The Analysis of Quentin Tarantino as a Director

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The Analysis of Quentin Tarantino as a Director

The director I have chosen to look at is Quentin Tarantino. His films

have achieved a cult ang global status and I dont think anyone is

going to argue that he is not an auteur. I am more interested in

examining his style and seeing how this makes him an auteur and if it

has changed when he was receiving a higher budget.

Tarantino was born in Noxville Tennessee on 27th march 1963. Tony

Tarantino, an actor and musician of Italian descent, and Connie McHugh

of half-Irish and half-Cherokee, who shortly after his birth married

musician Curt Zastoupil with whom Quentin would form a strong bond. He

attended kindergarten in San Gabriel Valley from 1968. In 1971 the

family moved to El Segundo, in the South Bay area of Los Angeles where

Tarantino attended Hawthorne Christian School. At the age of 22, he

wrote his first script, Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit.

Dropping out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California at the

age of sixteen, he went on to learn acting at the James Best Theatre

Company. In 1984, Tarantino started working at the Hermosa Beach Video

Archives in Manhattan where he struck up a friendship with fellow

worker Roger Avary with whom he would later collabarate. He continued

to study acting at Allen Garfield's Actors' Shelter in Beverly Hills

but began to concentrate mainly on script writing.He loved westerns

and his favourite was 'ride the whirlwind' directed by Monte Hellman

who later was an executive producer on reservoir dogs. He also loved

Rio Bravo (another western) which came out before he was born (1959)

and was directed by Haward hawks. His favourite di...

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I think Tarantinos style changes slightly as he uses more special

effects and dramatic settings. The gore is much more extravigant and

he can afford some special appearences like the 5,6,7,8s playing in

kill bill vol.1. Ref.The cinema book 2nd edition p100 "Tarantinos

films mix violence with intertextual homage. He wants an audience to

notice the way his films relate to a history of earlier film, fiction,

t.v., thus combining movie fiction and movie criticism by playfully

referring to movie history and mini history contained in his stars." I

think Tarantinos style is evolving now he has the money to support his

wishes but his storytelling and directing technique is still

difinitively Tarantinos own.

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