Quentin Tarantino

Director / writer / actor / producer Quentin Tarantino was perhaps the most distinctive talents to emerge and volatility in the American cinema of the 90. Unlike the previous generation of American filmmakers, Tarantino learned his craft from his days as a video clerk rather than as a student at film school. As a result, he developed an audacious fusion of pop culture and arthouse cinema independent films were thrillers that were distinguished as much by their clever, twisting dialogue as their outbursts of extreme violence. Tarantino initially began his career as an actor (his biggest role was as an Elvis impersonator on an episode of The Golden Girls), taking classes while working at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California.

During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first romance, True, in 1987. With his colleague Roger Avary (who would later become a director), Tarantino tried to get financial support to film the script. After years of negotiations, he decided to sell the script, which ended in the hands of director Tony Scott. During this time, Tarantino wrote the screenplay for Natural Born Killers. Once again, was unable to find enough investors to make a movie and gave the script to his partner, Rand Vossler. Tarantino uses the money he made from True Romance to begin pre-production on 'Reservoir Dogs', a film about a botched robbery. Reservoir Dogs received financial support from Live Entertainment after Harvey Keitel agreed to star in the film. Word of mouth on Reservoir Dogs began to build at the Sundance Film Festival 1992, which led to dozens of rave reviews, which makes the film a cult film.

While many critics and fans were praising Tarantino, he developed a large number of detractors. Saying that snatched the dark Hong Kong thriller City on Fire, critics have joined the director / writer rumor that the already considerable. In 1993, Tarantino wrote and directed his next film, Pulp Fiction, which featured three interweaving crime scenes, Tony Scott, big-budget production of True Romance was also released this year.

In 1994, Tarantino was raised in a cult figure to a celebrity important. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in May to the beginning of the avalanche of rave reviews for the image. Before Pulp Fiction was released in October, bombastic version of Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers hit theaters in August, Tarantino distanced himself from the film and has been credited for writing the basic story. Pulp Fiction soon eclipsed Natural Born Killers in a great success and popularity. Designed to eight million dollars, the film eventually grossed over 100 million dollars and topped many critics' top ten lists. Pulp Fiction earned seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino and Avary), Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson) and Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman) he won a writing Tarantino and Avery.

When the film's success, Tarantino was everywhere, talk shows and a cameo is a low-budget sleep with me. In early 1995 he led the segment of the anthology film Four rooms, and worked as Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi follow-up, Desperado, Destiny and the comedy turns on the radio, where he has a starring role. Tarantino was also involved with the television, the period of control, the NBC TV hit ER include the Margaret Cho sitcom All-American Girl.

The last half of the 90s saw Tarantino continue his multifaceted role as an actor, director, screenwriter and producer. In 1996, he served as writer and executive producer for the George Clooney schlock-fest From Dusk Till Dawn, and the following year renewed some of its early recognition as a director and screenwriter of Jackie Brown. The film, which Tarantino had a cameo voice-over, he found Fiction star Samuel L. Jackson and earned him raves that had been absent much of his post-Fiction career. Also in 1997, Tarantino appeared in Full Tilt Boogie, a documentary on the making of From Dusk Till Dawn. His film work the following year was mainly limited to a role in God's friend Julia Sweeney said Ha, and in 1999 he was back behind the camera as producer From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money .

Although Tarantino pose relatively low in the first year of the new millennium, he made a prominent guest star appearance in 2001 on an arc of the story of two episodes of the show Alias ​​spy. In late 2002/early 2003, hype would soon start to build around his fourth feature, Kill Bill (2003). Although originally designed as a single, Kill Bill was eventually split into two films entitled Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2 when it became clear that the story was simply too numerous to be contained in a single film. A tribute to kinetic revenge movies of the 1970s, Kill Bill Vol. A star Uma Thurman as a former assassin known as "The Bride". While the first film of the pair was an eye-popping homage to Asian cinema and all things extreme, outrageous violence Kill Bill Vol. 1 The contrast was striking with the second installment focuses on the dialogue that concluded the epic tale of revenge and betrayal.

The tactic paid the separate statements, both of which won a combined total of more than $ 130 million in the country.

In the wake of the films Kill Bill, Tarantino rumors abounded next move, and eager fans were shocked to see his name mentioned as a possible candidate for any helmet from next Friday the 13th film for a remake of the classic James Bond, Casino Royale .

In 2005, Tarantino did step back into the director's chair at the head of a segment of Robert Rodriguez Sin City comic awaited adaptation of the book. An old friend of Rodriguez, Tarantino agreed to participate in the filming of Sin City, not only to repay the versatile filmmaker for providing soundtrack music for the film Kill Bill, but also to try to make digital movies - a process increasingly driven by the seemingly inexhaustible Rodriguez. After that, the two directors were reunited for one of the images and most praised early 2007: Grindhouse. A no holds-barred elegy to the spoon, seedy, often half-ruined downtown theaters in early 1970 that churn out films in the same sordid Grindhouse Quentin Tarantino and Rodriguez divided into two parts: the first half, Death Proof, directed by Tarantino, Kurt Russell played in tribute to the high-octane thrillers car for 70 years.

Chills with low melting front blunt, existential dialogue, the Tarantino segment harvested most of the film's considerable critical acclaim, although the Grindhouse three hours or more in terms of connecting with the public, to the dismay The Weinstein Company, released. Separate versions of Death Proof and Planet Terror by Rodriguez were then prepared for its European release, with Tarantino's effort in competition at Cannes 2007.

In 2009, Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is sprawling WWII epic abuot the band of Jewish-American soldiers to fight the Apache resistance behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. The film, strring Brad Pitt, was a success all over the world, and attracted Tarantino Writers Guild nominations, the Board of Directors Guild, Hollywood Foreign Press, and the Academy for his screenplay and direction. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine,