Quentin Tarantino, who is he and what films does he make?

One thing that I often encounter in Indonesia is the lack of people who know the name of this one director, Quentin Tarantino . Maybe you know him better from the movies he's made, like Django Unchained , Kill Bill , Inglorious Basterds , or maybe Pulp Fiction .

This year, Quentin Tarantino will release a film that is often described as his love letter to Hollywood during the “Golden Age”, namely Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood . This ninth film by Quentin Tarantino stars top actors and actresses, such as Leonardo DiCaprio ( The Wolf of Wall Street ), Brad Pitt ( Moneyball ), Margot Robbie ( Suicide Squad ), to Al Pacino ( The Godfather ), Timothy Olyphant. ( Justified ) and Dakota Fanning ( War of the Worlds ).

Let's go straight to the director on this one. Quentin Jerome Tarantino is a man born in 1963 from the United States. He is known as a director who has his own characteristics in every film he makes, which many people refer to as typical-Tarantino, which we will discuss in a moment. Before becoming a director, Quentin Tarantino often wrote film scripts, where one of the scripts he wrote was made into a film called True Romance , directed by Tony Scott and starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette.

The first film directed by Quentin Tarantino was Reservoir Dogs , in which he also wrote and starred in the film. Starring actors Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn, and Michael Madsen, Reservoir Dogs tells of a group of people who decide to rob a jewelery shop, but fail and there is chaos.

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Quentin Tarantino released his first film at the Sundance Film Festival in January 1992, where it became one of the most talked about films of the time. Reservoir Dogs eventually became one of the most popular independent films, with Empire magazine calling it the "Best Independent Film of All Time."

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Reservoir Dogs also has many of the elements that eventually become the hallmark of every Tarantino film, namely high levels of violence, heavy use of harsh words, non-linear storylines, lengthy dialogue, lots of references to pop culture, and use of soundtracks from 1960s music. until 1980.

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Rising from Reservoir Dogs , Quentin Tarantino continued to write and direct a second film called Pulp Fiction . Pulp Fiction tells several stories at once, where the story of two payroll killers meets the story of a criminal boss and his wife, a boxer, and a pair of muggers.

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Starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, and Bruce Willis, Pulp Fiction was released in 1994, two years after Reservoir Dogs was released.

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Upon its release, Pulp Fiction was revered as one of the most important films of the 1990s due to its unique plot, compelling characters, and uploading story. It's not uncommon for Pulp Fiction to be said to be Quentin Tarantino's masterpiece and one of the best films of all time. I myself also agree with this statement.

Unmitigated, Pulp Fiction was nominated for 7 Oscars in 1995, where Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary won the "Best Original Screenplay."

The third film by Quentin Tarantino is a film called Jackie Brown , which was adapted from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch. Quentin Tarantino's third film stars Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro, Michael Keaton, and Robert Foster, and tells the story of a flight attendant who is caught smuggling dirty money and ends up working with the police to catch criminals who sell firearms. .

Even though he did not find the level of popularity as high as Pulp Fiction , Jackie Brown is still one of the films that is quite popular and catapulted the name Pam Grier which was once dim.

Having wanted to make Inglorious Basterds , Quentin Tarantino decided to write and make Kill Bill , Tarantino's first martial arts film starring Pulp Fiction actress Uma Thurman.

Quentin Tarantino planned to make Kill Bill as one film, but because of the duration which reached 4 hours, he decided to split the film into Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Kill Bill Vol. 2 .

Known as a fairly sadistic film, Kill Bill is a very stylish film that features elements from martial arts films, spaghetti Westerns, and samurai cinema. This will also be Quentin Tarantino's last collaboration with actress Uma Thurman.

Quentin Tarantino's next film is Death Proof , a horror film in which Kurt Russell stars as an assassin who uses his vehicle as a killing tool.

Despite the good reviews, the ticket sales for Death Proof were pretty low, making it a Quentin Tarantino film that many audiences didn't recognize.

Inglorious Basterds became Quentin Tarantino's next project, with Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, and Daniel Bruhl starring in the film about a group of American soldiers fighting the Nazis in France during World War Two.

Inglorious Basterds was praised by audiences and critics alike for the courage of Quentin Tarantino to create a fictional history where the events in the film did not take place in the real world, even though they used many real elements.

8 Oscar nominations were won by Inglorious Basterds , where Christoph Waltz's appearance as the cunning and cruel colonel Hans Landa earned him the "Best Supporting Actor." Inglorious Basterds also became the Tarantino film with the most income, before being overtaken by Django Unchained , Quentin Tarantino's next film.

Set in 1858, Django Unchained tells the story of the revenge of a slave named Django with an upper class named Calvin Candie.

Jamie Foxx starred as the main character Django, while Leonardo DiCaprio played the racist characters Calvin Candie and Christoph Waltz as criminal hunters from Germany.

Although he was criticized for his excessive use of harsh words and high levels of violence, Quentin Tarantino won admiration from audiences and critics because Django Unchained is one of those films that are bold, stylish, and interesting.

Being one of the best films of 2012, Django Unchained won several awards and 5 Oscar nominations. Quentin Tarantino and Christoph Waltz won another Oscar, with Quentin Tarantino getting "Best Original Screenplay" and Christoph Waltz getting "Best Supporting Actor."

The Hateful Eight is Quentin Tarantino's eighth film, which tells the story of eight foreigners who are trapped inside a small shop because of the massive snowstorm outside.

Samuel L. Jackson ( Pulp Fiction ), Walter Goggins ( Django Unchained ), Kurt Russell ( Death Proof ), Tim Roth ( Reservoir Dogs ), Michael Madsen ( Reservoir Dogs ), and Bruce Dern ( Django Unchained ) collaborated again with Quentin Tarantino on this film, with Jennifer Jason Leigh and Demian Bichir co-starring in The Hateful Eight .

The three-hour duration, The Hateful Eight received a positive response because it has a unique character and interesting dialogue, even though some critics call it a slow film.

The Hateful Eight won three nominations at the Oscar awards, for which composer Ennio Morricone won the "Best Original Score."

After The Hateful Eight which was released in 2015, Quentin Tarantino became interested in making a film around the murders committed by the Manson Family.

As a result, there was a film called Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood, which tells the story of a pair of actors and stuntmen who try to adapt to the changes that have occurred in Hollywood, accompanied by a murder by the Manson Family that also shakes up the Hollywood world.