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BIOGRAPHIE:
Quentin Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee,
the son of a 16 year old nursing student Connie and a 21 year old law student
and aspiring
actor Tony. Connie named him after Burt Reynold's character, Quint
in 'Gunsmoke'. When Quentin was 2, they moved to South Los Angeles which
is where Quentin grew up. His mother took him to the cinema from an early
age, he saw 'Carnal Knowledge' at the age of 8 and 'Deliverance' at the
age of 9. From this early introduction Tarantino fell in love with the
cinema and went at every opportunity.
At the age of 22, he landed a job in Video Archives, a video store
in Manhattan Beach, California where he and Roger Avary spent all day watching,
discussing and recommending videos. He made his first (unfinished) film
in 1986, 'My Best Friend's Birthday', written with acting class friend
Craig Hamann, and followed this up by writing his first script, 'True Romance'
a year later.
During this period, he was attending acting classes and put together
a CV of his (non-existent) acting experience which included a role in Jean-Luc
Godard's 'King Lear' because nobody in Hollywood would have heard of the
film or director and 'Dawn of the Dead' by George Romero because he resembled
a biker in one of the scenes. His role in 'King Lear' was actually listed
in Leonard Maltin's video guide.
By 1988, Tarantino had written his second script, 'Natural Born Killers'
and in 1990 he sold the script for 'True Romance' for $50,000. He decided
to use this money to make his third script, 'Reservoir Dogs' on 16mm and
in black and white with his friends in the leading roles. It was around
this point that Tarantino left the video store to do rewrites for CineTel,
a small Hollywood production company - it was at this time he met Lawrence
Bender and struck lucky;
Bender was attending acting classes with Peter Flood, who was divorced
from acting teacher Lily Parker and knew Harvey Keitel from the Actors
Studio. Keitel saw the script and was impressed enough to raise some more
finance, act in the film and help Tarantino cast the main roles. At this
point, producers Monte Hellman and Richard Gladstein also joined the project.
In 1991, Tarantino filmed some scenes at Sundance with him playing
the role of Mr White and Steve Buscemi playing Mr Pink. These scenes were
shown to various film people to comment on and the group containing Terry
Gilliam were particularly impressed.
'Reservoir Dogs' finally premiered at Sundance '92 before appearing
at various film festivals around the World. Miramax picked the film up
for distribution after Sundance and it was released in the US later in
1992 and in the UK on January 8 1993.
Tarantino traveled around the various festivals in 1992 promoting his
film and writing his next script, 'Pulp Fiction' which went on to win the
Palme D'Or at Cannes in 1994. It finally opened amidst incredible hype
and critical acclaim on October 14 in the US and October 21 in the UK.
'Pulp Fiction' went on to become one of the most highly acclaimed movies
of 1994, grossing over 100 million dollars worldwide and picking up several
Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor,
Best Supporting Actor, Actress, Best Editing, and winning an Oscar for
Best Original Screenplay.
Riding on the success of Pulp Fiction, Tarantino has gone on to be
a major Hollywood player, Producing, Distributing films through Miramax
with an arm of the company called 'Rolling Thunder', Co-Directing and Co-Writing
'Four Rooms', an anthology-type feature film, Directing an episode of 'ER',
a popular TV show, and making many appearances in movies and TV.
After having already cooperated with Robert Rodriguez in 'Four Rooms',
in 1996 the two of them realized Quentins old script 'From Dusk Till Dawn'.
Rodriguez directed. Apart from having written the screenplay he also co-produced
and starred as 'Richard Gecko' side by side with George Clooney. The movie
was a big success and this also leaded to 2 sequels ('Texas Blood Money'
and 'The Hangman's Daughter').
In 1996 he also appeared in the movie 'Girl 6', acting himself, 'Curdled'
where the 'Gecko Brothers' from 'Dusk' appear he was producing, he made
some changes for 'The Rock' and appeared in Steven Spielberg's Director's
Chair, a CD-Rom game.
Being a fan and friend of the american top-seller author Elmore Leonard,
in 1997 he decided to make the movie 'Jackie Brown' based upon Leonard's
novel Rum Punch.
FILMOGRAPHIE:
2003/ Kill Bill, Drehbuch/Regie??
2000/ Little Nicky - Satan Junior, als Straßenprediger
1997/ Jackie Brown, Drehbuch/Regie
1996/ From Dusk Till Dawn, als Richard Gecko
1995/ Four Rooms, als Chester,Regie/Drehbuch
1995/ Desperado,als Pick-up Guy
1995/ Destiny - Hoher Einsatz in Las Vegas, Schauspieler
1994/ Pulp Fiction, als Jimmie, Drehbuch/Regie
1994/ Natural Born Killers, Drehbuch
1993/ True Romance, Drehbuch
1991/ Reservoir Dogs - Bissige Hunde, als Mr. Brown, Regie/Drehbuch