The A-Z of Quentin Tarantino

Y is for Youthful Enthusiasm

Tarantino E A central aspect of what makes Tarantino such a adored presence in the film-making world is his seemingly unending enthusiasm for everything film. His career has seen him reinvent himself by tackling different genres, trying different styles and taking inspiration from a multitude of different sources. Take for example his last two films, Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained, Tarantino has visited two well chronicled genres, the war film and the Western (or Southern as Tarantino himself calls it), two films that tackle serious issues in different ways with Basterds literally rewriting the events of World War II to suit the films tone while Django's more realistic representation of slavery in America is watered down by elements of gun-toting action and wise-cracking dialogue added for a typical Tarantino style production, but never in a exploitive or disrespectful manner. His enthusiasm for taking on so many different genres and having his own unique say on events can only inspire wonder at which genre he will immerse himself in next.

Z is for Zed

Tarantino Z Zed (Peter Greene) is a rapist and a character in €˜The Gold Watch€™ segment of Pulp Fiction. In perhaps one of the movies most iconic and disturbing scenes, Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) and Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) fight themselves into the wrong party at a pawn store owned by Maynard (Duane Whitaker) who points a gun at the duo and ties them up in the basement. What follows is amusing, hilarious, shocking and downright crazy. A series of events that include the Gimp, rape, a katana sword, Marsellus going medieval and ends with Butch and Marsellus coming to a mutual understanding that Butch should leave for good on Zed€™s chopper. When Butch€™s girl Fabienne (Maria de Medeiros) asks who is Zed, Butch replies the iconic line; €œZed€™s dead baby, Zed€™s dead€.
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