QUENTIN TARANTINOPRESENTED BY KAYLEE SAUVEY

FILMOGRAPHY• RESERVOIR DOGS (1992)• PULP FICTION (1994) • JACKIE BROWN (1997) • KILL BILL: VOLUMES 1 & 2 (2003 &

2004)• DEATH PROOF (2007)• INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (2009)• DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012)

AT A GLANCE• PASTICHE – “ BORROWED” THEMES AND SCENES

• KILL BILL AND ITS JAPANESE INFLUENCES• TARANTINO SIGNATURE ELEMENTS– NON-LINEAR PLOT LINES– TRUNK SHOT– CORPSE POV– FREQUENTLY RE-USED ACTORS

• TECHNIQUES – BLACK AND WHITE SEGMENTS

PASTICHE

“A LITERARY, ARTISTIC, MUSICAL, OR ARCHITECTURAL WORK THAT IMITATES THE STYLE OF PREVIOUS WORK.”

PASTICHE• TARANTINO IS KNOWN FOR HIS

TRIBUTES TO CLASSIC CINEMA WITH DETAILS RUNNING STRONGLY THROUGHOUT EACH FILM.

• KILL BILL BLATANTLY “ BORROWS” IDEAS FOR PLOT LINES AND CHARACTERS FROM NUMEROUS JAPANESE FILMS SPANNING SEVERAL DECADES.

LIST OF KILL BILL INFLUENCES1. Lady Snowblood

(1973)2. Battle Royale (2000)3. Samurai Reincarnation

(1981)4. Shikoku (1999)5. Goke: Body Snatcher

From Hell (1968)6. Ichi The Killer (2001)7. Shogun Assassin

(1980)8. War of The

Gargantuas (1966)9. Fudoh (1996)10. Black Lizard (1968)

11. The Streetfighter (1974)

12. Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah

13. Samurai Fiction (1998)14. Tokyo Drifter (1966)15. Zatoichi (1962)16. Sukeban Deka (1987)17. Sanjuro (1962)18. Battles Without Honor

(2000)19. The Yagyu Family

Conspiracy (1978)20. Lone Wolf and Cub:

Babycart to Hades (1972)

LADY SNOWBLOOD (1970)• PLOT FOLLOWS A WOMAN ON A BLOODY REVENGE QUEST.– TARANTINO’S O-REN ISHII IS INSPIRED BY THIS CHARACTER.

• ENDING SNOW GARDEN DUEL IS TAKEN FROM THIS FILM. • BOTH FILMS FEATURE AN ANIMATED SEQUENCE. • CHAPTER DIVISION• “ TRUNK SHOT”• BORROWED “ THE FLOWER OF CARNAGE” FOR

SOUNDTRACK.

“Since he made his debut with ‘Reservoir Dogs,’ Tarantino has populated his work with borrowings and homages to everything from film noir and martial arts films to Japanese animation and spaghetti westerns, not to mention a long-forgotten 1939 B movie that actually kills off Hitler that Tarantino discovered in an old videotape rack at Safeway.”

- PATRICK GOLDSTEIN, LOS ANGELES TIMES

“ I love having influences because I want people to get excited when they see something in the film or hear me talking about it and then actually go see the movie that inspired me in the

first place.” - Quentin Tarantino

DIGITAL VS. 35 mm“ I’m not a fan of digital. Why

would you hire a cinematographer? If you’re doing a digital movie it

doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. All you need to do is

look to the screen to see if you like it.”

TARANTINO SIGNATURE ELEMENTS

NON-LINEAR PLOT LINES• PULP FICTION BEGINS AT THE END – OR

DOES IT END AT THE BEGINNING?

• KILL BILL: VOLUME 1 BEGINS WITH A SEGMENT THAT IS UNEXPLAINED UNTIL VOLUME 2.

• RESERVOIR DOGS WEAVES IN AND OUT OF REAL TIME AND FLASHBACKS TO TELL A STORY OF A JEWELRY HEIST.

“ TRUNK SHOT

”

“ WHERE WOULD YOU PUT THE CAMERA?”

- QUENTIN TARANTINO

• Tarantino From Below

• Kill Bill Vol.1 Cinematographic Techniques, Camera Movement

BLACK AND WHITE SEGMENTS

• AFFINITY FOR EARLY CINEMA IS AN INSPIRATION FOR THIS ARTISTIC TOUCH IN HIS FILMS. – USED IN FLASHBACKS AS A SUBTLE WAY TO

TELL THE AUDIENCE THIS IS A PAST EVENT. • CRAZY 88 SEGMENT IN KILL BILL CHANGED

TO B & W PARTIALLY TO AVOID AN NC-17 RATING. – CONTRARY TO SPIELBERG’S

VIOLENTSCHINDLER’S LIST, WHICH WAS SHOT IN B & W TO GIVE THE FILM A TIMELESS FEELING.

– CUTS OUT THE SEVERITY AND HARSHNESS OF VIOLENCE BY PRESENTING IT COLORLESS.