Quentin Tarantino
For my Formal Film Study Project I have
decided to do "The Films of a Director". The director that
I have chosen is Quentin Tarantino. Quentin Tarantino has directed
many famous movies such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill,
Inglourious Bastards, and Django Unchained. For my project though I
watched Pulp Fiction, Inglourios Bastards, and Django Unchained. When
I was watching all these movies I thought that they were all very
good and you could tell that they were all directed by the same
person. Although all these movies were somewhat in the same genre
with adventure and drama in common for all there were some things
that were done alot in the movies that you do not see in other movies
as much. Some things that you notice right away when you watch these
movies include all the swearing and blood everywhere. Another trait
of Tarantino is probably violence. In every movie there is always
someone fighting and guns. Although many movies have this as well the
way Quentin Tarantino does it is different because of the words he
uses are always the same. His characters always say the same type of
swears over and over while others use different words and variety.
Although other movies also have lots of blood in them I believe that
Quentin Tarantino probably has a set amount of money put aside just
for red paint because he is not afraid to splatter blood EVERYWHERE.
For example in the movie Django right after they make the purchase of
the girl a fight starts and Django kills so many people and everyone
gets shot as blood goes all over the walls and people. Not only
living people are getting shot but also the dead people are getting
shot again for more blood. A very interesting fact that I read about
on the internet while researching for this project is that the scene
where Leonardo
DiCaprio puts his blood all over the girl slave was his own real
blood. This was not in the movie at first and that he cut his hand
while hitting the table too hard. While he was smearing his blood all
over the girl's face you can only wonder to yourself if she was
acting or just screaming of terror because she was getting real blood
all over her. In Inglorious
Bastard there is a scene at a bar where everyone is shooting everyone.
In all his movies there is always at least one scene where everyone
is dying or there is blood everywhere. In Pulp Fiction when they are
in the car with the guy that they took along Vincent accidentally kills
him by shooting his face and blood goes all over the car. The car is
covered in blood and I am not even sure there is that much blood in
one person. Durring these movies I noticed camera shots and angles
that we talked about in class. An example of this would be in the
movie Django whenever someone is whipping someone else you always
look at the person with the wipe looking up and who ever is getting
wiped is always looking down. This shows power how we discussed in
class. As far as the movies go individually I liked them all.
Inglourious Bastards was a World War two movie from the point of view
of the Allies. In this movie a girl's family was killed in front of
her and she barley got away and later in life she has a movie theater
were she will trap many Nazis and kill them for revenge. Django was a
movie that was kind of a western but in the south that followed
Django as he tries to rescue his wife. He teams up with a white
bounty hunter and together they plan out a plan to buy his wife back
but that doesn't go well for him so in the end he needs to use other
means to get her back. The movie that I thought was the most
interesting though was Pulp Fiction. At first I didn't understand it
because unlike a normal movie it is not told in the right order.
Another thing that was not normal about this movie was the fact that
it was broken up into chapters. This movie tells the story of 3 main
people two hit men and one wrestler and how their lives connect. All
the movies had some funny parts that relax you a little from all the
action and tense scenes. In the movie Django all the KKK people
complain about their uniforms and it relaxes the audience from so
much drama. In the end I believe that Quentin Tarantino is a good
director and he makes very good films. I would watch his next film
and I think I am going to watch more of his films. I would recommend
all these films to a friend to watch without a doubt.
Hey Max, nice job here. Tarantino is an interesting director who pushes the envelope. I wonder if you might have been able to include more of a discussion of his use of violence. Why does he rely on it so much? I guess just a few more "why's" to the stylistic elements he incorporates would have been interesting. Watch out for grammar and try to organize using paragraphs.
ReplyDelete