Director - Quentin Tarantino

Notable writing credits:-

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, From Duck Till Dawn, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol.1, Kill Bill Vol.2, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight.

Notable directing credits:-

Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Vol.1, Kill Bill Vol.2, Inglorious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and special guest director on Sin City.

Quentin Tarantino is one of those men who is a film-maker who pushes the boundaries of cinema in that he will challenge societies perception of what is right and what we think about. He likes telling stories that we haven't seen very much before. The purpose of Django was to give Black people a real hero from the slave era, a sort of figure of defiance, done in an entertaining and cool way. Like with Kill Bill, the purpose was to give woman a heroine warrior who didn't need a man, she is beautiful and deadly and she wants revenge. 

Let's find out a little more about him by looking at interviews, articles and anything I can find.

What makes Quentin Tarantino such a good storyteller?

Here we see a young Tarantino sporting the long hair talking about Reservoir Dogs. When talking about violence, we start too see what makes his mind work and how he sees things:

“Violence is a purely aesthetic thing. It has nothing political, there’s no morality involved; it’s purely aesthetic.”

This is something I agree very strongly with. Tarantino likes to make films that are similar to films he likes to watch himself. He is a movie nut who like making films he would like to see. To Tarantino, content of a film such as violence are a tool or stroke such as a particular brush on a canvas painting of using pastas instead of oil paints. 

In this video interview/radio interview, Tarantino talks about Django and filming slavery. He says something profound (which someone else said to him during production), that:

“you can’t make your movie if you’re afraid of it.”

This is so true. Not so much in the literal sense in that you would be so scared of your film you would stop making it or hide under your bed covers, but in the sense that you can't be afraid of expressing yourself or being true to your vision because you're frightened how people will receive it. Tarantino understands that to make a film, truly make a film, you have to commit 100% to it and pour in every ounce of yourself into creating it. Your vision must be uncompromised, you must achieve your goal and the purpose of the film without worrying about anything other than getting the film made how you want it. 

Here in this wonderful video on making movies, He is talking about the craft of directing when he says:

“Your job is explaining your vision. Your job is articulating to them what you want on the screen.”

Tarantino is a man who knows exactly what he wants from his films and I think that is his single greatest strength. He knows how he wants them to look, he knows how he wants you to feel, he knows what he wants it to say to you and he knows how the film will be presented. He has a strong vision and while he has been accused of simply stealing bits and piece s from different films, isn't that what most films do?

Greatness inspires more greatness so it makes sense that great films influence other film-makers to replicate something from that film they liked. His films might appear to be a mash-up of existing elements from other movies but that's part of his vision. He loves movies and loves to make things he likes. I think Tarantino fans understand this even if it's subconsciously. He pushes the envelope on films that challenge perception. He likes to ask questions and he likes to pose potential answers. What makes him a great story-teller is that he knows exactly what story he is telling, pushes the boundaries of that subject and loves every minute of it.