Week 12 [11.01-17.01.2016] Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino was born in Knoxvill, Tennessee March 27, 1963. Tarantino is an American director and screenwriter, occasionally producer and actor. His mother was very young, she was only 16 when she born Quentin. She was a student of the nursing school. His father was 21 year old law student and aspiring actor. Whole family moved to Los Angeles when he was 2 years old. When he was eight his mother started taking him to watch movies such as Carnal Knowledge (1971) and Deliverance (1972). When he started to work at video store he was obsessed about watching movies. When he was 20 years old he begun acting lessons. He also begun writing scripts and in 1988 he wrote the screenplay for Natural Born Killers.  After that in 1990 he wrote another one called True Romance. Tarantino become famous as a director after releasing his first movie called Reservoire Dogs which has its premier at Sundance Film Festival in 1992. Big success of the movie made that previous screenplays were immediately picked up by Miramax for distribution. After that first success

Tarantino started to write his next screenplay, Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction was released in 1994 and as it turned out movie become Tarantino’s biggest success. Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Academy Awards and it won one for Best original screenplay. As director he also received Golden Globe, a BAFTA award also for screenplay and many other awards around the world including Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. After that success expectations were huge. In 1995 Tarantino decided to direct one fourth of movie Four Room. He made that movie with three of his friends. Every chapter of this film was directed by someone else.  Unfortunately, it received weak reviews… After that in 1996 he starred in movie “From Dusk till Dawn” directed by Robert Rodriguez where he played with George Clooney. Tarantino’s third movie was “Jackie Brown” released year after Rodriguez production. It was an adaptation of novel Rum Punch, cast loaded with stars such as Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda. Already after 6 years of absence Tarantino return to directing and writing with Kill Bill (2003), starring Uma Thurman as a killer woman fighting for revenge. As a sequel Kill Bill 2 was released just after first part. At first Kill Bill was ment to be one movie but with running time of over 4 hours it was split into two movies. After that Tarantino worked with Robert Rodriguez once again. They made two parts of Grindhouse in 2007. One of each directed by Tarantino and second one by Rodriguez. In 2010 he received two more Academy Award nominations.

One for his directorial work and second for original screenplay for Inglourious Basterds (2009). Inglourious Basterds  is a great movie about second World War and plan of assassination of Adolf Hitler starred with actors like Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz. Since he was a child Tarantino loved western movies and he decided to finally make one. Western Django Unchained was released in late 2012. Django, the title character played by Jammie Fox is a slave. He teams up with bounty hunter Dr King Schultz to find his lovely wife who was also a slave. Tarantino’s last movie which will be released January 15, 2016 is also a western and it’s called The Hateful Eight. Cast features frequent Tarantino collaborators such as Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen, the film was nominated to Golden Globe in several categories.

For Tarantino, film is an all-consuming passion: "When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way ... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies," he says in the interview.

Some interesting interview with Quentin Tarantino after Django was released:

1. Have you watched any of Quentin Tarantino movies?
2. If yes how do you like them? If no go and watch them!