Case Study for Director (Quentin Tarantino)

Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and loosely an actor. He was born on March 27^th 1963, in Knoxville Tennessee.  Many of Quentin Tarantino’s films have used some nonlinear storylines and violence.

He has become famous for many of his films. Such as Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Death Proof and Inglorious Bastards.  Although these are some of his most famous films there are others such as Sin City. Not only are his films a hit, but he they have been nominated for various awards.  For example Inglorious Bastards was nominated for 3 academy awards, 2 BAFTA’s, 1 Chicago film award, a Director’s guild of America award, a Golden Globe, a Palme d’Or and a Grammy. This shows how his films are highly well made, and how this became one of his more well known films, similar to Pulp Fiction.

Although it may not seem it, Quentin Tarantino had dropped out of school at the age of 15. He then went to acting school at the James Best Theatre Company, in Toluca Lake. At the age of 22 Quentin was working at the Video Archives, a video rental store in Manhattan Beach, where he spent all day discussing cinema and recommending videos to customers.

He began his film career after meeting Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party. It was here that Quentin was encouraged to write a screenplay.  He was then the co-writer for a movie called My Best Friends Holiday in 1987. The final take was destroyed in a fire during editing but Tarantino’s screenplay had to led to form the basis for True Romance. True Romance was a 1993 romantic crime film, in which Quentin Tarantino had been the full writer for. This was not the first film of his to be released though. In 1992 Quentin Tarantino had screened his film Reservoir Dogs, at the Sundance Film Festival, which became a huge hit. The Sundance Film Festival is an annual festival that happens in Utah.

He has also been an actor in a number of films, including his own. Some films he was in were Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Sleep With Me, 2 of these being films written by him. He has worked on Broadway, starred as a guest judge on the program American Idol and on television shows such as Alias and Golden Girls. He was also the host of an episode of Saturday Night Live.