10 Most Diverse Directors In Hollywood

Tarantino is one of the most film literate people on the planet, and his passion for his craft is so clear to see in his art. He is the master of remixing and re-imagining old films and genres to make something completely new.

In the 1990s he cemented himself as one of the best young directors in the world with his unique take on crime films. Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction established his style of non-linear storytelling with emphasis on witty dialogue juxtaposed with extreme violence. Jackie Brown continued this trend, although with a dash of 1970s blaxploitation.

The release of Kill Bill and Kill Bill Volume 2 saw just how many different kinds of films were influencing him. He took revenge films, spaghetti westerns, martial arts films and horror and essentially made his own genre. Essentially the film equivalent of a hip hop producer like Dr Dre.

He then turned his attention to the sub genre of alternate history with Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained - both at their core are revenge films again, this time in the context of a war film and a western respectively. Of course they are extremely violent and have incredibly snappy dialogue as any Tarantino film does. This continued once again with The Hateful Eight, which is perhaps his most dialogue driven film yet amd played out almost like a stage play taking place almost entirely in one setting.

Tarantino has repeatedly claimed that he plans on only making ten films, which makes Once Upon a Time In Hollywood his penultimate one. This one again has him reinventing himself, only this time the film essentially deconstructs what it means for a film to be a Tarantino film. His most "laid back" film yet, at times it feels more like a Linklater film than a Tarantino one with its numerous scenes that are seemingly inconsequential. It's the one type of film that he had yet to make. A Tarantino film that doesn't feel like a Tarantino film but still is one. It shouldn't really work, but it does.

His next film may be his last, but regardless of what it is, he has left the film community one of the strongest and most diverse filmographies of recent times.