Quentin Tarantino was born on 27 March 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee. His mother was a 16 year old student, Connie, and father - Tony 21 years University law student, dreaming of becoming an actor. When
Quentin was 2 years old, they moved to south of Los Angeles, where he grew up
Quentin. His mother took him to the movies since childhood, and in 8 years he had seen "Carnal Knowledge", and in 9 years of "Deliverance". From this early age,
Tarantino fell in love with cinema and went there at every opportunity.
. At the age of 22, he nachel work in video archives, video store in Manhattan Beach in California, where he and Roger Awari spent all the days of discussion and comments movies video
.
Quentin made his first (unfinished) film in 1986 and named it "My Best Friend's Birthday", the film was written with a friend from school, who followed him by writing his first script. A year later, was created "True Romance".
By 1988,
Tarantino wrote the second scenario, and in 1990 sold the script "True Romance" for $ 50,000. He decided to use the money to make the third scenario, "Reservoir Dogs" on 16 mm film, in black and white version with friends in the leading roles. In the end,
Tarantino left the video store to make a dub for CineTel - it was a small Hollywood companies. At that time he met Lawrence Bender and it was a success: Bender attended courses kinomatografa flood with Peter, who knew Harvey Keitel from the Actors Studio. Keitel read the script and was so impressed that dobavel their money on proizvodsivo film, he starred in the film and helped
Tarantino to find people in the main roles. During the producer Monte Hellman and Richard Gladstein also participated in the project.
In 1991,
Tarantino filmed some scenes at Sundance with Harvey Keitela as Mp. White and Steve Bussemi as Mp. Pink. These scenes were shown to various people and a group of people containing Terry Gilliam were particularly impressed by conversations contained on the film.
. Finally, in 1992, Sundance was the premiere of "Reservoir Dogs" before appearing at various film festivals around the world
. Miramax has undertaken to distribute the film after Sundance. And he was released in the U.S. since 1992, and in the UK on Jan. 8, 1993.
.
Tarantino poseschyal various festivals in 1992, supporting his film and creating the following scenario - "Pulp Fiction", which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1994
. The final opening of the film was held on 14 October in the U.S. and October 21 in the UK.
"Pulp Fiction" continued to be one of the most popular films in 1994. The film has collected more than 200 million dollars worldwide and was nominated for Oscar for seven naminatsiyam. (Source: http://
tarantino.cinema.ru/)
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- Site dedicated Ap. Tarantino (Tarantino). Biographical information, photos, information about art, interviews, reviews, pictures from movies, audio and video files. Chat and message board.
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- "For me very important truth". Chatting E. Bauer and Ap. Tarantino (Tarantino) about the film "Jackie Brown" (Jackie Brown). ( "Art Cinema", б? 11, 1999).
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