Saturday, September 10, 2016

What are Quentin Tarantino's influences?

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is vocal about which films and filmmakers influence his own work.  Many of his film influences were created in the 1960s and 1970s, though some were earlier and later than those decades.  The 1966 film The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a Spaghetti Western about three men on a search for a stow of gold during the American Civil War.  Tarantino has said that this movie is "the greatest film ever made."  The director of the film Carrie is Brian De Palma.  De Palma's dramatic style has influenced Tarantino.  Perhaps one of the most noticeable stylistic influences on Quentin Tarantino was Alfred Hitchcock.  For example, Hitchcock was famous for his high angle shots in films such as North by Northwest and Psycho.  Hitchcock also used low angle shots in Psycho.  Tarantino frequently uses high angle and low angle shots in his film.  Many famous low angle shots are shot from the perspective of below the hood of a car in Tarantino's films, such as in Pulp Fiction.

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