| Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963, Knoxville,Tennessee,USA) is an American director, script writer, actor and producer. He rose to popularity after the release of the film “Pulp Fiction” (1994) which won him the “Golden Palm” award at the Cannes film festival and also an "Oscar" and a “Golden Globe” award for best script.
Biography:
Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville Tennessee state. At the time of his birth, his mother called him “Quint” in honor of the popular cowboy serial with Clint Eastwood, but he changed his name later on to Quentin, possibly not inheriting the love from his mother towards the film. Hailing from a poor family from Southern America, Quentin Tarantino had no claims for an actor’s profession; however he passionately loved the cinema.
After dropping out of school, Quentin Tarantino worked in a video rental store which served as a school for studying cinema. Unlike the “archival rats” of the previous generation, like Bogdanovich, who studied cinemas in cinema libraries, Tarantino has learned cinema from the television screen. This defined his primary interest towards the plot and genre event elements, while the aesthetes of the big screen, first of all, were fascinated by editing, atmosphere of shot and details used when the shot was taken.
Tarantino started off writing scripts and then in 1992, he directed his own film “Reservoir Dogs”. The film, with a new approach in respect to dialog and action, drew attention. After that, Tarantino’s scripts were in demand and then, he was invited to play in episodic roles. This acrimonious type of young man with a duck nose, deep eyes and little projecting chin, naturally, will not infuse the same feelings in the spectator, as actors such as Tom Cruise can. His face is not rich with positive emotions. In his own films and in films of friends, Quentin Tarantino plays, as a rule, unpleasant characters, psychopaths and irritable neurasthenics like the younger Gecko brother in the phantasmagoric horror film by Robert Rodriguez “From Dusk till Dawn”. Nevertheless, Quentin Tarantino looks natural enough on the screen, though certainly, films with his participation are first of all, examples in genre cinema.
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American Academy Award winning film director Quentin Tarantino celebrates his 45th birthday today. Tarantino became internationally famous after his films "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" which featured nonlinear story-lines and stylized violence and became cult movies of the 90s. Tarantino's more recent movies "Kill Bill Vol. 1" (2003) and "Kill Bill Vol. 2" (2004) were also boxoffice hits. His latest flick "Death Proof" (2007) was done in collaboration with Robert Rodriguez.
