Quentin Tarantino Movies
Quentin Tarantino: A hit director when he remembers to pick a genre people care about, an extraordinarily expensive hobbyist when he doesn't.
Just The Facts
- Tarantino believes moving understandably from beginning to end is for Sesame Street and the fuckin' alphabet.
- Movie profits range from one hundred million dollars to negative forty million.
- He is the only person to be nominated for both Best Director and Worst Supporting Actor. And the specially-created unofficial "Please Stop Playing Rapists in Movies" award.
Cinema Culture References
Quentin Tarantino used to recommend movies while working in a video rental store, making him the most successful "annoying guy going on about 'good' movies" in the entire world. When he remembers to put all his references, nods and winks into a movie he earns it. When he makes the entire movie a nod and a wink to a bunch of movies nobody else has seen, the studio pays for it.
Tarantino on Pop Culture (AKA If Cracked.com Was Written on Cocaine)
Tarantino is the patron saint of people with too much time on their hands. His monologues in movies often read like a Cracked.com article written by someone who has just shoveled a trash bag of cocaine up his nose. But they're almost always balls on:
On Top Gun:
"What is Top Gun? You think it's a story about a bunch of fighter pilots. It is a story about a man's struggle with his own homosexuality. It is! That is what Top Gun is about, man. You've got Maverick, all right? He's on the edge, man. He's right on the fucking line, all right? And you've got Iceman, and all his crew. They're gay, they represent the gay man, all right? And they're saying, go, go the gay way, go the gay way. He could go both ways.
Kelly McGillis, she's heterosexuality. She's saying: No, no, no, no, no, no, go the normal way, play by the rules, go the normal way. They're saying no, go the gay way, be the gay way, go for the gay way, all right? That is what's going on throughout that whole movie... He goes to her house, all right? It looks like they're going to have sex, you know, they're just kind of sitting back, he's takin' a shower and everything. They don't have sex. He gets on the motorcycle, drives away. She's like, "What the fuck, what the fuck is going on here?"
Next scene, next scene you see her, she's in the elevator, she is dressed like a guy. She's got the cap on, she's got the aviator glasses, she's wearing the same jacket that the Iceman wears. She is, okay, this is how I gotta get this guy, this guy's going towards the gay way, I gotta bring him back, I gotta bring him back from the gay way, so I'll do that through subterfuge, I'm gonna dress like a man. All right? That is how she approaches it.
All right, but the REAL ending of the movie is when they fight the MIGs at the end, all right? Because he has passed over into the gay way. They are this gay fighting fucking force, all right? And they're beating the Russians, the gays are beating the Russians. And it's over, and they fucking land, and Iceman's been trying to get Maverick the entire time, and finally, he's got him, all right? And what is the last fucking line that they have together? They're all hugging and kissing and happy with each other, and Ice comes up to Maverick, and he says, "Man, you can ride my tail, anytime!" And what does Maverick say? "You can ride mine!" Swordfight! Swordfight! Fuckin' A, man!"
On Madonna:
"Let me tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick. The entire song. It's a metaphor for big dicks. 'Like a Virgin' is not about this sensitive girl who meets a nice fella. That's what "True Blue" is about, now, granted, no argument about that.
Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick. Then one day she meets this John Holmes motherfucker and it's like, whoa baby, I mean this cat is like Charles Bronson in the Great Escape, he's digging tunnels. Now, she's gettin' the serious dick action and she's feeling something she ain't felt since forever. Pain. Pain.
It hurts her. It shouldn't hurt her, you know, her pussy should be Bubble Yum by now, but when this cat fucks her it hurts. It hurts just like it did the first time. You see the pain is reminding a fuck machine what it once was like to be a virgin. Hence, 'Like a Virgin'."
Quentin Tarantino Discusses His 20 Favorite Movies Since 1992
Battle Royale
Anything Else
Audition
Blade
Boogie Nights
Dazed & Confused
Dogville
Fight Club
Friday
The Host
The Insider
Joint Security Area
Lost In Translation
The Matrix
Memories of Murder
Police Story 3
Shaun of the Dead
Speed
Team America
Unbreakable
Director/screenwriter/actor/producer Quentin Tarantino was perhaps the most distinctive and volatile talent to emerge in American film in the early '90s. Unlike the previous generation of American filmmakers, Tarantino learned his craft from his days as a video clerk rather than as a film-school student.
ReplyI call B.S., I would never call Death Proof anything but a success. All those legendary stunt people doing all those chase scenes and crashes? Come on Cracked.
ReplyThe writer is talking in pure financial terms, not in how awesome the fans think the film is [or in how awesome the film objectively is by how many boxes it ticks in the "AWESOME" column]. Financially, Death Proof flopped. I love Tarantino, have seen most of his films, but I've yet to see it.
Here, I liked Jackie Brown.
Replyi liked it also
COPY+PASTE = The writer is talking in pure financial terms, not in how awesome the fans think the film is [or in how awesome the film objectively is by how many boxes it ticks in the "AWESOME" column].
Battle Royale was a great fuckin' movie. too bad almost nobody in my area besides me and my tarantino/kevin smith fanboy buddy have seen it or even heard of it. it's a shame really.
ReplyGrindcore as a movie genre? What the fuck? Grindcore is a (FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC) music genre...it (at it's base) combines extreme punk (Crust Punk & Thrashcore) with extreme metal (Death Metal & hints of Thrash Metal)...
ReplyWhat he meant was the gritty, bloody style of Grindhouse double-feature exploitation films. They're pretty kickass.
Also, you're stupid and have s****y taste in music. Please change your username immediately
PS- "Grindcore" has nothing to do with punk AT ALL. Neither do you.
Guess which Quentin movie this comic is referencing.
Replyhttp://www.morningsquirtz.com/brainstorm_session.html
Your article was good up until the main body of it was the entire monologue of Tarantino's in "Sleep With Me". I can understand referencing it or putting a link to it, but the whole thing? Seriously, when you're trying to be creative use your own thoughts on the subject. I don't like to be "that guy" but come on that's plagiarism.
ReplyYou're not necessarily "that guy", don't be so hard on yourself. It's also not plagiarism when a writer puts stuff in quotes, then cites where it came from.
I like how tarantino mentioned how s****y the matrix sequels are, I don't own them so I kinda forgot they exist
ReplyYeah, some girls do talk like that. I know you're making a comedic point, but there are SO many other genuinely unrealistic things in that film (the final car chase!?) than the fact that some girls talk like that. I do. Some guys get together and b***h about women. *shrug* People are diverse. Casual sexism, ah, it's just a lazy, tired attempt at comedy.
ReplyHow does one confuse the film genre "Grindhouse," with the aggressive music genre "Grindcore?" What the bloody c**k of Christ is that about?
ReplyGotta say: I loved Inglorious Basterds...and I notice ya kinda left Pulp Fiction off your lil' chart there.
ReplyActually, Pulp Fiction IS on the chart--it's on the same one as Resevoir Dogs.
Uhhhh...hate to break it to you, but women DO talk like frat boys. I work with lots of them, and they're very frat-boy-esque. They also like to hang up pictures of men who have had the misfortune of having their clothes stolen.
ReplyThis is a win just based off of the summary sentence at top!
Replyanyone that says they hated team america, is probably an american who has no idea how others view their country.
ReplyThat makes so much sense! What you just typed up totally doesn't stem from the idea that Americans in general are oblivious to how the world views them (stereotyping and generalizing is always a great thing to do - especially on the internet!). It's also obvious that anyone who hates Team America is American too (I'm sure you have proof of this too somewhere), rather than just anyone all over the world thinking the movie isn't funny. Like at all. Like as if they're tired of Parker and Stone creating pretentious, political crap. But that's gotta be crazy talk, right?
I liked Team America, but I can't stand Parker and Stone in general. Let's nuke South Park. Maybe the resulting mutations might cause me to chuckle.
He's right about Unbreakable, though.
ReplyThe fourth movie he says is "The Blade," not "Blade." Sort of an important difference.
There are some crap formulas in Tarantino flicks, but he pulls the whole ensemble off with enough style that you can let them pass. If he wasn't as good at dialogue, or action, or humor, or with the voguish film-geek touches, it would be shite (which is why every director who's ever tried to imitate him has been shite).
ReplyAlso, the "digging in the crates" aspect of his whole aesthetic is a good thing. You can find all kinds of great movies just by going back and figuring out what he's referencing, especially in the Kill Bill flicks. I would've never heard of "Lady Snowblood" without those movies.
OTOH, I do think less of someone who thought Team America was good. They should've just released the puppet sex scene as a short and left it that.
Why does QT hate women?
Replywho says he hates women?
Aside from the whole getting killed by a crazy-ass m**********r, the whole beginning of Death Proof could be me and my friends. Are you saying that we talk like frat boys? For shame, cracked...!
ReplyI mean. Regardless of what you think of his movies.... Great coke'd up rant writing.
Reply... "I DO COCAAAAAAAAINE!"
Tarrantino is obvious. I don't think anyone can argue with that. Foot fetish...scalping...etc. But his movies are excellent. He's a weird m**********r, but I appreciate that he's taken that role and managed to somehow get studios to pay him a shitload of money in order for him to realize it on screen. Take Inglourious Basterds for instance.....that s**t was ridiculous. It was historically inaccurate, completely overtop (I mean, 90% of the movie was in subtitles...who the f**k can get away with that?). Yet, it had been talked about for over a year before it even came out. He's a menace, but a menace with a fucked up mind that almost anyone can appreciate. If a movie doesn't give you that "WHAT THE FUCK?" feeling, then what is the point? Obvious....but brilliant. I'd trade lives with Quentin Tarrantino or Robert Rodriguez in a heartbeat. Sick fucks....but brilliant.
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