Tarantino's films break all stereotypes and build new ones. He created his own style and manner of presentation of the story he tells. Some call him a genius, others accuse him of plagiarism, excessive realism in scenes of violence, the presence of an outright arena in his films. The main thing is that his film works are different, despite the borrowing of some scenes from other films. They are bright, catchy, out of the general range of Hollywood crafts. For this, his viewers love him - unpredictable stories, vivid images, explosive scenarios.
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A small biography of Quentin Tarantino
The director, actor, screenwriter and producer beloved by the public, critics and professionals, Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963. Parents of future kinogeny parted, they did not agree on life views. Mom, Connie McHugh, was 16 years old at that moment. The future cinema genius was born after his parents broke up and officially divorced. Quentin Tarantino never knew his father, but took his last name when he began to seriously work in the film industry. Because it seemed to him more sonorous.
When Quentin was two and a half, his mother for the second time connected her fate with the musician Kurt Stumbled. He adopted a little boy. Quentin officially received this surname. His mother gave him the name in honor of the hero of one of the novels of William Faulkner. The main pastime for the child was films and series, which he enjoyed and in large quantities watched on television. The main entertainment of the family was going to the cinema.
While still in elementary school, the future movie star attended drama classes. Being fifteen, Quentin dropped out of school, although he studied well.He was tired of the rigors of a private Christian school. The film industry was attracted, and he even got a job selling tickets to the cinema, where, unfortunately, porn was shown. Tarantino himself later admitted that he absolutely did not like such cheap and vulgar films. He was delighted with a completely different movie, real art.
While working, he also mastered acting courses. Here he made his first friends from the field of cinema. For example, the scriptwriter Craig Hemenn, who introduced Quentin Tarantino to his future manager Catherine James. She worked with him when Pulp Fiction was filmed.
When Tarantino turned 22 years old, he got a job at a video rental point. There he met with screenwriter and director Roger Avery, who became his great friend. Quentin at one time even thought about doing creative work not in the film industry, but in becoming a fiction writer. This side of his talent was just fine and was realized in work on film scripts. By the way, Lawrence Bender, a famous film producer, with whom he made friends at one of the parties, advised him to do script work.
Unfortunately, at first, no movie studio took scripts from Tarantino. Then he turned to independent cinema. His first film "The birthday of my best friend" was created completely independently, at the amateur level.
When Tarantino created the script for the action movie Raging Dogs, he intended to shoot it on his own very modest savings, using cheap black and white film. However, Harvey Keitel showed interest in the upcoming film. Thanks to this, real investors appeared in this film.
Awards and nominations
In general, Quentin Tarantino received more than 40 various awards, including two French orders of Arts and Literature. Six of his films were immediately listed on the list of "100 Best Films of All Time". He took the 8th line among the "Directors of all time", and also hit the "100 geniuses of our time", however, the last on the list.
Tarantino was starred on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015.
The most famous and received the most awards was Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction. He won the nominations "Best Screenplay" and "Best Director". This truly legendary film “took” immediately 9 awards of the most prestigious film festivals, not counting others. In her arsenal is the Oscar, Golden Palm Branch of the Cannes Film Festival, Golden Globe, BAFTA Awards, Edgar Allan Poe Prize, Independent Spirit, David di Donatello, National Council of Film Critics of the United States.
Six awards for the best and original script were collected by "Django Unchained". These are the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTA, Saturn, the Hollywood Film Awards and the Critics' Choice.
Mad Dogs, the very first and also the most famous Tarantino film received 3 awards for best directing and screenplay. Two were honored at the Catalonia International Film Festival, and one more at the Toronto Film Festival.
The last significant work, The Abominable Eight, won an Oscar for best music in the film. In the same nomination, the film was awarded the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Critics ’Choice Movie Awards. By the way, the music for this tape was written by the legendary Ennio Moriccone. The National Council of Film Critics gave 3 awards - the best screenplay, best supporting actress and ten best films.
The best films directed by Quentin Tarantino were nominated in general more than 50 times. They did not receive any awards, but participated in various nominations for Inglourious Basterds, Death Proof, both the films Kill Bill, From Dusk Till Dawn, True Love, Jackie Brown, CSI: Crime Scene .
List of the best films directed by Quentin Tarantino
Mad Dogs, 1992
This is the same Tarantino tape that gave him the first stunning success with spectators and professionals. Extremely realistic scenes of violence caused both positive and negative responses.The scenario structure is non-linear. The story goes about each character alternately. The plot tells about the robbery of a jewelry store, which the bandits planned, but it broke. The robbers fell into a police ambush and were killed because of the betrayal, and one of them is not at all who he claims to be.
Pulp Fiction, 1994
The legendary film that has earned many awards and super-popularity. This tape is of great importance for the history of cinema, as it provided a powerful message for the development of independent cinema in the United States. Non-linear narrative is a peculiar creative style of the scriptwriter and director Quentin Tarantino. And in this film he applied this technique very successfully. The film reminds the viewer of those same magazines with bloody gangster stories that were so popular in the mid-20th century. Therefore, posters, covers of video cassettes and DVDs were designed in such a "magazine" style. In general, the script is dedicated to three main stories that are interconnected using one character. One of them is the robberies committed by philosophizing bandits. The second is the fate of a drug addict who is being saved from an overdose. And finally, the story of the simple-minded and deceived boxer. The most recognizable scene from the film is the dance of Uma Thurman and Travolta.
Jackie Brown, 1997
The film was shot based on the work of E. Leonardo "Rum Punch." The heroine of the film by the name of Jackie Brown works as a flight attendant in a not very prestigious airline that sends flights to Mexico. She moonlights as a smuggler, transporting packs of cash for arms dealers from this country. Everything would be fine if the FBI agents did not follow the criminals. They put before Jackie a condition: freedom in exchange for the name of her employer and information about where he is hiding. However, the girl was not so simple. Upon reflection, she decides to appropriate half a million dollars and at the same time get rid of the bandits by the hands of FBI agents.
Kill Bill 1 and 2, 2003-2004
The script of this action movie was conceived by Tarantino and Uma Thurman when they worked together on “Pulp Fiction”. Years later, they carried out their plan, created a film that truly became a cult, and Uma Thurman - famous. It is this film that Tarantino himself considers the best in his career. Here, in the story, the Bride - a pregnant hired killer, nicknamed Black Mamba - is trying to end her past and become an exemplary mother and wife. However, this fails. During her wedding, Bill, the former Black Mamba boss, appears along with his killers. The wedding turns into a bloody one. All the guests and the groom were killed. He personally shoots at the Bride. She finally informs him that the child she carries under her heart is his. To Bill's misfortune, not all die, the Bride remains alive. Four years later, she spent in a coma, the Black Mamba is reborn with the help of a certain monk, who owns the secrets of martial arts. She kills the killers serving Bill. Only he remains. The film involves a great cast, a very decent directorial work, which was very highly appreciated by film critics. In general, the plot was a huge success with the audience.
2008 death proof
According to Tarantino himself, this is his worst film. Although the audience liked the thriller. The main role is played by Kurt Russell, and, very talentedly. His hero, a psychopath Mike, who loves to kill girls in an unusual way. He is a stuntman, and in his car there is a special passenger seat designed for murder. Mike makes an acquaintance with a girl, invites her to give a ride, and then kills, arranging a car accident, in which he certainly survives. And everything would get away with him if it were not for a chance meeting with stunt girl Zoe Bell and her friends.
Inglourious Basterds 2009
Tarantino always wanted to make a film about the war. His idea came true. An interesting fact is that the director specifically wrote the name of the film in English with two errors. What is the reason for this - did not explain, but simply noticed that he wrote the words as they are perceived by ear, and not spelled. There is a Second World War. In the American army, a small unit is being created under the command of Lieutenant Aldo Rein. Soldiers with Jewish roots are being recruited into it. They are tasked with killing the Nazis as brutally as possible in order to intimidate the enemy. The commander of this detachment is nicknamed Apache, as he orders to scalp the captured soldiers. And this unit itself is called "Bastards." The ending of the film does not correspond to historical truth. Heroic and brutal American Jewish soldiers shoot Hitler and set off a fire in which the entire fascist command perishes. Film critics reacted very favorably to the film, he became the leader at the box office.
Django Unchained 2012
The subject of slavery is forbidden for Hollywood, according to Tarantino himself. He wanted to change this situation and was ready to accept the discontent of the public, but this did not happen. Western succeeded and received many awards, including an Oscar. The main character is a black slave who suddenly gets freedom. His new friend is a bounty hunter named Dentist. They become partners, while each pursues its own goals. The dentist wants to catch the bandits, the Brittle brothers and get a good cash reward. A former slave is looking for his missing wife.
Disgusting Eight, 2015
Quentin Tarantino intended to continue his Oscar-winning "Django Unchained". However, as often happens, a completely independent story is obtained. At first there were problems with the tape, the pirates published the script on the Internet before the premiere. Therefore, the work had to be postponed for some time. Tarantino himself changed the script, remaking the ending, and presented it in a peculiar manner. However, the pirates still spoiled the premiere. They put the film on the Internet before it was released. Then they apologized to Tarantino himself. However, their actions were justified by the fact that they wanted to show the film to people who can not afford to buy an expensive ticket for a movie premiere. As always, the plot is bright and unpredictable. The duration of the action is immediately after the end of the Civil War in the USA. The protagonist is the bounty hunter Hanger. He accompanies the prisoner. A blizzard is approaching, so he will have to stop at a remote coaching inn. Other very peculiar personalities arrive there - a lone cowboy, a Mexican, a former Confederate general. It seems that one of these strange people is not at all what he seems. Therefore, a bloody firefight ensued between them.
Future filmmaker projects
In one of his interviews in 2016, he upset his fans that he would soon stop making films. His plans were to remove only 10 films. Eight of them have already taken place, ahead of two new films. Tarantino also added that at the age of seventy-five he might have come up with the idea of making another movie.
What could be a filmography? The director has an idea to shoot a film on espionage themes. He is inspired by the works of Len Dayton. In particular, his trilogy is about the wise experience of an intelligence agent of the Cold War era. At one time, Tarantino wanted to make films about James Bond. However, the producers did not support this idea.
Tarantino had plans to create a remake of the old Russ Maker film with the very "intriguing" title "Urine, Urine, Pussy!". According to the plot, three strippers participate in desert car racing.
Another work called “Weekend” was not carried out, the shooting of which was planned in Serbia.It is a pity that this idea did not materialize, because Sharon Stone wanted to invite the director to the main role.
However, the sequels of his paintings still come out. First of all, "Kill Bill 3", the Russian premiere of which took place in April 2017. Next in line is “Kill Bill 4,” the script of which is already ready. In it, the daughters of the heroines of previous films - Beatrix Kido, played by Uma Thurman, and Vernita Green, who became her victim, will join the battle.
However, it seems that Tarantino is still not limited to ten films and after the "Abominable Eight" will make more than one worthy film.
