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Quentin Tarantino
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name: Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Nickname: QT
Height: 6' 2½" (1.89 m)
Birth Place: Knoxville, Tennessee
Date of Birth: March 27, 1963
Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, actor, and Oscar
winning screenwriter who rapidly rose to fame in the early 1990s as a
stylish auteur whose bold use of nonlinear storylines, memorable dialogue,
and bloody violence brought new life to familiar American film archetypes.
While employed as a video store clerk, Quentin Tarantino penned the script
for "From Dusk Till Dawn." He sold the script to a movie make-up
company for $1,500.00 and the promise to do the make-up on a future film
that would turn out to be "Reservoir Dogs." His first major
break came with the sale of another script called True Romance, written
with Roger Avary. It was made into a film starring Patricia Arquette and
Christian Slater. He also wrote the original screenplay for Natural Born
Killers as part of the longer screenplay that True Romance came from.
It should be acknowledged that it was changed significantly by subsequent
writers (including Oliver Stone), so much so that he declined a Screenwriting
credit in lieu of a Story credit.
The sale of True Romance (eventually released in 1993) garnered him attention.
Quentin Tarantino met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party and Bender
encouraged Tarantino to go write a film. The end product was Reservoir
Dogs (1992), a stylish, witty, and blood-soaked heist movie that set the
tone for his later films. The script was read by director Monte Hellman
who helped secure funding from Live Entertainment and also Tarantino's
directorship of the film. Harvey Keitel heard of the script through his
wife, who attended a class with Tarantino. He read the script and also
contributed to funding, took an Executive Producer role, and a lead in
the movie.
Following the success of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino was approached
by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including Speed and Men In
Black. He instead retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for Pulp
Fiction. When finally released, the film won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm)
at the 1994 Cannes film festival and practically revolutionised the independent
film industry. It was a complexly plotted film with a similarly brutal
wit. It featured many critically acclaimed performances, and was noted
for reviving the career of John Travolta. Pulp Fiction also earned Tarantino
and Avery Oscars for Best Original Screenplay, and it was also nominated
for Best Picture.
Quentin Tarantino's next film was Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of
a novel by his mentor Elmore Leonard. An homage to blaxploitation films,
it also starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of that genre's films of
the 1970s. In 1998, he turned his attention to the Broadway stage, where
he starred in a revival of Wait Until Dark.
Quentin Tarantino had then planned to make the war film Inglorious Bastards.
However, he postponed that to write and direct Kill Bill (released as
two films, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2), a highly stylized "revenge flick"
in the cinematic traditions of Wuxia (Chinese martial arts), Japanese
film, and Spaghetti Westerns. It was based on a character (The Bride)
and plot that he and Kill Bill's lead actor, Uma Thurman had developed
during the making of Pulp Fiction. In 2004, Tarantino returned to Cannes
where he served as President of the Jury. Kill Bill was not in competition,
but it did screen on the final night in its original 3+ hour version.
Quentin Tarantino is given credit as "Special Guest Director"
for his work directing the car sequence between Clive Owen and Benicio
Del Toro of the 2005 film Sin City.
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