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/
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