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Quentin Tarantino is an American film director. His best known films are Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), the two-part Kill Bill (2003/2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). He also produced films, scenarios’s written as (film) actor occurred. He won an Oscar for the screenplay of Pulp Fiction.

The film style of which he is an exponent, the Nouvelle Violence, because of the very explicit scenes of violence. The themes of his films is situated in the underworld where other laws prevail than in bourgeois society. Characteristic for dealing with violence is the banality of it, as if killing and torturing ordinary cost is.
Typical of the work of Tarantino are also the numerous references to other films. This is often blamed on the fact that at the age of fifteen have left school to work in a video store and so came into contact with various film genres. In an interview with the BBC says Tarantino still be overjoyed with this decision.
An example is the dance in Pulp Fiction that John Travolta, one of the main characters, makes with Uma Thurman, referring to Travolta’s dance films, including Saturday Night Fever.

Furthermore, he dives here and also as an actor. So he played supporting roles in Reservoir Dogs (as Mr.. Brown) and Pulp Fiction (as Jimmie Dimmick). In which he wrote and produced From Dusk Till Dawn, he played alongside George Clooney is one of the main characters as Richard Gecko.

Besides numerous obvious or more subtle references, he incorporates many existing music in his films. With Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or for best film at the Cannes Film Festival. Additionally, the film was nominated 7 times for an Oscar. He won the 1994 Oscar for original screenplay.
Tarantino also wrote, Natural Born Killers (1994)among other , directed by Oliver Stone and True Romance (1993), directed by Tony Scott.