutch Cargo (1959) - Butch is shown watching
Happy Days - Jules tells Yolanda and Pumpkin they're all
this TV show as a kid when Cpt. Koons arrives.
going to be cool like Fonzie, the famous star of Happy Days.
"COPS" - Vincent mentions a similar incident in
Jules also quotes Fonzie's famous line "Correct-amundo!".
"Cops" as the one that happened to him and Jules
Kill Bill - Some people believe the katana Butch uses in the
after being
not hit, at Bretts apartment
pawn shop scene in Pulp Fiction is a reference to that Quentin
Curdled (1991, Reb Braddock) - The basis for the
Tarantino and UmaThurman had been talking about on the set.
character Esmeralda Villalobos is taken from the main
Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich) - This movie features
-
Kiba
shot
(1973,
but
Ryuichi
Takamori)
Ed
Sullivan
Show
-
A
man
impersonating
PULP FICTION a nuclear bomb in a briefcase which glows when opened.
wallet is a reference to Isaac Hayes' themesong.
The same imagery is used for the famous briefcase in
Shoot
Pulp Fiction, although it is anyone's guess what's inside.
-
Kung Fu - Jules says he'll "walk the earth " like Caine in
Speed Racer - Lance is seen wearing a Speed Racer t-shirt.
Kung Fu. (incidentally starring Kill Bill's David Carradine)
Sorority
Machine
A
-
A
-Gun poster
Kelly is
Motorcycle
Gang
A
is
poster
(1958,
visible
in
(1957, visible
Roger Jack
Edward in
Rabbit L.
Jack
Corman) Slim's.
Piano
Identical
Player
shot
of
Girl
poster
(1960, Franรงois Truffaut)
a
finger
(1957,
is
visible
in
Norman
-
design
for
the
dining
Slim's.
Slim's
is
taken
from
a
Rabbit
Taurog) seats
this
doorbell
Corman)
Jack
(1968, car
ringing
Roger
Speedway
Cahn)
Rabbit
the
in
Elvis
-
Slim's. -
Jack
The Rabbit
Presley
film.
Nams Angels (1970, Jack Starrett) - Is the movie
Super Fly T.N.T. (1973, Ron O'Neal) - Upset at
Fabienne is watching on television when Butch wakes up.
Vincent
Natural Born Killers (1994, Oliver Stone) - In both Tarantino-
time
he
penned films, a character recites "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe"
The
Color
to decide who of two people will be subjected to violence.
Dialogue
Psycho
daughter about having character vs. being a character
(1960, Alfred
Hitchcock)
- The
shot
of
while
cleaning
touches of
the
he's
Super
(1986, Martin Wolf
Fly
T.N.T.
Scorsese)
Monster
-
Joe's
Winston Wolf imitates Johnny Smith and his powers
the waiters in Jack Rabbit Slim's is an impersonator
shortly before parting ways with Jules & Vincent.
of James Dean, dressed in his outfit from this film.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio
Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks) - Butch insisting Zed
Leone) - Both films feature a similar scene close to
pick up his gun is taken directly from a scene in Rio Bravo.
the beginning, where one of the main characters kills
Roadracers
-
a supporting one after helping himself to his food.
Slim's.
The Guns of Navarone (1961, J. Lee Thompson) - Jules
A
poster
Rock A
All
is
Daze
name
visible
Night
poster
School "My
is
is
in
(1957,
visible (1988, Paul
Jack Roger
in
Jack
Spike and
Rabbit
this
Lee) is
Corman) Rabbit -
The
between
-
Slim's. line y'all."
Shaft (1971, Gordon Parks) - Jules' "Bad Motherf***r"
David
every
Rebel Without a Cause (1955, Nicholas Ray) - One of
Swerdloff)
(1983,
and
says
The
Arthur
Zone
car, Jules
Marcellus turning his head to see Butch in his car.
(1959,
Dead
brain,
Money
between
the
Cronenberg)
-
mentions this film by title during his rant at Vincent. The
Rocky
Horror
Picture
Show
(1975,
Jim
Sharman) - Antwon Rockamora's nick name, "Tony Rocky
Horror",
is
inspired
by
this
film's
title.
Tarantino cast Pam Grier in the lead role and put Sid Haig in a cameo in order to invoke the feeling of Blaxploitation movies. Across 110th Street (1972, Barry Shear) - Bobby Womack's main theme for this film is used in the opening credits. Alligator (1980, Lewis Teague) - Max (Robert Forster) makes mention of a receding hairline problem, a reference to the running gag involving Madison (also Robert Forster) in Alligator.
JACKIE Coffy (1973, Jack Hill) - Excerpts of Roy Ayers' score from Coffy are heard multiple times throughout the film.
Detroit 9000 (1973, Arthur Marks) - Is one of the films Melanie watches on tv at Ordell's place.
Foxy Brown (1974, Jack Hill) - Pam Grier's character's name
is based on her character's name in this film. Jackie Brown can be seen as a Spiritual Successor to Foxy Brown.
Hard Eight (1996, Paul Thomas Anderson) - The scene in
which Jackie practices her aim with a gun while waiting for Ordell is taken from Hard Eight.
Mandingo (1975, Richard Fleischer) - Ordell mentions Mandingo during his first conversation with Max. New York Undercover - Ordell mentions 'New York Undercover' when he's telling Louis all about the guns he sells. Sharky's Machine (1981, Burt Reynolds) - "Street Life" from 'Sharky's Machine' can be heard when Jackie is driving to the final money pickup. Superchick (1973, Ed Forsyth) - The opening credit sequence of Jackie Brown mirrors the one in 'Superchick'; Jackie is even shown walking down the exact same colorful hallway.
Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) - The scene where Louis (Robert De Niro) is shown myriad weapons by a gun dealer references the scene in Taxi Driver where Travis Bickle (also Robert De Niro) does the same. The American President (1995, Rob Reiner) - Is the film Max sees at the Del Amo mall before running into Jackie; poster visible outside the Del Amo mall theater. The Big Doll House (1971, Jack Hill) - The song "Long Time
BROWN Woman" performed by Pam Grier for this film, is heard during a similar scene in Jackie Brown; women being led and locked into a prison cell.
The Graduate (1967, Mike Nichols) - The opening shot of Pam Grier moving along an airport conveyor belt is a direct lift from the opening shot from this film.
The Killer (1989, John Woo) - At one point, Ordell laments that people have watched John Woo's The Killer too often,
resulting in many would-be criminals buying nine millimeter pistols when a different gun would be better suited.
The Mad Dog Killer (1977, Sergio Grieco) - Melanie is watching this on tv at one point; Ordell mistakes its star Helmut Berger for Rutger Hauser. Vampyros Lesbos (1971, Jesus Franco) - Score song "The Lion and the Cucumber" is taken from this Lesbian Vampire film. Wolf (1994, Mike Nichols) - A Wolf poster is visible outside the Del Amo mall theater.
KILL
during the Crazy 88 bloodbath is taken from this film. Champion -
The
is
used
of
Death
theme in
the
music
(1977, of
"House
Kazuhiko 'Champion
of
Blue
Yamaguchi) of
Leaves"
Death' finale.
Chato's Land (1972, Michael Winner) - The scene in which Budd is bitten by a snake is mirrored
The overall plot is a fairly obvious reference to films
by a scene in Chato's Land, another revenge film.
such as Coffy, Foxy Brown, I Spit on Your Grave, Lady
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) - A shot of The
Snowblood, Ms 45 and Thriller: A Cruel Picture. The latter
Bride lying in a coma, silhouetted against her hospital
of which, likely inspired Elle Driver's Eye Patch Of Power.
window replicates a shot from early in Citizen Kane.
A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Sergio Leone) - Score
City of the Living Dead (1980, Lucio Fulci) - The
from the film is heard after Budd has shot The Bride.
scene where blood runs out of Gogo Yubari's eyes.
"Fistful" was also one of three films shown to Uma
Coffy (1973, Jack Hill) - The scene in which Vernita and
Thurman to prepare her for her role as The Bride.
The Bride stand deadlocked in a blade fight mirrors
A Professional Gun (1968, Sergio Corbucci) - "L'Arena"
the scene between Harriet & Coffy. Vernita also uses
plays as The Bride punches her way out of the coffin; also,
Harriet's line from this scene; "Come on, bitch!";
the Pole's list of things for Paco and his gang of would-be
'Coffy' was also one of three films shown to Uma
revolutionaries to get appears here as The Bride's kill list.
Thurman to prepare her for her role as The Bride.
Annie Hall (1977, Woody Allen) - In the flashback
Day of Anger (1967, Tonino Valerii) - The film's theme
where we see the [adult] Bride sitting in a classroom,
is heard when the film switches to black and white.
like it's her childhood memory. Woody Allen does
Dead & Buried (1981, Gary Sherman) - The shot of Elle
the same thing in the first scene of Annie Hall.
Driver leaning in close to The Bride's comatose body in the
Another Battle (2000, Junji Sakamoto) - The now-
hospital, disguised as a nurse replicates a shot from this film.
infamous theme from this film is heard as O-Ren and
Death Rides a Horse (1967, Giulio Petroni) - The theme of
her subordinates walk through the House of Blue Leaves.
this movie is played when the Bride calls out O-Ren Ishii.
Black Mama, White Mama (1973, Eddie Romero) -
When the Bride sees one of her killers and the camera
The Bride being choked by Gogo's chain is mirrored
zooms in on her eyes and the picture is tinted red also
in 'Black Mama' by the scene where Lee and Karen
happens in Death Rides A Horse with it's protagonist.
strangle the warden with their shared chain; Score heard
Eaten Alive (1977, Tobe Hooper) - In Kill Bill: Vol. 1,
the hospital attendant 'Buck' delivers the line: "My
O-Ren
name's Buck, and I'm here to fuck." This quote was
assassin
originally spoken by Robert Englund in Eaten Alive.
Lady Snowblood (1973, Toshiya Fujita) - Many references
Fist of Fury (1972, Lo Wei) - In the fight with the
beyond the plot: the character of O-Ren Ishii; the duel
Crazy 88 the Bride spins around on the floor slashing
in the snow covered garden; the division into chapters;
legs as Bruce Lee did in Fist of Fury with nunchucks.
the camera angle looking up at the heroine's attackers
Five Deadly Venoms (1978, Cheh Chang) - 'The
looking down at her; the animated sequence; the song
Five
Deadly Viper
"Flower of Carnage", sung by Meiko Kaji who is the star
Assassination Squad'; sound effects used in 'Vol. 1'
of Lady Snowblood, is heard in 'Vol. 1'; In the animated
(Sword Swings, Axe Throws) are taken from this film.
sequence, when O-Ren is getting her revenge; the
Full Tilt Boogie (1997, Sarah Kelly) - The origin of
line "Look at me closely. Do I look like someone...you
Elle
making-of
murdered?" is taken directly from Lady Snowblood, except
From Dusk Till Dawn) was an "L. Driver Production''.
Snowblood says "raped" instead of "murdered." Also,
Game of Death (1978, Robert Clouse) - The Bride's
O-Ren is dressed in the same kimono as Lady Snowblood.
famous
to
Long Days of Vengeance (1967, Florestano Vancini)
the one worn by Bruce Lee in Game of Death.
- The music heard in the anime sequence when
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968, Hajime Sato) - The
O-Ren's father is stabbed and the camera pans up to
orange/red sky in the model shots of the jet airliner that the Bride
show the sword and the killer is music from this film.
arrives in Japan on is a pretty clear visual reference to this film.
Marnie (1964, Alfred Hitchcock) - The shots of Elle Driver
Grease (1978,Randal Kleiser) -The PussyWagon takes it's name
walking down the hospital corridor with a big purse are
from the 'Greased Lightning' lyric, "She's a real Pussy Wagon".
right out of the beginning of "Marnie" with Tippi Hedren.
The
Green
Hornet
compares
Master of the Flying Guillotine (1975, Jimmy Wang
the
Crazy
88's
Kato's.
Yu) - Uses villain's theme from this film and GoGo
The montage during which the Bride is on the plane
uses a variation on the Flying Guillotine device.
and O-Ren is in her car is set to the TV show's
Miller's Crossing (1990, The Coen Brothers) - Scene
theme song—a jazzy arrangement of Flight of the
where a character under a bed shoots a person
Bumblebee arranged by Billy May, conducted by Lionel
in the foot, they fall, and they are shot in the head.
Newman and featuring a trumpet solo by Al Hirt.
Modesty Blaise (1966, Joseph Losey) - The look of
Kite
Modesty Blaise influenced the look of the DIVAS.
Deadly Venoms'
Driver's
yellow
(1998,
inspired
name, because
track-suit
is
-
FTB
a
(the
direct
The
domino
Yasuomi
'The
homage
Bride
masks
Umetsu)
to
-
Animated
Ishii's
murdered
shooting
parents
sequence
also
and
school
occur
in
girl Kite.
Mr.
Majestyk
has
a
Budd
Road to Salina" is heard when The Bride has made her
his
way to Budd's trailer after being buried alive; Esteban
trailer. It is visible in several scenes in the trailer.
tells The Bride that Bill's villa is on "the road to Salina".
Natural Born Killers (1994, Oliver Stone) - Bill calls Beatrix
Rolling Thunder (1977, John Flynn) - The Acuna Boys take
"a natural born killer" during their conversation at the end
their name from the gang of villains in Rolling Thunder.
of Volume 2, referencing the script that Tarantino wrote
Samurai Fiction (1998, Hiroyuki Nakano) - The sequence
(and the movie adaptation of which he later disowned).
where the Bride fights behind the blue-screen and we can see
Navajo
her silhouette, referencing the opening of 'Samurai Fiction'.
main
(1974,
poster
Joe
(1966,
movie
Sergio
hanging
in
Corbucci)
The line: "If you encounter God, God will be cut."
Once Upon a Time in the West (1969, Sergio Leone)
Seven Notes in Black (1977, Lucio Fulci) - The theme of
- The
is
this movie is played as Buck is walking back to the Bride's
walking through the desert towards the camera are
hospital room after the Bride has killed the trucker
recreated when the Bride walks to Budd's trailer.
Shogun Assassin (1980, Robert Houston) - Is the movie
Patrick
The
B.B. and The Bride watch before she confronts Bill.
spits.
Snake In The Eagles Shadow (1978,Yuen Woo Ping Yuen Woo-
plot
Ping) - The scene where The Bride slices her enemy's weapon
Force
to pieces is taken directly from Snake in the Eagle's Shadow.
Five" pilot that Mia Wallace describes in this film.
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982, Nicholas
Quick Draw McGraw - The sound effect of guitar hitting
Meyer)
a body during the fight between Elle & The Bride is the
the beginning of Vol. 1 is a quote from this film.
same as the one heard when El Kabong does the same.
Star Trek: The Original Series - The Bride describes
Reservoir Dogs - Earl McGraw refers to the "Massacre atTwo
Sofie Fatale as being dressed like a villain from Star Trek.
Pines" as a "kill-crazy rampage", the same term Mr.White uses
Summertime
to describe Mr. Blonde's shooting during the jewelry heist.
- Score song "Summertime Killer" is taken from this
Road to Salina (1970, Georges Lautner) - Score song "The
film, heard when The Bride first enters Bill's hacienda.
Chase" is taken from this film, and used during a similar
Super Cop (1992, Stanley Tong) - The Bride says "I
scene; someone speeding through the desert; "Sunny
would jump on a speeding train with a motorcycle
Pulp began
flashbacks
(1978, where
Fiction as
between
where
Richard the
- Tarantino an
the
is
The
Beatrix.
showdown
Joe"
-
and
scene
"Navajo
-
during
final
from
this
Fleischer)
heard
the
theme
from
Richard
Bill
antagonist
Frank
Franklin)
comatose has
extrapolation
Bride
said of
-
that
the
the
"Fox
Samurai
Reincarnation
- The
"Old
Killer
(1981,
Klingon
Kinji
Fukasaku)
Proverb"
(1972, Antonio
quoted
-
at
Isasi-Isasmendi)
for you", which is clearly a reference to Michelle
numerous physical traits (eye patch, long coat, pant suit).
Yeoh's stunt in Police Story III where she does just this.
Tough
The
from
Blood
Aranda)
-
named
after
Spattered One this
of
Bride the
Spanish
(1972,
film's Lesbian
Vincente
"chapters" Vampire
is epic.
Guys this
Truck
(1974,
film
Turner
from
this
can
Duccio be
(1974,
film
can
Tessari)
heard
Jonathan be
-
Score
in Vols. 1
&
Kaplan)
Score
heard
-
when The
2.
Bride
The Driver (1978, Walter Hill) - Beatrix is described
searches the parking deck for Buck's Pussy Wagon.
as "the cowgirl who could not be caught" just as Ryan
True
Romance
(1993,
O'Neal was "the cowboy who could not be caught".
Bride
wear's
Clarence's
The Golden Stallion (1949, William Witney) - Is
Twisted
Nerve
the film on T.V. when The Bride first confronts Bill.
theme
of Twisted
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio Leone -
hospital scene by Elle as a
The opening shot is a reference to a similar scene in 'Ugly'
White
in which Tuco points a gun at Blondie, who is near-death
The
from dehydration and being out in the sun for hours.
when
The Grand Duel (1972, Giancarlo Santi) The theme
The Yakuza (1974, Sydney Pollack) - In the anime
of this film is heard in 'Vol. 1'; 'M10' when The Bride
sequence one thug has a spider tattoo on a head.
lay in the Pussy Wagon trying to wiggle her big toe,
Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa) - Arterial spurts,
and
plus the last of the Crazy 88 is spared and told
'Parte
Prima'
during
the
animated
sequence.
The Postman Always RingsTwice 1946 (Tay Garnett) - Esteban
to
(1968,
Lightning theme
from
The
Bride
go
home
Tony
to
gold Roy
Nerve
is
(1973, "White is
-
Elvis
whistled
The glasses.
Boulting)
-
The
during
the
direct reference. Joseph
Sargent)
Lightning"
fighting
mother
Scott)
just
the
as
is Crazy
in
-
heard 88.
"Yojimbo."
mentions this as the movie that made Bill "a fool for blondes" The Psychic (1977, Lucio Fulci) - The score heard as The Bride is about to attack Buck is taken from this film. The Searchers (1956) - The Bride is shown framed in the door of the chapel mirroring the final shot of "The Searchers". The
Wicked
Dreams
of
Paula
Schultz
(1968,
George Marshall) - The origin of Chapter 8's title. Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1974, Bo Arne Vibenius) - Elle Driver from Kill Bill and Madeleine share
1 &2
BILL
D E A T H A Quiet Place to Kill (1970, Umberto Lenzi) -
film's title is mentioned by Stuntman Mike; one of
A
apartment.
the license plates on Mike's cars, 938-DAN, is taken
A Special Cop in Action (1976, Marino Girolami)
directly from the license plate number seen in the film.
- Uses theme music for the final chase scene.
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!! (1965, Russ Meyer) - A
Big Trouble in Little China (1986, John Carpenter)
character wears a T-shirt featuring an image from the film.
- Jack Burton's tanktop is visible in the tavern.
Gone in Sixty Seconds (1974) (1974, H.B. Halicki) - The
Big
-
film is mentioned once by Kim, who also drives a Ford
Bell.
Mustang Mach I, the same car model used in this film.
poster
is
seen
Wednesday
Mentioned
in
in
Jungle
(1978, the
film
Julia's
John
Milius)
by
ZoĂŤ
Blow Out (1981, Brian De Palma) - During the scene where
High
Crime
Julia texts Christian, the song "Sally and Jack" can be heard.
Score
from
Bullitt (1968, Peter Yates) - The license plate number
Hooper
on one of Stuntman Mike's cars, JJZ-109, is taken
Stuntman
directly from the license plate number seen in Bullitt.
Mike's
perverted
Convoy (1978, Sam Peckinpah) - The "Rubber Duck"
Smokey
and
as hood ornament of Stuntman Mike's muscle-car.
-
Death Race 2000 (1975, Paul Bartel) - Earl McGraw
Stroker Ace (1983, Hal Needham) - Mike is insultingly called
calls
Stroker Ace when Dov and Omar are making fun of him.
to
Stuntman David
Mike
Carradine's
"Frankenstein", character
a in
reference this
film.
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974, John Hough) - The
Dov
(1973, this
(1978,
G.
film
is
Hal
Needham)
Mike
(Eli
Enzo heard
"Hooper"
the
in
Roth)
sings
Proof.
Earl
calls
when to
(1977,
explaining his
Hal
the
-
Death -
motivations Bandit
Castellari)
son.
Needham)
theme
song.
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970, Dario Argento) The
scene
where
Stuntman
Mike
is
taking
P R O O F pictures
of
the
second
group
of
women, uses
Thunder Alley (1967,) - Score from this film is heard
the same score as a similar scene in this film.
when Stuntman Mike goes after Abernathy, ZoĂŤ and Kim..
The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971, Dario Argento) - Parts of the
Twisted Nerve (1967, Roy & John Boulting) - The theme
score are used as Arlene's theme when she sees Mike's car.
from this film is heard as a ringtone in Death Proof.
The Getaway (1972, Sam Peckinpah) - When Kim & Zoe
Used Cars (1980, Robert Zemeckis) - Stuntman Mike's (Kurt
get out of the car to discuss how they'll be playing Ship's
Russell) car is black with a skull and crossbones just like the
Mast, they squat down to talk. This is a copy of the scene
Chevy pickup Kurt Russell rides in at the end of Used Cars.
near the end of The Getaway where the two men have a
Vanishing Point - (1971, Richard C. Sarafian) - The
talk by side of road. Kim also crashes into a boat during
second group of girls con Jasper out of his white 1970
the final chase, another reference to 'The Getaway'.
Dodge Challenger, expressly because it is the same
The Great Kidnapping (1973, Roberto Infascelli) - Score song
model used to famous effect in Vanishing Point; the film
"Gangster Story" is heard during the first part of the final
is discussed and mentioned several times; Stuntman
chase (the girls speeding behind Stuntman Mike as he flees).
Mike is seen wearing the same wristwatch as Kowalski.
The Man from Hong Kong (1975, Brian Trenchard-
Village
Smith) - Several car chase scenes are very similar
The
right down to the car, camera angles and editing.
is
The Night Heaven Fell (1958, Roger Vadim) - Julia
White
lies on the couch in the opening scenes in the same
Stuntman Mike mentions this movie discussing CGI
pose as the Brigitte Bardot poster above her coach
of
the
dancing used
Giants theme
multiple Line
Fever
(1965, Bert from Village
times (1975,
I. Gordon) of
throughout Jonathan
the
-
Giants
the Kaplan)
film. -
A Professional Gun - (1968, Sergio Corbucci) -
box
Score song "Il Mercenario (Ripresa)" is heard as
King Kong (1933, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B.
Sgt.
Lt. Aldo.
Schoedsack) - This movie is briefly mentioned during a game.
Allonsanfan (1974, Paolo & Vittorio Taviani) - Score
Les vampires (1915,Louis Feuillade) - Posters of the LesVampires
from Allonsanfàn can be heard over the closing credits.
serial are hanging in the office where Landa confronts Bridget.
Avalanche (1930, Arnold Fanck) - The poster of
Lucky Kids (1936, Paul Martin) - "Ich wollt' ich wär
the movie is seen on the marquee of Shoshanna's
ein Huhn" from 'Lucky Kids' is heard in the film.
theater, just before she climbs to change the title.
One Silver Dollar (1965,Giorgio Ferroni) -The theme from One
Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov) - The shot of
Silver Dollar is heard in the cafe where Shosanna talks to Zoller.
Donowitz
Queen
Rachtman
approaches
emptying
his
and
gun
salutes
into
Hitler's
corpse.
to
see
Shosanna/Shosanna
Christina
cues from 'Dark of the Sun' can be heard in Basterds.
Sergeant York (1941, Howard Hawks) - Fredrick Zoller
Devil's Angels (1967, Daniel Haller) - "The Devil's
says he is called the German "Sergeant York" (and his war
Rumble" from 'Devil's Angels' is heard as Donnie
exploits are also turned into a film portraying him as a hero).
and Omar take their seats among the Nazi officers.
Slaughter
Domino (Roger Richebé) Poster visible in Shoshanna's cinema.
used as Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz's title appearing theme.
Eastern
The
Sammo
Hung)
-
Music
(1972,
Battle
of
Jack Algiers
in
La
Mamoulian)
Title
(1987,
mentioned
Rouben
reels.
Dark of the Sun (1968, Jack Cardiff) - Three music
Condors
is
(1933,
switches
Starrett) (1966,
Louisiane
- The Gillo
tavern.
theme
is
Pontecorvo)
can be heard from 'Eastern Condors' when Sgt.
- "Algiers, November 1954" from 'The Battle of
Donowitz
guards.
Algiers' is heard when the Basterds first find Stiglitz.
Hi Diddle Diddle (1943, Andrew L. Stone) - A French
The Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein) - In
version of "The Man with the Big Sombrero" from Hi
Nation's Pride, a quick shot shows a soldier being shot in the
Diddle Diddle plays during the La Louisiane sequence.
eye and screaming, referencing the old woman also shot in
Hitler—Dead or Alive (1942, Nick Grinde) - Tarantino
the eye during the famous montage massacre in 'Potemkin'.
cites this propaganda movie as one of his influences.
The Bells of Death (1968, Griffin Yueh Feng) - At the
Inside Man (2006, Spike Lee) - The "don't I seem calm to you"
beginning of this film, three antagonists raid a village, killing
exchange between Stiglitz and Hicox is taken from this film.
the protagonist’s family. However, the bandits raid a cottage,
Kelly's
Score
from which the protagonist’s mother attempts to retreat
from the film is heard when Zoller leaves the opera
across the field. The main antagonist takes aim at her with
and
Heroes
PFC
Omar
(1970, Brian
kill
Hitler's
G. Hutton)
-
INGLORIOUS
a bow and arrow, which plays out strikingly similar to the
2009 movie is a take off on the English title of this movie.
opening scene of Inglorious Basterds (2009) when Col. Hans
The Italian Straw Hat (1944, Maurice Cammage) - Marcel
Landa aims his pistol at Shoshanna; apart from the fact that
passes in front of a large wall poster for Fernandel's comedy.
this guy actually shoots the woman. Also, immediately after
The Kid (1921, Charlie Chaplin) - The Kid and
the antagonist shoots her, he and his cronies hear the other
its famous chase climax is mentioned by Zoller.
family members hiding beneath the floorboards and take the
The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942, Henri-Georges
similarity a step further by executing one of them through
Clouzot) - A poster is visible in Shosanna's cinema.
the floor; just as Col. Hans Landa did to Shoshanna's family.
The Return of Ringo (1965, Duccio Tessari) - "L'incontro
The Big Gundown (1966, Sergio Sollima) - Duel
Con La Figlia" from 'The Return of Ringo' is heard during the
music
introduction.
assassination of Shosanna's family and her subsequent escape.
The Deserter (1971, Niksa Fulgosi & Burt Kennedy)
The Searchers (1956, John Ford) - The shot of Shossana
- Aldo Raine assembles a team of men and trains
running from Landa at the beginning is framed through
them
an Apache
a doorway in an homage to a scene in the earlier film.
resistance, in the same fashion as Capt. Victor Caleb.
The Usual Suspects (1995, Brian Singer) - The slow motion
The Eternal Jew (1940, Fritz Hippler) - When Hans
shot of Marcel flicking his cigarette and lighting a fire.
Landa mentions Goebbels' propaganda that "compares
The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929, Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
the Jew to the common rat" it is a reference to this film.
- Along with other works of the Austrian director Pabst.
The Entity (1982) - Score from 'The Entity' is
Several scenes (notably, outside Shoshana's theater, where a
heard
is
to
heard
kill
Nazis
Sgt.
in
the
style
revival is playing, and at the tavern with Von Hammersmark)
her
family.
involve discussion of Pabst in general and Pitz Palu, a
The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges) - General Ed Fenech
mountain climbing film starring Leni Riefenstahl, in particular.
says "We have all our rotten eggs in one basket"...similiar to a
White Lightning (1973, Joseph Sargent) - Two music
line spoken by Kommandant von Luger in The Great Escape:
cues from 'White Lightning' are heard in the film.
"We have in effect put all our rotten eggs in one basket."
Zulu
The
from Zulu Dawn is heard when Marcel bars the
first
Great
time
Love
sees
of
again
the
Shosanna
Donowitz's
Landa
for
when
at
since
he
(1942, Rolf
Col. killed
Hansen)
-
"Davon
geht die Welt nicht unter" from The Great Love
doors
Dawn and
(1979, takes
his
Douglas place
Hickox) behind
the
is heard while the first card game is going on. The Inglorious Bastards (1978, Enzo G. Castellari) - Title of
BASTERDS
Score screen.
DJANGO There are numerous shout-outs to the films of Sergio
complete
Corbucci, from Django's name, to Franco Nero's cameo, to
Hellbenders (1967, Sergio Corbucci) - Three music
the Bagheads' costumes to Candie's death by a shot through
cues
the flower he wears over his heart. It's almost a love letter.
His Name Was King (1971, Giancarlo Romitelli) - The title
Django's new cowboy duds, in the script, Tarantino
song from this film is used as Dr. Schultz's theme music.
describes
"Flaming
Hornet's Nest (1970, Phil Karlson & Franco Cirino)
Star", and a Little Joe Cartwright on "Bonanza".
- "The Big Risk" from "Hornets' Nest" is heard
"Broomhilda" is not of the many spellings extant for the
as
Br端nnhilde of mythic lore,but "Broomhilda" was the protagonist
Inglourious Basterds - When Candie is signing the checks, his
of a popular newspaper comic strip. Tarantino is obviously
sister Lara plays "F端r Elise," which was used as a Leitmotif for
using this spelling to pun on the
"Br端nnhilde" Legend.
the Basterds in the film. Basterds and Django are considered
In a scene towards the end, Django stands in a doorway
to be the first two installments in a planned trilogy.
with the sun behind him, casting a sharp shadow on the wall
Kill Bill - Stephen uses the phrase, "That will be the
behind.The silhouette looks just like The Man With No Name.
story of you," when detailing Django's ignomious end as
Candie's
lawyer
is
a mining slave. This exchange is lifted from Kill Bill, in the
The
Leonide
Moguy
as
real
being
"a
bit
like
named
Elvis
in
Leonide
and
are
Dr. Schultz
prop
heard
ride
in
into
molar.
the
film.
Greenville.
Action in Arabia, a WWII film Tarantino admires.
Pai Mei; A morally ambiguous protagonist kills a Retired
A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Schultz imagines pictures
Monster in front of their child in a Quentin Tarantino
of violence and asks Lara to stop playing Beethoven,
movie, though, here, the protagonist is extremely reluctant.
violently reacting to the playing as said violence haunts him.
Stephen is last seen severely injured but alive and screaming
Battle Royale (2000, Kinji Fukasaku) - Tarantino's
abuse at Django, same as Elle after her fight with Beatrix
use of Verdi's Dies Irae during the Klan's half-witted
they're also left in very precarious situations and we don't
attack is a shoutout to Battle Royale', a film which
see their bodies after the fight, but while it's possible
Tarantino has admitted is one of his favorite movies.
Elle could leave the trailer without getting bitten by her
Blazing
The
own black mamba it's highly unlikely 79-year-old Stephen
a
could survive a load of dynamite exploding over his head.
saddle.
Both of them are Evil Counterparts of the protagonists:
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969, George
Beatrix and Django (both on a Roaring Rampage of
Roy Hill) - Schultz and Django's relationship seems
Revenge over a loved one and tutored by white-haired
to be somewhat inspired by Butch and Sundance's.
masters) fight more or less fairly while Stephen and
Day of Anger (1967) - The title theme from Day of
Elle (both very cozy with the enemy and use others to
Anger is heard during the Time-Compression Montage.
do their fighting) are incredibly Manipulative Bastards.
Greed
Dr. Schultz
The Killer (1989, John Woo) - Django shoots Moguy
rides in a dentist's wagon similar to McTeague's,
and then leaps against his body backwards as he propels
hillbillies'
negative
horse, and
Django's
Mel
reactions suiting
(1924, Erich Von
director
"Hellbenders"
swinging
scene where Bill warns the Bride against showing cheek to
(1974,
the
Django
corny
of
Saddles
was
Moguy.
from
with
Brooks) to
up
Django and
Stroheim)
new
-
on
himself into the foyer, shooting two cowboys while falling
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, Sergio
on Moguy's corpse. This exact stunt/move is lifted directly
Leone) - Stephen's dying words echo the closing line.
from The Killer, where Chow Yun-Fat uses it to enter a
The Great Silence (1968, Sergio Corbucci) - Django's
room (and kill two Mooks) during the opening gunfight.
shooting practice in the snow is a direct reference to Silence's
Lady Snowblood (1973, Toshiya Fujita) - The blood-
target practice and Tarantino has said that Corbucci's
spatter on cotton (after Schultz shoots the third Brittle
wintery western is a key influence of Django Unchained.
brother) is a visual shoutout to a famous blood-spatter
The
shot in Lady Snowblood (which was a big influence
Django's
anachronistic
sunglasses
on Kill Bill, especially the character of O-Ren Ishii).
reference
to
to
Mandingo (1975, Richard Fleischer) - The subplot
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970, Don Siegel) -
about
this
Two music cues from "Mules" are heard in the film.
influence.
Under Fire (1983, Roger Spottiswoode) - "Nicaragua"
"Mandingo
fighting"
film, which Tarantino Minnesota
Clay
has
(1964,
is cited
Sergio
inspired as
an
by
Corbucci)
-
A
White
from
"Under
Buffalo Ray,
Fire"
(1977, but
is
J.
Lee
Thompson)
-
are
a
not
"The White
heard
in
the
Buffalo".
film
when
saloon called "Minnesota Clay" is seen in the film.
Calvin Candie and his men arrive at Candyland.
Monster (2003) - The scene when Django shoots the
Violent
second Brittle brother and angrily continues to fire with the
music cues from the film are heard in Django.
empty revolver mirrors Aileen's first murder in "Monster".
This might be a coincidence unless The League of
My Name Is Trinity (1970, Enzo Barboni) - The title theme
Extraordinary Gentlemen referenced the same thing: both
from this film is heard after the destruction of Candyland.
films had Young Guns (Tom Sawyer/Django) aiming at
Pirates of the Caribbean - Schultz' last words: "I'm sorry,
targets who were rapidly escaping ( Moriarty/Big Daddy)
I couldn't resist" are almost identical to Jack Sparrow's
but acting as if they had all the time in the world while their
line in a similar situation, but with a darker take on it.
older, foreign, (mostly) doomed mentors (Quartermain/
Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa) - The shot of
Schultz) urged them to hurry and shoot. The scenes also
the hooded raiders cresting the hill on horseback
have opposite settings: LXG's was on a frozen lake in a
mirrors
snowstorm while Django's was in a grassy field on a clear night.
the
famous
shot
from
"Seven
Samurai".
Shaft (1971, Gordon Parks) - Hildy's family name is given as
The
City
Lone
(1970,
Ranger:
Sergio
"Who
Sollima)
was
that
-
Two
nigger?"
von Shaft, and in a bit of Canon Welding,Tarantino has stated that Django and Brunhilde are the ancestors of John Shaft. Son of a Gunfighter (1965, Paul Landres) - Amber Tamblyn plays the character "Daughter of a Son of a Gunfighter"; her real-life father, Russ Tamblyn, played the title role in the film Son of a Gunfighter. The Birth of a Nation (1915, D.W. Griffith) - The baghead raid is a biting parody of the film's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan.
UNCHAINED
That word that Tarantino uses
a lot… Tarantino is quite well known for using "the n-word'
No word, no matter how hateful, should be off limits
quite fearlessly. I myself, feel nervous just writing it.
in film. That argument, that there are things too
It's such a taboo word that people often criticise QT
terrible to hear or see, runs counter to the spirit of
for using it so often. To be fair, no one really thinks
independent film. Disqualifying a word – the c-word,
Quentin Tarantino is a racist (well, maybe Spike Lee
for example – limits the palette of a writer, chains
does). The argument is basically that Tarantino is, at
the characters and harnesses the story. How can
worst, racially insensitive, to gain a reaction from his
filmmakers accurately depict the darkness that exists
audience — that he shouldn’t use that word, ever. This
in the world without descending into the ugliness
is an overly emotional argument that gives an almost
and the muck? I think now, he has grown very tired
sacred totemic power to the n-word, because, clearly,
of defending the use of the word, which is clear from
Tarantino is not throwing it around to make some sort
certain interviews. And indeed he has his long time
of argument about racial superiority. Rather, Tarantino
collaborater Samual L. Jackson to defend him…
is using a word – a hateful, terrible word – to show
"Did they have another name to call the [black] people
the moral decay of someone like Leonardo DiCaprio’s
they were talking about at the time?" he shoots back.
Calvin Candie. Tarantino uses the word, though not
"If you're going to deal with the language of the time,
as artfully as Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzzo
you deal with the language of the time. And that was
employed it in “The Godfather,” to basically say: these
the language of the time. I grew up in the South. I heard
may be interesting men, but they are not good men,
'nigger' all my life. I'm not disturbed by it."
they are unevolved and broken, always remember that.
During a sit-down interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy for Britain's Channel 4, Tarantino bristled when asked to explain his thoughts about whether movie violence can lead to real-life violence. "Don't ask me a question like that," Tarantino said. "I'm not biting. I refuse your question." After Guru-Murthy asked Tarantino why he refused to answer the question, the director explained in no uncertain terms what he thinks of his relationship with the media. "I'm not your slave and you're not my master," Tarantino sniped. "You can't make me dance to your tune. I'm not a monkey." Undeterred, Guru-Murthy pressed forward, trying to connect Tarantino with comments Jaime Foxx made about movie violence. "You should talk to Jamie Foxx about that. And I think he's actually here, so you can," Tarantino smirked, before brutally deconstructing the junket interview process. "I don't want [to answer that]. I'm here to sell my movie," Tarantino said. "This is a commercial for the movie. Make no mistake. [...] I don't want to talk about what you want to talk about. I don't want to talk about the implications of violence.The reason I don't want to talk about it? Because I've said everything I have to say about it. If anyone cares what I have to say about it, they can Google me.They can look for 20 years what I have to say. I haven't changed my opinion one iota."
CAMEO’S Jackie Brown Answering Machine Voice (voice, uncredited) Pulp Fiction Jimmie Dimmick Reservoir Dogs Mr. Brown Kill Bill, Vol. 1 & 2 He is one of the Crazy 88 corpses.. Death Proof Warren the bar owner Inglourious Basterds First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in ‘Pride of Nation’ (uncredited)/ hands strangling Bridget Von Hammersmark Django Unchained The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee
Tarantino loves popping up in his directed works as well as his friend and fellow director Robert Rodriguez’s films. Sometimes his performance is quite cringe worthy, (not always). But now it’s such a staple of his films, and i’d be pretty disapointed if he didn’t turn up.
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RESERVOIR D O G S
JOE You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? Giggling like a bunch of young broads in the schoolyard. Well, let me tell a joke. Five guys sitting in a bullpen, San Quentin, wondering how the fuck they got there. "What did we do wrong?" "What should've we done?" "What didn't we do?" "Whatdabbada..." "It's your fault, my fault, his fault." All that bullshit. Finally someone's comes up with the idea-- "Wait a minute. While we were planning this caper, all we did was sit around and tell fucking jokes." Got the message? Fellas, I don't mean to holler at you. When this caper's over, and I'm sure it's going to be a successful one, hell we'll get down to Hawaii, and I'll roar and laugh with all of you.You'll find me a different character round here. Right now it's a matter of business. With the exception of Eddie and myself, whom you already know, we're going to be using aliases on this job. Under no circumstances do I want any one of you to relate to each other by your christian names, and I don't want any talk about yourself personally. That includes where you been, your wife's name, where you might've done time, or a bank maybe you robbed in St. Petersburg. All I want you guys to talk about if you have to, is what you're going to do. That should do it. Here are your names... Mr. Brown, Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Blue, Mr. Orange, and Mr. Pink.
PULP FICTION
Jules: I’m sorry, did I break your concentration? I didn’t mean to do that. Please, continue, you were saying something about best intentions. What’s the matter? Oh, you were finished! Well, allow me to retort. What does Marsellus Wallace look like? Brett: What? Jules: What country are you from? Brett: What? What? Wh - ? Jules: “What” ain’t no country I’ve ever heard of. They speak English in What? Brett: What? Jules: English, motherfucker, do you speak it? Brett:Yes! Yes! Jules: Then you know what I’m sayin’! Brett:Yes! Jules: Describe what Marsellus Wallace looks like! Brett: What? Jules: Say ‘what’ again. Say ‘what’ again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say what one more Goddamn time! Brett: He... he’s black... Jules: Go on... Brett: He’s bald Jules: Does he look like a bitch? Brett: What? Jules: [Shoots Brett in the shoulder] DOES HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH? Brett: No! Jules: Then why you try to fuck him like a bitch? Brett: I didn’t... Jules:Yes you did.Yes you did! You tried to fuck him. And Marcellus Wallace don’t like to be fucked by anybody except Mrs. Wallace.
JACKIE BROWN
ORDELL How you doing, Ms. Jackie?
ORDELL Yeah?
JACKIE I was expecting you. Come in.
JACKIE I didn’t tell em anything.
Ordell steps inside. He moves over by a halogen lamp in the
Ordell moves slowly towards Jackie.
living room.
ORDELL My name come up?
ORDELL You got some booze?
Jackie slowly shakes her head “no.”
JACKIE I got some vodka in the freezer.
Ordell directly in front of Jackie, he gently places his gloved
ORDELL Got some o.j.?
hands on
JACKIE Yeah.
her shoulders.
Ordell turns the halogen lamp to dim.
ORDELL (CONT’D) You say anything about me?
ORDELL Well, then, why don’t you be a good hostess and
Jackie shakes her head “no.”
make me a screwdriver?
ORDELL (CONT’D) Well, that’s mighty honorable of you.
JACKIE Sure.
Ordell’s gloved fingertips move up her collarbone to her throat,
ORDELL You gonna thank me?
touching her skin. Jackie locks eyes with his, but still shows no
JACKIE For what?
fear.
ORDELL Who you think got your ass outta jail?
ORDELL (CONT’D) This fella Beaumont, they say what
JACKIE The same guy who put me in, thanks a lot.
happened to him?
ORDELL Hey, you get caught with blow, that’s our business.
JACKIE They told me.
JACKIE It wasn’t mine.
ORDELL Somebody must have been real mad at old
ORDELL Oh, shit. I bet it was that present Mr. Walker was
Beaumont...
sending...Melanie. Yaaaah, he’s the one musta put it in there
JACKIE Or else they pretty scared about what he might
if you didn’t. Oh, man, that shit’s uncalled for, baby, and I
say to keep from doing time...
apolgize. I imagine they asked you a shitload of questions
ORDELL Yeah, I bet they asked you a whole shitload of
about it, huh? All that money, want to know where you got
questions...And you ain’t givin’ them no kind of answer?
it? I’magine they asked who you givin’ it to, too.
JACKIE Mm-mm.
JACKIE They asked.
ORDELL You scared of me? You got any reason to be
ORDELL And what was your answer?
nervous around me?
JACKIE I said I wanted to talk to a lawyer.
Gun clicks
ORDELL You positive about that? You weren’t nervous
ORDELL Is that what I think it is?
and let something slip by mistake? If you did, I ain’t
JACKIE What DO you think it is?
mad.......................... I just gotta know.
ORDELL I think its a gun pressed up against my dick.
JACKIE You’re not asking the right questions.
JACKIE Well, you thought right...Now, take your hands
JACKIE Beaumont Livingston.
from around my throat...nig-ga...
ORDELL I knew it. JACKIE And they asked if I knew Mr. Walker.
KILL BILL
VOL 1
BILL: Do you find me sadistic? You know, I bet I could fry an egg on your head right now, if I wanted to.... You know, kiddo... I'd like to believe you're aware enough, even now, to know that there is nothing sadistic in my actions. Maybe towards those other jokers. But not you. No, kiddo.
At this moment... This is me.. ...at my most masochistic. BEATRIX: Bill... It's your bab-
KI BI
LL VOL 2
LL
KIDDO: Looked dead, didn't I? Well, I wasn't, but i wasn't for lack of trying i can tell you that.Actually, Bill's last bullet put me in a coma, a coma I was to lie in for four years. When I woke up, I went on what the movie advertisements referred to as a roaring rampage of revenge. I roared and I rampaged and I got bloody satisfaction. I've killed a hell of a lot of people to get to this point. But I have only one more. The last one, the one I'm driving to right now. The only one left. And when I arrive at my destination, I am gonna kill Bill.
DEATH PROOF
STUNTMAN MIKE: Well, Pam... Which way you going, left or right? PAM: Right! STUNTMAN MIKE: Oh, that's too bad... PAM: Why? STUNTMAN MIKE: Because it was a fifty fifty shot on wheter you'd be going left or right.You see we're both going left. You could have just as easily been going left, too. And if that was the case... It would have been a while before you started getting scared. But since you're going the other way, I'm afraid you're gonna have to start getting scared... immediately!
INGLORIOUS
Fredrick Zoller: [shouting to the camera, acting in Nation's Pride] Who wants to send a message to Germany? [Nation's Pride is interrupted by Shosanna's movie] Shosanna Dreyfus: I have a message for Germany. [Hitler and Goebbels watch in shock] Shosanna Dreyfus: [her image on the screen smirks] That you are all going to die. Adolf Hitler: [yelling in German] Enough! Stop it! Joseph Goebbels: [yelling in German] Turn off the projector! Shosanna Dreyfus: And I want you to look deep into the face of the Jew that is going to do it! Joseph Goebbels: [in German as the audience begins to shout in protest and anger] I don't know what's going on! That does not belong in my movie! Shosanna Dreyfus: [her image on the screen smiles] Marcel... burn it down. Marcel: [standing behind the screen, he smiles] Oui, Shosanna.
BASTERDS
D J A
Dr. King Schultz: Who is your little friend? Calvin Candie: This is Ben. He's a old Joe that lived around here for a long time. And I do mean a long damn time. Well Ben here took care of my daddy and my daddy's daddy, till he up and keeled over one day. Old Ben took care of me. Growing up the son of a huge plantation owner in Mississippi puts a white man in contact with a whole lot of black faces. I spent my whole life here right here in Candyland, surrounded by black faces. And seeing them
be in the area of the skull most associated with creativity.
every day, day in day out, I only had one question. Why
But this is the skull of old Ben, and in the skull of old
don't they kill us? Now right out there on that porch three
Ben unburdened by genius, these three dimples exist in
times a week for fifty years, old Ben here would shave my
the area of the skull most associated with servility. Now
daddy with a straight razor. Now if I was old Ben, I would
bright boy, I will admit you are pretty clever. But if I took
have cut my daddy's goddamn throat, and it wouldn't have
this hammer here and I bashed it in your skull, you would
taken me no fifty years to do it neither. But he never did.
have the same three dimples in the same place as old Ben.
Why not? You see, the science of phrenology is crucial
Heeey! NOW lay your palms flat on the table top!
to understanding the separation about two species. In
If you lift those palms off that turtle shell table top, Mr.
the skull of the African here, the area associated with
Pooch is gonna let loose with both barrels of that sawed
submissiveness is larger than any human or other
off! There have been a lot of LIES said around this dinner
sub-human species on planet Earth. If you examine this
table here tonight, but that you can believe!
piece of skull here, you'll notice three distinct dimples. Here, here and here. Now if I was holding a skull of a... of an Isaac Newton or Galileo, these three dimples would
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N G O
THE HATEFUL EIGHT
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Death Reservoir Dogs
11
Pulp Fiction
7
Jackie Brown
4
Kill Bill Vol 1
95
Count Kill Bill Vol 2
3
Death Proof
6
Inglorious Basterds
59
Django Unchained
55
RESERVOIR DOGS And Now Little Green Bag...
Magic Carpet Ride
Harvest Moon
(Dialogue)
John Kay / Rushton Moreve
Jay Joyce
Quentin Tarantino
Bedlam
Bedlam
Steven Wright
5:11
2:38
Madonna Speech (Dialogue)
Let’s Get a Taco (Dialogue)
Little Green Bag
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Jan Visser
Eddie Bunker / Steve Buscemi
Harvey Keitel / Tim Roth
George Baker Selection
/ Harvey Keitel / Quentin
1:02
3:15
Tarantino / Lawrence Tierney
0:58
Keep on Truckin’ (Dialogue)
0:15
S O U N D Rock Flock of Five (Dialogue)
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino
Fool for Love
Steven Wright
Steven Wright
Sandy Rogers
0:16
0:11 Rdio
Sandy Rogers
4
3:25
Coconut song review
Hooked on a Feeling
Harry Nilsson
Mark James
Super Sounds (Dialogue)
Harry Nilsson
Blue Swede
Quentin Tarantino
3:50
2:53
Steven Wright 0:18
Bohemiath (Dialogue)
Home of Rock (Dialogue)
Part of my process Quentin Tarantino when I’m making a movie is to
Quentin Tarantino
Stuck in the Middle With You
Steven Wright
song review
0:34
Joe Egan / Gerry Rafferty
Steven Wright
just dive into my record collection. What I’m looking for is the rhythm of the movie or the beat of the
Stealers Wheel I Gotcha song review Joe Tex Joe Tex 2:27
3:23
movie… I’m finding pieces, and that keeps inspiring me to make the movie.
JACKIE BROWN Across 110th Street
Tennessee Stud
Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind This
Monte Carlo Nights
J.J. Johnson / Bobby Womack
Jimmie Driftwood
Time) song review
Elliot Easton
Bobby Womack
Johnny Cash
Thom Bell / William “Poogie”
Elliot Easton’s Tiki Gods
3:48
2:54
Hart
3:24
The Delfonics
Beaumont’s Lament
Natural High
3:20
Quentin Tarantino
Charles McCormick
Samuel L. Jackson / Robert
Bloodstone
Midnight Confessions song
De Niro
4:53
review
0:50
Lou Josie
Long Time Woman
The Grass Roots
Strawberry Letter 23
Les Baxter
2:43
Shuggie Otis
Pam Grier
The Brothers Johnson
2:51
Inside My Love song review
4:58
Minnie Riperton / Richard
Detroit 9000
Rudolph / Leon Ware
Melanie, Simone and
Council Cargle
Minnie Riperton
Sheronda
0:07
3:57
T R A C K Quentin Tarantino
Samuel L. Jackson / Robert
(Holy Matrimony) Letter
Just Ask Melanie
De Niro
to the Firm
Quentin Tarantino
0:31
Isaac Hayes / Inga
Bridget Fonda / Samuel L.
Marchand / J.C. Olivier
Jackson / Robert De Niro
Who Is He (And What Is He
Foxy Brown
0:43
to You)?
3:25
Bill Withers
The Lions and the Cucumber
Bill Withers
Street Life
Manfred Hübler / Siegfried
3:11
Will Jennings / Joe Sample
Schwab
Randy Crawford
Vampire’s Sound
4:17
Incorporation 5:07
PULP FICTION Pumpkin and Honey Bunny
Bustin’ Surfboards
Girl,You’ll Be a Woman Soon
Surf Rider
(Dialogue)/Misirlou
Leonard Delaney / Gerald
Neil Diamond
Bob Bogle / Nokie Edwards /
Milton Leeds / Nicholas
Sanders / Jesse Sanders /
Urge Overkill
Don Wilson
Roubanis / Bob Russell /
Norman Sanders
3:09
The Lively Ones
Quentin Tarantino / Fred
The Tornadoes
3:18
Wise
2:26
If Love Is a Red Dress (Hang
Dick Dale / Amanda Plummer
Me in Rags)
Ezekiel 25:17
/ Tim Roth
Lonesome Town song review
Maria McKee
Quentin Tarantino
2:27
Baker Knight
Maria McKee
Samuel L. Jackson
Rick Nelson
4:55
0:52
Royale With Cheese
2:13
Quentin Tarantino
Bring Out the Gimp
Samuel L. Jackson / John
Son of a Preacher Man
(Dialogue)/Comanche
Travolta
John Hurley / Ronnie Wilkins
Quentin Tarantino
1:42
Dusty Springfield
Peter Green / Duane
2:25
Whitaker
Jungle Boogie song review
2:10
Ronald Bell / Kool & the
Zed’s Dead, Baby
Gang
Dennis Rose / Quentin
Flowers on the Wall
Kool & the Gang
Tarantino
Lew DeWitt
3:05
Centurian / Maria De
The Statler Brothers
Medeiros / Bruce Willis
2:23
Let’s Stay Together song
2:39
review
Personality Goes a Long Way
Al Green / Al Jackson, Jr. /
Jack Rabbit Slims Twist
Quentin Tarantino
Willie Mitchell
Contest (Dialogue)/You
Samuel L. Jackson / John
Al Green
Never Can Tell
Travolta
3:15
Chuck Berry / Quentin
1:00
Tarantino
S O U N D Chuck Berry / Jerome Patrick
Hoban
3:12
DJANGO UNCHAINED
Five-Thousand-Dollar
Nicaragua
Who Did That to You?
Winged
Ni**a’s and Gummy Mouth
Jerry Goldsmith
Paul Epworth / John Stephens
Quentin Tarantino
B****es
Jerry Goldsmith
John Legend
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Quentin Tarantino
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Django
Hildi’s Hot Box
Too Old to Die Young
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La Corsa (2nd Version)
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Dege Legg
Luis Bacalov / Rocky Roberts
Luis Bacalov
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Sister Sara’s Theme [From
Stephen the Poker Player
The Braying Mule (From Two
Two Mules for Sister Sara]
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Mules for Sister Sara)
Sneaky Schultz and the
Ennio Morricone
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Ennio Morricone
Demise of Sharp
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Ennio Morricone
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Un Monumento
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Ancora Qui
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone / Elisa
Ennio Morricone
In That Case, Django, After
I’ve Got a Name
Toffoli
2:31
You
Charles Fox / Norman
Elisa Toffoli
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Gimble
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Six Shots Two Guns
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Unchained (The Payback/
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Lo Chiamavano King (His
Day of Anger
Untouchable)
Name Is King)
Riz Ortolani
James Brown / Kasseem
Trinity (Titoli)
Luis Bacalov
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Dean / Yafeu A. Fula /
Franco Micalizzi / L. Stott
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Anthony Henderson / Tupac
Annibale
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100 Black Coffins
Shakur / John Starks / Bruce
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Jamie Foxx
Washington / Fred Wesley
Freedom
Rick Ross
2Pac / James Brown
Elayna Boynton / Anthony
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T R A C K Hamilton / Kelvin Wooten
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KILL BILL VOL.1 Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me
Run Fay Fun
Crane/White Lightning
Down)
Isaac Hayes
Charles Bernstein / RZA
Sonny Bono
Isaac Hayes
Charles Bernstein / RZA
Nancy Sinatra
2:46
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The Green Hornet Theme
The Flower of Carnage
That Certain Female
Billy May
Masaaki Hirao
Charlie Feathers
Al Hirt
Meiko Kaji
Charlie Feathers
2:18
3:52
2:40
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S O U N D
Battle Without Honor or
The Lonely Shepherd
The Grand Duel - (Parte
Humanity
James Last
Prima)
Tomoyasu Hotei
Gheorghe Zamfir
Luis Bacalov
Tomoyasu Hotei
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Luis Bacalov
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You’re My Wicked Life
Don’t Let Me Be
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Twisted Nerve
Misunderstood
David Carradine / Uma
Bernard Herrmann
Bennie Benjamin / Gloria
Thurman
Bernard Herrmann
Caldwell / Raymond Donnez
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Santa Esmeralda 10:30
Queen of the Crime Council
Ironside Quincy Jones
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Woo Hoo
Quincy Jones
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George Donald McGraw
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5.6.7.8’s Ode to Oren Ishii
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Super 16
RZA / Vince Tempera
Klaus Dinger / Michael
RZA
Rother
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Neu! 1:06
KILL BILL VOL.2 A Few Words from the Bride
The Chase
About Her
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Philip Brigham / Alan
Rod Argent / W.C. Handy /
Uma Thurman
Reeves
Malcolm McLaren
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Philip Brigham / Alan
Malcolm McLaren
Reeves
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Goodnight Moon
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Duke McVinnie / Ambrosia
Truly and Utterly Bill
Parsley
The Legend of Pai Mei
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Shivaree
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David Carradine / Uma
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David Carradine / Uma
Thurman
Thurman
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Il Tramonto
2:06
Ennio Morricone
Malaguena Salerosa
Ennio Morricone
L’ Arena
Pedro Galindo / Elpidio
1:15
Ennio Morricone
Ramirez
Ennio Morricone
Chingón
Can’t Hardly Stand It
4:46
4:05
Charlie Feathers / Jerry
Huffman
A Satisfied Mind
Urami Bushi
Charlie Feathers
Joe Hayes / Jack Rhodes
Meiko Kaji
2:48
Johnny Cash
6:27
2:50
Tu Mirá
4:00
A Silhouette of Doom
Ennio Morricone
Summertime Killer
Ennio Morricone
Luis Bacalov
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T R A C K Luis Bacalov
I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix
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tape I'd make for you at home.
INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
One Silver Dollar (Un
Cat People (Putting out the
The Green Leaves of
Dollaro Bucato)
Fire)
Summer
Gianni Ferrio
David Bowie / Giorgio
Dimitri Tiomkin / Paul Francis
The Film Studio Orchestra
Moroder
Webster
2:05
David Bowie
Nick Perito
4:10
1:55
Davon Geht Die Welt Nicht
Unter
Tiger Tank
The Verdict (Dopo la
Bruno Balz / Michael Jary
Lalo Schifrin
Condanna)
Zarah Leander
1:17
Ennio Morricone
2:06
Ennio Morricone
Un Amico
1:14
The Man with the Big
Ennio Morricone
Sombrero
Ennio Morricone
White Lightning (Main Title)
Phil Boutelje / Foster Carling
2:35
[From White Lightning]
Michael Andrew / Michael
Charles Bernstein
Swingerhead Andrew /
Rabbia e Tarantella
Charles Bernstein
Samantha Shelton
Ennio Morricone
2:55
1:50
Ennio Morricone
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Slaughter
Ich Wollt’, Ich Wär’ Ein Huhn
Billy Preston
Hans Fritz Beckmann / Peter
Billy Preston
Kreuder
4:24
Willy Fritsch / Lilian Harvey
2:45
The Surrender (La Resa)
Ennio Morricone
Main Theme from Dark of
Ennio Morricone
the Sun
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Jacques Loussier
S O U N D Jacques Loussier 3:11
DEATH PROOF The Last Race
Staggolee
It’s So Easy
Jack Nitzsche
Pacific Gas & Electric
Willy DeVille
Jack Nitzsche
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Willy DeVille
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2:10
The Love You Save (May
Baby, It’s You
Be Your Own)
Whatever-However
Burt Bacharach / Mack David
Joe Tex
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/ Barney Williams
Joe Tex
Zoe Bell / Tracie Thoms
Smith
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Good Love, Bad Love
Riot in Thunder Alley
Paranoia Prima
Eddie Floyd / Alvertis Isbell
Eddie Beram
Ennio Morricone
Eddie Floyd
2:04
Ennio Morricone
2:11
3:19
Chick Habit
Down in Mexico
Elinor Blake / Serge
Planning & Scheming
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller
Gainsbourg
Michael Bacall / Eli Roth /
The Coasters
An April March
Elizabeth Roth
3:22
2:07
1:00
Hold Tight
Jeepster
Alan Blaikley
Marc Bolan
Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky,
T. Rex
Mick & Tich
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Stuntman Mike
Sally and Jack
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Pino Donaggio
Rose McGowan / Kurt
Pino Donaggio
Russell
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T R A C K Tarantino was obviously hearing music in his head that no-one else was. How else to explain the gangster Mr. Blonde, as “Stuck in the Middle With You” played, slicing off a cop’s ear and singing into it?
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The essence of a Tarantino movie is not the violence, not the action, it’s the inside look, at the mind, the heart, of violent people. — David Carradine