Quentin Tarantino- A Director who is Associated with the Thriller Genre

• Having famously learned his art while working as a video store clerk after dropping out of high school, Tarantino burst onto the scene first as a writer, penning the original drafts of Tony Scott's "True Romance" (1993) and Oliver Stone's "Natural Born Killers" (1994). 
• Although famous as a director, Tarantino had aspirations of being an actor too, so placed himself in a leading role for "My Best Friend's Birthday." He also made a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance as one of several Elvis impersonators in a 1988 episode of "The Golden Girls" (NBC, 1985-1992). With little money in his pocket, 
• Tarantino and Avery were hired by producer John Langley, a regular video store customer who was impressed by their film knowledge, to work as production assistants on a Dolph Lundgren exercise video. 
• This led to work at Cinetel Productions, where Tarantino and Avary hooked up with producer Lawrence Bender and finished the screenplay for "Reservoir Dogs," a brutally violent, yet elegantly written crime drama about the aftermath of a jewelry store heist gone bad. Originally budgeted for $35,000, the production grew to $1.5 million when Harvey Keitel - who played the morally-conflicted Mr. White - became enamored of the script and agreed to star. 
• The result was a cleverly structured and stylized caper with themes of masculinity, loyalty and betrayal that benefited greatly from top notch tough-guy performances from a superior ensemble. The soundtrack for the film were songs that meant something personal to Tarantino 
• "Reservoir Dogs" premiered at the 1992 Sundance Film Festival, but was pointedly snubbed by the jury. Nonetheless, Tarantino became an overnight sensation and found himself to be in high demand in Hollywood. 
• Two scripts he co-wrote with Avary - though it remained in dispute how much credit went to his writing partner - were immediately snatched up and turned into films. The first, was "True Romance" (1993) and the second was "Natural Born Killers" (1994), 
• Tarantino escaped to Amsterdam, where he took in the local wares and penned the drafts for what became both his signature film and a pop culture phenomenon, "Pulp Fiction" (1994). Returning to a familiar urban landscape characterized by themes of trust and betrayal, and inhabited by gangsters given to low-level postulating, "Pulp Fiction" boasted another A-list cast including Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and Christopher Walken. While earning several Academy Award nominations and a win for Best Original Screenplay. Many felt for some time that "Pulp Fiction" was robbed of the Best Picture win, losing instead to the feel-good Robert Zemeckis film, "Forrest Gump" (1994).
• Quite literally, "Pulp Fiction" made Tarantino the toast of Hollywood overnight. After taking home well over a dozen major awards for "Pulp Fiction," Tarantino was all but omnipresent in late 1994 and 1995. As an actor, he had began popping up in small roles in independent features.
•  Segueing to television, Tarantino had a guest shot on Margaret Cho's short-lived sitcom "All-American Girl" (ABC, 1994-95) and directed a flashy installment of the medical drama "ER" (NBC, 1994-2009). 
• A few years later, Tarantino was to direct an installment of the popular sci-fi series "The X-Files" (Fox, 1993-2002) but he had refused to join the Directors Guild of America and was unable to secure a waiver to helm the episode.
• Tarantino and Bender expanded their production company, A Band Apart, formed in 1991. The latter was a specialty distribution label under Miramax Pictures designed to acquire, distribute and market four films per year. The emphasis was supposed to be on
  
  visceral, exploitation-tinged genre movies.
• As a filmmaker, Tarantino returned to the screen to executive produce "Four Rooms" (1995), a poorly received comedy anthology, for which he also wrote, directed and starred in the worst of four segments involving the comic antics of a frazzled hotel concierge (Tim Roth).
• He fared better as executive producer, writer and co-star of Rodriguez's "From Dusk Till Dawn" (1996), but box office take was brisk. Still in demand as an actor, Tarantino played an unsympathetic version of himself as "QT" in Spike Lee's sex comedy, "Girl 6" (1996).
• For his long-awaited follow-up feature, Tarantino adapted Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch into "Jackie Brown" (1997), a vehicle for blaxploitation actress Pam Grier. 
• Fans expecting "Pulp Fiction 2" were somewhat disappointed. While some critics carped over the film's length, many were enthralled with the script and the casting. 
• Other than an acting appearance on stage in "Wait Until Dark" (1998) and a small role in the tepid Adam Sandler comedy "Little Nicky" (2000), Tarantino took a long hiatus from public appearances and filmmaking amid tabloid headlines proclaiming rumors of writer's block, pot smoking, temper tantrums and fistfights; rumors he denied. 
• Tarantino spent three years writing a World War II epic called "Inglourious Basterds," but he failed at the time to find the right ending.
• Finally settled on directing "Kill Bill," an unabashedly bloody valentine to kung fu and blaxploitation films. 
• Initially set as a $42 million movie, "Kill Bill" ballooned into a $60-plus million, three-hour opus that took 155 days to shoot. But Tarantino kept forging forward until the film was finished. Miramax was impressed with the quality of the footage, yet unsure of an audience's ability to endure unrelenting levels of violence. In a shrewd move, Tarantino decided to issue the film in two segments just months apart - "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" (2003) and "Kill Bill, Vol. 2" (2004). One of the most graphically violent films ever released - with an R rating, no less - "Kill Bill, Vol. 1" proved to be every bit as critically polarizing as any Tarantino effort, with many critics calling it brilliant cinema and others decrying its gut-wrenching scenes. Like other Tarantino efforts, "Kill Bill, Vol. 2" spun the already established formula on its head when it scaled down the action in favor of unexpected character moments and the writer-director's characteristically absorbing dialogue - not to mention demonstrating his gift for luring top-notch performances out of actors whose careers had dimmed.
• Tarantino next appeared as a "special guest director" in director Robert Rodriguez and writer-artist Frank Miller's adaptation of Miller's crime noir comic book series "Sin City" (2005). 
• Tarantino helmed the tense, eerie sequence within "The Big Fat Kill" storyline.
• Tarantino stepped behind the camera to direct the 2005 season finale of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" (CBS, 2000- ). 
• After scoring an Emmy nomination his "CSI" stint, Tarantino expressed interest in assembling a limited-run series "like one big arc-novel," but nothing came of the idea. 
• Tarantino next teamed up with directing pal Robert Rodriguez once more to direct "Grindhouse" (2007). Tarantino's offering was a slasher-cum-road rage flick called "Death Proof". Despite widespread attention lavished on the film, it failed to draw large crowds to theaters. 
• Meanwhile, Tarantino finally found the ending he was looking for with "Inglourious Basterds" and went about putting it together for his next film. After a leaked copy of the script made the Internet rounds, Tarantino quickly went about casting actors. It brought Tarantino his best critical acclaim since "Pulp Fiction." He earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Director and Best Screenplay; a DGA Award nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film. More importantly, the film earned a total of eight Academy Award nods including for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
• Two years later, Tarantino went to work on his next film, "Django Unchained" (2012). All the requisite hype - particularly on the Internet - was in full effect during the film's production. Before the film was even released, Tarantino received both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best (Original) Screenplay.

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Pulp Fiction (1994) Trailer, one of his most famous films ^