The Hateful Eight is a spiritual sequel toĭjango Unchained and plays with the conventions of a classic closed-door mystery. Kill Bill joyfully dives into Kung Fu territory. Reservoir Dogs is a heist film turned on its head, To subvert, one has to be a master of the genre and just like Tarantino can play with time only because he has such a tight control of it, so it is with his genre games. Apart from being a visual treat, Tarantino’s films are an aural delight as well.īrad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.’Įach of Tarantino’s films can be looked at as loving subversions of a particular genre.
The Hateful Eight has an original score by Ennio Morricone his first Western in 34 years. Reservoir Dogs has a music countdown happening in the background, whileĭjango Unchained, there is a spaghetti western riff and Jackie Brown prefers vinyl and ‘Across 110th Street’ and ‘Strawberry Letter 23’ echo her taste. Tarantino has been quoted as saying he finds the personality of the opening sequence through the music and Nancy Sinatra’s ‘Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)’ sets the tone for the roaring rampage of revenge that is Obscure and well known pop tracks run through his movies like a scintillating skein of sound. Music is the beating heart of Tarantino’s films. So along with ‘Girl You’ll be a Woman Soon’ (Urge Overkill), ‘Son of a Preacher Man’ (Dusty Springfield), ‘Jungle Boogie’ (Kool & the Gang) and Chuck Berry’s ‘You Never Can Tell’ for the Jack Rabbit Slims Twist Contest, there was Pumpkin and Honey Bunny holding up a diner to ‘Misirlou’, Royale with Cheese, Zed’s Dead and Ezekiel 25:17 from Samuel L Jackson. Pulp Fiction was released in India, there was a CD of the soundtrack, which like ‘Kill Bill’, Uma Thurman, 2003, (c) Miramax/courtesy Everett Collection Inglourious Basterds ) or caterwauling and astronomy aficionados (ĭjango Unchained ) are a pleasant discovery as those are not the words you would normally associate with Nazi hunters like Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) or bounty hunters like Dr King Schultz (Christoph Waltz).
They do not merely further the plot, they are like a waltz, a character in itself, revealing things about the characters, their inner life, their fears and anxieties as well as what makes them tick. Inglourious Basterds ) or Jackie Brown talking about how difficult it is for a coloured woman to start over at 44, in Tarantino movies conversations are not utilitarian. Pulp Fiction ), SS Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) discussing the hawk and rat analogy ( Whether it is Jules (Samuel L Jackson) and Vince (John Travolta) talking about Royale du cheese ( While Tarantino’s films could be lauded for the innovative use of the four-letter word as noun, adjective, phrase, conjunction and verb, the films are also about conversations. If expletives had to be bleeped out of Tarantino films, there would be insanely long bleeps through the film! The films also revel in the N-word, which provoked an angry reaction from director Spike Lee. Inglourious Basterds (2009) (not in order, because that would not be the way) we have come up with a list on what makes a Quentin Tarantino film, Tarantinoesque. The Hateful Eight (2015) with delicious stops in between for
After binge watching Tarantino’s films from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is rather different from his other eight films. Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, the marvellously mellow
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