The A To Z Of Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino is back on the big screen with Inglourious Basterds, his spaghetti-spawned homage to classic war movies that does to the Nazi Party what Pulp Fiction did to pawnshop ownership. To mark the occasion, we've assembled a compendium of classic Tarantino tricks and trademarks in celebration of the world's biggest geek director. Welcome to the alphabetical anthology of a true movie original...
Iconic, stylish, and the solution to many a fancy dress dilemma, Tarantino's costumes are, let's face it, frickin' cool. Some of them, like The Bride's Bruce Lee jumpsuit, are homages, but many, including those Italian-cut Reservoir Dogs suits, owe themselves to costume designer Betsy Heimann. For Dogs, she was given $10,000 and told to go crazy... "It was basically me with my tape measure at the thrift store." Heimann was also behind that Mia Wallace blouse-slacks-wig combo. "Uma's 6 feet tall, and every pair of pants I put on her was too short. So I said, 'Let's just go with it. Let me cut off another two inches.' Every designer in the world has claimed credit for her white blouse, because they knocked it off." So there.
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Good - but not exactly original
Posted on Monday August 24, 2009, 11:38 by DuaneEddy
Pretty sure Sky Movies had this up a couple of weeks ago!! Interesting to compare some of the choices, although you both used the same pics at times!
http://movies.sky.com/the-a-to-zed-of-quentin-taran tino Read More
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martina
Posted on Friday August 21, 2009, 18:44 by martynaoj
Posted on Thursday August 20, 2009, 14:01 by livewire
Not to be picky but he also cameoed in Kill bill Vol2 as rufus the piano player Read More
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Original?
Posted on Thursday August 20, 2009, 09:30 by Nicky C
Interesting ... Tarantino does acknowledge his own influences, but his style is still his own. So, does this make him a post-modern auteur, or could he be more easily described as an auteur working withing a post-modern world. Read More
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A True Movie Original...
Posted on Thursday August 20, 2009, 00:36 by hamsolo77
Good feature... but for a man who more than wears his influences on his sleeve I don't think the term 'original can be applied! Oh and if you speak to him tell him to stop making films in chapters! Read More
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good ole' tarantino
Posted on Wednesday August 19, 2009, 22:42 by bradzilllla
thats tarantino for you brilliant, bit dissapointed that zoe bell is nt on z Read More
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good ole' tarantino
Posted on Wednesday August 19, 2009, 22:35 by bradzilllla
thats tarantino for you brilliant, bit dissapointed that zoe bell is nt on z Read More
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The A To Z Of Quentin Tarantino
Posted on Wednesday August 19, 2009, 19:53 by Ethan Hunt
Great feature guys. But Samual L. Jackson also worked with Tarantino on Kill Bill Vol.2 in a small cameo role. Read More
