Tuesday, 18 January 2011

Quentin Tarantino


Quentin Tarantino- 27th March 1963, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
  • film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer & actor
  • collects old board games
  • his father is of italian decent and his mother is half-irish half-cherokee
  • his dad was an actor
  • dropped out of school at sixteen
  • strongly detests violence and drugs (despite using them in his films)
  • he has called uma thurman his muse
  • his mother was only 16 when she gave birth to him
  • hates product placement
  • six of his movies are mentioned in FHMs 100 best male movies ever (true romance, from dusk till dawn, kill bill vol.2, kill bill vol.1, reservoir dogs & pulp fiction)
  • would like to direct a james bond movie at some point in his life
  • he has two sisters and one brother
FILMOGRAPHY
  • kill bill vol.1 (writer & director)
  • kill bill vol.2 (writer & director)
  • inglorious basterds (writer, director & producer)
  • planet terror (producer)
  • death proof (writer, director, producer & actor)
  • grindhouse (writer, director, producer & actor)
  • daltry calhoun (producer)
  • god said 'ha!' (producer)
  • jackie brown (writer & director)
  • curdled (writer & executive producer)
  • from dusk until dawn (writer, executive producer & actor)
  • four rooms (director, writer, executive producer & actor)
  • natural born killers (writer)
  • pulp fiction (writer, director & actor)
  • reservoir dogs (writer, director & actor)
ELEMENTS HE IS FAMOUS FOR
  • feet
  • lead characters drive cars such as chevrolets & cadillacs
  • briefcases & suitcass (in pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, jackie brown, true romance & kill bill vol.2)
  • frequently workswith harvey keital, tim roth, michael madsen, uma thurman, michael bowen & samuel l.jackson
  • his films usually have a shot from inside a car boot
  • dutch elements
  • feature a scene in which threeor more characters are pointing guns at each other at the same time
  • frequently sets films in LA
  • characters frequently use the phrase 'bingo'

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