Quentin Tarantino, I struggled to find exactly where to start with this amazing writer and director. His portfolio of movies have become timeless to movie lovers worldwide and his classics are treasured and enjoyed by people throughout generations. The superb Tarantino’s edgy, violent and line-towing movies upkeep a specific style that is universal and exclusive to his work.
Unlike many others the lack of trend in his movies but the upkeep of his secret style runs through the films. The shady behaviour, the reliable exceptions of the fire arm, the neo-noir style or Tarantino himself, his movie cameos (which personally, I love) and the brilliant idea of an alternative universe that holds his characters, allowing a strong connection between his eight movies.
There is something about Tarantino movies that changed the way that films were made, he defies expectations when each time a film is created and released to the public. Tarantino’s first directed and written movie was Reservoir Dogs (1992) on the budget of $1.2 million the movie set a tone, style and expectation for Tarantino’s movies and he completely surpassed these when he followed this movie with the movie that is religiously quote, referenced unconsciously and respected as one of the greatest movies of all time, Pulp Fiction (1994). Tarantino more than quadrupled his budget and brought back the same style of film but this time he created something that still is a revolution in the movie industry. His star studded cast including Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and the return of Harvey Keitel- Tarantino’s favourite actor since his teenage years. After playing a lead role in Reservoir Dogs, Keitel was casted in Pulp Fiction with a role that he played was written specifically for his style of acting (I can’t see anyone else having played that specific role even the slightest bit better).
Tarantino chose to collaborate repeatedly with many of the same actors- including himself- to create a style and a storyline that held his alternative universe together with violence, brotherly love and complete, distilled craziness which some how combined has created a somewhat empire of artistic brilliance. He repeatedly works to create movies that supported his “black-comedy crime” genre of movie. The next movies to be released, with again another increasing budget were Kill Bill: Volume 1(2003) and 2(2004)- both listed as the forth films in his beloved series of eight- featuring the familiar Uma Thurman that started in Pulp Fiction. The actress received a huge number of nominations and awards from her work with Tarantino as the infamous bride in the Kill Bill movies and the brilliant- slightly concerning Mia Wallace. The amazing Samuel L. Jackson has featured in six of Tarantino’s movies, which I personally consider to be Jackson’s best.
The next movie to follow and hopefully continue the unbelievable success for Tarantino over the first ten years of his career was Death Proof (2007) the movie didn’t generate as much profit as his pervious movies had although the budget was again nearly double of the last budget. Although this was the case the film was still added to the director’s success. Proven by referential use of the movie in Iggy Azalea’s Work music video. The extravagance of Tarantino’s movies have been tributes for year from music videos, to television advertisements and just everyday life. Tarantino’s support and followers is a huge system as his style of movies surprisingly manage to appeal to such a broad audience. Inglorious Bastards (2009) Django Unchained (2012) outline worldwide issues, (with the addition of the amazing Christoph Waltz) which was surprising in comparison to what we were used to with the gang crime common denominators of the previous movies These movies dug deeper into history, where holocausts we’re huge issues and he portrays these issues in his his own world where unrealistically the Jewish girl was given the opportunity to create a life and the African American slave was respected in a certain sense of the word, but this was all in affect of the alternative universe that he has managed to create.
Tarantino has now created eight movies, The Hateful Eight (2016) commemorating his achievements of his ongoing success and ability to never disappoint. The movie was released on the 8th January 2016 and is still showing in selected cinemas. This is my next recommended watch, Tarantino movies never disappoint and he has honoured this legacy with the new movie.
Maya nicholls 