Tarantino: Writer, Director, Actor, Lunatic
You've seen it before.It's been mocked in several movies. You may have even pretended to do it with your buddies.It's the slow motion walk scene from Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dog's.Little did Tarantino know, that this scene though would set his life into fast forward and secure his place as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.From Reservoir Dog's to Kill Bill Volume Two, Tarantino has turned Hollywood and the world upside down with his edgy and gruesome movies, not only as a writer/director but also as an actor as well.
Tarantino began his passion as a clerk at a video store in L.A. Tarantinofirst started by writing the script to the movie True Romance about an in-experienced call girl and comic book nerd. This movie really set Tarantino on the map as a promising, new, young, artist with great ideas.With his foot in the door Tarantino was ready to take the step from new and young to brilliant and innovative.
Reservoir Dog's premiered in 1992 at the Sundance Film Festival. This movie was really thefirst step for Tarantino to go out and set him self apart from most other directors.Tarantino uses several shots in most of his movies andfirst used some in this great epic.He borrows Scorceses trunk shot showing the view out of a trunk as people look in.He also shows a bloody Nova, which is also shown in Pulp Fiction.Tarantino has always used several different styles to get his point across. He especially likes gangster films, as evident in Reservoir Dog's, Samurai movies and westerns.
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