Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is a film director, screenwriter, producer and sometimes  even an actor in his movies. He is well known for his films Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, Inglorious Bastards & his latest hit Django. Tarantino is a very good screenwriter and wrote one of my favorite movies ever Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. He dropped out of school in 9th grade and ended up working at a video store for five years. He got the job initially because he was an expert on movies and in the five years he worked there he watched as many different movies as he could. He considers this time in his life as his "college" and this education helped shape what types of films he wanted make. I like that fact that he is such a fan of Hollywood and how much he is into the traditional form of movie making shooting on to film. Last year in Video Production class we made a commercial for Scarecrow Video (one of the last big video stores in Seattle) in the U-District and the owner of the store said that Tarantino walked all the way from downtown Seattle to wonder around his store for several hours. When asked in interviews about different movies or directors his answers reflect that he has a great respect and admiration for all of the great people of movies that have come before him or are great now and even many of those that I have never heard of. I think that his style of writing and shooting are very different than most directors and writers. His way of shocking the viewer with outragous writing or scenes brings a weird type of harsh reality to his movies that other movie makers just don't deliver.

Here is a link to a trailer of perhaps his most popular film "Pulp Fiction" :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EdQ4FqbhY