Media Buzz Top 5: Quentin Taratino

Quentin Tarantino is a director that has impacted many generations of movie fans with his tension heavy scenes, superb writing, and excellent soundtrack choices. Because of this, this is why he is the topic of this Media Buzz Top 5 article.

 5. Reservoir Dogs

Reservoir Dogs is the start of the revelation that is Quentin Tarantino. With most of the movie taking place inside of a warehouse, is the primary reason why Reservoir Dogs takes the number five spot. I believe it lacks the scope that tends to shape Tarantino’s movies. Most of the script consists of people having excellent conversations about more interesting events in Tarantino’s attempt to cut budget costs with his trademark dialogue, which is a craft I believe he has perfected throughout his filmography.

4. Django Unchained

Tarantino’s first western, taking place within the backdrop of slavery in America with two bounty hunters (one being a former slave and another a former dentist), taking out the most malicious people of the west the only way a director like Tarantino knows how… With bloody violence. Many of Tarantino’s films contain a lot of western like elements such as isolation, moral ambiguity, and frontier justice, but this film is where Tarantino takes those themes and emulates them from the many movies he watched and loved by directors such as Sergio Leone, Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Corbucci. Thus brings us “Django Unchained”, a movie that pairs classic themes with an added modern sensibility.

3. Kill Bill Vol. 1&2

Taking on ninjas and samurai and assassins, sounds a little outside of Tarantino’s wheelhouse, but mix a little western elements, some excellent fight choreography, and a killer soundtrack, Kill Bill Volume 1&2 fits perfectly in his filmography. Starring his muse Uma Thurman as “The Bride” as she exacts her revenge on those that ruined her life. 

2. The Hateful Eight

It first started out as a stage play written by Tarantino, but the script leaked online. Tarantino thought to scrap the idea, but became his next film, which was a great decision. With a stellar cast and great score by Ennio Morricone (which won an Oscar), this movie with clear stage play roots, stands out as one of Tarantino’s most tension heavy movies he has ever directed.

1. Pulp Fiction

Maybe one of the reasons we are talking about this director in the first place is because of Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction is where Tarantino planted his flag as one of the greatest directors of our generation. The movie contained a soundtrack that blew the minds of young movie buffs, with a surf rock soundtrack put together perfectly with glorious violence, and also introduced the world to Samuel L Jackson, a main player in most of Tarantino’s movies as of the release of the film in 1994.  

According to Quentin Tarantino, he would like to leave a “10-film filmography” saying: “I don’t believe you should stay onstage until people are begging you to get off. I like the idea of leaving them wanting a bit more.”

-Deadline.com

  

So it looks like we have two films before Tarantino leaves the film landscape without his unique touch. So hurry up and watch his past films, and go out and see his upcoming movies in theatres.