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Born
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. -
Moved
When Quentin's Parents divorced, Tarantino's mother, after finishing her nursing studies, moved to Los Angeles with her then three year old son. Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after coming to Los Angeles, and the family moved to Torrance, a city in Los Angeles' South Bay area. -
Watching Movies at a young age
Zastoupil encouraged his love of movies, and accompanied the young Tarantino to numerous film screenings. Tarantino's mother allowed him to see movies with adult content, such as Carnal Knowledge (1971) and Deliverance (1972). After his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, Tarantino was later sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. He remained there for about six months to a year, before returning to California. His mother's next husband, took Tarantino to films. -
INSPERATION
As a child Tarantino began to have a love and passion on watching movies, he even quoted saying that "As a child, I was never into playing sports, watching sports or any of that kind of stuff I was into movies". Which even got Tarantino to writing his own little storys. -
MY BEST FRIEND'S BIRTHDAY
My Best Friend's Birthday is a partially lost black-and-white amateur film that Tarantino co-wrote and directed a movie called My Best Friend's Birthday in 1987. The final reel of the film was almost completely destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing. The original cut was about 70 minutes long but due to a fire only 36 minutes of the film survived. The 36 minute cut has been shown at several film festivals. It has never been officially released -
Acting
In 1985 at the age of 15 or 16, Tarantino dropped out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, Los Angeles. Where he later put himself in acting classes at the James Best Theatre Company. In the 1980s, Tarantino worked in a number of places. He impersonated Elvis Presley in an episode in the fourth season of The Golden Girls, which was broadcast on November 19, 1988. Tarantino also worked as a recruiter in the aerospace industry, and for five years, he worked in Video Archives -
BIG BREAK
When Tarantino met producer Lawrence Bender at a Hollywood party, Bender encouraged him to write a screenplay. Tarantino co-wrote and directed a movie called My Best Friend's Birthday in 1987. The final reel of the film was almost completely destroyed in a lab fire that occurred during editing,[citation needed] but its screenplay later formed the basis for True Romance. -
Making his first Film
After making Thirty-thousand dollars on True Romance. He wrote National Born Killers, which was later re-written by Oliver Stone. As well as writting another film called Reservoir Dogs. But then with the help of Lawrence Bender and actor Harvey Kitel Tarantino decided to direct the film and evently got a buget of 1.2 million dollars to make the film -
THE BIG PREMIERE
The Film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1992. It became the festival's most talked-about film, and was subsequently picked up for distribution by Miramax Films. After being shown at several other film festivals, including in Cannes, Sitges and Toronto, The film opened in the United States in 19 theaters with a first week total of $147,839. It was expanded to 61 theaters and totaled $2,832,029 at the domestic box office. -
Tarantino & Rodriguez friendship
Tarantino and Robert Rod first met at the Toronto Film Festival, each attending with his feature debut, Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs and Rodriguez with El Mariachi. It's no surprise that with each helming a groundbreaking, low-budget action film, they found something in common. They became fast friends, and it wasn't long before they began to work together. Rodriguez's Desperado (1995),Four Rooms, Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill, Grindhouse and many more. -
FILMMAKING INFLUENCES
Actor Steve Buscemi has described Tarantino's novel style of filmmaking as "bursting with energy" and "focused". Tarantino often uses graphic violence that has proven seductive to audiences, and he has been harshly criticized for his use of gore and blood in an entrancing yet simultaneously repulsive way. Not to mention how he uses hiss sharp diolog in his films and interesting charcaters that he creates. -
PULP FICTION
After the sucess of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for Pulp Fiction. Once he finished the film, he premiered it at the Cannes Film Festival. Which he was later (1995) received an Academy Award in the Best Writing (Original Screenplay) category, which he shared with Roger Avary. He also received a nomination in the Best Director category. The film received another five nominations, including for Best Picture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkA3AoD-0oQ -
JACKIE BROWN
2 years later Tarantino's third feature film was Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. An homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier, who starred in many of the films of that genre in the 1970s. The film was released on Christmas Day and grossed over $74.7 million with a budget of just 12 million. -
KILL BILL
Tarantino had next planned to make Inglourious Basterds, but postponed this to write and direct Kill Bill, a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Chinese martial arts/Japanese period cinema and spaghetti westerns. It was originally set for a single theatrical release, with a 4-hour plus running time prompted Tarantino to divide it into two movies. Volume 1 was released in late 2003 grossing 180.9 million and Vol. 2 grossing 152.2 Mill over a buget of 30 million -
PRODUCING
From 2006 to 2009 Tarantino began producing films like Hostel, which included numerous references to his own Pulp Fiction; the adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot, for which Tarantino was credited as an executive producer, although he was no longer associated with the film after its 2009 release; and Hell Ride, written and directed by Larry Bishop and Jonny Lane who both appeared in Kill Bill: Volume 2 -
DEATH PROOF
Tarantino's next film project was Grindhouse, which he co-directed with Rodriguez. Released in theaters on April 6, 2007, Tarantino's contribution to the Grindhouse project was titled Death Proof. It began as a take on 1970s slasher films, but evolved dramatically as the project unfolded. Ticket sales were low despite mostly positive reviews. With the film olny making $30.7 million which became to be Tarantino's first box office failure. -
TAKEING ANOTHER SHOT
Tarantino's next film Inglourious Basterds (Starring Brad Pitt), released in 2009, is the story of a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Filming began in October 2008. The film opened on August 21, 2009 to very positive reviews and reached the No. 1 spot at the box office worldwide. It went on to become Tarantino's highest-grossing film $321.5 million over a $70 million budget -
BACK ON TOP
Inglorious Basterds received multiple awards and nominations, among them eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. For his role as Hans Landa, Waltz won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award, as well as the BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Golden Globe Award, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. -
NEW FILM
In 2011, production began on Django Unchained starring Leo Dicaprio and Jamie Foxx a film about the revenge of a slave in the U.S. South in 1858. The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a spaghetti western set in America's Deep South. Tarantino called the proposed style "a southern", stating that he wanted "to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies. -
DJANGO UNCHAINED
Django Unchained was released on December 25, 2012, in the United States by The Weinstein Company (Who sponsered some of Tarantino's other films) making a worldwide total gross of $425,368,238 As of 2013, Django Unchained is Tarantino's highest grossing film. The film has been acclaimed by critics and has garnered a rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, The site's consensus states: "Bold, bloody, and stylistically daring, Django Unchained is another incendiary masterpiece from Quentin Tarantino" -
RETIREMENT PLANS ALREADY!!
Tarantino has said that he plans to retire from filmmaking when he is 60, in order to focus on writing novels and film literature. He is skeptical of the film industry going digital, saying, "If it actually gets to the place where you can't show 35 mm film in theatres anymore and everything is digital projection, I won't even make it to 60. "If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don’t screw it up, well that sounds like a good way to end the old career". -
Writing Process
Tarntino stated that his writing process is like writing a book before putting it into a script, he creates the blueprint of the film "My head is a sponge. I listen to what everyone says, I watch little idiosyncratic behavior, people tell me a joke and I remember it. People tell me an interesting story in their life and I remember it when I go and write my new characters, my pen is like an antenna, it gets that information, and all of a sudden these characters come out more or less fully formed. -
SECOND OSCAR
Tarantino won his second oscar for best origional screenplay for Django talking about what makes his screenplays so special.“I’ve been saying things like, ’I want to thank the actors for what they’ve done’ when it comes to my scripts. But it’s not just an easy thing to say. It’s really why I’m standing here I actually think if people know about my movies 30 years from now it’s going to be because of the characters come alive and hopefully live for for a long time. -
NEW FILM!!
Back in In November 2013, Tarantino said he was working on a new film and that it would be another Western. He stated that it would not be a sequel to Django. On January 12, 2014, it was revealed that the film would be titled The Hateful Eight. The production of the western would most likely have begun in the summer of 2014 -
LEAKED
After Tarantino annonced the title of his new film "The Hateful Eight" litterly four days later after the script for the film leaked. Tarantino considered dropping the movie and publishing it as a novel instead. He claimed to have given the script to a few trusted colleagues, including Bruce Dern, Tim Roth and Michael Madsen. But it turned out that Gawker Media has leaked it on their website -
LIVE READING
On April 19, 2014, Tarantino directed a live reading of the leaked script at the United Artists Theater in the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles. The event was organized by the Film Independent at LACMA, as part of the Live Read series that was hosted by Elvis Mittchel. Tarantino explained that they would read the first draft of the script, and he added that he was writing two new drafts with a different ending. -
School Drop Out
Tarantino loathed school, choosing to spend his time watching movies or reading comics rather than studying. The only subject that appealed to him was history. "History was cool and I did well there, because it was kind of like the movies," he told Entertainment Weekly. -
THE HATEFUL EIGHT
On May 28, 2014, Tarantino said that he changed his mind and would start filming The Hateful Eight in January in Colorado, with all the cast members from the script reading and with a possible 2015 release date. Then it was later stated that The film will be released on January 8, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnRbXn4-Yis -
Quentin Tarantino Documentry
Production has commenced on 21 Years: Quentin Tarantino, an authorized look at the career so far of the idiosyncratic filmmaker behind Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and the upcoming Hateful Eight, director-producer Tara Wood confirmed to EW. The film will feature interviews with such Tarantino collaborators as Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lucy Liu, and Kerry Washington.
