Quentin Tarantino's films, a list of which will be listed in this article, are striking in their innovation and originality. This man managed to convey to the movie screens his unusual vision of the surrounding reality. The talent and authority of the famous director, screenwriter and actor is recognized throughout the world.
Origin
Quentin Tarantino, whose filmography has become world famous, was born in 1963, March 27, in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. His mother, Connie McHugh, a nurse, was only sixteen years old when she gave birth to a boy. Quentin’s mother’s veins have the blood of Irish immigrants and Cherokee Indians . The father of the famous director is an American of Italian descent, born in Queens.
The marriage of Tarantino's parents failed. Connie was a very smart student, she graduated from school at the age of 15, she married early to gain independence. After parting with her husband, the girl found out that she was pregnant, but did not begin to report this to her ex-spouse. Subsequently, Tarantino never tried to find his biological father. Mom gave him the name Quentin in honor of the heroine of Ulyam Faulkner's novel Noise and Fury.
early years
The boy's childhood passed in Los Angeles, where he attended high school and took drama lessons. Here Connie married for the second time to musician Kurt Stumbled. In two and a half years the boy was adopted, Kurt gave the baby his own last name. However, after graduation, Quentin again became Tarantino - this name was more suitable for the stage career, which the young man decided to devote himself to.
Connie began a career in pharmacology and excelled at it. Family income grew so much that Quentin moved with his parents to his own home. The boy’s mother spent all her free time at work, and Tarantino at that time watched TV and talked with Kurt and his friends.
A favorite vacation of the family was going to the cinema. At an early age, the future director watched the films "Deliverance" and "Knowledge of the flesh." In our time, these paintings are not recommended to be watched by viewers under 16 years of age. The most interesting film in childhood, Quentin considered the tape "Abbot and Costello meet Frankenstein."
Tarantino did not like going to school. Many subjects were given to him with difficulty. He did not understand anything in arithmetic, with difficulty mastered spelling. He learned to ride a bicycle only in the fifth grade, and to learn the time in the sixth. But the boy was interested in a story that reminded him of a movie, and loved reading. We can say that the future director Quentin Tarantino from his youth went his own way and did not adhere to the generally accepted framework.
Teenage years
When the boy was eight years old, his mother's marriage broke up again. The child started having problems at school. Quentin's mother tried to give her son a good education and sent him to Narbonne's private Christian school in Harbor City. Tarantino began to skip classes. He liked spending time playing scripts with toy characters. At age 15, Connie allowed the boy to leave school if he got a job. Quentin became a ticketer in the cinema, where porn films were shown. Mom knew nothing about this. The teenager did not get much pleasure from the forced viewing of forbidden tapes. These paintings seemed to him nasty and cheap.
Work and education
In the evenings, Tarantino managed to attend acting classes. To get a job in the cinema, in his resume, the guy indicated that he starred in the films “King of Lear” and “Dawn of the Dead”. Thus, he tried to compensate for the lack of experience. However, this simple way to get an invitation to the role failed infrequently.
In these difficult times, Tarantino managed to get to know people close to him in spirit. At James Best's school, he met Craig Haymenn, a screenwriter, who, in turn, introduced the guy to Catherine James, the future director of the director during the filming of Pulp Fiction. When Quentin was 22 years old, he got a job at the video archive “Video Archive”. Later, he remembered with pleasure the time he had to spend at the counter in this establishment. Quentin's employer was the friendly Lance Lawson. In the face of his colleague, Roger Avery, the young man found a friend and like-minded person. They spent a lot of time talking about which films people prefer. The rich experience gained in the Video Archive, Quentin Tarantino used in his future career. At one time, the future director was trying to become a writer. His films feature fiction narrative techniques.
Career development
At a Hollywood party, Quentin met with producer Lawrence Bender, who convinced him to become a screenwriter. In 1985, Tarantino realized this idea and wrote the first script, which he called "Captain Peachfuz and the Anchovy Bandit." The next few years, the future celebrity unsuccessfully tried to sell their first creations to movie studios. Together with faithful comrade Roger, Avery Tarantino begins to shoot the film "The birthday of my best friend." The picture could not be completed due to a fire that broke out in the laboratory during the installation, but his script became the basis for working on the tape "True Love". After that, Quentin managed to appear on the TV screen in the project "Golden Girls", where he portrayed a double of Elvis Presley.
In just three weeks, the script was written for the first full-fledged Tarantino tape - “Reservoir Dogs”. A talented director was ready to start filming a picture on any conditions, with a minimum budget. Harvey Keitel, a promoted actor, became interested in the script of the project, after which the film received financial support from Live Entertainment.
Quentin Tarantino, whose filmography is considered one of the most striking in Hollywood, made violence on the screen one of his cinematic techniques. Yes, some viewers could not stand watching Mad Dogs and left the cinema in the middle of the session, but overall the picture received good reviews from critics and gathered a good box office. This film was an event in the history of independent American cinema. However, the real tape was appreciated only after the success of "Pulp Fiction". Around the same time, two films based on Tarantino scripts appeared on the screens: “Natural Born Killers” by Oliver Stone and “True Love” by Tony Scott.
Quentin Tarantino. "Crime novel"
"Pulp Fiction" - a movie that made the director famous. It has become a real phenomenon in the history of Hollywood. For the first time, elements of the unique Tarantino style appeared in it. This is a violation of the chronology of events, company dialogues on abstract topics that are not related to the main plot of the picture, breaking the film into "chapters", links to pop culture and more.
For many Hollywood actors, this tape has become fatal. “Pulp Fiction” returned Bruce Willis to the ranks, before that he had almost gone into circulation, saved John Travolta's career. Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson instantly became one of the leading actors and were nominated for an Oscar. In addition, the project involved actors from Mad Dogs - Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel.
Working with Robert Rodriguez
Quentin Tarantino, whose filmography would not be complete without mentioning his joint projects with Robert Rodriguez, always knew how to find like-minded people. The director met his future friend at the Toronto Film Festival. Colleagues quickly found a common language and began to cooperate. Their first joint project, Four Rooms, was coolly received by critics, but served as the basis for further fruitful work. Then, in 1995, Tarantino was cast in a cameo role in Rodriguez's film Desperate.
Quentin had another unrealized scenario - a film about bandit brothers trying to escape from justice, taking a whole family hostage, and after crossing the Mexican border, they would be surrounded by bloodthirsty vampires all night. The film "From Dusk Till Dawn" Tarantino planned to shoot himself. However, he gave way to the director of his friend - Robert Rodriguez. Quentin himself concentrated on his acting work in this tape - the role of the paranoid psychopath Richie Gekko. The picture with the participation of George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis and then unknown Salma Hayek became a cult and captivated the audience on both sides of the Atlantic.
Jackie Brown and Kill Bill
Quentin Tarantino, whose filmography is replete with all sorts of militants, took off the tape "Jackie Brown." The eminent director filmed his favorite novel "Rum Punch", written by Elmore Leonard. The main role was played by Pam Grier, a movie star of the 70s. However, the picture went unnoticed. Accustomed to high-profile successes, the filmmaker practically left the cinema for a while and focused on producing sequels for the film From Dusk Till Dawn and playing in minor films.
Quentin Tarantino returned to the big movie six years later, in 2003, together with the appearance on the screens of the bloody action movie "Kill Bill." The script for the film was written by the director along with Uma Thurman. Filming was postponed due to the pregnancy of the actress. The tape reflected Tarantino's hobbies of various cinematic genres: spaghetti westerns, samurai cinema, Italian thrillers. In the second part of “Kill Bill,” Quentin used the music of Robert Rodriguez, paying him a symbolic fee - one dollar. A year later, the debt was repaid. Tarantino for the same amount shot a small episode in the film “Sin City”.
New works
Quentin Tarantino's new films were no less successful. Now the director decided to delve deeper into world history and film her most interesting pages. Quentin mentioned his plans to shoot the film Inglourious Basterds back in 2001. However, the production of the painting was postponed for several years. The press release of the tape took place only in 2009.
The director offered his viewer an alternative version of the Second World War, beating the established stereotypes. For example, among the heroes of the film are American Jews who brutally kill the Nazis and remove scalps from them. In different countries, the film has acquired a diverse public outcry. Tarantino himself was struck by the reaction of the audience in Israel. In 2011, the creation of the painting "Django Unchained" was announced. Jamie Foxx is an actor playing the role of Django. Quentin Tarantino said he wants to explore the ugly pages of American history. In particular, related to slavery. For creating the script for this film, the celebrity received the Golden Globe and the Oscar.
Merits
The best films of Quentin Tarantino received all kinds of awards. In total, the eminent director was awarded 37 awards and participated in 47 nominations. His name is on the 12th place in the list of the best directors of all time according to the 2007 version of Total Film magazine. In the same year, the director entered the rating of "100 geniuses of our time." And six Tarantino films are included in the list of "100 best films of all time."