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Born: March 27, 1963

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. Consequently, he developed an audacious fusion of pop culture and independent arthouse cinema; his films were thrillers that were distinguished as much by their clever, twisting dialogue as their outbursts of extreme violence. Tarantino initially began his career as an actor (his biggest role was as an Elvis impersonator on an episode of The_Golden_Girls), taking classes while he was working at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, CA.

Op tweejarige leeftijd verlaat Quentin samen met zijn moeder Knoxville om zich te vestigen in Los Angeles. Quentin maakt zijn school niet af, neemt verschillende baantjes en komt uiteindelijk terecht bij het videoarchief in Manhattan Beach, C.A. Cinephiles. Hier blijft hij vijf jaar en doet hij enorm veel filmkennis op. Quentin is dan ook een duidelijk voorbeeld van leren in de praktijk in plaats van op de filmacademie.

Tijdens zijn werk in het archief ontmoet hij Roger Avary, waarmee hij enkele jaren later samenwerkt aan ‘Reservoir Dogs’, ‘True Romance’ en ‘Pulp Fiction’. Quentin en Roger worden ingehuurd door producent John Langley, een vaste klant van het archief die zo onder de indruk is van de filmkennis van het tweetal dat hij ze in dienst neem als productie-assistenten. Dit betekent het begin van Quentin’s filmcarrière.

Door hun baantje bij John Langley worden Quentin en Roger binnengebracht bij Cinetal Productions, alwaar zij hun script schrijven voor ‘Reservoir Dogs’. In 1992 wordt die film uitgebracht en Harvey Keitel speelt een van de personages. De film wordt vertoond op het Sundance Film Festival en slaat in als een bom. Quentin’s naam is gevestigd.

Drie jaar later verschijnt ‘Pulp Fiction’. Bekende sterren vervullen de rollen van de hoofdpersonages. Bruce Willis, John Travolta (wiens carrièrre dankzij deze film wordt gered), Samuel L. Jackson en Uma Thurman zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden. ‘Pulp Fiction’ beleeft de première op het Cannes Film Festival en wint de Palm D’Or. Tevens wordt de film genomineerd voor Oscars als ‘Beste Film’, ‘Beste Regisseur’ en ‘Origineelste Script’. Quentin en Roger keren uiteindelijk met die van ‘Origineelste Script’ huiswaarts.
Quentin Tarantino ist ein US-amerikanischer Regisseur, der im Alter von 29 Jahren mit seinem Debüt-Streifen Reservoir Dogs schlagartig bekannt wurde. Seine Filme Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown und Kill Bill Vol. 1 und 2 machten ihn zur Ikone des Genres.

Leben und Werk

Tarantino kam 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee als Sohn des italo-amerikanischen Schauspielers Tony Tarantino und der Pflegerin Connie McHugh zur Welt. Die Mutter benannte das Kind nach der von Burt Reynolds dargestellten Figur des Quint in der Fernsehserie Gunsmoke. Außerdem soll die Mutter während der Schwangerschaft William Faulkners The Sound and the Fury gelesen haben, in der ein Charakter namens Quentin auftritt.

Kurz nach der Geburt Quentins heiratete die 16-jährige Mutter ihren zweiten Mann Curt Zastoupil. Als der kleine Quentin drei Jahre alt war, siedelte die Familie nach El Segundo, Los Angeles um, wo Quentin die Hawthorne Christian School besuchte, bis er 16 Jahre alt war. Anschließend besuchte er die Schauspielschule James Best Theatre Company. Für das Filmgeschäft hatte sich der Junge bereits früh interessiert, mit 14 Jahren schrieb er sein erstes Drehbuch The Amazing Adventures of Mr. Lee. Er jobbte nach Abbruch der Highschool als Kartenabreisser im Pornokino Pussycat Theatre in Torrance. Mit 19 Jahren begann Quentin zusammen mit Roger Avary in einer Videothek zu jobben. In dieser Zeit begann er sich für Kurse an der Allen Garfields Actors Shelter in Beverly Hills einzuschreiben und sich intensiver mit dem Drehbuchschreiben auseinanderzusetzen.

During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first, True_Romance, in 1987. With his co-worker, Roger_Avary (who would later also become a director), Tarantino tried to get financial backing to film the script. After years of negotiations, he decided to sell the script, which wound up in the hands of director Tony_Scott. During this time, Tarantino wrote the screenplay for Natural_Born_Killers. Again, he was unable to come up with enough investors to make a movie and gave the script to his partner, Rand_Vossler. Tarantino then used the money he made from True_Romance to begin pre-production on Reservoir_Dogs, a film about a failed heist. Reservoir_Dogs received financial backing from LIVE Entertainment after Harvey_Keitel agreed to star in the movie. Word-of-mouth on Reservoir_Dogs began to build at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, which led to scores of glowing reviews, making the film a cult hit. While many critics and fans were praising Tarantino, he developed a sizable number of detractors. Claiming he ripped off the obscure Hong Kong thriller City on Fire, the critics only added to the director/writer’s already considerable buzz. During 1993, Tarantino wrote and directed his next feature, Pulp_Fiction, which featured three interweaving crime storylines; Tony_Scott’s big-budget production of True_Romance was also released that year.

In 1994, Tarantino was elevated from a cult figure to a major celebrity. Pulp_Fiction won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival that May, beginning the flood of good reviews for the picture. Before Pulp_Fiction was released in October, Oliver Stone’s bombastic version of Natural_Born_Killers hit the theaters in August; Tarantino distanced himself from the film and was only credited for writing the basic story. Pulp_Fiction soon eclipsed Natural_Born_Killers in both acclaim and popularity. Made for eight million dollars, the film eventually grossed over 100 million dollars and topped many critics’ top ten lists. Pulp_Fiction earned seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino and Avary), Best Actor (John Travolta), Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson), and Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman); it won one, for Tarantino and Avery’s writing.

After the film’s success, Tarantino was everywhere, from talk shows to a cameo in the low-budget Sleep_With_Me. At the beginning of 1995, he directed a segment of the anthology film Four_Rooms and acted in Robert_Rodriguez’s sequel to El_Mariachi, Desperado, and the comedy Destiny Turns on the Radio, in which he had a starring role. Tarantino also kept busy with television, directing an episode of the NBC TV hit ER and appearing in Margaret Cho’s sitcom All-American Girl.

The latter half of the ’90s saw Tarantino continue his multifaceted role as an actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. In 1996, he served as the screenwriter and executive producer for the George_Clooney schlock-fest From_Dusk_Till_Dawn, and the following year renewed some of his earlier acclaim as the director and screenwriter of Jackie_Brown. The film, in which Tarantino had a voice-over cameo, reunited him with Fiction star Samuel L. Jackson and won him the raves that had been missing for much of his post-Fiction career. Also in 1997, Tarantino appeared in Full_Tilt_Boogie, a documentary about the making of From_Dusk_Till_Dawn. His film work the following year was essentially confined to a role in friend Julia_Sweeney’s God_Said,_Ha!, and in 1999, he was back behind the camera as the producer for From_Dusk_Till_Dawn_2:_Texas_Blood_Money.

Though Tarantino would lay relatively low in the early years of the new millennium, he did make a prominent guest-starring appearance in 2001 on a two-episode story arc of the spy show Alias. In late 2002/early 2003, hype would soon start to build around his fourth feature, Kill_Bill (2003). Though originally envisioned to be a single release, Kill_Bill was eventually seperated into two films entitled Kill_Bill_Vol._1 and Kill_Bill_Vol._2 when it became obvious that the story was simply too far-reaching to be contained in a single film. A kinetic homage to revenge movies of the 1970s, Kill_Bill_Vol._1 featured Uma Thurman as a former assassin known as “The Bride.” While the first film in the pair was an eye-popping homage to Asian cinema and all things extreme, the outrageous violence of Kill_Bill_Vol._1 stood in stark contrast to the dialogue-driven second installment that concluded the epic tale of revenge and betrayal. The gambit of separate releases paid off, as both earned a combined sum of more than 130 million dollars domestically.

In the wake of the Kill_Bill films, rumors abounded concerning Tarantino’s next feature, and eager fans were shocked to see his name mentioned as being a potential candidate to helm everything from the next Friday the 13th film to a remake of the James_Bond classic Casino_Royale.

In 2005, Tarantino did step back into the director’s chair to helm a segment of Robert_Rodriguez’s eagerly anticipated comic book adaptation Sin_City. A longtime friend of Rodriguez, Tarantino agreed to take part in the filming of Sin_City, not only to repay the versatile filmmaker for providing soundtrack music for the Kill_Bill films, but also to try his hand at digital filmmaking — a process increasingly championed by the seemingly inexhaustable Rodriguez. After this, the two directors joined forces again, for one of the most ballyhooed and hotly anticipated pictures of 2007: Grindhouse. A no-holds-barred elegy to the sleazy, seedy, often half-dilapidated inner-city theaters of the 1970s that would churn out similarly sleazy movies, Tarantino and Rodriguez divided Grindhouse into two portions: the first half, Death_Proof, directed by Tarantino, starred Kurt_Russell in homage to the high-octane auto thrillers of the ’70s. Merging low-brow thrills with blunt, existential dialogue, the Tarantino segment garnered the lion’s share of the film’s considerable critical praise, although the three-hour-plus Grindhouse ultimately failed to connect with audiences, much to the dismay of The Weinstein Company, who released it. Separate versions of Death_Proof and Rodriguez’s Planet_Terror were then prepped for European release, with Tarantino’s effort screened in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

In 2009 Tarantino issued Inglorious Basterds, a sprawling World War II epic abuot a band of Jewish American soldiers fighting an Apache resistence behind enemy lines in Nazi-occupied France. The film, strring Brad Pitt, was a hit around the world, and garnered Tarantino nominations from the Writers Guild, the Directors Guild, the Hollywood Foreign Press, and the Academy for his screenplay and his direction.
‘Four Rooms’, een productie waaraan Quentin samenwerkt met Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez en Allison Anders, wordt minder enthousiast ontvangen. Deze teleurstelling wordt goedgemaakt met ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’, een soort crimi-vampierfilm en Quentin’s derde film ‘Jackie Brown’.

De filmindustrie heeft Quentin aangewezen als het symbool voor de nieuwe generatie jonge filmmakers. Zijn werk is controvercieel, gewelddadig en zelf-reflectief. Hij ontleent veel aan de populaire cultuur, film- en televisiewereld. Zijn films worden, ondanks de enorme bedragen waarvoor ze gemaakt worden, regelmatig aangeduid als zijnde ‘cult’ en ‘lowbudget’. Dit komt misschien doordat hij gebruik maakt van op film-noir geïnspireerde verhaallijnen, gangsters en een grote hoeveelheid B-filmsterren die de ‘grote acteurs’ ondersteunen. De sfeer in zijn films wordt sterk bepaald door de populaire muziek die hij erin verwerkt en die zorgt voor een uitstekende soundtrack-verkoop.

Opvallend is dat Quentin zelf regelmatig een rolletje voor zijn rekening neemt in zijn eigen producties en dat zijn films in sommige gevallen meer opleveren dan die van Spielberg of Scorsese. Dat zijn films grote invloed hebben op de hedendaagse filmindustrie blijkt wel uit de enorme stroom Tarantino-look-a-like films die tegenwoordig verschijnen.

Zes jaar na ‘Jackie Brown’ komt hij eindelijke met een nieuwe film, of beter gezegd twee films: ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 1’ en ‘Kill Bill: Vol. 2’. Als onderdeel van het tweeluik Grindhouse, dat hij samen met Robert Rodriguez maakt, regisseert hij het tegenvallende ‘Death Proof’. Maar in 2009 is hij helemaal terug met zijn onorthodoxe oorlogsfilm ‘Inglourious Basterds’, die in wereldpremière tijdens het Film Festival van Cannes.
Bereits mit seinem Erstlingswerk Reservoir Dogs wurde der damals 29-jährige zum Kultregisseur. Zuvor, von 1984 bis 1986, hatte er am unvollendeten Film My Best Friends Birthday gearbeitet und 1983 bereits ein Filmprojekt namens Lovebirds in Bondage mit Scott McGill abgebrochen. Während dieser Zeit hielt er sich ein Jahr lang am Sundance Institute von Robert Redford in Utah auf.

Pulp Fiction folgte 1994 und bescherte Tarantino endgültigen Kultstatus, wodurch auch Reservoir Dogs noch einmal Geld einspielte und Fans gewann. Pulp Fiction gewann die Goldene Palme beim Filmfestival in Cannes und spielte bei einem Budget von 8 Mio. Dollar über 100 Mio. Dollar ein. Mit Episoden in den Filmen Four Rooms oder Destiny Turns On The Radio konnte der Kultregisseur jedoch nicht überzeugen.

Als Drehbuchautor machte Quentin Tarantino durch das später von ihm kritisierte True Romance, durch Natural Born Killers von Oliver Stone und durch From Dusk Till Dawn, in dem Tarantino auch eine Rolle spielte, auf sich aufmerksam. Anfang der 1990er Jahre gründete Tarantino zudem die Produktionsfirma A Band Apart und die Plattenfirma A Band Apart Records.

1997 folgte die Hommage an die Blaxploitation-Filme der 1970er Jahre: Jackie Brown. Nachdem er das Projekt Inglorious Basterds damals zunächst wieder fallen gelassen hatte, folgte sechs Jahre nach Jackie Brown der überaus erfolgreiche Zweiteiler Kill Bill mit Uma Thurman in der Hauptrolle. Mit Death Proof – Todsicher aus dem Jahre 2007 konnte Quentin Tarantino allerdings nicht an seine Erfolgsfilme anknüpfen, der Film floppte in den USA. Jedoch birgt auch er die Möglichkeit eines Kultfilmes. Für das Fernsehen drehte Quentin Tarantino das Finale der fünften Staffel der Serie CSI, zehn Jahre, nachdem er Regie bei einer Episode der Serie Emergency Room geführt hatte.

Anfang der Neunziger sah man Quentin Tarantino in seiner ersten Rolle in der TV-Serie Golden Girls. Auch in der TV-Serie Alias tritt er mehrfach auf. In manchen seiner Filme, wie Reservoir Dogs, Death Proof – Todsicher oder Pulp Fiction besetzt er sich mit Nebenrollen. Neben George Clooney trat er in From Dusk Till Dawn auf. Weitere Filme in denen Tarantino als Darsteller auftritt sind: Planet Terror, Desperado und Little Nicky.

Wissenswertes

Quentin Tarantino ist unverheiratet und hat keine Kinder. Zu seinen Verflossenen zählen: Mira Sorvino, Sofia Coppola, Margaret Cho, Shar Jackson und Julie Dreyfus. Auch wurde ihm eine Romanze mit Uma Thurman nachgesagt, die er immer wieder als seine Muse bezeichnet, bestätigt wurde dies allerdings nie.


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