I am sure that pretty much everyone here on Facepunch has watched (and loved) at least one Quentin Tarantino film. He is pretty much one of the best script writers and directors of recent time, and highly acclaimed amongst film critics. He also likes to appear in his films, in either small roles (Jimmy in Pulp Fiction), or to large roles (Richard in From Dusk Till Dawn). Here are some of his films with a quick synopsis on them.
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[I]here is tarantino in this rather homo-erotic picture (click for larger)[/I]
[B]Reservoir Dogs[/B]
Reservoir Dogs was Tarantino's first time at directing and writing of a film, and when it was first shown at the Sundance festival in 1992, it became a instant classic. It features 6 criminals, trying to perform a theft of a diamond store. None of them know each other and haven't met before, and are all given names so they don't know anything personal about each other (Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink etc). The robbery goes as a complete success until the police show up, and they are sure there is a mole in the group. Unsure of who the mole is, they begin to turn on each other, until it ends up with a bloody mess. What makes this film fantastic is the fantastic writing of the script, and what Tarantino is probably most famous for (aside for blood). I mean, j[url=http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/reservoir.shtml]ust read the script here[/url]. The first lines are
[quote]"Like a Virgin" is all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The whole song is a metaphor for big dicks.[/quote]
Perfect, just perfect. This is film is a must see if you haven't seen it.
[B]Pulp Fiction[/B]
[quote] PULP (pulp) n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless
mass or matter.
2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
American Heritage Dictionary
New College Edition[/quote]
As I can't be bothered to ever begin describing the plot to this film, here is a summary of it from the internet.
[quote]Pumpkin and Honey Bunny are two thieves who, while dining at a coffee shop, decide that the best thing to do is to rob it. Vincent and Jules, two hit men working for mob kingpin Marcellus Wallace, are sent to retrieve a very special and very mysterious briefcase for their boss. Vincent later must also show Mrs. Wallace a good time while her husband is out. Butch Coolidge is an aging prizefighter who is being paid to "take a dive", but instead, accidentally kills him opponent, and tries to flee town, but not before getting his dead father's lucky golden watch. These four seemingly unrelated stories are interwoven together in a non-linear fashion.[/quote]
[highlight]A note, watch this film twice before you say anything about it[/highlight], It will make a lot more sense the second time. This is another great film, which is incredibly clever. Again the script for it is amazing, and the way in which the stories all come together at the end is fantastic, and leads to a great revelation at the end when you realise what the fuck just happened. I HIGHLY recommend you see this one if you have to see one of the films which he is made, it perfectly sums up tarantino's style and directing. Read the script [url=http://www.godamongdirectors.com/scripts/pulp.shtml]here[/url] after you have watched the film, then compare some of the differences between the two (Marvin in the car).
[b]From Dusk Till Dawn[/b]
This is technically a Robert Rodriguez film, however Tarantino wrote the script and starred in it. This is quite a good film to watch, it sort of shows the best of both Tarantino and Rodriguez. The dialogue is classic Tarantino and the directing style is classic Rodriguez. The film is about a couple of guys who are on the run from a crime (Was it a bank robbery? I don't remember :saddowns:) who capture a minister and two children to make their way across the Mexican border to meet up with some people. They reach a bar, where they decided they would meet up with some other criminals, but it turns out the people at the bar are vampires, and if the group can survive from Dusk till Dawn, then they will be free. This leads to some pretty cool fight scenes and cool dialogues, and overall makes for a very entertaining film. I recommend a watch.
[B]Jackie Brown[/B]
The only film of Tarantino's which I haven't seen :saddowns:, but after this thread I swear to god I will go out and buy the dvd, because I have been meaning to see this for years. A quick summary from the web.
[quote]Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets caught smuggling her boss' gun money on the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don't even know. Here's when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and Dargus about Ordell Robbie (the arms dealer) and get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you're talking about him, you're dead- or keep her mouth shut and do some time. That's when she meets Max Cherry -her bail bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man, who falls in love with her. Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Feds off against Ordell and the guys he works with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and walk off with their money. But she needs Max's help. No one is going to stand in the way of his million dollar payoff...[/quote]
[B]Kill Bill V.1 and V.2[/B]
Another confusing film, where you have to watch both of the films to get the plot. Basically it works out like this. In the first film, "The Bride" who is played by Uma Thurman wakes up from a coma after being attacked on her wedding day. Before she was attacked, she was heavily pregnant, and upon waking her baby is gone. She was a assassin, and when she found out she was pregnant, she tried to quit from the life (after finding out in a very tense situation involving a shotgun and a hotel room). Before she quit, she worked for a man named "Bill", who taught her everything she knows, and after he found out about the marriage, he got a bit jealous and got her shot in the face. This is the beginning of the brides journey for revenge on the five people who done this to her. Her revenge spans out over the two films, as well as some side plot about what happened before. Basically, it is a confusing plot (don't just watch one of them), mixed in with a stupid amount of blood and some cool music and weird scenes. Oh and revenge, lots of revenge. This is one to watch with a group of friends for sure.
[B]Inglorious Basterds[/B]
Tarantinos latest film. It features Nazi occupied France during the second world war, Hitler, a "Jew Hunter" and a group of American Jewish soldiers with some messed up fetish for nazi's scalps. This is one of Tarantinos more straight forward stories, but doesn't skimp out on the dialogue. It has a pretty cool scene in a basement tavern, which lots of people won't like because it was too wordy, but I personal loved that part. Here is a quick summary of the plot because I am too tired right now to do it myself (and the other descriptions are probably awful).
[quote]In Nazi occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.[/quote]
It is a pretty cool film, I recommend it as it is up there with his best works. Oh Christopher Waltz (the Jew hunter) does an amazing performance in this film, I loved every second he was on screen.
[B]Future Projects[/B]
Tarantino is working on a a secret film which will come out in the next couple of years, as well as Kill Bill V.3 which will come out in 2014, 10 years after the second volume took place to catch up on what the bride is doing.
I shall add more to the thread another time, I am tired at this minute. Check out some of Tarantinos Screenplays on this pretty cool website right here [url]http://www.godamongdirectors.com/tarantino/[/url]. I love reading through his scripts because they really are fantastic.
(Oh and I know I have missed out Death Proof, I will fix that tomorrow)
good director, but i can think of at least fifty directors that are better
[QUOTE=Munchiselleh;20123889]good director, but i can think of at least fifty directors that are better[/QUOTE]
He is a good director, and you are probably right. But that isn't what I love the most about him, his scripts are probably the best you could find around.
He's amazing.
[QUOTE=icemaz;20123914]He is a good director, and you are probably right. But that isn't what I love the most about him, his scripts are probably the best you could find around.[/QUOTE]
they're certainly incredible, his dialogue is very realistic and entertaining
if you haven't seen it, he wrote the screenplay for true romance (even though he didn't direct it) and it was amazing.
he look pedophile
[QUOTE=Munchiselleh;20124011]if you haven't seen it, he wrote the screenplay for true romance (even though he didn't direct it) and it was amazing.[/QUOTE]
"Ooo, that's imaginative. I've got more taste in my penis."
[QUOTE=killz2much;20124051]"Ooo, that's imaginative. I've got more taste in my penis."[/QUOTE]
"don't give me the finger, i'll fucking have you killed"
Tarantino is by far my favorite director. His scriptwriting is by far the most engaging you can find in a movie. Everything that his characters say feels extremely genuine and natural; the sort of stuff that [B]you[/B] would talk about in the same situation. His casting decisions are also almost flawless (with a couple exceptions... I'm looking at you Mike Myers) and it seems like he always manages to perfectly capture exactly what he hopes his characters will come out to be. I also love his aesthetic choices. Things like his heavy use of backlighting or his accentuation of tiny, normally indistinguishable sounds (such as the sound of strudel being chewed in a mouth, or sugar being poured into coffee) and his excellently unorthodox music choice. It's also amazing how much he is able to pull off by conventional means rather than simply relying on CGI, such as the amazing crash scene in Death Proof (which you forgot to include :argh:)
And of course is in-jokes are incredibly entertaining to spot (did anybody else notice Winston Wolfe from Pulp Fiction make a cameo in Inglourious Basterds)
In case you can't tell, I fucking love Quentin Fucking Tarantino.
[QUOTE=The Vman;20124098]Tarantino is by far my favorite director. His scriptwriting is by far the most engaging you can find in a movie. Everything that his characters say feels extremely genuine and natural; the sort of stuff that [B]you[/B] would talk about in the same situation. His casting decisions are also almost flawless (with a couple exceptions... I'm looking at you Mike Myers) and it seems like he always manages to perfectly capture exactly what he hopes his characters will come out to be. I also love his aesthetic choices. Things like his heavy use of backlighting or his accentuation of tiny, normally indistinguishable sounds (such as the sound of strudel being chewed in a mouth, or sugar being poured into coffee) and his excellently unorthodox music choice. It's also amazing how much he is able to pull off by conventional means rather than simply relying on CGI, such as the amazing crash scene in Death Proof (which you forgot to include :argh:)
In case you can't tell, I fucking love Quentin Fucking Tarantino.[/QUOTE]
i can tell...
but what about:
ingmar bergman
werner herzog
jean-luc godard
alfred hitchcock
orson welles
paul thomas anderson
david lynch
fritz lang
the coen bros
stanley kubrick
darren aronofsky
those are a few off the top of my head
[QUOTE=Munchiselleh;20124205]i can tell...
but what about:
ingmar bergman
werner herzog
jean-luc godard
alfred hitchcock
orson welles
paul thomas anderson
david lynch
fritz lang
the coen bros
stanley kubrick
darren aronofsky
those are a few off the top of my head[/QUOTE]
It's all about personal opinion. If you find those directors to be better than QT then that's fine with me, but in my opinion, he's the best.
reservoir dogs is da best
Don't forget about
From Dusk till Dawn 3
True Romance
He wrote the script to Natual Born Killers
and he did a lot of work with Robert Rodriguez
If you're a fan of his films you should watch this:
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It's about a really interesting theory, in which all of Tarantino's movies are chained together.. Makes me want to watch all of the again.
Last note: Kill Bill vol. 3 in 2014. CAN'T WAIT
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[QUOTE=Munchiselleh;20124205]i can tell...
but what about:
ingmar bergman
werner herzog
jean-luc godard
alfred hitchcock
orson welles
paul thomas anderson
david lynch
fritz lang
the coen bros
stanley kubrick
darren aronofsky
those are a few off the top of my head[/QUOTE]
David fuckin' Lynch is awesome.
Quentin is my favourite though...
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Check my avatar bitches :o
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Holy shit that actually made a lot of sense...
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He wrote the script to Natual Born Killers
and he did a lot of work with Robert Rodriguez
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too bad natural born killers was complete shit
and ya, grindhouse was a pretty incredible experience
Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds are some of my favourite films.
(The others being Shawshank Redemption, Forrest Gump and 12 Angry Men)
Dude is an enormous douche
shawshank is overrated, one of the most trite top movies picks despite it being vastly inferior to many films
...including the good the bad and the ugly, idk why you have good as your avatar if it isn't in your top movies, it's in my top 6
You again?!
[QUOTE=Munchiselleh;20125773]shawshank is overrated, one of the most trite top movies picks despite it being vastly inferior to many films
...including the good the bad and the ugly, idk why you have good as your avatar if it isn't in your top movies, it's in my top 6[/QUOTE]
Shawshank is a feel-good film, it was excellent. The Good the Bad and The Ugly is a good film, it's about 7 in my favourites.
Didn't he also write the script for Natural Born Killers? It's a great movie.
[QUOTE=Dank Dave;20126022]Didn't he also write the script for Natural Born Killers? It's a great movie.[/QUOTE]
he did, but i didn't like that movie at all, it tried WAY too hard to be unique. QT himself hated the way it was adapted to the screen
[QUOTE=Munchiselleh;20125686]too bad natural born killers was complete shit
and ya, grindhouse was a pretty incredible experience[/QUOTE]
Sorry dude. But it was not complete shit.
The script, which was written by Tarantino, was awesome. It could've really been a great movie. I agree though that Oliver Stone made it far too weird. It's almost like watching a music video or some shit..
There are excellent parts in it though. It's definently worth a watch imo.
His films are good wouldn't like to meet him in real life though
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[QUOTE=microsnakey;20126767]His films are good wouldn't like to meet him in real life though
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i don't see how that makes him an asshole, PLENTY of celebrities have reactions like that, and i would too...
paparazzi are dickwads that are purposefully provocative
[QUOTE=Munchiselleh;20126871]i don't see how that makes him an asshole, PLENTY of celebrities have reactions like that, and i would too...
paparazzi are dickwads that are purposefully provocative[/QUOTE]
I would never spit or hit someone though
I need to see Inglorious Basterds some time.
[QUOTE=microsnakey;20126901]I would never spit or hit someone though[/QUOTE]
you would. if people were bugging you and being obnoxious on purpose, i'm sure you would cave in eventually...him hitting the dude is an isolated incident, you don't know how many times he's been bothered by people like that and NOT hit them.
also, he spat on the guy for trashing his dad, i'd do the same thing
Just watched Pulp Fiction. Fucking awesome.
I don't understand how they can do a Kill Bill Vol.3 there's nobody left to kill, unless her Daughter goes abit crazy about her killing Bill and it starts shit like that.
I've seen all except Inglorious Basterds, Jackie Brown is a good one, I bought the Tarantino Boxset a while back, with 5 of those listed excluding Inglorious and From Dusk til Dawn
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