mentioned Hong Kong movie fans, we have to mention this one-Quentin Tarantino. He is a talented Hollywood director. He has won the Palme d'Or and Oscar for Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. His representative works include "Falling Dog", "Pulp Fiction", "Kill Bill", "Inglourious Basterds" and so on.
He once said: "If there are two sides to my life, then one side is the Shaw Kung Fu movie in the 70s, and the other side is the Italian Western movie." He is also a loyal fan of Wong Kar Wai and Director Wu Yusen. His connection with Hong Kong movies was made into a documentary called "Quentin Tarantino: The Disciples of Hong Kong Movies", which shows the great influence of Hong Kong movies on him. .
On March 27, 1963, Quentin was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. His parents divorced since childhood, and his mother remarried a composer. His stepfather's views on art and movies are very unique. When Quentin was young, his stepfather often took him to watch some weird movies and tried to make him understand the culture of movies.
Quentin didn't like to read when he was a child, and often fought with social gangsters. Later, he dropped out of high school to work in a video store. With the convenience of a video store, Quentin read countless films there, and it is said that there are as many as 20,000. Also because of such a special film learning experience, in many of his later works, he can see clips of tribute to old films. He has also been nicknamed as a shameless bastard in the film industry. For example:
in 1992's "Falling Water Dogs" in the classic gun confrontation segment is imitated the 1987 movie "Dragon and Tiger", starring Chow Yun-fat.
and the bunny dance in "Pulp Fiction" that is still being talked about by movie fans. From Travolta and Uma Thurman, they twist their bodies provocatively and tentatively, turning the professional assassin's shy, boss woman The tension of temptation and provocation is vividly expressed. But in fact, this segment also borrowed from the 1963 drama "Eight and a Half".
and the close-up of the face of the 17-year-old girl GOGO in "Kill Bill" when she was killed also borrowed from the footage in 1980's "Zombie City".
Because of his obsession with Chinese Kung Fu, Quentin paid tribute to his Kung Fu idol Bruce Lee in "Kill Bill".
Picasso once said that "good artists will learn from, and great artists will copy." In fact, except for the first person to use a shooting technique in the true sense, all directors are shooting with the techniques of their predecessors. The most difficult thing is to break through and form your own unique style on this basis.
Quentin is like this. He may have borrowed many methods from his predecessors on the lens, but he can use his own stories and adopt a unique non-linear narrative technique, which is unforgettable and black irony. Meaningful lines, combined with an ingenious film soundtrack, create a movie with a very personal violent aesthetics.
Quentin's film has a lot of dialogue, and many have no direct driving force on the plot. This is also a major feature of his personal film lines. However, a large number of such life-oriented lines are very helpful in shaping the character's personality, and can narrow the emotional resonance point with the audience. Moreover, if you study carefully, many of them are actually ambushing and creating conflicts. The climax may often appear next. second. The characters in
were still chatting and laughing in the last second, and there may be a scene of blood splashing in the next second. His movies reflect "unconventional and anti-expected" everywhere.
In the beginning, violence and aesthetics were indifferent. It was not until Hemingway's Matador boxer that violence became a kind of beauty. Hemingway himself believed that "Everyone thinks I am writing violence, but what I am writing is elegance." Since then, violence has become an aesthetic.
Quentin’s film fully promotes this aesthetic. Under his lens, the seemingly important character may be shot with a headshot in the next second, and the plasma splashes like ketchup. Although the scene looks bloody, but under his extremely gorgeous scenes, the audience does not feel horrible, but feels very cool and very enjoyable.
and his unique personal lens application skills. Like the "trunk" perspective, you can do it in almost every movie of hisFind one or two such shots. So his fans would say: "If you see a lens with a "trunk" perspective, you are almost certain that this is Quentin's movie." In addition to his lines, violent aesthetics, and unique lens application,
also has his non-linear narrative techniques and unparalleled soundtracks learned by countless junior directors. In addition to being a film director, Quentin is also a foot fetish. Of course, he also occasionally plays some weird roles and has an actor addiction.
In the "Killer Trilogy", Quentin wiped his nose like Bruce Lee and made a cool appearance.
In "The Rescued Jiang Ge", Quentin took on the task of escorting the protagonist, and finally was blown into a cloud of clouds with mental retardation.
Quentin once said that he retired after making ten films, and the latest "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is his ninth. I hope this talented director can delay his retirement and continue to create absurd, interesting and gorgeous stories for fans all over the world.
Quentin Tarantino, he is a bastard and a master.
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