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...
When Manhattan Beach's Video Archives took on Tarantino as a clerk, little did they know they'd actually hired IMDb in disguise. Tarantino's film knowledge is, literally, second to none and has helped spice his movies with hundreds of movie references, both obscure (Toshiya Fujita's Lady Snowblood inspired Kill Bill's snowbound duel) and more obvious (Jackie Brown's credits mirror The Graduate's). At Video Archive, he and Pulp Fiction collaborator Roger Avary would stick on cult favourites and pass the time plotting the movies they'd make. As long-time producer partner Lawrence Bender says, "Although Reservoir Dogs was his first movie on celluloid, he'd made ten movies in his head." QT puts it differently: "I just, like, looked at directors who did really cool independent films. That's who I wanted to be, you know?"
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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
