Quentin Tarantino

essential to its aesthetic” (Langley, 2000, p.6). The violence is exaggerated, stylised and combined with humour throughout the movie. (Langley, 2000, p.76) The first situation of extreme violence mixed with comedy is the causal shooting of Roger. Tarantino creates an expectation through his powerful dialogues and narrative, but at the same time, Robert Ebert claims, he plays with his audience, delaying the expected murder (Bailey, 2013, p.158). As a result, the viewers response of the cold…

moviegoers of all kinds. From the beloved charters to its amazing hipster comedy. This film should be a blueprint of how to make a true comic book film. It starts off with an amazing credit intro that would even have made Quentin Tarantino blush. That reason would be because Tarantino and many other directors would help fellow director Edgar Wright with this movie. Scott Pilgrim’s life changes when he meets and falls in love with Ramona Flowers. But in order to win her heart she needs to go…

The Basterd In Us All Inglourious Basterds is the Quentin Tarantino directed 2009 movie starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Melanie Laurent, and Eli Roth. The story centers around a unique Nazi-hunting unit within the US army known as the Basterds. The unit consists of soldiers who are of Jewish decent with a simple purpose: kill Nazis (and take their scalps as a trophy but that's more of a perk than anything else). The Basterds are led by Brad Pitt's Lieutenant Aldo Raine (or by his German…

This paper is a deep exploration of the cinematic world, focusing primarily on film directors, their styles and trademarks. This research paper endeavors to give a better understanding of the film world by answering a three part question: How does a film director develop his style and use trademarks to portray or affect viewers to his liking, using tools of film such as music, camera angles, post production, and the like; What are the elements that make up a film director’s style and what makes…

genre was first identified with American detective or thriller films - film noir has since experienced a resurgence at the dawn of the new century, often dubbed as “neo-noir” films. One film in the neo-noir category is Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino. The title, “pulp fiction,” owes itself to the “cheap fiction magazines printed in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth” (Bailey). The disposable wood pulp-based paper the fiction was…

Pulp Fiction is a film directed by Quentin Tarantino, which stars John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, and Samuel L. Jackson, and it was released October 14, 1994. It takes a very different approach to film by using a vignette style with each vignette not necessarily in order. It follows the lives of several characters that revolve around the gang boss Marcellus Wallace, and how they intertwine. Vincent (Travolta) and Jules (Jackson) are two hitmen for Marcellus and they are charged with…

The two part film series Kill Bill, directed by Quentin Tarantino, was released in 1994 and follows the storyline of Beatrix Kiddo, who seeks revenge upon her five worst enemies and presumed killers of her unborn child. On the surface, this film seems to be just a bloody, cut-em-up Tarantino film, but when a feminist critical lens is applied to the film, some things become a little more apparent, such as the underlying implication towards Tarantino's progressive viewpoint on women’s roles in…

Compared to the last few years, 2015 provided a slew of eye-popping, entertaining movies. Obviously, Star Wars has completely overshadowed anything and everything else that’s out there at the moment – but from the big budget summer spectaculars to the lesser-appreciated indie flicks, there was a lot to love throughout the year. And, a lot to hate, as well… First things first, plenty of hard-hitting records were set – possibly none more impressive than the those established by Jurassic World.…

seen in their work. This can be true for any director that has produced multiple films; after viewing two films by the same director you should see a certain type of style through screenplay, editing, and even sometimes color/picture. For example, Quentin Tarantino’s films all have elements of violence that is shown because he finds violence to be entertaining; so in all of his films his authorship is to demonstrate violence in an artistic…

The Journey of a Slave Man September 3, 1838 marked the freedom date of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, a slave who became known as Frederick Douglass after escaping slavery. Douglas was born in Talbot, Maryland to Harriet Bailey from whom he was separated while being an infant. Douglass spent most of his childhood in slave plantations witnessing physical abuse on slave’s from part of white Masters. Slaves were deprived form their freedom and were expected to be ignorant; however,…