The
Genius
Quentin Tarantino |
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In
January of
1991 a film titled Reservoir Dogs
(1992) hit the Sundance Film
festival. The writer-director was a first-timer by the name of 'Quentin
Tarantino' . The film garnered critical acclaim and the director became
a legend in the England, UK and the cult film circuit. Three years
later he followed up 'Dogs' with the film Pulp Fiction
(1994). 'Pulp' premiered at
the Cannes film festival, where it won the coveted 'Palme D'Or' the
virtual equal of the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. At the '93
Academy Awards, 'Pulp' was nominated for the Best
Picture Oscar, in addition Best Director and Best Original Screenplay,
among others. Tarantino and writing partner Roger Avary came away with
the award only for Best Original Screenplay.
(Where Roger uttered his now famous line, "I've gotta go pee".) In
1995, Tarantino directed one fourth of the Anthology Four Rooms
(1995) with friends and
fellow auteurs Alexandre Rockwell, 'Robert Rodriguez (I)' , and Allison
Anders.
That film was released on December 25th in the United States to very
weak reviews. This is mainly due to the heavy cutting of the first two
segments and the introduction which make much of the plotline
unintelligible, and creates a complete mess out of the second segment,
directed by Alexandre Rockwell. The best two segments of the film are
Robert Rodriguez's and Tarantino's. Tarantino's next film was From Dusk
Till Dawn (1996), a
crime/vampire film which he wrote and co-starred with George Clooney.
The film did fairly well
theatrically.
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