Quentin Tarantino

Salvatore SatulloCOM 329: Contemporary Film

Dr. Neuendorf

Mini Bio• Only went to school until he was 16, where he dropped

out of High School to pursue film making.• Commonly has the protagonist of his film’s win against

the antagonist via sheer brutality.• Single, even though he has been linked to many

people that are in show-business.• Commonly follows non-linear storylines in his movies

Interesting Facts• Prefers to use a long closeup shot of a person’s face

while someone speaks off-screen (for instance, a closeup shot of the Bride while Bill speaks). • While he conveys violence in his films, there is a large

degree of assumed violence offscreen due to language he chooses.• Scenes are usually loaded with homages / visual

references to other director’s works• Films usually feature one character who is visibly

trying to rectify their faith.

Awards• Pulp Fiction (1994) – Cannes (best film), Academy

Awards / BAFTA Awards / Golden Globes (best screenplay).• Inglourious Basterds – Broadcast Film Critics

Association Awards (Critic’s Choice Award for Best Original Screenplay)• Django Unchained- Academy Awards / BAFTA Awards /

Golden Globe Awards (Best Screenplay)• Nominated for many other awards for all of his movies

that he has done

Reservoir Dogs

• Crime / Thriller• Simple jewelry heist goes wrong, and makes the

surviving criminals believe that one of them is a police informant.• Starred Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi,

Michael Madsen, and Tarantino himself.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5MEv7eXRw =

trailer

Pulp Fiction

• Crime / Thriller• Stars Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Therman, John Travolta,

Tim Roth, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, and Tarantino himself.• Interwoven stories of 2 mob hit men, a boxer, a

gangster’s wife, and a pair of diner bandits.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZBfmBvvotE =

trailer

Jackie Brown

• Crime / Thriller• Starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton,

Robert De Niro, Bridget Fonda, and Chris Tucker.• A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a

plot between police and an arms dealer.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pfU3Sd3Aw =

trailer

Kill Bill 1/2

• Action / Crime / Thriller• Stars Uma Therman, David Carradine, Michael

Madison, Vivica Fox, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, and Julie Dreyfus.• The journey of redemption and murder for a girl that

was attacked and left to be killed by her former lover, Bill.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT8QZtj1n28 Kill

Bill 1 Trailer• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSR7xRGBnOE Kill

Bill 2 Trailer

Inglourious Basterds

• Drama / War• Starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael

Fassbender, and Diane Kruger• In an alternate timeline, Nazi-occupied France during

WW2, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by Jewish US Soldiers coincides with a theatre owner’s plans. • http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sQhTVz5IjQ&bpctr=1366856853 = trailer

Django Unchained

• Adventure / Crime / Drama• Starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo

DiCaprio Samuel L. Jackson, and Kerry Washington• With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed

slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUdM9vrCbow =

trailer

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

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