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20 unusual facts about Quentin Tarantino


100 Black Coffins

"100 Black Coffins" is a song by American rapper Rick Ross, taken from the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's film Django Unchained.

Akemi Negishi

Negishi also had a supporting role in Shurayukihime ("Lady Snowblood"), which was reportedly one of the main inspirations for Quentin Tarantino's film Kill Bill.

Alan Wake's American Nightmare

Critics praised the change of style and tone from the earlier themes of isolation, light versus darkness, and melancholy, utilizing psychological horror tropes, found in Alan Wake to the madcap, Pulp-influenced themes in Alan Wake's American Nightmare, utilizing black comedy tropes found in works by Quentin Tarantino.

Del Amo Fashion Center

The Del Amo was a central location, and plot element, of the Quentin Tarantino film Jackie Brown.

Ervin Zádor

In April 2006, a documentary called Freedom's Fury premiered, with Lucy Liu and Quentin Tarantino listed as executive producers.

Go Back to Your Mama

It turned out that Oscar had another exact same bus, but Quentin Tarantino bought it from him back in times and blew it up during his famous Kill Bill shoot.

Hans Landa

Colonel Hans Landa is a fictional character in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film Inglourious Basterds.

Quentin Tarantino has said that Landa might be the greatest character he has ever written.

Hockley Village

One claim to fame was the season of crime thrillers ("Shots in the Dark") it used to hold every year, whose honorary president was Quentin Tarantino.

Lebanon, Tennessee

Lebanon is featured in Death Proof, directed by Quentin Tarantino, as the setting for the second half of the film, although none of the scenes were actually filmed in Lebanon.

Les Hall

In addition to working as a session and touring musician, he composed the score for the Hungarian documentary Freedom's Fury, about the country's Olympic water polo team during the Revolution of 1956, which was narrated by Mark Spitz and executive produced by Quentin Tarantino and Lucy Liu.

Mahiro Maeda

He provided key animation for the animation sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1.

Marco Ponti

In 1997 he attended a course for movie writers at the RAI Cinema Fiction School; in the same year he published a book dedicated to Quentin Tarantino.

QT's Diary

QT's Diary was a surreal blog falsely claiming to be the work of film director Quentin Tarantino.

Rocky Roberts

Quentin Tarantino reused the recording as the opening theme for his 2012 film Django Unchained.

Staniša Stošić

It's melody is very similar to the instrumental song Miserlou by Dick Dale featured in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, which was based on the old middle-eastern song, Misirlou, whose true origin is difficult to trace.

The Split Program

Also, it can be noted that Track 6, the outro, is an audio clip taken from the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction.

The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam

In each of the stories, Luther is faced with a digital environment, for example a computer game and Quentin Tarantino's movie set.

V slepých uličkách

In 2005, the American actor/director Eli Roth used the original version of the duet, "V slepých uličkách", in a sequence of his horror film Hostel, co-produced by Quentin Tarantino in 2005.

Yixuan, Prince Chun

The tomb and surrounding area appears in Quentin Tarantino's 2004 film Kill Bill Volume 2 as the home and training grounds of the legendary Shaolin monk Pai Mei.


'76

While he agrees that his story has elements of Elmore Leonard's stories, Peck notes that he was also influenced by the film contributions of Quentin Tarantino, The French Connection film, the music of Steely Dan and the works of Marcel Proust.

A Better Tomorrow 2

In the 1993 film True Romance, directed by Tony Scott and written by Quentin Tarantino, Patricia Arquette's character is watching A Better Tomorrow 2 on TV.

Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael

In it, she describes her affinity for the new works of directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson and David O. Russell, showing an appreciation for Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, the first half of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Three Kings.

Daniel J. Snyder

Daniel Snyder’s education in media and filmmaking began during high school when he landed a job at Video Archives, the now-famous video store in Manhattan Beach, California, where he worked as a video clerk alongside future filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.

Earl and Edgar McGraw

They appear in several feature films by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, including the From Dusk till Dawn franchise, Kill Bill Volume 1, and in various works from the Grindhouse project.

Huntsville Unit

In Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown", Samuel L. Jackson's and Robert De Niro's character's first met while doing time in Huntsville.

Infolepsy EP

The first track samples almost exclusively from the Sesame Street segment Pinball Number Count, while the second track, "Where's Bill?", samples heavily from the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill.

Julie Dreyfus

She is best known to western audiences for her appearances in the Quentin Tarantino films Kill Bill Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2 and Inglourious Basterds, in which she played Sofie Fatale and Francesca Mondino respectively.

Linda Haynes

She mysteriously left the acting world in 1980 and was found in 1995 by director Quentin Tarantino and author Tom Graves.

Little Green Bag

The song is included on the soundtrack of the 1992 Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs and appears in the famous intro scene that leads into the opening credits.

Matt Farnsworth

Farnsworth film style has been compared to that of David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.

Ozploitation

Quentin Tarantino coined the phrase "Aussiesploitation", which director Mark Hartley then shortened to "Ozploitation".

Roxy Mitchell

To the instrumental sound of "Little Green Bag" by George Baker (famously used in the Quentin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs), each sister discussed their sibling, giving snippets of information on their personality and the dynamics of their relationship.

Stacey Sher

Sher has worked with multiple high profile directors, including Terry Gilliam, Richard LaGravenese, Danny DeVito, Miloš Forman, Zach Braff, Oliver Stone, and has worked on multiple films with Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh.

Stephen Milburn Anderson

New York Times film critic Janet Maslin named Anderson in the "Who's Who Among Hot New Filmmakers," along with Quentin Tarantino and Tim Robbins.

Susi Graf

She worked as a television producer interviewing numerous film directors such as Quentin Tarantino, John Waters, Terry Gilliam and many more as well as actors like Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson.

The Delfonics

Their songs have been used extensively in film soundtracks, including Quentin Tarantino's 1997 movie Jackie Brown, in which "La-La (Means I Love You)" and "Didn't I Blow Your Mind" underscore the pivotal relationship between the characters played by Pam Grier and Robert Forster.

The Inglorious Bastards

Severin Films released a three-disc set that features a newly remastered transfer of the film, an interview with Quentin Tarantino (the director of the similarly titled but unrelated film Inglourious Basterds) and director Enzo G. Castellari, trailers, a tour of shooting locations, a documentary on the making of the film with interviews with Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, and Enzo G. Castellari, and a CD with the soundtrack.

The Last House on the Beach

It was argued that the final scene of the movie inspired the final scene in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.

The Lively Ones

Their 1963 song "Surf Rider" (written by Nokie Edwards from The Ventures) was used in the final sequence (and end credits) of Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction.

The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz

In the film Kill Bill Volume 2, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, the character played by Uma Thurman is buried alive in a grave marked "Paula Schultz."

Z Channel

Z Channel's devotion to cinema and choice of rare and important films had an important influence on such directors as Robert Altman, Quentin Tarantino, and Jim Jarmusch.