Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films have been characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter and an aestheticization of violence that often results in the exhibition of neo-noir characteristics.

Early life

Tarantino was born in Knoxville Tennessee. He is the son of actor and amateur musician, Tony Tarantino and nurse, Connie McHugh he has a younger half-brother named Ton. Tarantino´s father from Queens. New York, is of Italian Descente. While his mother has Irish and Cherokee ancestry. His stepfather was Curt Zastoupil, a musician. Tarantino was raised by his mother, as his parents separated befor his birth. When he was two years old, he moved to Torrance, California, and later to the Harbor City neighborhood of Los Angeles. There, he took drama classes at Fleming Junior High School. He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 15 to attend an acting class full-time at the James Best Theater Company in Toluca Lake.

Tarantino grew bored with the James Best Acting School and quit after two years, although he kept in touch with all of his acting friends. He then landed a job which threatened to interfere with his long-term acting ambitions. As an employee of Video Archives, a now-defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach, he and fellow movie enthusiasts (including Roger Avary) discussed cinema and customer video recommendations at length. He paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career. Tarantino has been quoted as saying: "When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, 'no, I went to films'."

Film career

1980s

After Tarantino met Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged him to write a screenplay. Tarantino co-wrote and directed a movie called My Best Friend's Birthday in 1987. The final reel of the film was almost fully destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing, but its screenplay would form the basis for True Romance.

1990s

In January 1992, Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was an immediate hit. Reservoir Dogs was a dialogue-driven heist movie that set the tone for his later films.

Following the success ofReservoir Dogs, Tarantino was approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including Speed and Men in Black. He instead retreated to Amsterdamto work on his script for Pulp Fiction.

In Pulp Fiction (1994), Tarantino maintained the aestheticization of violence, for which he is known, as well as his non-linear story lines. Tarantino received an Academy Award in the category Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen, which he shared with Roger Avary. He also received a nomination in the category Best Director. The film has grossed over $200 million and was met with outstanding reviews.

2000s

Tarantino had planned to make the war film provisionally titled Inglourious Basterds, but postponed it 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), Jidaigeki (Japanese period cinema), Spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror. Vol. 2 had an evening screening, while it was also shown on the morning of the final day in its original 3-hour-plus version, with Tarantino himself attending the full screening. Tarantino then went on to be credited as "Special Guest Director" in Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro.

Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds is the story of a group of guerrilla Jewish-American soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Filming began in October 2008.[23] The film opened on August 21, 2009 to very positive reviews. It went on to become Tarantino's highest grossing film until surpassed by Django Unchained three years later.

2010s

In 2011, production began on Django Unchained, about the revenge of a slave in the U.S. South in 1858. The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a spaghetti western set in America's Deep South; Tarantino has called the proposed style "a southern", stating that he wanted "to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. I want to do them like they're genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it's ashamed of it, and other countries don't really deal with because

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