Quentin Tarantino — "There are two kinds of violence. First, there's cartoon violence like Lethal Wea…"
There are two kinds of violence. First, there's cartoon violence like Lethal Weapon. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm not ragging on that. But my kind of violence is tougher, rougher, more disturbing. It gets under your skin.
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American filmmaker (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds) whose intertextual genre-collage redefined 1990s independent cinema.
Closely associated with
Robert Rodriguez (frequent collaborator (From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City)) and Paul Thomas Anderson (1990s indie-auteur peer).
For an intellectual contrast, see
Stanley Kubrick, meticulous formalist filmmaker (1928-1999) — Kubrick's films erase influences into singular monolithic vision through year-long shoots and 100-take perfectionism; Tarantino's foreground every reference as a deliberate tribute — the two opposite ways auteurist cinema can be made.
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Promoting Reservoir Dogs, discussing types of cinematic violence.