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This roller coaster ride through Quentin Tarantino's life and work is based on over 100 in-depth interviews with friends, colleagues and family and was written with the invaluable support of Quentin' mother, Connie.Perceptive and compelling, Quentin Tarantino: Shooting from the Hip penetrates the eccentric world of Hollywood's hottest movie director.It is essential reading for everyone wanting to understand Tarantino the man, and the phenomenon.Book Description

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Excellant Novel
Excellant biography.Its objective,funny, interesting, and well researched.A must read not only for fans of the hot shot director, but for anyone interested in the process that goes into making movies. Myonly quarrel is that it ends before the making of From Dusk Till Dawn orjackie Brown. ... Read more

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Great Entry in the Series
I am a big fan of the "popular culture and Philosophy" series and I own about eight volumes. This is one of the best in the series.I read these books, both to expand my knowledge of specific philosophers and their theories and ideas as well as to peek at the depths of meaning in some of my favorite works.The decent books in the series will have essays that say "here's a philosopher, here's his idea, this is how it applies to the work in question".which is fine for the first reason i read these books.The really good books in the series have essays that say "here's some things that happen in the work, this is how it illustrates the theme of the work, here's how it relates to the big questions of life, here's how it defends/opposes this philosopher's work".That is precisely what all the essays in this volume do.Whether analyzing Kill Bill as a modern retelling of Oedipus by way of female empowerment, discussing the structure of Pulp Fiction as an analysis of the compartmentalization of time, or using the crooks of Reservoir Dogs to compare group morality, all of the essays truly elucidate Tarantino's movies. ... Read more

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Worshiped like a film star by fans of his ultrahip and violent movies, reviled and condemned by the self-appointed guardians of mortality, Quentin Tarantino has become the cult hero of the nineties.

Using exclusive material from her interviews with Tarantino and those close to him, Jami Bernard traces his fascinating rise from high school dropout and B-movie junkie to the darling Hollywood, exploring the philosophy and mythology of the writer and director who has, with just a few explosive films, turned the movie world on its head.

With the furor over Reservior Dogs, the triumph of Pulp Fiction, and the bitter conflict over Natural Born Killers, Tarantino's meteoric rise has been perspective of those who have worked, played, and done battle with him, Jami Bernard looks beyond the media icon and reveals the man--and his message. ... Read more

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Well researched, well written!
When Tarantino blew up in the early 90's, there were slews of quickie books written to cash in on his enormous popularity. This is not one of them. Jami Bernard has done one of the most thorough and detailed biographies ever done on a celebrity. She misses nothing. A girlfriend got this for me for Christmas '95 when it first came out and I recently re-read it in 2007 and it is even better than I remembered.The only problem this book has is the same problem almost all Q.T books have- they were all written 2 to 3 years into his career, so there is no recent information. This is one book I'd love to see updated and re-released.It is a richly detailed and fair account of Tarantino's life and career up until 1995.

The single best book about Tarantino
This book is a must-read for every true Tarantino fan.

Jamie Bernard's book is simply amazing. It covers Tarantino's life from childhood till about 1996. The book is well-written, and goes deep into detail and uncovers Tarantino's life as hyperactive kid, movie theater regular, fatherless child and genius moviemaker. This is the single best book ever written about Quentin Tarantino. No other book delivers such great information, biographical facts and stories about the making of his early movies and involvements in projects. If you want to read a good book about Tarantino, get this one first. It's the best!

trust me on this...

A great scoop on Tarantino's beginnings
I just finished reading this book, and it is a fine work of reporting. It interviews people from both sides of the Tarantino debate (those who love him and those who hate him), and allows you to draw your own conclusionsfrom all the statements. It covers Tarantino's life from his birth up tothe moment when he made Four Rooms.

Too bad this book is out of print. Ihope there will be a reissue in the future, probably covering the latestworks of Tarantino.

Excellent, well written book, with a lot of information.
This book is a very good book.It gets you very familiar with Quentin and his movis. Every Quentin fan should read this book.I am going to read it again. Read the book!! Thomas Peterson MXPF89C@prodigy.com Kuna, Idaho ... Read more

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A big waste of time
The author summarizes the plots of about a dozen violent movies, then he summarizes the critics' reaction to those movies. That's about it. The interview with Oliver Stone is pointless. If you want to read a really good book on this subject, try The Blood Poets by Jake Horsley.

A must have for the action movie fanatic
A lot can be said for this book, but I'll try to keep it short.

First, the cons.This book can be a bit dry.It takes a genre (i.e. Law and Order for police movies), then it will choose several films from this genre and discuss what the movie was about, why critics either hated it or liked it.Some movies even get a section on any particularly famous, gory scenes within.Another thing that I didn't particularly care for was that it included several horror films that weren't particularly violent.Psycho, which has a relatively low body count when compared with Friday the 13th, etc.Of course, Psycho was included because it was directed by the master Alfred Hitchcock, but doesn't seem ultra-violent.

The best thing about this book is that it shows how violence has progressed in movies, starting with Bonnie and Clyde, all the way through RoboCop (one of the bloodiest action movies ever made in my opinion).Many well known movies are discussed (Dirty Harry, Clockwork Orange), as well as some smaller, lesser-known movies (Walking Tall).

The pros far outwiegh the cons.For any one who lies their movies full of Desert Eagle handguns, this book is for you.

Violence in film... almost there, perhaps next try.
Violence has been an integral part of art in all its forms ever since man invented art. It has been, and probably always will be, a part of life, no matter how civilized we become. Civilization itself is not only created and molded by violence, but sustained, perpetuated, and developed by its application or the threat of it.

Violence is disturbing but it can also be cathartic, and art presents both of these in an unsettling synthesis that is bound to get as many people upset as it will get to delight in it. Going back to Sumerian myths, Greek tragedies, Chinese folk tales, Elizabethan drama, and more recent literary examples reveals a long and cherished tradition of reveling in violent excess to the great entertainment of audiences as varied as one can imagine. Pictorial art tries to outdo the written word with cruel displays of bloodletting, and even when ostensibly depicting religious events the artists tend to go for the shocking, sensational, and sublimely disturbing.

It is little wonder then that films, just another art form, would seize on this long tradition, integrate it into its own canons, and fully participate in it, expanding it and adapting it according to the requirements and possibilities of the medium.

Films that depict violence have always been subject to the ferocious attacks from various corners, depending on what the movie portrays. What do the film-makers do or say in their defense? This is the subject matter of Bouzereau's book. It is not as much about what violence is, what role it plays in society, and how it is reflected in the arts, as it is about the various responses to its presence in films. The author traces how critics, the public, the law, the industry, and finally, the directors themselves view the presence of violence in these films.

The book is divided into eight chapters that cover everything from the films of Sam Peckinpah to those of Clive Barker. While the book does not dwell on horror films apart from some brief look at slasher, fantasy, and zombie movies, it does present a rather extensive catalogue of the most famous violent movies made in the U.S. This should be made quite clear: the book is only about American films despite featuring a Belgian B&W feature and making references to reactions in Britain and France to some of the films in the study.

This is a shortcoming, and a very serious one, because it deprives us of the comparative look at violent films that might shed some light on the role of violence in life and art, and thereby provide a much better justification for its use in films. Some cultures are even more tolerant to violence than America (e.g. Japan) and their arts inevitably reflect that as well. Omitting serious cinema from around the world handicaps the argument by forcing a distinctly American frame of reference on a globally shared phenomenon.

Ultimately, the book does not offer much insight. It is really a collection of film synopses, woven around anecdotes, interviews with directors, and cursory look at the controversies surrounding some of the films. Even this becomes fragmented in the second part of the book, with the chapters getting shorter, as if the author was in a hurry writing them, and the discussion being less and less attentive to the social implications of the subject matter. By the end of the book, the author simply recites brief summaries of the films and sometimes does not even include much of the reaction to them at all.

It is as if The Wild Bunch, Clockwork Orange, and Natural Born Killers are somehow worthier than Night of the Living Dead, Scream, or Man Bites Dog. Again, the ugly and entirely artificial distinction between art haute and the low-brow, low-budget horror flick rears its ugly head. Even in this marginalized genre hierarchy is imposed by critics who seek to redeem the images of death by uncovering some social commentary in the films.

The premise, however, appears flawed to me. It assumes that these films are in need of defending. Indeed, the book (and the directors) spend a lot of time trying to justify the violence in these films. Most of them center around the "life is full of violence, we're just showing it they way it is" variety. But this defense misses an essential point. If movies were simply photographs of reality, they would make great 8 o'clock news, but art they will not make.

It is naive to claim that art is just a mirror of reality. The film-makers do that for obvious reasons: they want to protect their creations from the depredations of the multidinous censors. Yet art's purpose is to evoke emotions. Showing violence does that. But so do romance, horror, bravery, depression, you name it. If it's well done, the audience would respond. And that is the purpose of art, to get a response. A lot of times we might be surprised at our own reactions, we might even be disgusted by them. Maybe the veneer of civilization is not as thin as many would have us believe and maybe, just maybe, our rational selves would be able to recognize and suppress these traits that we deem unworthy of perpetuating.

Civilization has routinely glorified violence and for good reason. We always have to fight for our gains, we always have to protect our freedoms. Liberty dies as soon as we are unable to kill to keep it.

Violence is destructive, it is ugly, and it is life. There is no existence apart from violence. We may not like it, we may deplore it, but it will never be further than inches away from even the most docile among us. Violence can also be a way of expressing ourselves and thus moving others. There can be no heroes without violence. Being a hero means overcoming fear and the only fear worth overcoming is that of untimely violent death. Getting rid of violence in the arts would simultaneously rid us of our heroes.

This is a sick but jovial book...
And anytime an author can make gore an exciting and interesting element, then he's done his job. DEATH WISH, WALKING TALL, TAXI DRIVER, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, and more. Buy it and be disgusted [...] and just enjoy! ... Read more

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Seemingly senseless gibble gabble...
The moment I saw the cover of this newly published book, I immediately went to the cash register and bought myself a copy. I mean, even the title sounds cool.."Raised By Wolves". Yet, when I began reading this book, I was wondering where all of this writing was going.

The author, Jerome Charyn, seems to have only a wide knowledge of vocabulary that makes it sound like he knows what he is talking about. And at the same time, I feel as if he writes on purpose only to confuse the reader with all this filmic and post-modernist gibble gabble that really, if you try to think about it, doesn't make too much sense.

I wanted a detailed story about Tarantino's life as a youth, how he became the person he is today. What influences he had, what things he did to mold him into a film director, etc. There were bits and pieces yes, but I feel as if there was too much confusion around his aimless commentary and analysis to make it worthwhile to read.

Awsome Director,Awful Book
I consider myself to be the biggest fan of Tarantino and his art. I've purchased many biographies on him and filmographies and when I found out this was coming out I almost pooped my pants. I ordered it and when I finally got it I was very dissapointed.

This book is a one sided bashing of the writer/director. How could this pass as a biography? There are many times where the author takes a quote from a Tarantino movie and deeply reads into it. There is no problem with that except, he gets the quotes wrong. If you are going to take someones quote out of context you should at the very least make the quote correct, or at least close.

All in all this book is trash. Pick up Tarantino by Jim Smith or The Pocket Essential Quentin Tarantino. Actually pick them both up The Pocket essential gives a better view of his life and a concise overview of the movies. Jim Smith's has an extensive view of his filmography and almost no personal life. They go together great. Like Mia and Vincent. ... Read more

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From Reservoir Dogs in 1992 to the recent Kill Bill series, the films of Quentin Tarantino have always provoked a reaction from audiences and critics alike, many attracting a cultlike following. In this book, Edwin Page discusses each of the eight films that Tarantino has either written or directed, or both, in an attempt to find out how the former video store clerk has realized his fantasy and become one of the world's most successful and well-known directors.

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One for everyone
Well - I enjoyed it!!!... as an admirer of Tarantino, although not a fanatic, I found it an easy, sensible, informed read and it lead me to admire the bloke a lot more after reading this than I did before.I looked at other books recommended by the other 'critic' but they weren't (in my opinion) as smooth to read as this one - which is laid out with interesting little boxed snippets to the pages.Brilliant title by the way (which attracted me in the first place, incidentally)

Essential Addition
This is a well written and interesting read. A must for all Tarantino fans and an excellent addition and reference for your DVD collection. Not to be missed.

great read for fans!
This is a must have book for Tarantino fans. It is very easy to read and does not patronise the reader like some other film books do. Buy it now!

Doesn't live up to its promise
"Page's book is a quick glance over Tarantino's films from literary studies perspective. A good companion if you want to check out approaches on how to look at the films. Everyone who hasn't read the indispensible trio Bernard-Holm-Smith yet, or everyone who just wants to read a simple, fast and uncomplicated analysis of his films, should ca nit, but the book just is not really more than that." -Sebastian H. (Full review available at www.tarantino.info) ... Read more

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Tarantino's debut Reservoir Dogs re-invigorated American film and spawned many imitators. From directed films Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, and Kill Bill to his scripts filmed by other directors (True Romance, From Dusk Til Dawn, and Natural Born Killers), Tarantino's cutting-edge output is explored in detail - including his ER episode and projects as an actor, producer, and presenter. References, links and allusions - vital to all his films - are revealed, as are favorite actors, music and recurring themes such as responsibility and redemption. ... Read more

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One of the very best
One of the very best books about Tarantino's movies to day, Smith manages to both analyze his movies from a point of view noone else before him has done, and take a look at the man's work in a numer of contexts that matter to his fans. Well-written, full of insight and not too short, this book might very well make it to the top of must-read Tarantino books. (www.tarantino.info)

Like A Virgin
Virgin film continues to be the best information one can aquire when interested in a filmmaker. Tarantino may only have released four films as director to date, but he has been a great presence in the film world for many moons.
This book covers everything Tarantino has touched or been a part of in movies. From his own four films, to screenplays directed by others (True Romance, Natural Born Killers, From Dusk Till Dawn), to movies he has acted in (Destiny Turns On The Radio, Dusk again, ect.) and more. It also includes some information on unfinished scripts and projects he's thinking of directing next.
Quentin Tarantino is a major presence in Hollywood and a brilliant young filmmaker, I have read every other book there is to read about him and this is by far the most detailed, complete and easy to read account of his life and career thus far!
Kudos to Virgin Film.
Other great virgin film guides: The Complete Hitchcock, The Complete Scorsese, The Complete Coppola, Tim Burton, The Coen Brothers, Animated Films, Comic Book Films, Gangster Films, Film Noir and Horror Films. ... Read more

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de-ja-vu all over
After a couple of articles written about the same period of Tarantino's carreer (which was very short so far when this book was published) I got a strogn sense of de-ja-vu. It's basically the same questions and answers all over again, and the book only slowly goes forward to the next film or project.

I guess a book like this would be much more interesting if the filmmaker had done a lot more films and the book could do with only 1 or 2 interviews per period. This one was written too soon, alas.

The guy who bashed Tarantino doesn't have a clue!
This is just a response from the "reader" in California that so badly slammed Tarantino in his review. I personally havent had a chance yet to read this particular book but I have seen his movies and I dont know what your talking about. I am 30 years old and married and I think his movies are fantastic. They are not meant to be "Godfather" like films, they are of a new generation of film making and have an originality all their own.I dont even want to begin speculating in what you call a good movie (probably enjoy crap like Punch Drunk Love).I think Tarantino is great if you aren't trying to follow the mundane, reoccuring theme in most movies today.

GENIUS!!!!!!!!
This guy is a genius. This is a great book. I hope they release new editions of this book after he's completed some more films.

Boring Book About a Boring Man
It's terribly sad that so much attention is sent in the wrong direction.Did the man behind this book just think he was cool for having something to do with a man who only ten year olds still think is smart?Tarentino's films are universally and fundamentally boring, at least for anyone who has ever lived a real life and not just fantasized about having one.His dipictions of violence eminate from his own personal lack of sexual energy.Sadly, teenage males without girlfriends seem to like these slammed together video games that are being called brilliant, and continue to support the trash factory that generates this type of hyper garbage.It's especially sad when a true film afficienado understands the brilliance of all of the original pictures which he doggedly ripped off and claimed the scenes for his own.If one more person calls this sad, pathetic, lack of a man a genious, I will become even more sick of him.Please get a life and buy a real one too.Keep pretending that you and Uma are an Item.Maybe some ex film critics will believe you.

Insightful
Everybody would like to get inside the head of a genius, get to know how he thinks. Well, this book allows you to do just that. You get a sense of Tarantino's concerns when writing, you learn that the first draft of Pulp Fiction was doing 500 pages.

But since it is all interviews, there are quite a few redundancies. The same questions answered the same way. It might not be the best book to know about Tarantino. In fact it isn't. But it's a good book for anyone who wants to feel the passion of moviemaking, and to catch some clues on what made his movies so delightful. Unfortunatly, the book isn't recent and all interviews topics only include Tarantino's first two movies (Reservoir and Pulp) as well as references to True Romance and Natural Born Killers, which scripts he had sold prior to Reservoir. ... Read more

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Addictive
The single review on Amazon for this screenplay is about three words long and doesn't discuss the merits of the literature AT ALL. I'm starting to think Amazon should place word limit restrictions so reviewers can't submit comments such as, "cul movie!"

If you've read my review of Tarantino's PULP FICTION script you'll see that I called it very addictive, and the same is true here, in fact it's more enjoyable to read. I printed it out off of my script website (wiredonmovies.com) and read it rather quickly. The movie itself disappointed me, and seemed like a fanboy's "wet dream" as some have described it. All in all the elements don't quite add up and the film (directed by Tony Scott) has an edge but lacks the humor of Tarantino's edge.

The screenplay is a blast, and differs from the film sometimes, especially the end. I imagine Quentin's version of the film (he originally planned on directing it but turned it down for RESERVOIR DOGS and used the money he made off this script to fund that project) would have been superior to Scott's own outcome.

Tarantino
It's tarantino. It's the screenplay of the movie. you saw the movie,right? GET IT. ... Read more

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Tight, tight, tight: much better than the movie
I've always wondered why people read plays but not movie scripts, and after reading "Natural Born Killers," I wonder that even more.
This is a great script for a movie that could have been excellent if Quentin Tarantino, the script's author, had directed the movie himself.I don't know WHAT Oliver Stone was trying to do.
The script, in case you don't know, is the story of a husband and wife with an insane past that go on a love-fuelled, almost invincible killing rampage across the country.Their crimes are senseless and random, and the media (and the public) LOVES them.It's the bizarre story of their killing sprees, their romance, their capture, and their escape, and...well, I don't want to give too much away.
The script follows an incredibly cool format, of being mostly an hour-long TV special about the two killers, intertwined with the people making the TV special and interviewing the killers themselves, intertwined with flashbacks.
It could have been an amazing movie, but instead we got a weird, cartoonish mess that exudes barely any of the well-developed themes, tight action, and believable characters (individuals and mobs) that Quentin Tarantino actually wrote.
Read the script, and skip the movie--that's what I say.Read the script, and hope that maybe someday Tarantino will remake the movie himself, the right way, the way it should have been.

"Natural Born Killers" Original Screenplay Review
There are people who seem to either enjoy Stone's movie and hate Quentin's screenplay or vice versa. Fact is I enjoyed both. Quentin Tarantino's original screenplay for "Natural Born Killers" is far different from the nightmarish acid trap that it became once Oliver Stone got his hands on it. Stone's film is far more epic and sadistic though Quentin's version isn't exactly a day at Disney World either. Much of Quentin's work is used in the film version though the way the story is told is so completely different than it was clearly conceived. The opening diner sequence is nearly the exact same as presented in the film though this is really the only one of Mickey and Mallory's murder spree sequences that Quentin intended to include (aside from the court room murder which was "deleted" from Stone's cut). Following that, the script takes a much different approach with it being told almost entirely in a documentary style with Wayne Gale (played in the film by Robert Downey) acting as the central character. Jack Scagnetti, who was a sadistic crooked cop in Stone's "NBK", is far less brutal in this one and is not positioned as a longtime rival of the murderous couple but more as a veteran cop being sold into hauling the two killers to the asylum. While the character of Dewight McClusky (played by Tommy Lee Jones in the movie) was a character in this script as well, his role is decreased and most of his action was written for a character named Wurlitzer, who didn't make Stone's version. The majority of the first half of the filmed "Killers" was not a part of the original Tarantino story and most of the social commentary was also absent. If you're a Tarantino fan or someone who would like a different take on the "NBK" story, this is an intruiging read.

Sometimes it can drag,but this is a great script.
I rented the movie directed by Oliver Stone due to the fact that Quentin Tarantino's name was on the story credits and I knew that Oliver Stone among others had messed with his script and Tarantino had removed his name from the screenwriting credits but I wanted to see it anyways.I thought the movie sucked,I hated it.So I bought the original script to see how the movie could've been and this is a great script.There's no mention of how the cinematography should look.There's no sexually abusive sitcom father,nor indian guy.This is how the film should have been.The movie is virtually just a big TV special by Wayne Gale who was played in the movie by Robert Downey Jr. The story is amazingly different.The opening scene is the same though.The story is basically Mickey and Mallory Knox in jail while Mickey is being interviewed by Wayne Gale.That's it.Buy this script.Burn the movie.Enjoy

NATURAL BORN BORING
A man who has not lived a life cannot tell a real story.Tarentino's films are universally and fundamentally boring for anyone who has ever lived a real life and not just fantasized about having one.His dipictions of violence eminate from his own personal lack of sexual energy.Sadly, teenage males without girlfriends seem to like these slammed together video games that are being called brilliant, and continue to support the trash factory that generates this type of hyper garbage.It's especially sad when a true film afficienado understands the brilliance of all of the original pictures which he doggedly ripped off and claimed the scenes for his own.If one more person calls this sad, pathetic, lack of a man a genious, I will become even more sick of him.Please get a life and buy a real movie.

Incredibly disappointing
This is, quite frankly, one of the most boring scripts I have ever read.The only reason I finished it was that I was such a huge fan of the movie.It is vastly inferior to Oliver Stone's version of the film, and far from portraying the charatcters as "monsters," it portrays them as two-dimensional cartoons.There is no development for any of these characters, and there is no reason given that Mickey and Mallory would even care about each other.Their relationship isn't even really hinted at.One of the truly great things about Stone's film was the way that Mickey and Mallory were portrayed in the middle, from when they actually were married to when they were finally arrested, especially in the scene with the Indian.Tarantino's script lacks any subtlety, contrary to what another reviewer stated.What Oliver Stone created from this script was a mesmerizing film about thhe allure and addiction to violence in our culture.What Tarantino envisioned was a juvenile mishmash of unappealing characters without even a reason to exist.(What the Hell was the point of Wayne Gale's assistant having no tongue?)Anyway, I hope that Tarantino continues to move on from this very amateur script, and never tries to make his own version, as I'm sure he won't.I hope he at least realizes that this script was NOT that good. ... Read more

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Dictionary
Xactly - just a Dict, nothin else, no synopsis just VERY short Xplanations of characters, situations and names. not worth $ U would pay, find anThr 1. ... Read more

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A must have for any film geek
This book chronicles the caeer and succes of the of the most influentialfilmmakers of the past decade. The book is composed of essays, interviews,articles, and reviews surrounding the works of QT. Any QT fan must havethis book. It discusses topics ranging from the Reservoir Dogs torturescene to the contents of the Pulp Fiction "briefcase" to QT's ownpersonal favorites. ... Read more

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Quentin Tarantino, director of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, and writer of True Romance, Natural Born Killers and From Dusk Till Dawn, is undeniably the cult director of the decade. Here, Paul Woods traces the life, films and influences of the self-confessed 'movie geek' who has become the film stylist of the nineties, and one of Hollywood's hottest properties. Fully updated to include Tarantino's latest hit movie, Jackie Brown. ... Read more

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A must for a Tarantino follower.
King Pulp is a reaveling biography of Quentin Tarantino(movie wise). The book tells many interesting facts that even the most hardcore Tarantino followers will hear for the first time. Though the book tells alot abouthis movies,It should have gone more indepth about the man behind them.There are many very cool photos of him on the job and pictures from hismovies. A must read for any Tarantino devotee. ... Read more

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At the beginning of 1992, no one had heard of Quentin Tarantino. By mid-1995, Quentinmania was in high gear, and he was being hailed as the hip new Oscar-toting messiah of film making. In this irreverant personal biography and in-depth study, Jeff Dawson interrogates Tarantino about his early influences, his use of violence, and accusations of plagiarism. Dawson takes the reader behind the scenes of Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Destiny Turns on the Radio, to get a glimpse of Quentin through the eyes of Harvey Keitel, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth and other Tarantino gang members interviewed for this book. Includes dialogue that didn't make it into the final cut, as well as the original plot twists for True Romance and Natural Born Killers that got axed by the censors. Includes great color and black and white photos throughout. ... Read more

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The Cin-enema of Fools
(...)Tarentino's films are universally and fundamentally boring for anyone who has ever lived a real life and not just fantasized about having one.His dipictions of violence eminate from his own personal lack of sexual energy.Sadly, teenage males without girlfriends seem to like these slammed together video games that are being called brilliant, and continue to support the trash factory that generates this type of hyper garbage.(...)

THE pop bio of the quintessential 90's pop auteur
Well-paced and revealing, this "not-too-long," "not-too-short" bio reads like the Everyman-movie-geek fantasythat it is. The author spent considerable time following Tarantino aroundas he began his attack on Hollywood in 1992, with Reservoir Dogs, and assuch, he was given enviable access to the celebrities that found their wayinto the young director's orbit.Extensive one-on-one interviews-- withsuch H'wood players as Samuel L. Jackson, Tony Scott, Harvey Keitel, aswell as collaborators Roger Avary and Laurence Bender, not to mention theman himself--offer an entertaining glimpse into the mind of the strugglingactor who decided he would have a better shot at success if he wrote hisown screenplays, and went on to direct arguably the best film of the 1990s,Pulp Fiction.

Bonus revelations include Tarantino and Co.'s experienceacting in the indie flick Destiny Turns on the Radio, QT's reactionfollowing both the 1994 Cannes D'Or Award and the predictable Forrest GumpOscar landslide of 1995 that left Tarantino & Avary holding only theBest Screenplay statuette, as well as Tarantino's side of the storyregarding his battle with the producers of Natural Born Killers. Anall-around good read that is honest enough to suggest Tarantino as perhapsthe next Orson Welles-as-washed-up-has-been, and wise enough in the end tobet against it. ... Read more

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Brilliant!
What more can I say? Anders is awesome, as are Rockwell, Rodriguez, and of course, Quentin Tarantino. This is a marvelous screenplay, definitely one of my faves. I'm so glad they produced this screenplay!

I'm also a big Tim Roth fan, so I decided to pick up a copy of the play when I saw it being auctioned. I'm so glad I did! There's some great storyboards as well as some black and white pictures of the film.

It's a great bargain! If you loved the movie as much as I did, you'll love this! A+!

rather than film...
The idea was conceptually unoriginal but the actual screenplay turned out to be a magical thing that could not, with all our trying, become what it was in the text; An imaginative piece where all involved brought somethingworthy to the table. The film which it subsequently became is not even onpar with what we could call a "movie". A mess is more the truth.Rodriguez' segment is the only worth viewing and then Quentin's second onlybecause this was still when he was hot and feeling like the character heportrayed. 'Jackie Brown' humbled him. I know it did. The screenplay is astand-alone and should be approached as such. Do not view the film oncedone. This diminishes all previous effort. ... Read more

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Essential For Tarantino Fans
This book is a nice introduction for novice Tarantino fans and satisfying for the hard core fan also. D K Holm explores every thing from Q's childhood up to his future project "Inglorious Bastards." The book is well written, informative, easy to read and a great alternative to higher priced books that are ten years out of date. This is a great book if you can find it!

Concise, clever, great
"This book is one that should be at arm's lenght on every QT fan's desk. A tiny little book that fits between all those Pearys and Bernards, the Dawsons and Woods. A book that can not stand on its own, but is a very sensible addition to what is already available on the market." -Sebastian H. (read the complete review at www.tarantino.info) ... Read more

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Word count: 4797. ... Read more