Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is a well known and very talented movie director. He has directed multiple films, for which he is most known for the film, Pulp Fiction. Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Quentin was named after Quint Asper who was Burt Reynolds character in the CBS series Gunsmoke. His mother, Connie Mchugh was a nurse and his father, Tony Tarantino was a musician. However, after his birth his mother and birth father separated and Connie remarried. At the age of two, he moved to Los Angeles, California with his mother and her new husband. Her new husband was named Curtis Zastoupil and he would take him to a lot of film screenings because of his interest in film. However his mother later on divorced Zastoupil and she then got misdiagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, so Quentin was sent to live with his grandparents who live in Tennessee. However he did not really enjoy it there because he only stayed for six months and then he moved back to California. When he moved back home his mother had gotten remarried again to a man who would also take Quentin to film screenings. He had written his first screenplay, Captain Peachfuzz and the the Anchovy Bandit at the age of 14 in 1977. The screenplay was based on Hal Needham's 1977 film, Smokey and the Bandit, which starred Burt …show more content…
He assisted Tarantino’s career when he talked Tarantino into writing a screenplay. In 1987 he co-wrote and directed a movie called My Best friend’s Birthday, however there had been a problem. During a fire at the lab almost everything had gotten destroyed, except they still had the screenplay. So what he did was he turned that screenplay into a new movie called True Romance. It was until the 1900’s when he first started getting paid for what he loved to do. Robert Kurtzman had hired him to write the script for the movie From Dusk Till