88-725: Los Bravos were a Spanish beat group , formed in 1965 and based in Madrid . They are most well known for their debut single " Black Is Black " which reached No. 2 in the United Kingdom in July 1966 and No. 4 in the United States (the first Spanish group to do so), selling over a million records worldwide. The band was an amalgamation of two pop groups , Los Sonor from Madrid and The Runaways from Mallorca . Los Bravos' lead singer, Mike Kogel (aliases: Mike Kennedy, Mike Keller),
176-412: A Variety interview discussing Jackie Brown , Lee said, "I'm not against the word ... And some people speak that way, but Quentin is infatuated with that word... I want Quentin to know that all African Americans do not think that word is trendy or slick." Tarantino responded on The Charlie Rose Show : As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I demand
264-435: A cult following alongside critical and commercial success; he has been named by some as the single most influential director of his generation and has received numerous awards and nominations , including two Academy Awards , two BAFTA Awards , and four Golden Globe Awards . Tarantino began his career with the independent crime drama film Reservoir Dogs (1992). His second film, the crime drama Pulp Fiction (1994),
352-740: A mod following during the Swinging London period of the mid to late 1960s. Freakbeat bridges "British Invasion mod/ R&B /pop and psychedelia ". The term was coined by English music journalist Phil Smee . AllMusic writes that "freakbeat" is loosely defined, but generally describes the more obscure but hard-edged artists of the British Invasion era such as the Creation , the Pretty Things or Denny Laine 's early solo work. Other bands often mentioned as Freakbeat are
440-775: A Row , Rolling Thunder , Sorcerer , Taxi Driver , and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly . Sergio Leone 's Spaghetti Western films were a profound influence including Once Upon a Time in the West . He is an admirer of the 1981 film Blow Out , directed by Brian De Palma , which led to his casting of John Travolta in Pulp Fiction . Similarly, Tarantino was captivated with Jim McBride 's 1983 remake of Breathless and with Richard Gere 's unlikable but charismatic protagonist. The film's popular culture references, in particular
528-844: A film about the revenge of a former slave in the Southern United States in 1858. The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a Spaghetti Western set in America's Deep South during the Antebellum Period . 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. I want to do them like they're genre films, but they deal with everything that America has never dealt with because it's ashamed of it, and other countries don't really deal with because they don't feel they have
616-526: A four-hour film course during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila , Tarantino cited Filipino directors Cirio H. Santiago , Eddie Romero and Gerardo de León as personal icons from the 1970s. He referred to De Leon's "soul-shattering, life-extinguishing" movies on vampires and female bondage, citing in particular Women in Cages ; "It is just harsh, harsh, harsh", he said, and described
704-1013: A good way to end the old career." Tarantino has used his Hollywood power to give smaller and foreign films more attention. These films are often labeled "Presented by Quentin Tarantino" or "Quentin Tarantino Presents". In 1995, Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with Miramax to release or re-release several independent and foreign features. By 1997, Miramax had shut down the company due to poor sales. The following films were released by Rolling Thunder Pictures: Chungking Express (1994, dir. Wong Kar-wai ), Switchblade Sisters (1975, dir. Jack Hill ), Sonatine (1993, dir. Takeshi Kitano ), Hard Core Logo (1996, dir. Bruce McDonald ), The Mighty Peking Man (1977, dir. Ho Meng Hua ), Detroit 9000 (1973, dir. Arthur Marks ), The Beyond (1981, dir. Lucio Fulci ), and Curdled (1996, dir. Reb Braddock). In 2001, he produced
792-445: A hallmark of all his movies is that there is a different sense of humor in each one, which prompts the viewer to laugh at scenes that are not funny. However, he insists that his films are dramas, not comedies. Tarantino's use of dialogue is noted for its mundane conversations with popular culture references. For example, when Jules and Vincent in Pulp Fiction are driving to a hit , they talk about Vincent's trip to Europe, discussing
880-508: A highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Chinese martial arts films , Japanese period dramas , Spaghetti Westerns , and Italian horror . It was based on a character called The Bride and a plot that he and Kill Bill ' s lead actress Uma Thurman had developed during the making of Pulp Fiction . It was originally set for a single theatrical release, but its four-hour running time prompted Tarantino to divide it into two movies. Tarantino says he still considers it
968-417: A lot of feet in a lot of good directors' movies. That's just good direction. Like, before me, the person foot fetishism was defined by was Luis Buñuel , another film director. And Alfred Hitchcock was accused of it and Sofia Coppola has been accused of it." Tarantino has stated in many interviews that his writing process is like writing a novel before formatting it into a script, saying that this creates
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#17327762035651056-650: A misdiagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma , Tarantino was again sent to live with his grandparents in Knoxville. Less than a year later, he returned to Torrance. At the age of 14, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a screenplay called Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit that was based on the 1977 film Smokey and the Bandit . He later revealed that his mother had ridiculed his writing skills when he
1144-583: A new album. They released two singles in 2020 followed by four more singles in 2021 on iTunes and Spotify under the name Los Bravos. These include "Gotta Be Strong" and "Chariot". On 20 March 2019, the Los Bravos song "Bring a Little Lovin'" was featured on the soundtrack and first teaser trailer for the film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood written and directed by Quentin Tarantino . Beat group Beat music , British beat , or Merseybeat
1232-473: A relative unknown in America when he was cast as Hans Landa in his first film for Tarantino. Editor Sally Menke , who worked on all Tarantino films until her death in 2010, was described by Tarantino in 2007 as "hands down my number one collaborator". In 1997, Spike Lee questioned Tarantino's use of racial slurs in his films, especially the N-word , particularly in Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown . In
1320-488: A significant impact on popular music and youth culture from 1960s movements such as garage rock , folk rock and psychedelic music . The exact origins of the terms 'beat music' and 'Merseybeat' are uncertain. The "beat" in each, however, derived from the driving rhythms which the bands had adopted from their rock and roll, R&B and soul music influences, rather than the Beat Generation literary movement of
1408-654: A single film in his overall filmography. Volume 1 was released in 2003 and Volume 2 was released in 2004. From 2002 to 2004, Tarantino portrayed villain McKenas Cole in the ABC television series Alias . In 2004, Tarantino attended the 2004 Cannes Film Festival , where he served as president of the jury. Volume 2 of Kill Bill had a screening there, but was not in competition. Tarantino then contributed to Robert Rodriguez's 2005 neo-noir film Sin City , and
1496-530: A single film. He then made the exploitation - slasher film Death Proof (2007), which was part of a double feature with From Dusk till Dawn director Robert Rodriguez , released under the collective title Grindhouse . His next film, Inglourious Basterds (2009), followed an alternate account of World War II . He followed this with Django Unchained (2012), a slave revenge Spaghetti Western which won him his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. His eighth film, The Hateful Eight (2015),
1584-839: A sudden these characters come out more or less fully formed. I don't write their dialogue, I get them talking to each other." Tarantino has built up an informal " repertory company " of actors who have appeared in many roles in his films. Most notable of these is Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in five films directed by Tarantino and a sixth written by him, True Romance . Other frequent collaborators include Uma Thurman, who has been featured in three films and whom Tarantino has described as his " muse "; Zoë Bell , who has acted or performed stunts in seven Tarantino films; Michael Madsen, James Parks and Tim Roth, who respectively appear in five, four and three films. In addition, Roth appeared in Four Rooms , an anthology film where Tarantino directed
1672-627: A trip to Los Angeles ; after a brief marriage and divorce, she left Los Angeles and moved to Knoxville, where her parents lived, and returned to Los Angeles with her son in 1966. Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after arriving in Los Angeles, and the family moved to nearby Torrance, California . Zastoupil accompanied Tarantino to numerous film screenings while his mother allowed him to see more mature movies, such as Carnal Knowledge (1971) and Deliverance (1972). After his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973 and received
1760-575: A very different effect from the monolithic character of rock, in that the beat was given not by the duplication of one instrument in the rhythm section by another, but by an interplay between all three. This flexibility also meant that beat music could cope with a greater range of time-signatures and song shapes than rock & roll had been able to". Beat groups usually had simple guitar -dominated line-ups, with vocal harmonies and catchy tunes. The most common instrumentation of beat groups featured lead, rhythm and bass guitars plus drums, as popularised by
1848-532: Is Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ... He pushes the envelope, he creates PG-13 ; a movie so fucking badass it created a new level in the MPAA ." In the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll, Tarantino listed his 12 favorite films in no particular order: Apocalypse Now , The Bad News Bears , Carrie , Dazed and Confused , The Great Escape , His Girl Friday , Jaws , Pretty Maids All in
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#17327762035651936-445: Is 60 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 theaters anymore and everything is digital projection, I won't even make it to 60." He said though "not etched in stone" he intends to retire after making his tenth movie: "If I get to the 10th, do a good job and don't screw it up, well that sounds like
2024-448: Is a British popular music genre and developed around Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from British and American rock and roll , rhythm and blues , skiffle , traditional pop and music hall . It rose to mainstream popularity in the UK and Europe by 1963 before spreading to North America in 1964 with the British Invasion . The beat style had
2112-551: Is a producer of the 2007 film Hostel: Part II . In 2008, he produced the Larry Bishop -helmed Hell Ride , a revenge biker film. In February 2010, Tarantino bought the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles. Tarantino allowed the previous owners to continue operating the theater, but stated he would make occasional programming suggestions. He was quoted as saying: "As long as I'm alive, and as long as I'm rich,
2200-571: Is also among a few notable directors, including Martin Scorsese and Edgar Wright , who appreciate Elaine May 's 1987 film Ishtar , despite its reputation as being a notorious box-office flop and one of the worst films ever made . Tarantino has opined that Steven Spielberg 's Jaws is "the greatest movie of all time. Maybe not the best film, but the best movie ever made". He commented further that his "favourite Spielberg-directed movie, again with Jaws carved out on its own Mount Rushmore,
2288-752: Is from Germany . His vocal styling was sometimes likened to Gene Pitney 's. " Black Is Black " reached No. 1 on the Canadian Singles Chart , No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1966, No. 4 in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart , and has sold over one million copies worldwide. "Black Is Black" was written by Michelle Grainger, Tony Hayes, and Steve Wadey in their recording studio for cutting demo discs in Hoo St Werburgh , near Rochester , Kent, England. The song
2376-445: Is so good. It affects audiences in a big way". When questioned in an interview for Kill Bill: Volume 1 why his movies contained so much graphic violence, he responded, "Because it's so much fun!" The number of expletives and deaths in Tarantino's films were measured by analytics website FiveThirtyEight . In the examples given by the site, " Reservoir Dogs features 'just' 10 on-screen deaths, but 421 profanities. Django Unchained , on
2464-498: The 1994 Cannes Film Festival . The film grossed over $ 200 million and earned positive reviews. In 1995, Tarantino participated in the anthology film Four Rooms , a collaboration that also included directors Robert Rodriguez, Allison Anders and Alexandre Rockwell. Tarantino directed and acted in the fourth segment of "The Man from Hollywood", a tribute to the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode " Man from
2552-708: The Ace Hotel Los Angeles for the Live Read series. Tarantino explained that they would read the first draft of the script, and added that he was writing two new drafts with a different ending. Filming went ahead as planned with the new draft in January 2015. The Hateful Eight was released on December 25, 2015, as a roadshow presentation in 70 mm film -format theaters, before being released in digital theaters on December 30, 2015. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics. In July 2017, it
2640-560: The James Best Theatre Company, where he met several of his eventual collaborators for his next film. In 1987, Tarantino co-wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday (1987). It was left uncompleted, but some of its dialogue was included in True Romance . The following year, he played an Elvis impersonator in "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1", an episode in the fourth season of The Golden Girls , which
2728-554: The Tottenham Sound respectively. The most distinctive characteristic of beat music was its strong beat, using the backbeat common to rock and roll and rhythm and blues , but often with a driving emphasis on all the beats of 4/4 bar. The rhythm itself—described by Alan Clayson as "a changeless four-four offbeat on the snare drum"—was developed in the clubs in Hamburg , West Germany, where many English groups, including
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2816-595: The exploitation slasher film Death Proof . Released as a take on 1970s double features , under the banner Grindhouse , it was co-directed with Rodriguez who did the other feature which was the body horror film Planet Terror . Box-office sales were low but the film garnered mostly positive reviews. Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds , released in 2009, is the story of a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers in Nazi -occupied France in an alternate history of World War II . He had planned to start work on
2904-416: The review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes where his reviews are part of the "Tomatometer" rating. He has since published over 30 film reviews, including director essays, on his New Beverly Cinema website. Tarantino reappraises films that go against the views of mainstream film criticism, for example, he considers the 1983 film Psycho II to be superior to the original 1960 film Psycho . He
2992-578: The stylized violence from his earlier film and also non-linear storylines. Tarantino received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay , which he shared with Roger Avary, who contributed to the story. He also received a nomination in the Best Director category. The film received another five nominations, including for Best Picture . Tarantino also won the Palme d'Or for the film at
3080-560: The 1950s. As the initial wave of rock and roll subsided in the later 1950s, "big beat" music, later shortened to "beat", became a live dance alternative to the balladeers like Tommy Steele , Marty Wilde , and Cliff Richard who were dominating the charts. The German anthropologist and music critic Ernest Borneman , who lived in England from 1933 to 1960, claimed to have coined the term in a column in Melody Maker magazine to describe
3168-721: The 1980s, Tarantino had a number of jobs. After lying about his age, he worked as an usher at an adult movie theater in Torrance, called the Pussycat Theater . He spent time as a recruiter in the aerospace industry , and for five years he worked at Video Archives , a video store in Manhattan Beach, California . He was well known in the local community for his film knowledge and video recommendations; Tarantino stated, "When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, 'No, I went to films." In 1986, Tarantino
3256-697: The Action , the Move , the Smoke , the Sorrows , and Wimple Winch . By 1967, beat music was beginning to sound out of date, particularly compared with the "harder edged" blues rock that was beginning to emerge. Most of the groups that had not already disbanded by 1967, like the Beatles, moved into different forms of rock music and pop music , including psychedelic rock and eventually progressive rock . Beat
3344-710: The Animals from Newcastle and Them from Belfast . From London, the term Tottenham Sound was largely based around the Dave Clark Five , but other London-based British rhythm and blues and rock bands who benefited from the beat boom of this era included the Rolling Stones , the Kinks and the Yardbirds . The Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show soon after led to chart success. During
3432-480: The Beatles , the Searchers , and others. Beat groups—even those with a separate lead singer—often sang both verses and choruses in close harmony , resembling doo wop , with nonsense syllables in the backing vocals. In the late 1950s, a flourishing culture of groups began to emerge, often out of the declining skiffle scene, in major urban centres in the UK like Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and London. This
3520-573: The Beatles derived their name, combining it with a pun on the beat in their music), and to a lesser extent by British rock and roll groups such as the Shadows . After the national success of the Beatles in Britain from 1962, a number of Liverpool performers were able to follow them into the charts, including Gerry & The Pacemakers (who achieved a number one hit in the UK before the Beatles),
3608-441: The Beatles, performed in the early 1960s and where it was known as the mach schau (make show) beat. The 8/8 rhythm was flexible enough to be adopted for songs from a range of genres. In addition, according to music writer Dave Laing , "[T]he chord playing of the rhythm guitar was broken up into a series of separate strokes, often one to the bar, with the regular plodding of the bass guitar and crisp drumming behind it. This gave
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3696-597: The British Empire and Beyond, 1964–1969 . The song had reached No. 55 in Canada. Their single release of the Harry Vanda / George Young penned song, " Bring a Little Lovin' ", reached No. 22 in Canada on 13 July 1968. One of Los Bravos' founding members, Manuel Fernández, committed suicide on 20 May 1968, at the age of 23, after the death of his wife, Lottie Rey, in an auto accident. Also that year, Kogel left
3784-526: The British imitation of American rock'n'roll, rhythm & blues and skiffle bands. The 'Mersey' of 'Merseybeat' refers to the River Mersey . Liverpool lies on the eastern side of the river's estuary. The name Mersey Beat was used for a Liverpool music magazine founded in 1961 by Bill Harry . Harry claims to have coined the term "based on a policeman's beat and not that of the music". The band
3872-472: The Dragon ), John Woo action films ( A Better Tomorrow II and The Killer ), John Carpenter films ( Assault on Precinct 13 and The Thing ), blaxploitation films (including The Mack and Foxy Brown ), Jean-Luc Godard films ( Bande à Part and the 1960 version of Breathless ), and Sonny Chiba 's work ( The Street Fighter and Shadow Warriors ). In August 2007, while teaching in
3960-643: The New Beverly will be there, showing films shot on 35 mm." Starting in 2014, Tarantino took a more active role in programming film screenings at the New Beverly, showing his own films as well as prints from his personal collection. In 2021, Tarantino announced that he had also purchased the Vista Theatre in Los Angeles, stating that he intends to keep it a first-run theatre, and that like The New Beverly it will only show movies on film. In June 2020, Tarantino became an officially recognized critic on
4048-857: The Pacifics were renamed the Mersey Beats in February 1962 by Bob Wooler , MC at the Cavern Club , and in April that year they became the Merseybeats . With the rise of the Beatles in 1963, the terms Mersey sound and Merseybeat were applied to bands and singers from Liverpool, the first time in British pop music that a sound and a location were linked together. The equivalent scenes in Birmingham and London were described as Brum Beat and
4136-552: The Radio (1995), and Girl 6 (1996). Also in 1996, he starred in Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair , a simulation video game that uses pre-generated film clips. In 1998, Tarantino made his major Broadway stage debut as an amoral psycho killer in a revival of the 1966 play Wait Until Dark , which received unfavorable reviews for his performance from critics. Tarantino went on to write and direct Kill Bill ,
4224-564: The Searchers , and Cilla Black . Outside of Liverpool many local scenes were less influenced by rock and roll and more by the rhythm and blues and later directly by the blues . These included bands from Birmingham who were often grouped with the beat movement, the most successful being the Spencer Davis Group and the Moody Blues . Similar blues influenced bands who broke out from local scenes to national prominence were
4312-638: The South ". He joined Rodriguez again later in the year with a supporting role in Desperado . One of Tarantino's first paid writing assignments was for From Dusk till Dawn , which Rodriguez directed later in 1996, re-teaming with Tarantino in another acting role, alongside Harvey Keitel, George Clooney and Juliette Lewis . His third feature film was Jackie Brown (1997), an adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch . A homage to blaxploitation films, it starred Pam Grier , who starred in many of
4400-632: The US release of the Hong Kong martial arts film Iron Monkey , which made over $ 14 million worldwide. In 2004, he brought the Chinese martial arts film Hero to the US. It opened at number-one at the box office and eventually earning $ 53.5 million. While Tarantino was in negotiations with Lucy Liu for Kill Bill , the two helped produce the Hungarian sports documentary Freedom's Fury , which
4488-429: The blueprint of the film and makes the film feel like literature. About his writing process he told website The Talks, "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
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#17327762035654576-476: The budget, taking a role as co-producer and also playing a major part in the picture. In January 1992, it was released as Tarantino's crime thriller Reservoir Dogs —which he wrote, directed, and acted in as Mr. Brown—and screened at the Sundance Film Festival . The film was an immediate hit, receiving a positive response from critics. Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned and
4664-540: The comic book Silver Surfer , inspired him to have the character's poster on Mr. Orange 's apartment wall in Reservoir Dogs . Tarantino has also labeled Rio Bravo as one of his influences. He listed the Australian suspense film Roadgames (1981) as another favorite film. Other films he cited as formative influences include Hong Kong martial arts films (such as Five Fingers of Death and Enter
4752-548: The differences in countries such as a McDonald's " Quarter Pounder with Cheese" being called a "Royale with Cheese" in France because of the metric system . In the opening scene to Reservoir Dogs , Mr. Brown (played by Tarantino) interprets the meaning of Madonna 's song " Like a Virgin ". In Jackie Brown , Jackie and Max chat over a cup of coffee while listening to a vinyl record by the Delfonics ' " Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time) ". Tarantino has said that his films take place in one of two cinematic universes, one being
4840-527: The film after Jackie Brown but postponed this to make Kill Bill after a meeting with Uma Thurman. Filming began on " Inglorious Bastards ", as it was provisionally titled, in October 2008. The film opened in August 2009 to positive reviews with the highest box office gross in the US and Canada for the weekend on release. For the film, Tarantino received his second nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director and Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2011, production began on Django Unchained ,
4928-416: The film was eventually released in 1993. The second script that Tarantino sold was for the film Natural Born Killers , which was revised by Dave Veloz, Richard Rutowski and director Oliver Stone . Tarantino was given story credit and stated in an interview that he wished the film well, but later disowned the final film. Tarantino also did an uncredited rewrite on It's Pat (1994). Other films where he
5016-509: The films of that genre in the 1970s. It received positive reviews and was called a "comeback" for Grier and co-star Robert Forster . Leonard considered Jackie Brown to be his favorite of the 26 different screen adaptations of his novels and short stories. In the 1990s, Tarantino had a number of other minor acting roles, including in Eddie Presley (1992), The Coriolis Effect (1994), Sleep With Me (1994), Somebody to Love (1994), All-American Girl (1995), Destiny Turns on
5104-409: The final segment, and filmed a scene for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood before it was cut for time. Other actors who have appeared in several films by Tarantino include Michael Bacall , Michael Bowen , Bruce Dern , Harvey Keitel , Michael Parks , Kurt Russell , and Craig Stark, who have appeared in three films each. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt have each appeared in two Tarantino films,
5192-499: The final shot as one of "devastating despair". Upon his arrival in the Philippines, Tarantino was quoted in the local newspaper as saying, "I'm a big fan of RP [Republic of the Philippines] cinema." Tarantino's films often feature graphic violence , a tendency which has sometimes been criticized. Reservoir Dogs was initially denied United Kingdom certification because of his use of torture as entertainment. Tarantino has frequently defended his use of violence, saying that "violence
5280-415: The group reformed with Pablo Sanllehí, Miguel Vicens Danus and Mike Kogel/Kennedy. In 2015, Mike Kennedy reunited with Miguel Vicens Danus under the name Los Bravos, to record a new studio version of " Black Is Black ." The new recording was officially released on iTunes and edited to create a music video. In 2019, Miguel Vicens Danus and Pablo Sanllehí inducted Bruce Game as the new lead singer to record
5368-468: The group to develop a solo career under the name Mike Kennedy. He was replaced as singer by Bob Wright and then Anthony (Tony) Anderson. Anderson sang with The Warriors , with his brother Jon Anderson , before joining Los Bravos. In 1975 and 1976, Kogel rejoined the group. In 1990, guitarist Antonio Martínez died in a motorcycle accident en route to his recording studio. Miguel Vicens died of pneumonia in Palma on 12 February 2022, at age 78. In 2004,
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#17327762035655456-430: The influence of which has been detected in Beat music. It was also a major port with links to America, particularly through the Cunard Yanks , which made for much greater access to American records and instruments like guitars, which could not easily be imported due to trade restrictions. As a result, Beat bands were heavily influenced by American groups of the era, such as Buddy Holly and the Crickets (from which group
5544-646: The more realistically grounded world of films like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction , and the other being a meta-fictional narrative which Tarantino says represents the kind of films the characters in his main cinematic universe would watch, which separates films such as From Dusk till Dawn and Kill Bill from Tarantino's primary narrative. He also creates his own products and brands that he uses in his films to varying degrees. His own fictional brands, including " Acuña Boys Tex-Mex Food", "Big Kahuna Burger", "G.O. Juice", "Jack Rabbit Slim's", "K-Billy", "Red Apple cigarettes", "Tenku Brand Beer" and "Teriyaki Donut", replace
5632-438: The next two years, the Animals , Petula Clark , the Dave Clark Five , the Rolling Stones , Donovan , Peter and Gordon , Manfred Mann , Freddie and the Dreamers , The Zombies , Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders , Herman's Hermits , and the Troggs would have one or more number one singles in America. Freakbeat is a subgenre of rock and roll music developed mainly by harder-driving British groups, often those with
5720-436: The other hand, has 'just' 262 profanities but 47 deaths." He often blends aesthetic elements, in tribute to his favorite films and filmmakers. In Kill Bill , he melds comic strip formulas and visuals within a live action film sequence, in some cases by the literal use of cartoon or anime images. Tarantino has also occasionally used a non-linear story structure in his films, most notably with Pulp Fiction. He has also used
5808-482: The right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell the truth as I see they are, all right? And to say that I can't do that because I'm white, but the Hughes brothers can do that because they're black, that is racist. That is the heart of racism, all right. And I do not accept that ... That is how a segment of the black community that lives in Compton , lives in Inglewood , where Jackie Brown takes place, that lives in Carson , that
5896-417: The right to". It was released in December 2012 and became his highest grossing film to date. He also received his second Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In November 2013, Tarantino said he was working on a new film and that it would be another Western, though not a sequel to Django Unchained . On January 11, 2014, it was revealed that the film would be titled The Hateful Eight . The script
5984-419: The screenplay, which he wrote in three and a half weeks and presented to Bender unformatted. Impressed with the script, Bender managed to forward it through contacts to director Monte Hellman . Hellman cleaned up the screenplay and helped secure funding from Richard N. Gladstein at Live Entertainment (which later became Artisan, now known as Lionsgate ). Harvey Keitel read the script and also contributed to
6072-402: The second of which, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , they appear in together. Like Jackson, Pitt also appeared in the Tarantino-penned True Romance . Christoph Waltz appeared in two Tarantino films, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained , winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for each role. Waltz had been working as an actor since the 1970s in numerous German movies and TV shows but was
6160-460: The style in Reservoir Dogs , Kill Bill , and The Hateful Eight . Tarantino's script for True Romance was originally told in a non-linear style, before director Tony Scott decided to use a more linear approach. Critics have since referred to the use of this shifting timeline in films as the "Tarantino Effect". Actor Steve Buscemi has described Tarantino's novel style of filmmaking as "bursting with energy" and "focused". According to Tarantino,
6248-404: The summer of 2018. In wake of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations , Tarantino severed ties to The Weinstein Company and Miramax and sought a new distributor after working with Weinstein for his entire career. The film officially premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival , where it was in competition for the Palme d'Or . Sony Pictures eventually distributed the film, which
6336-482: The use of product placement , sometimes to a humorous extent. Tarantino is also known for his choice of music in his films, including soundtracks that often use songs from the 1960s and 70s. In 2011, he was recognized at the 16th Critics' Choice Awards with the inaugural Music+Film Award. A recurring image in his films are scenes where women's bare feet feature prominently. When asked about foot fetishism , Tarantino responded, "I don't take it seriously. There's
6424-543: Was a revisionist Western thriller and opened to audiences with a roadshow release . Tarantino's most recent film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), was a comedy-drama set in the late 1960s about the transition of Old Hollywood to New Hollywood ; his debut novel, a novelization of the film , was published in 2021. He has said that, though it is not definite, his current plan is for his next film to be his last before he retires. Quentin Jerome Tarantino
6512-663: Was a major influence on the American garage rock and folk rock movements, and would be a source of inspiration for subsequent rock music subgenres, including Britpop in the 1990s. Quentin Tarantino Quentin Jerome Tarantino ( / ˌ t ær ən ˈ t iː n oʊ / ; born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, and author. His films are characterized by stylized violence , extended dialogue often featuring much profanity , and references to popular culture . His work has earned
6600-576: Was a major success and won numerous awards, including the Cannes Film Festival 's Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . He next wrote and starred in the action horror film From Dusk till Dawn (1996). His third film as director, the crime drama Jackie Brown (1997), paid homage to blaxploitation films. Tarantino wrote and directed the martial arts films Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004), with both volumes combined regarded as
6688-505: Was an uncredited screenwriter include Crimson Tide (1995) and The Rock (1996). Following the success of Reservoir Dogs , Tarantino was approached by major film studios and offered projects that included Speed (1994) and Men in Black (1997), but he instead retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for Pulp Fiction . Tarantino wrote, directed, and acted in the dark comedy crime film Pulp Fiction in 1994, maintaining
6776-549: Was born in Knoxville, Tennessee , on March 27, 1963, the only child of Connie McHugh and aspiring actor Tony Tarantino , who left the family before his son's birth. He has claimed to have Cherokee ancestry through his mother, who was also of Irish descent, while his father was Italian-American. He was named in part after Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds 's character in the TV series Gunsmoke . Tarantino's mother met his father during
6864-531: Was broadcast on November 19, 1988. Tarantino recalled that the pay he received for the part helped support him during the preproduction of Reservoir Dogs ; he estimated he was initially paid about $ 650 but went on to receive about $ 3,000 in residuals over three years because the episode was frequently rerun due to it being on a "best of..." lineup. After meeting Lawrence Bender at a friend's barbecue, Tarantino discussed with him about an unwritten dialogue-driven heist film . Bender encouraged Tarantino to write
6952-513: Was credited as "Special Guest Director" for his work directing the car sequence featuring Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro . In May 2005, Tarantino co-wrote and directed " Grave Danger ", the fifth season finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation . For this episode, Tarantino was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series at the 57th Primetime Emmy Awards . In 2007, Tarantino directed
7040-458: Was employed in his first Hollywood job, working with Video Archives colleague Roger Avary , as production assistants on Dolph Lundgren 's exercise video, Maximum Potential . Before working at Video Archives, Tarantino co-wrote Love Birds In Bondage with Scott Magill. Tarantino would go on to produce and direct the short film. Magill committed suicide in 1987, after which all film shot was destroyed. Later, Tarantino attended acting classes at
7128-584: Was later covered by Johnny Hallyday and then by French-based outfit Belle Epoque , whose disco version coincidentally also reached No. 2 in the UK in 1977. Los Bravos' follow-up single, "I Don't Care", reached No. 16 in the UK in October 1966. In 1967, the band participated in the Sanremo Music Festival , failing to qualify for the final with the song "Uno come noi" in Italian. The band
7216-488: Was particularly true in Liverpool, where it has been estimated that there were around 350 different bands active, often playing ballrooms, concert halls and clubs. Liverpool was perhaps uniquely placed within Britain to be the point of origin of a new form of music. Commentators have pointed to a combination of local solidarity, industrial decline , social deprivation, and the existence of a large population of Irish origin,
7304-624: Was released in 2006. When he was approached about a documentary about the Blood in the Water match , a water polo match between Hungary and the USSR at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics , Tarantino said "This is the best story I've ever been told. I'd love to be involved". In 2006, another "Quentin Tarantino presents" production, Hostel , opened at number-one at the box office with a $ 20.1 million opening weekend. He presented 2006's The Protector , and
7392-548: Was reported that Tarantino's next project would be a film about the Manson Family murders. In February 2018, it was announced that the film's title would be Once Upon a Time in Hollywood , and that Leonardo DiCaprio would play Rick Dalton , a fictional star of television Westerns, with Brad Pitt as Dalton's longtime stunt double Cliff Booth; Margot Robbie would be playing real life actress Sharon Tate , portrayed as Dalton's next-door neighbor. Filming took place in
7480-554: Was the subject of two Spanish comedic movies: in 1967 Los chicos con las chicas ( The Boys With the Girls ), directed by Javier Aguirre and in 1968, ¡Dame un poco de amooor...! ( Give Me a Little Looove! ), directed by José María Forqué and Francisco Macián. Their song "Going Nowhere" from the soundtrack to Los chicos con las chicas was re-issued as a part of the Rhino Records series, Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts from
7568-628: Was theatrically released in July 2019. It received critical acclaim Peter Travers of Rolling Stone declared, "Tarantino's all-star fantasia links Hollywood and Manson-era violence into the best and most explosive cinema we've seen all year." The film earned 10 Oscar nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards including three for Tarantino for Best Picture , Best Director and Best Original Screenplay . In November 2022, Tarantino revealed plans to shoot an eight-episode television series in 2023. No further details were provided. In 2009, Tarantino said that he planned to retire from filmmaking when he
7656-503: Was then leaked in January 2014. Aggrieved by the breach of confidence, Tarantino considered abandoning the production which was due to start the next winter and publish it as a novel instead. He stated that he had given the script to a few trusted colleagues, including Bruce Dern , Tim Roth and Michael Madsen . On April 19, 2014, Tarantino directed a live reading of the leaked script at the United Artists Theater in
7744-594: Was younger, and he subsequently vowed never to share any of his future wealth with her. As a 15-year-old, he was grounded by his mother for shoplifting Elmore Leonard 's novel The Switch from a Kmart . He was allowed to leave only to attend the Torrance Community Theater, where he participated in such plays as Two Plus Two Makes Sex and Romeo and Juliet . The same year, he dropped out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City . Through
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