Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is an American filmmaker born and raised in Knoxville, TN in 1963. He is the mind behind some of today’s most notarized films such as Django Unchained, Kill Bill, and most recently The Hateful Eight. His films have a reputation of being cynical, but long, and leaving you in a twisted disbelief.

I chose to select Mr. Tarantino because I used to have a friend who was a big movie fanatic and would always talk about Quentin Tarantino films. I first watched Django Unchained, but fell asleep half way through due to its length. Sometime last school year I finally watched The Hateful Eight all the way through and thought to myself that the person behind the movie must have some disturbing feelings regarding other human beings.

His films have grown in popularity since the 1990’s. The myth behind Tarantino getting into film writing is he met Lawrence Butler at a Hollywood party, where he encouraged Quentin to write a screenplay. In 1987 this turned out to be My Best Friend’s Birthday. Later on the reel of film was destroyed in a fire, but the basis of this play turned out to be the plot behind the film True Romance, written by Tarantino.

Many of the actors Tarantino chooses to work with today are the same ones who started with him creating Reservoir Dogs in 1992. He also has a strong allegiance to traditional film which was seen when he bought the New Beverly Cinema in 2010. It had been shared before that he is skeptical of digital. He stated, “As long as I'm alive, and as long as I'm rich, the New Beverly will be there, showing films shot on 35mm.”

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