The Film Analysis Of Reservoir Dogs And Quentin Tarantino

Introduction

Auteur theory was started by a group of influential French film critics in the 1950s and explores the idea of individual creative vision and cinema control. Hence the director brings his unique style and interpretation to the film. Francois Truffaut's comments that "there are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors" (Truffaut 1954) shows film needs to be a signature of a creative individual. This hypothesis was developed a couple of years later in the United States through the articles written by Andrew Sarris, critic for The Village Voice. Sarris insists that to be a true auteur, there are three areas of criteria that need to be met. Firstly, the director must prove to be technically proficient in film making. They

Reservoir Dogs, is a gangster film and pays homage to films such as Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976). It has a non-linear narrative, and plenty of gore and guts. Quentin Tarantino references pop culture with the inclusion of Madonna’s song Like a Virgin. There are many elements in the film that show his love for comic books and pop culture in general which he uses to extenuate his “cool”

The plot is non chronological which in turn makes the film complex and difficult to follow and a favourite technique of postmodernist directors. Quentin Tarantino’s affection of different film genres can easily be seen in the film. He weaves together his influences and connects seemingly unconnected films to create Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino, was inspired by gangster and other crime films as well as inexpensive fiction magazines, (commonly known as pulp fiction) and is known to have an exceptional, encyclopaedic knowledge of all films of every genre as a consequence of working in a video rental shop where he admitted watching films continuously. Quentin Tarantino uses this knowledge to great effect and perhaps still feels that he should recommend films to his customers to watch in the same genre and mirrors this by referencing them in his films. This film does not rely on pyrotechnic displays and special effects and instead leans towards using humorous conversations, which are used to distract from gruesome points in the story. Quentin Tarantino utilises long extended shots and tries to use minimal editing he also keen on mirror shots, feet shots and humour, which are all characteristic of the majority of his