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Quentin Tarantino - Wikipedia. Quentin Tarantino[1] (; born March 2. American film director, writer, and actor. His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, an aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts consisting of established and lesser- known performers, references to popular culture, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1. He is widely considered one of the greatest filmmakers of his generation.
His career began in the late 1. My Best Friend's Birthday, the screenplay of which formed the basis for True Romance. In the early 1. 99. Reservoir Dogs in 1. Greatest Independent Film of All Time" by Empire. Its popularity was boosted by his second film, Pulp Fiction (1.
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Judged the greatest film from 1. Entertainment Weekly,[2] many critics and scholars have named it one of the most significant works of modern cinema.[3] For his next effort, Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1. Jackie Brown (1. 99. Rum Punch. Kill Bill, a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Kung fu films, Japanese martial arts, Spaghetti Westerns and Italianhorror, followed six years later, and was released as two films: Volume 1 in 2. Volume 2 in 2. 00. Tarantino directed Death Proof (2.
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He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d'Or, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the 1. Most Influential People in the World by Time in 2. Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him "the single most influential director of his generation".[5] In December 2.
Tarantino received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.[6]Early life[edit]Tarantino was born on March 2. Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie Mc. Hugh and Tony Tarantino. His father is of Italian descent, and his mother has Cherokee and Irish ancestry. Quentin was named after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds' character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. Quentin's mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles, when Tony was a law student and would- be entertainer.
She married him soon after, to gain independence from her parents, but the marriage did not last. Connie Tarantino left Los Angeles, and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived.
In 1. 96. 6, Tarantino's mother, after finishing her nursing studies, moved back to Los Angeles with her then three- year- old son. They lived in the South Bay, in the southern part of the city. Tarantino grew up there.[7][8]Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after coming to Los Angeles, and the family moved to Torrance, a city in Los Angeles County's South Bay area. Zastoupil encouraged Tarantino's love of movies, and accompanied him to numerous film screenings.
Tarantino's mother allowed him to see movies with adult content, such as Carnal Knowledge (1. Deliverance (1. 97. After his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1. Hodgkin's lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. He remained there for about six months to a year, before returning to California.
His mother's next husband, to whom she was married for eight years, also took Tarantino to films. At 1. 4 years old, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, where a thief steals pizzas from a pizzeria. It was based on Hal Needham's 1. Smokey and the Bandit, starring Burt Reynolds. The summer after his fifteenth birthday, Tarantino was grounded by his mother for shoplifting Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch from Kmart. He was only allowed to leave to attend the Torrance Community Theater, where he participated in such plays as Two Plus Two Makes Sex and Romeo and Juliet.[9]At about 1.
Tarantino dropped out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, Los Angeles.[1. He got a job ushering at a porn theater in Torrance, called the Pussycat Theatre, after saying he was older than he truly was. Later, he put himself in acting classes at the James Best Theatre Company, where he met several people who would later appear in his films. While at the James Best, Tarantino also met Craig Hamann, with whom he collaborated to produce My Best Friend's Birthday, an eventually- forsaken film project. In the 1. 98. 0s, Tarantino worked in a number of places. He played one of a group of Elvis impersonators in "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1", an episode in the fourth season of The Golden Girls, which was broadcast on November 1. Tarantino also worked as a recruiter in the aerospace industry, and for five years, he worked in Video Archives, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California.[1.
Former Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Danny Strong described Tarantino as a "fantastic video store clerk." "[Tarantino] was such a movie buff. He had so much knowledge of films that he would try to get people to watch really cool movies."[1. Film career[edit]After Tarantino met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged him to write a screenplay. Tarantino co- wrote and directed the movie My Best Friend's Birthday in 1.
The final reel of the film was almost completely destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing, but its screenplay later formed the basis for True Romance.[1. Tarantino received his first paid writing assignment in the early 1. Robert Kurtzman hired him to write the script for From Dusk Till Dawn.[1. In January 1. 99.
Tarantino's neo- noir crime thriller Reservoir Dogs—which he wrote, directed and acted in as Mr. Brown—was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. It was an immediate hit, with the film receiving a positive response from critics. The dialogue- driven heist movie set the tone for Tarantino's later films. Serial Episode 9 Quiz. Tarantino wrote the script for the film in three- and- a- half weeks and Bender forwarded it to director Monte Hellman. Hellman helped Tarantino to secure funding from Richard Gladstein at Live Entertainment (which later became Artisan, now known as Lionsgate).
Harvey Keitel read the script and also contributed to the funding, taking a role as co- producer and also playing a major part in the movie.[1. Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned and the film was eventually released in 1. The second script that Tarantino sold was for the film Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone. Tarantino was given story credit and in an interview stated that he wished the film well.[1. The film engendered enmity, and the publication of a 'tell all' book titled Killer Instinct by Jane Hamsher—who with Don Murphy had an original option on the screenplay and produced the film—led to Tarantino physically assaulting Murphy in the AGO restaurant in West Hollywood, California in October 1. Murphy subsequently filed a $5m lawsuit against Tarantino, which was eventually settled out of court.[2.
Tarantino was also an uncredited screenwriter on both Crimson Tide (1. The Rock (1. 99. 6).[2. Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino was approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including Speed and Men in Black, but he instead retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for Pulp Fiction. Tarantino wrote, directed, and acted in the black comedy crime film Pulp Fiction in 1.