His passion shows through his films. Quentin Tarantino took acting classes and worked in a video store, a place he said was a source of inspiration for him. The idea of Reservoir Dogs emerged one day while being surrounded by friends. However, the producer Lawrence Bender read his script and gave him the opportunity to make it.
He pays homage to many movies. His films have their own plot and identity while, at the same time, are full of allusions and references. After Pulp Fiction , people finally consecrated Tarantino as a director and scriptwriter.
Finally, his latest films Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight were a declaration of love for quite a forgotten film genre: spaghetti western. With these films, Tarantino recovered the essence of the genre and filmmakers like Sergio Leone, as well as Ennio Morricone, who composed some of the most recognizable film soundtracks.
He makes all the pieces of the puzzle fit together perfectly in the end. Watch the new interview below, then take a tour through an on-the-record history of Tarantino on violence:. In the Chicago Tribune , Though his fictional anti-hero is inspired by hours of watching violent action films, Tarantino says he cannot concern himself with the current debate over the impact of such movies on real-life violence in society.
I have one responsibility. My responsibility is to make characters and to be as true to them as I possibly can. Speaking at a press conference, in Newsday , via LexisNexis :. It's one of the worst aspects of America. In movies, violence is cool. I like it. In the Observer , via Nexis :. While he doesn't have a problem with violence in films, he does have a problem with talking about violence in films.
He's fed up with it. He's said all he has to say. He does tell me he hasn't read the book at the centre of the moral panic in the US, Michael Medved's Hollywood vs. America : 'To me, in 20 years' time it'll be viewed like these old panic books where people are going against rock 'n' roll or comics. You know what I mean. Even though you don't see the actual severance on screen — a pan serves to do the work of covering your eyes for you — critics were stunned.
Variety warned that "a needlessly sadistic sequence Twenty-seven years on, Tarantino is still dancing gleefully across that line, poised as he is to upset audiences' stomachs on Friday with his already-controversial Manson murder extravaganza, Once Upon a Time in Despite the nearly three decades that have passed since "the ear" hullabaloo, though, Tarantino's excessive use of gore remains the emotional crescendo of his filmmaking — and isolates the unique, affecting abilities that filmmaking has over all other arts.
Unfortunately, nothing brings out America's moral banshees quite like the endless, ongoing debate about violence in film. By the time Tarantino was working on Kill Bill in the early s, the wailing over his enthusiastic use of gore was already growing stale. But while Tarantino's critics have long sought to link his on-screen gore to the violence prevalent in everyday life, the two examples could not be further from each other.
Gore in Tarantino's films is used as yet another tool to emphasize the artifice — and, contained within that, the possibility — of filmmaking as a medium. Violence in Tarantino's films is virtually never reflective of what violence looks like in real life: It is unnatural, unrealistically bloody, and heavily stylized.
Severed bodies magically contain more than the standard 5. Brutally creative ways to die are also explored, ranging from a stunt car sawing off a person's face via the revolution of a back tire to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' s novel deployment of a wall telephone.
Substance abuse: Not widely used, but when we do see it, it's deliberately intense. Nudity: None! Skip to main content. No Film School. October 27, It's red. The Discarded Image. Quentin Tarantino. Video Essay. You Might Also Like. Leave this field blank.
Beyond that I suggested they consider what effect violence in cinema might have on the audience. Is there a limit to how much violence a filmmaker can depict? No, not if it's done responsibly.
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