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Get an intimate look at the cult filmmaker of our generation. Packaged in a handsome slipcase and loaded with stunning pictures from the Kobal archives, this biography explores the genesis of Tarantino's unique directorial style and provides insight into his inspirations and his frequent collaborations with favored actors. An 8-page foldout timeline presents Tarantino’s entire filmography in the heart of the book.
Through in-depth and informative text written by renowned film journalist Ian Nathan, this book examines the entirety of Tarantino's work, including his early writing on screenplays such as True Romance and Natural Born Killers, his break-out directorial debut Reservoir Dogs and the career-defining Pulp Fiction, as well as his later iconic films, such as Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Inglourious Basterds, and Django Unchained. You'll also go behind the scenes of Tarantino's latest epic, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. As you make your way through Tarantino's incredible career, discover what inspired him, his working methods, and the breadth of his talent.
With a visually arresting design that mimics Tarantino's approach to film-making and chapters organized by film, the pages are brimming with images taken on set and behind the scenes.
This is the ultimate celebration for any Tarantino fan.
From the Publisher
‘I DIDN’T GO TO FILM SCHOOL, I WENT TO FILMS.’
Why is Quentin Quentin? The answer is both simple and telling. Late in her pregnancy, Connie Tarantino – henceforth the redoubtable ‘Connie’ – became hooked on the Western serial ‘Gunsmoke’, featuring a young Burt Reynolds as Quint Asper, the half-Comanche blacksmith who appeared for three seasons. Connie is half Cherokee, a fact which would contribute an aura of mystery to her extraordinary son. Something she dismissed as ‘sensationalism'.
Reservoir Dogs
‘It’s a low budget movie,’ he promised, ‘because it all takes place in one garage where all these guys who pull a heist come back to, and you know something has gone badly wrong. But you never see the heist.' That was key – the whole film was all about the aftermath.
Pulp Fiction
‘Everything I have written,’ he confessed, ‘has at least twenty pages that are taken from other things I’ve done.’ The plan was an anthology movie like Mario Bava’s 1963 horror triptych Black Sabbath, but inspired by Tarantino’s love of old crime magazines like Black Mask. The legendary periodical was home to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett and more modern, hardboiled writers like Elmore Leonard and Jim Thompson – who once qualified as pulp but had crashed the literary party, just as he had duped the bouncers of the arthouse scene.
Jackie Brown
He would re-embrace the milieu of Pulp Fiction, but make a film in striking contrast to its cool playfulness. His adaptation, now retitled Jackie Brown, would run chronologically, A to B to C. To Tarantino’s zigzagging sensibility this was a radical subversion of the norm. ‘I wasn’t trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown, I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.' If his previous film had been an opera, this was a chamber piece. He already had a readymade subgenre for what he had in mind: this was a ‘hang out’ movie. ‘I made Jackie Brown like the way I always felt about [Howard Hawks’] Rio Bravo, which is a movie I can watch every couple of years.’ Once you get the storyline out of the way, you simply enjoy ‘hanging out’ with the characters.
Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2
For his comeback, he planned to make the loudest, craziest, most reverential and least realistic film possible. The Fourth Film by Quentin Tarantino, as it was flamboyantly billed, would double down on what we had come to know as Tarantinoesque. In short, he was about to try his hand at an action movie. Not in any mainstream Hollywood sense, but as a tribute to the myriad of martial arts films that sprang out of Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and China. Films like the Sonny Chiba double-bill that Clarence savours in a rundown cinema at the beginning of True Romance. It would be blood-soaked like never before and bound around the globe.
Inglourious Basterds
Back in the Video Archives days, whenever the gang got talking about their favourite World War II men-on-a mission movies – a classic subgenre including such luminaries as The Dirty Dozen and The Guns of Navarone, but, as Quentin Tarantino would keenly point out, also including an entire regiment of neglected gems – they would refer to them under the catch-all term of Inglorious Bastards movies.
Django Unchained
Spaghettis, with their co-option of samurai mythology, are big in Japan. Tarantino spent his day off listening to the scores, and an opening scene took shape in his imagination. In a rare instance caught without his notebooks, he began scribbling it down on hotel stationery before it got away.
The Hateful Eight
As modern audiences happily streamed movies, his movies, on their laptops and phones, The Hateful Eight was an emphatic reassertion of the cinematic. The idea of films being shrunk onto screens the size of a cigarette packet depressed him. It is no surprise to hear that he is a zealot for vinyl. He still writes his scripts by hand. ‘You don’t need technology for poetry,’ he sneered. With a touch of poetic contrariness, with the exception of the breathtaking vistas of the opening chapter, his great 70mm extravaganza was set in a single, ramshackle room. And this was another Western.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD
Where would his muse venture next? The answer was literally to Hollywood. But this was a Hollywood born in the mind of Quentin Tarantino, a vivid and brilliant fusion of life and art, and his most personal film.
Publisher : White Lion Publishing (October 1, 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 1781317755
ISBN-13 : 978-1781317754
Item Weight : 2 pounds
Dimensions : 8.75 x 1.2 x 10.1 inches
Reviewer: Chuck Jones
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: For movie lovers these types of books are excellent
Review: The details and backgrounds of the productions provide you with a glimpse into the minds of the characters and the personalities of the Directors and Writers of the Movies you are interested and entertained by.
Reviewer: buyer14
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Christmas gift
Review: My brother (25m) is a big tarantino fan and I got this for him for christmas. He thought it was rly cool and immediately sent pics to his group message with his friends! Thats a win in my book â¡Ì
Reviewer: Tryshah Taylor
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect
Review: If youâre a Tarantino fan, get this. Youâll love it. Also grab the vinyl collection of songs from his movies (The Tarantino Experience). Maybe listen while going through the book. Sounds like a great time. Would be a rad date.
Reviewer: Robert Rice
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great read of a great filmmaker.
Review: This is a perfect analogy of one of the great filmakes of all times. Very hard to put down.
Reviewer: Rocky
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best used as a decorative book
Review: I like the book, especially since it comes with a cover and it's hardcover. But the info is like a boring history book
Reviewer: Booklover
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Booklover
Review: This was for my grandson who is 21. He loves this book and about making movies.
Reviewer: Andrea F.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice gift
Review: This book was a nice gift for my brother who likes movies and pretty much nothing else interesting! The photos were good and the book was hefty enough. The book case was not in perfect condition but it did the job of protecting the book. Pleased with the purchase.
Reviewer: Rodri
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not Offical but awesome
Review: This is an unauthorised edition but still amazing
Reviewer: Jorge Abraham
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Es genial para un regalo o para alguien que sea fan. Está súper bello y con mucha información de las pelÃculas.
Reviewer: Anastasia Schwarzberg
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Reviewer: Steven Jawahir
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Great collectors item, makes a great gift as well. The case stands up so you can display the cover.
Reviewer: ellie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Looks amazing, comes in a little sleeve/ box great illustrations
Reviewer: Pamela
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Good quality! Beautiful text! You wonât regret it