10 Director Trademarks That You Can't Unsee

Throughout Tarantino's career, he has made sure to put special emphasis on getting glamorous, elongated close-ups of the feet of the women in his films. It's a strange quirk that generally doesn't serve much purpose within the film itself, other than indulging the director's own personal tastes.

This trademark can be traced back to Tarantino's breakout hit, Pulp Fiction, in which his script featured a key moment in which the Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta have an extended conversation about the sensual act of massaging a woman's feet. Following this, practically every subsequent film of his has featured increasingly gratuitous moments of feet.

Jackie Brown featured the director dipping his toe into the water(pun not intended), Kill Bill's moment was a bit much but at least fit logically into the film, Death Proof featured him getting a bit carried away with it, and Inglourious Basterds saw him go full-on disgusting in an overly long, overly glamorized sequence revolving solely around Diane Kruger's foot.

Tarantino has seemingly laid off the fetish a bit in the years since then, with his new trademark arguably becoming a love of overusing the N-word. We'll all just have to collectively wait with baited breath to find out if his upcoming 1969 film will feature a return to his old fetishinzing ways.