10 Movie Directors Who Cast Actors As Cinematic Versions Of Themselves
3. Quentin Tarantino Is Every Character In His Movies
It could be argued that every character in a Quentin Tarantino film is Quentin Tarantino, given that they talk with the same idiosyncratic, pop-culture literate way the filmmaker does. He also has a weird foot fetish.
Even True Romance, a film Tarantino wrote but didn't direct, features characters that seem to intuit they're in a movie, and they talk like it. They talk about having sex with Elvis Presley, unsung character actors like Edmund O'Brien, 70s exploitation films. And feet.
At the end of Inglorious Basterds, Brad Pitt's Nazi hunter proclaims, "I believe I've made my masterpiece." That was Tarantino, as he did, and has several times, now. For better or for worse, the characters in a Tarantino film are as highly film-literate and fast-talking as the filmmaker himself.
He uses this to his advantage when he rewrites history his own way, taking a note from The Talking Heads and making facts do what he tells them to. His most recent work, Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood, outright refused the horrific reality of the Sharon Tate murder.
Hollywood is Tarantino's playground, and he'll do with it as he sees fit.