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Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. His films are characterized by stylized violence, extended dialogue including a pervasive use of profanity, and references to popular culture. Tarantino began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of the crime film Reservoir Dogs in 1992. His second film, Pulp Fiction (1994), a dark comedy crime thriller, was a major success with critics and audiences winning numerous awards, including the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 1996, he wrote and starred in From Dusk till Dawn. Tarantino's third film, Jackie Brown (1997), paid homage to blaxploitation films. In 2003, Tarantino directed Kill Bill: Volume 1, inspired by the traditions of martial arts films; it was followed by Volume 2 in 2004, with both volumes combined regarded as a single film. He then made the exploitation-slasher Death Proof (2007), part of a double feature with Robert Rodriguez released under the collective title Grindhouse. His next film, Inglourious Basterds (2009), follows an alternate account of World War II. He followed this with Django Unchained (2012), a slave revenge Spaghetti Western, which won him his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His eighth film, The Hateful Eight (2015), is a revisionist Western thriller and opened to audiences with a roadshow release. His most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), is a comedy drama set in the late 1960s about the transition of Old Hollywood to New Hollywood. A novelization of the film written by Tarantino was published in 2021, becoming his debut novel. Tarantino's work has been subject to criticism, such as the depictions of violence and frequent inclusion of racial slurs. During Tarantino's career, his films have garnered a cult following; as well as critical and commercial success, he has been considered "the single most influential director of his generation". Other major awards won by Tarantino include two BAFTAs and four Golden Globes. Early life Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, Tennessee, the only child of Connie McHugh and aspiring actor Tony Tarantino, who left the family before his son's birth. Tarantino identifies as having Cherokee descent through his mother, who is of Irish descent on her other side; his father is of Italian descent. He was named in part after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds's character in the TV series Gunsmoke. Tarantino's mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles. After a brief marriage and divorce, Connie left Los Angeles and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived. In 1966, Tarantino returned with his mother to Los Angeles. Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after arriving in Los Angeles, and the family moved to Torrance, a city in Los Angeles County's South Bay area. Zastoupil accompanied Tarantino to numerous film screenings while his mother allowed him to see more mature movies, such as Carnal Knowledge (1971) and Deliverance (1972). After his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, and received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. He remained there less than a year before returning to California. At 14 years old, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, based on the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit. Tarantino later revealed that his mother had ridiculed his writing skills when he was younger; as a result, he vowed that he would never share his wealth with her. As a 15-year-old, Tarantino was grounded by his mother for shoplifting Elmore Leonard's novel The Switch from Kmart. He was allowed to leave only to attend the Torrance Community Theater, where he participated in such plays as Two Plus Two Makes Sex and Romeo and Juliet. The same year, he dropped out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, Los Angeles. Career 1980s: Early jobs and screenplays Through the 1980s, Tarantino had a number of jobs. After lying about his age, he worked as an usher at an adult movie theater in Torrance, called the Pussycat Theater. He spent time as a recruiter in the aerospace industry, and for five years he worked at Video Archives, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California. He was well known in the local community for his film knowledge and video recommendations; Tarantino stated, "When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, 'No, I went to films." In 1986, Tarantino was employed in his first Hollywood job, working with Video Archives colleague Roger Avary, as production assistants on Dolph Lundgren's exercise video, Maximum Potential. Before working at Video Archives, Tarantino co-wrote Love Birds In Bondage with Scott Magill. Tarantino would go on to produce and direct the short film. Magill committed suicide in 1987, after which all film shot was destroyed. Later, Tarantino attended acting classes at the James Best Theatre Company, where he met several of his eventual collaborators for his next film. In 1987, Tarantino co-wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday (1987). It was left uncompleted, but some of its dialogue was included in True Romance. The following year, he played an Elvis impersonator in "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1", an episode in the fourth season of The Golden Girls, which was broadcast on November 19, 1988. Tarantino recalled that the pay he received for the part helped support him during the preproduction of Reservoir Dogs; he estimated he was initially paid about $650 but went on to receive about $3,000 in residuals over three years because the episode was frequently rerun due to it being on a "best of..." lineup. 1990s: Breakthrough After meeting Lawrence Bender at a friend's barbecue, Tarantino discussed with him about an unwritten dialogue-driven heist film. Bender encouraged Tarantino to write the screenplay, which he wrote in three and a half weeks and presented to Bender unformatted. Impressed with the script, Bender managed to forward it through contacts to director Monte Hellman. Hellman cleaned up the screenplay and helped secure funding from Richard N. Gladstein at Live Entertainment (which later became Artisan, now known as Lionsgate). Harvey Keitel read the script and also contributed to the budget, taking a role as co-producer and also playing a major part in the picture. In January 1992, it was released as Tarantino's crime thriller Reservoir Dogs—which he wrote, directed, and acted in as Mr. Brown—and screened at the Sundance Film Festival. The film was an immediate hit, receiving a positive response from critics. Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned and the film was eventually released in 1993. The second script that Tarantino sold was for the film Natural Born Killers, which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone. Tarantino was given story credit and stated in an intervi.... Discover the Quentin Tarantino popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Quentin Tarantino books.
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Quentin Tarantino
Ian NathanGet an intimate look at the cult filmmaker of our generation. Loaded with stunning pictures from the Kobal archives, this biography explores the genesis of Tarantino's unique dire...
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Quentin Tarantino
Vito ZagarrioQuentin Tarantino è un regista "cult" amato dalle nuove generazioni. Un "ladro di cinema", un accumulatore di citazioni e di omaggi cinefili, un ibridatore di generi e di forme del...
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The Dark Side
Anthony O'NeillIn this gripping scifi noir for fans of The Martian and Quentin Tarantino, when an anarchic android begins wreaking havoc on a moonbased penal colony and bodies start turning up, a...
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Quentin Tarantino... fils de Pulp
Jean-Pierre DelouxAdoré comme une star par des millions de fanatiques dans le monde, Quentin Tarantino est le premier cinéaste à être reconnu aussi jeune depuis Orson Welles. Avec Reservoir Dogs, il...
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Confessions of a Puppetmaster
Charles Band & Adam Felber“Confessions of a Puppetmaster is a fast, funny, wild ride through some wild times. Plus, Charlie compares me to Harrison Ford, so I’m all in!” Bill MaherRenowned producer, directo...
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Escape into Meaning
Evan PuschakProducer, editor, and writer behind the highly addictive, informative, and popular YouTube channel The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak presents “a brilliant, wideranging essay collection ...
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Gewaltdarstellung im Film. Zweck und Wirkung bei Michael Haneke und Quentin Tarantino
Sabine SchneiderJohn Woo, Kitano, Quentin Tarantino – alles Autoren, die der Gewalt in ihren Filmen sehr viel Raum lassen, sie manchmal geradezu in Orgien feiern. Der österreichische Filmregisseur...
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Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy
Richard B. Greene & K. Silem MohammadThe films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and ...
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ROAR
Bruce WagnerA new novel by Hollywood’s "master of satire."The myth of an epic, public lifeits triumphs and tragediesis a particularly American obsession. ROAR is a metafictional exploration of...
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A Good Bad Boy
Margaret WapplerAn artful and contemplative tribute to the late actor famed for his role as Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills, 90210.Best known for playing loner rebel Dylan McKay in Beverly Hills 9021...
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Quentin Tarantino als Produkt und Produzent in der postmodernen Popkultur
Arno SchumacherIm Jahr 2002 ist es zehn Jahre her, dass Quentin Tarantino mit seinem Debüt Reservoir Dogs zuerst Festivalbesucher in den USA und dann das Kinopublikum auf der ganzen Welt zu begei...
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Down and Dirty Pictures
Peter BiskindIn this “dishy…superbly reported” (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywoodmost notably...
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A Kill in the Morning
Graeme Shimmin‘I don’t like killing, but I’m good at it. Murder isn’t so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Closeup work though – a garrotte around a target’s neck or a kni...
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Quentin Tarantino - The Man, The Myths and the Movies
Wensley ClarksonQuentin Tarantino is the most exciting and fascinating film director of recent years. Since he exploded onto the scene with the release of "Reservoir Dogs", he is one of th...
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino’s longawaited first work of fictionat once hilarious, delicious and brutalis the always surprising, sometimes shocking, novelization of his Academy Award winning ...
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Watching Movies
Rick LymanAn inside look at how some of the biggest names in the film industry view their craftIn this unique collection, New York Times film critic Rick Lyman sits down with notable directo...
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Quentin Tarantino and Film Theory
Federico PagelloThis book examines a set of theoretical perspectives that critically engage with the notion of postmodernism, investigating whether this concept is still useful to approach contemp...
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Quentin Tarantino
Robert Fischer, Peter Korte & Georg SeeßlenQuentin Tarantino ist der wohl bedeutendste und berühmteste Regisseur der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte. Nach seinem Debüt mit "Reservoir Dogs" gelang dem Regisseur das Meisterstück, mit...
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Cinema Speculation
Quentin TarantinoInstant New York Times bestsellerThe longawaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a delir...
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Pulp Fiction de Quentin Tarantino
Encyclopaedia UniversalisUne fiche de référence sur Pulp Fiction, un chefd'oeuvre de Quentin Tarantino.Marsellus, tout puissant gangster qu'il est, a des ennuis. Mia, son épouse, s'ennuie, de jeunes blancs...
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Blut, Rache, Gewalt. Die Inszenierung von Weiblichkeit in Filmen von Quentin Tarantino
Corinna KöhldorferMasterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation Medien und Politik, Pol. Kommunikation, Note: 1,0, Universität Wien (Institut für Politikwissenschaft), Sprach...
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Quentin Tarantino Decoded - Take A Deep Dive Into The Mind Of The Groundbreaking Film Director
Success DecodedQUENTIN TARANTINO DECODED<br /> GROUNDBREAKING FILM DIRECTOR<br /> <br /> WRITTEN BY: SUCCESS DECODED<br /> (Not written by Quentin Tarantino)<br /> &...
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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions
Ed ZwickA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends o...
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O Cinema de Quentin Tarantino
Mauro BaptistaEsse livro analisa a obra de uma das figuras mais cultuadas da atualidade: o cineasta Quentin Tarantino. Ao estudar os sete longasmetragens escritos e dirigidos por ele entre 1992 ...
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Cults
Nigel CawthorneThe inside story of the world's most notorious cults.The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, rituals and shadowy hierarchies make...
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Harold
Steven WrightA uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary standup comedian that follows the thoughts of a 1960s third grader during a single day at school.Steven Wright is one...
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Quentin par Tarantino
Amazing Améziane240 pages de BD qui vous feront découvrir comment un jeune gars autodidacte et obsédé par les films est devenu l'un des plus grands réalisateurs de notre époque.9 films sur 30 ans ...
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Chaos
Tom O'Neill & Dan PiepenbringA journalist's twentyyear fascination with the Manson murders leads to "gobsmacking" (The Ringer) new revelations about the FBI's involvement in this "kaleidoscopic" (The New York ...
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Hollywood Ending
Ken AulettaA vivid biography of Harvey Weinsteinhow he rose to become a dominant figure in the film world, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all cam...
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Meditaciones de cine
Quentin TarantinoLlega el esperado y ansiado primer libro de no ficción de Quentin Tarantino.Su libro más personal: un viaje íntimo por sus películas favoritas, relatado con una voz inconfundible.«...
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Pulp Fiction
Jason BaileyWhen Pulp Fiction was released in theaters in 1994, it was immediately hailed as a masterpiece. The New York Times called it a "triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey," and thir...
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El efecto Tarantino
Jordi Picatoste VerdejoUna guía imprescindible para conocer el imaginario propio de uno de los directores fetiche de la cultura pop Cuando Quentin Tarantino presentó en 1992 su película Reservoir Dogs e...
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Quentin Tarantino Unchained
Michael ScholtenReservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof, Inglourious Basterds und Django Unchained: Mit nur sieben Filmen verpasste Quentin Tarantino dem USamerikanische...
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Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino
Julián HerbertVirtuosic stories by one of “the more interesting and ambitious prose stylists of our time” (Los Angeles Times)In this madcap, insatiably inventive, bravura story collection, Juliá...