Quentin Tarantino
Cinema's greatest crate-digger. He builds new things from beautiful wreckage, spaghetti westerns, blaxploitation, Hong Kong action. His films are love letters to film itself, written in blood.
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Kill Bill: Vol. 1
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
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Oldboy shares Tarantino's operatic violence and obsessive formal control of genre.
Longtime creative collaborators — Grindhouse; the same love of genre elevated to pure cinema.
Both deploy extreme violence as aesthetic — Audition mirrors Kill Bill's shattering operatic final act.
Both Miramax breakouts of the 90s — Lock Stock shares the same kinetic editing DNA.
Critical context
Were it not for Quentin Tarantino’s unassuming background, his meteoric rise to filmmaking fame would probably not itself have been so exceptional. But as it happened, the story of this high school drop-out turned self-educated movie geek who made good in a big way gave Tarantino a legendary standing almost immediately. Fuelled by a canny skill at self-promotion, a boundless enthusiasm – for his own movies and those by others – and an undeniable talent, Tarantino assumed rock star status and…
