Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Tarantino at the Scream Awards, October 19, 2007
Born Quentin Jerome Tarantino
March 27, 1963 (1963-03-27) (age 47)
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation Film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, actor
Years active 1988–present

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (pronounced /ˌtærənˈtiːnoʊ/; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His most notable films include Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). His films have earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Palme d'Or and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time.[1]

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Early life

Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician who was born in Queens, New York.[2] Tarantino's father is Italian American and his mother is of Irish and Cherokee ancestry.[3][4][5] He was raised by his mother, as his parents separated before his birth.[6] When he was two years old, he and his mother moved to Torrance, California, and later to the Harbor City neighborhood where he went to Fleming Junior High School in Lomita and took drama classes.[6] He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 15. He attended acting school at the James Best Theatre Company in Toluca Lake. At age 22, he worked at the Video Archives, a defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach where he and fellow movie buffs, like Roger Avary, spent all day discussing cinema and recommending videos to customers.[7]

Film career

After Tarantino met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged him to write a screenplay. Tarantino directed and co-wrote a movie called My Best Friend's Birthday in 1987. The final reel of the film was almost fully destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing but its screenplay would form the basis for True Romance.[8] In January 1992, Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was an immediate hit. The film garnered critical acclaim. Reservoir Dogs was a dialogue-driven heist movie that set the tone for his later films. Tarantino wrote the script 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). Harvey Keitel read the script and also contributed to funding, taking a co-producer role, and a part in the movie.[9]

Tarantino has had a number of collaborations with director Robert Rodriguez.

Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned and eventually released in 1993.[10] The second script that Tarantino sold was Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone. Tarantino was given story credit, and wished the film well.[11] Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino was approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including Speed and Men in Black. He instead retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for Pulp Fiction. After Pulp Fiction was completed, he then directed Episode Four of Four Rooms, "The Man from Hollywood", a tribute to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode that starred Steve McQueen. Four Rooms was a collaborative effort with filmmakers Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, and Robert Rodriguez. The film was very poorly received by critics and audiences. He appeared in and wrote the script for Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk till Dawn, which saw mixed reviews from the critics yet led to two sequels, for which Tarantino and Rodriguez would only serve as executive producers.

Tarantino's third feature film[10] was Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Rum Punch, a novel by Elmore Leonard. A homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of that genre's films of the 1970s. He had then planned to make the war film provisionally titled Inglourious Bastards, but postponed it to write and direct Kill Bill (released as two films, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2), a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Wuxia (Chinese martial arts), Jidaigeki (Japanese period cinema), Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror. It was based on a character (The Bride) and a plot that he and Kill Bill's lead actress, Uma Thurman, had developed during the making of Pulp Fiction. In 2004, Tarantino returned to Cannes, where he served as President of the Jury. Kill Bill was not in competition, Kill Bill Vol. 2 had an evening screening, while it was also shown on the morning of the final day in its original 3-hour-plus version with Quentin himself attending the full screening. Tarantino then went on to be credited as "Special Guest Director" for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City.

The next film project was Grindhouse, which he co-directed with Rodriguez. Released in theaters on April 6, 2007, Tarantino's contribution to the Grindhouse project was titled Death Proof. It began as a take on 1970s slasher films,[12] but evolved dramatically as the project unfolded. Ticket sales were low despite mostly positive reviews.

Among his current producing credits are the horror flick Hostel (which included numerous references to his own Pulp Fiction), the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot (for which Tarantino was credited as an executive producer but with the movie set for release in 2009 he is no longer associated with the project)[13] and Hell Ride (written and directed by Larry Bishop, who appeared in Kill Bill Vol. 2).

Tarantino has been quoted as saying, "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'"[3]

Tarantino's summer 2009 film Inglourious Basterds was the story of a group of guerrilla U.S. soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Filming began in October 2008.[14] The film opened Friday, August 21, 2009 to very positive reviews[15] and the #1 spot at the box office worldwide.[16] It went on to become Tarantino's highest grossing film, both in the United States and worldwide.[17]

Awards

Reservoir Dogs was given the Critic's Award at the 4th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in 1993.[18]

Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.[19] The film was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one for Best Original Screenplay, which was shared jointly by Tarantino and co-writer Roger Avary.

In 2005 Quentin Tarantino won the Icon of the Decade award at the Sony Ericsson Empire Awards.

On August 15, 2007, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo presented Tarantino with a lifetime achievement award at the Malacañang Palace in Manila.[20]

In 2010 his film Inglourious Basterds was nominated for eight Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, winning one for Best Supporting Actor.[21]

In March 2010, Tarantino was awarded the Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic along with Lucy Liu and Andy Vajna for producing the 2006 movie Freedom's Fury.[22]

Other potential projects

Before Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino had considered making The Vega Brothers. The film would have starred Michael Madsen and John Travolta reprising their roles of Vic (Mr. Blonde) from Reservoir Dogs and Vincent from Pulp Fiction. But in 2007, because of the age of the actors and the onscreen deaths of both characters, he claimed that the Vega Brothers project (which he intended to call Double V Vega) is "kind of unlikely now".[23]

In a 2007 interview with The Daily Telegraph, he discussed an idea for a form of spaghetti western set in America's Deep South which he called "a southern",[24] stating that he wanted "to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they're genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it's ashamed of it, and other countries don't really deal with because they don't feel they have the right to".[24]

In 2009, in an interview for Italian TV, after being asked about the success of the two Kill Bill films, Tarantino said "You haven't asked me about the third one", and that he would be making a third Kill Bill film with the words "The Bride will fight again![25] Later that year, at the Morelia International Film Festival,[26] Tarantino announced that Kill Bill: Vol. 3 would be his ninth film, and would be released in 2014.[27] He said he intends to make another unrelated film before that date as his eighth film. He confirmed that he wanted ten years to pass between The Bride's last conflict, to give her and her daughter a period of peace.[28]

Recurring collaborators

Actor My Best Friend's Birthday
(1987)		 Reservoir Dogs
(1992)		 Pulp Fiction
(1994)		 Four Rooms
(1995)		 Jackie Brown
(1997)		 Kill Bill, Vol. 1
(2003)		 Kill Bill, Vol. 2
(2004)		 "Planet Terror"
(2007)		 Death Proof
(2007)		 Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
Brenda Hillhouse NoN NoN
Linda Kaye NoN NoN NoN
Steve Buscemi NoN NoN
Harvey Keitel NoN NoN NoN
Michael Madsen NoN NoN NoN
Tim Roth NoN NoN NoN
Paul Calderon NoN NoN
Kathy Griffin NoN NoN
Samuel L. Jackson NoN NoN NoN NoN
Uma Thurman NoN NoN NoN
Bruce Willis NoN NoN NoN
Michael Bowen NoN NoN
Sid Haig NoN NoN
David Carradine NoN NoN
Julie Dreyfus NoN NoN
Lucy Liu NoN NoN
James Parks NoN NoN NoN
Michael Parks NoN NoN NoN NoN
Helen Kim NoN NoN NoN
Michael Bacall NoN NoN NoN
Omar Doom NoN NoN NoN
Eli Roth NoN NoN NoN

Television directing

Tarantino has directed and been called to direct numerous television episodes.

Appearances on screen and onstage

Although Tarantino is best known for his work behind the camera, he has appeared on the large screen, on the small screen, and onstage, in a variety of roles.

Film actor

Stage actor

Talent judge

Television actor

Television host

Producer

In recent years, Tarantino has used his Hollywood power to give smaller and foreign films arguably more attention than they would otherwise have received. These films are usually labeled "Presented by Quentin Tarantino" or "Quentin Tarantino Presents". The first of these productions was in 2001 with the Hong Kong martial arts film Iron Monkey which made over $14 million in the United States, seven times its budget. In 2004 he brought the Chinese martial arts film Hero to U.S. shores. It ended up having a #1 opening at the box office and making $53.5 million. In 2006, the latest "Quentin Tarantino presents" production, Hostel, opened at #1 at the box office with a $20.1 million opening weekend, good for 8th all time in January. He presented 2006's The Protector, and is a producer of the (2007) film Hostel: Part II. in 2008 he produced the Larry Bishop helmed Hell Ride, a revenge biker film.

Election isn't one of "Quentin Tarantino presents...", but Tarantino loved the film so much that he still helped the DVD release of the film in some way; his quote "The Best Film Of The Year" is on this film's United States DVD cover.[33]

In addition, in 1995 Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with Miramax as a vehicle to release or re-release several independent and foreign features. By 1997, Miramax shut down the company due to "lack of interest" in the pictures released. The following films were released by Rolling Thunder Pictures: Chungking Express (1994, dir. Wong Kar-wai), Switchblade Sisters (1975, dir. Jack Hill), Sonatine (1993, dir. Takeshi Kitano), Hard Core Logo (1996, dir. Bruce McDonald), The Mighty Peking Man (1977), Detroit 9000 (1973), The Beyond (1981, dir. Lucio Fulci) and Curdled (1996).

Influences and style of filmmaking

In the 2002 Sight & Sound Directors' poll, Tarantino revealed his top-twelve films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Rio Bravo; Taxi Driver; His Girl Friday; Rolling Thunder; They All Laughed; The Great Escape; Carrie; Coffy; Dazed and Confused; Five Fingers of Death; and Hi Diddle Diddle.[34] In 2009, he named Kinji Fukasaku's violent action film Battle Royale as his favorite film released since he became a director in 1992.[35]

In August 2007, while teaching a four-hour film course during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Tarantino cited Filipino directors Cirio Santiago, Eddie Romero, and Gerardo de León as personal icons from the 1970s,[36] citing De Leon's "soul-shattering, life-extinguishing" movies on vampires and female bondage, particularly Women in Cages. "It is just harsh, harsh, harsh," he said, and described the final shot as one of "devastating despair".[36]

Tarantino's different style of film making earned him many accolades worldwide. According to Tarantino, a recurring hallmark in all his movies is that there is a different sense of humour in all his movies, which gets the audience to laugh at things that aren't funny.[37] Michael Winner, whilst appearing on an episode of Piers Morgan's life stories (an ITV production), stated that Quentin Tarantino was a "big fan" Of Death Wish.

African American Perspective

Tarantino has been criticized for displaying an overly-familiar attitude towards other cultures. For example, Spike Lee questions Tarantino's use of racial epithets in his films, particularly the racially offensive epithet, "nigger". In a Variety interview discussing Jackie Brown, Lee said: "I'm not against the word... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word. What does he want? To be made an honorary black man?"[38] Tarantino retaliated on The Howard Stern Show by stating Lee would have to "stand on a chair to kiss my ass."[39] Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in both directors' films, defended Tarantino's use of the word. At the Berlin Film Festival, where Jackie Brown was being screened, Jackson responded to Lee's criticism by saying:

“ I don't think the word is offensive in the context of this film. ... Black artists think they are the only ones allowed to use the word. Well, that's bull. Jackie Brown is a wonderful homage to black exploitation films. This is a good film, and Spike hasn't made one of those in a few years.[40] ”

Tarantino has defended his use of the word, arguing that black audiences have an appreciation of his blaxploitation-influenced films that eludes some of his critics, and, indeed, that Jackie Brown, another oft-cited example, was primarily made for "black audiences".[41]

According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, actor Denzel Washington also confronted Tarantino on his usage of racial slurs in his pictures, but mentioned that Tarantino was a "fine artist."[42]

Personal life

Tarantino's mother allowed him to quit school at age 17, to attend an acting class full time.[43] Tarantino gave up acting while attending the acting school, saying that he admired directors more than actors. Tarantino also worked in a video rental store before becoming a filmmaker, paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent, and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career.

Tarantino has been romantically linked with numerous entertainers, including actress Mira Sorvino,[44] directors Allison Anders and Sofia Coppola,[45] actresses Julie Dreyfus and Shar Jackson and comedians Kathy Griffin and Margaret Cho.[46] There have also been rumors about his relationship with Uma Thurman, whom he has referred to as his "muse".[47] However, Tarantino has stated that their relationship is strictly platonic. He has never married and has no children. Tarantino recently stated "I'm not saying that I'll never get married or have a kid before I'm 60. But I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time to make movies."[48]

One of Tarantino's closest friends is fellow director Robert Rodriguez. Their biggest collaborations have been From Dusk Till Dawn (written by Tarantino, directed by Rodriguez), Four Rooms (they both wrote and directed segments of the film), Sin City and Grindhouse. It was Tarantino who suggested that Rodriguez name the final part of his El Mariachi trilogy Once Upon a Time in Mexico, as a homage to the titles Once Upon a Time in the West and Once Upon a Time in America by Sergio Leone. They are both members of A Band Apart, a production company that also features directors John Woo and Luc Besson. Rodriguez scored Kill Bill: Volume 2 for one dollar, and the favor was returned when Tarantino directed a scene in Rodriguez's 2005 film Sin City for the same fee.

He was thanked in the liner notes of Nirvana's final studio album In Utero although the spelling of his name is incorrect. Tarantino returned the favor by thanking Nirvana on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, along with the message "RIP Kurt". It was thought that Kurt Cobain and his wife Courtney Love rejected an offer to act in Pulp Fiction as Lance & Jody.[49] However Tarantino denied this rumor and claimed he had no real connection to Love and Cobain other than the fact that the couple liked Reservoir Dogs.[50]

Tarantino has said that he plans to retire from filmmaking at age 60, to focus on writing novels and film literature. He also is skeptical of the film industry going digital, saying, "If it actually gets to the place where you can't show 35mm film in theatres anymore and everything is digital projection, I won't even make it to 60."[51]

Filmography

Film director
Year Film Notes
1987 My Best Friend's Birthday unfinished first film
1992 Reservoir Dogs Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best Director
Nominated — Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
Nominated — Grand Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival
1994 Pulp Fiction Palme d'Or
Independent Spirit Award for Best Director
Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Director
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Picture
Nominated — BAFTA Award or Best Director
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Film
Nominated — Directors Guild of America Award
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director
1995 Four Rooms segment The Man from Hollywood
1997 Jackie Brown Nominated — Berlin International Film Festival
2003 Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay
2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 Nominated — Grammy Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
2005 Sin City Special Guest Director
2007/2008 Death Proof Nominated — Palme d'Or
2009 Inglourious Basterds Nominated — Academy Award for Best Picture
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Director
Nominated — Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Direction
Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Nominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
Nominated — Directors Guild of America Award
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Director
Nominated — Palme d'Or
Nominated — Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Director
Nominated — Grammy Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
Television director
Year Series Notes
1995 ER Season 1; Episode 24: "Motherhood"
2004 Jimmy Kimmel Live! April 20, 2004
2005 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Episodes "Grave Danger: Vols. I & II"
Nominated — Emmy Award for Best Directing – Drama
Film writer
Year Film Notes
1987 My Best Friend's Birthday unfinished first film
1992 Past Midnight uncredited re-write
Reservoir Dogs
1993 True Romance
1994 Pulp Fiction with Roger Avary
Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay
Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay
Natural Born Killers story credit, wrote original draft
1995 Crimson Tide uncredited re-write
Four Rooms segment "The Man from Hollywood"
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn
The Rock uncredited script polish
Curdled uncredited Gecko Brothers news report
1997 Jackie Brown adapted from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch
2003 Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003), Vol. 2 (2004)
2007 Death Proof
2009 Inglourious Basterds Austin Film Critics Award for Best Original Screenplay
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Writer
Nominated — Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay
Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Picture
Television writer
Year Series Notes
2005 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation "Grave Danger: Vols. I & II" story credit
Nominated — Writers Guild of America Award
Film actor
Year Film Role Notes
1987 My Best Friend's Birthday Clarence Pool
1992 Reservoir Dogs Mr. Brown
1994 Pulp Fiction Jimmie Dimmick
Sleep With Me Sid
1995 Destiny Turns on the Radio Johnny Destiny
Four Rooms Chester Rush segment "The Man from Hollywood"
Desperado Pick-up Guy
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn Richie Gecko
Girl 6 Q.T.
1997 Jackie Brown Default Answering Machine voice
2000 Little Nicky Crazy Priest
2002 BaadAsssss Cinema Himself documentary
2004 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession Himself documentary
2005 The Muppets' Wizard of Oz Himself as Kermit's director
2007 Grindhouse: Planet Terror Rapist #1
Grindhouse: Death Proof Warren the Bartender
Sukiyaki Western Django Mystery Man Ringo
2008 Not Quite Hollywood Himself documentary
2009 Inglourious Basterds Soldier within a film "Nation's Pride", first scalped victim shown cameo
Television actor
Year Series Role Notes
1988 The Golden Girls Elvis Impersonator
2002 Alias McKenas Cole
2004 Alias McKenas Cole
Film producer/presenter
Year Film Notes
1987 My Best Friend's Birthday
1992 Past Midnight
1993 Iron Monkey 2001 U.S. release
1994 Killing Zoe
1995 Four Rooms
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn
Curdled
1998 God Said, 'Ha!'
1999 From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
2002 From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
2002 Hero 2004 U.S. release
2005 Daltry Calhoun
Freedom's Fury
Hostel
The Protector 2006 U.S. release
2007 Grindhouse
Hostel: Part II
2008 Hell Ride
2010 Machete

See also

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Further reading

External links

Main reference sites

Interviews and Essays

Works by Quentin Tarantino
Written and directed
Reservoir Dogs (1992) · Pulp Fiction (1994) · Jackie Brown (1997) · Kill Bill (2003, 2004) · Death Proof (2007) · Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Written
True Romance (1993) · Natural Born Killers (1994) · From Dusk till Dawn (1996)
Other work
Past Midnight (1992) · Killing Zoe (1994) · Four Rooms (1995) · Curdled (1996) · Daltry Calhoun (2005) · Hostel (2005) · Sin City (2005) · The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) · Hostel: Part II (2007) · Planet Terror (2007) · Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) · Hell Ride (2008)
Film soundtracks
Reservoir Dogs · Pulp Fiction · Jackie Brown · Kill Bill: Vol. 1 · Kill Bill: Vol. 2 · Death Proof · Inglourious Basterds
Short films
My Best Friend's Birthday (1987)