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At the beginning of 1992, no one had heard of Quentin Tarantino. By the end of it, he was being hailed as the hip new messiah of filmmaking. In the wake of Pulp Fiction two years on, the media and the film industry itself had gone into gibbering overdrive.
| «Not since Citizen Kane
has one man appeared from relative obscurity to redefine the art of filmmaking.» |
Jon Ronson | ||
| «He’s the Mark Twain of the 90s`.» | Dennis Hopper | ||
| «I’ve never seen,
in my lifetime, this degree of reaction for a young filmmaker.» |
Oliver Stone |
Today, it's a rare thing indeed to find a style magazine without the words Quentin Tarantino plastered somewhere across the cover as if the very name has suddenly become an instant branding for all things cool. Why?
How on earth did a film geek from nowhere, with no formal training and with no back catalogue, suddenly become celebrated as the next big thing?
Who is Quentin tarantino and why has a man whose fare is about as politically incorrect as you could possibly get in the touchy-feely 1990s managed to garner such a cult following?
Viewers consider his films as trash or art, why? No one finds them «OK», it’s either the one thing or the other.
Forget the acting assignments, he’s only made three films, for God’s sake, Reservoir dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown. There followed a third, which he wrote (True Romance) a fourth (Natural Born Killers) which he also penned but, with no small measure of acrimony, has since chosen to disown, a fifth (Four Rooms) to which his contribution is a one-quarter episode and a sixth self-penned movie (From Dusk Till Dawn).
From these we have chosen to look at Reservoir dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance and From Dusk Till Dawn, seeking answers to these questions.
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