Talkin' Tarantino

     By: Camden Schrickel         Hey guys, welcome back to Talkin Tarantino’ and today we are going to talk about the relationship and partnership between Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. I’m going to talk about how they met and became friends, and the work they’ve done together since then.  They first met at the 17th Toronto Film Festival in 1992 as two freshly budding directors. They had both just released their respective directorial debuts. Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs and Rodriguez with El Mariachi. These films were also similar but very different with Reservoir Dogs having a neo-noir inspiration and El Mariachi being neo-western. They were both directors speaking on a panel at the festival talking about the general aestheticization of violence regarding to cinema and giving their opinions on directors like Brian De Palma and Martin Scorcese. Funnily enough years later Tarantino and Rodriguez would also be talked about in that conversation for their use of violence in

         By: Camden Schrickel      Hey guys, welcome back to Talkin’ Tarantino. My name is Camden Schrickel and today we are going to talk about another one of Tarantino’s Directing Styles which is his use of Violence and Stylistic Bloodshed      His use of violence and stylistic bloodshed is shown when he uses exaggerated or stylized fight scenes and an overabundance of gore in these scenes. The example I’m using for this one is Kill Bill Vol. 1, once again you can definitely see this used in almost all his films but Kill Bill Vol. 1 I feel like has the most stylistic scenes.      The main scene I feel like has the most stylistic bloodshed is the fight scene between The Bride and O-Ren Ishii and her minions. This fight has a lot of cool style choices from the set design to the music. It gives a Japanese samurai-esque vibe that fits this movie so well. Also, the exaggerated fighting with the minions where they just keep coming even though she’s slicing all of them apart, gives it tha

         By: Camden Schrickel Hey guys, welcome back to Talkin’ Tarantino and today we are going to talk about another one of Tarantino’s Directing Styles which is Dialogue Driven scenes. Dialogue driven scenes , another popular style Tarantino tries to utilize in all his films, are pretty obvious, they are scenes that have little to no action and are almost completely progressed by dialogue between the characters. A popular use of this in one of his films is Reservoir Dogs, although it is used in pretty much every one of his films i think it is most popularly and well used in Reservoir Dogs. This movie starts off with a dialogue driven scene in the diner when they are all chatting, and Mr. Pink has the famous “I don’t tip” monologue. After that the movie pretty much continues to have a lot of these dialogue driven scenes mainly set in the warehouse where they are hiding out. In this warehouse we have multiple iconic scenes like the torture scene set to Hip to Be Square. We also have

         By: Camden Schrickel                     Hey guys, welcome back to Talkin’ Tarantino and today we are going to talk about one of Quentin Tarantino’s Signature Directing Styles. The Style I'm going to go over is Non-Linear Formatting and Non-Chronological Order. Non-linear formatting and Non-Chronological Order are styles that show a story broken into different chapters almost like a novel and moved around out of chronological order but then all connected together in the final chapter of the film. The most popular example of this in his films is Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction revolves around 4 different stories: Honey Bunny & Pumpkin, Jules & Vince, and Butch and Fabienne, and Marcellus and Mia. A funny story my dad always tells me about when he first saw Pulp Fiction in the theater is after the Honey Bunny and Pumpkin scene in the diner in the beginning my dad and his friend turned to each other in awe of what they just saw and when he went home to tell my mom about