Quentin Tarantino is an influential American film director known for his unique style that combines elements from various film genres. Some key aspects of his style include nonlinear storytelling, extensive dialogue, violence, profanity, pop culture references, and music. Two of his most famous and controversial films are Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, which feature intense violence, strong language, and depictions of drug use. While praised for their originality, Tarantino's films have also received criticism for their graphic content.

1. The Films of Quentin
Tarantino
By Hannah George

2. Basic Information
Influences and style of filmmaking
The trunk shot is used in many Tarantino films, including. Reservoir Dogs ( this is shown in the picture above)
Tarantino has created a unique style that is all his own, combining styles from his favourite genres of films into brand new mash-
ups, making him one of the more recent true Auteurs (A filmmaker who influences their movies so much that they rank as their
author). He expresses his films exactly from his point of view, for example, in Kill Bill he combined kungfu films and spaghetti
westerns. Tarantino is the first to tell people that he is heavily inspired, in plot and style, by his favourite movies; and manages to
pay homage to his favourites, yet still creates a film that is still unique and original. He frequently employs a retro sensibility to his
films, placing the viewers in the old Saturday matinee movies or the 70's exploitation films. At the same time, he adds personal
touches, such as his frequent use of foot-centered shots. Tarantino‟s love of women's feet seems to find its way into the majority of
his films. His body of work features unique humour, action, interpersonal touch, and fast-paced, pop culture-laden dialogue. It has
been claimed that Tarantino has written some of the best most memorable dialogue ever heard in cinema.
In an awards ceremony in the Critics Choice Awards celebrating Tarantino, he said he got his start in filmmaking in his 20s. Music
is an important part of his filmmaking style. He said he would listen to music in his bedroom and create scenes that correlated to
the music playing.
In the 2002 Sight & Sound Directors' poll, Tarantino revealed his top-twelve films: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Rio Bravo;
Taxi Driver; His Girl Friday; Rolling Thunder; They All Laughed; The Great Escape; Carrie; Coffy; Dazed and Confused; Five
Fingers of Death; and Hi Diddle Diddle. In 2009, he named Kinu Fukasaku‟s violent action film Battle Royale as his favourite film
released since he became a director in 1992.
In August 2007, while teaching a four-hour film course during the 9th Cinemanila International Film Festival in Manila, Tarantino
cited Filipino directors Cirio Santiago, Eddie Romero, and Gerardo de León as personal icons from the 1970s, citing De Leon's
"soul-shattering, life-extinguishing" movies on vampires and female bondage, particularly Women in Cages. "It is just harsh, harsh,
harsh," he said, and described the final shot as one of "devastating despair". Upon his arrival in the Philippines, Tarantino was
quoted in the local newspaper as saying, 'I'm a big fan of Republic of the Philippines cinema.„
Actor Steve Buscemi has described Tarantino's different style of film making is likened to "bursting with energy" and "focused,".
According to Tarantino, a recurring theme in all his movies is that there is a different sense of humour in all his movies, which gets
the audience to laugh at things that aren't funny.

3. Racial epithets in Tarantino's
work
Spike Lee questioned Tarantino's use of racial terminology in his films, particularly the racially
offensive epithet, "nigger". In a Variety interview discussing Jackie Brown, Lee said: "I'm not
against the word... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word. What does he want?
To be made an honorary black man?" Tarantino responded on Charlie Rose by stating:
As a writer, I demand the right to write any character in the world that I want to write. I
demand the right to be them, I demand the right to think them and I demand the right to tell
the truth as I see they are, all right? And to say that I can't do that because I'm white, but the
Hughes brothers can do that because they're black, that is racist. That is the heart of racism,
all right. And I do not accept that ... That is how a segment of the black community that lives
in Compton, lives in Inglewood, where Jackie Brown takes place, that lives in Carson, that is
how they talk. I'm telling the truth. It would not be questioned if I was black, and I resent the
question because I'm white. I have the right to tell the truth. I do not have the right to lie.
In addition, Tarantino retaliated on The Howard Stern Show by stating Lee would have to
"stand on a chair to kiss my ass." Samuel L. Jackson, who has appeared in both directors'
films, defended Tarantino's use of wording. At the Berlin Film Festival, where Jackie Brown
was being screened, Jackson responded to Lee's criticism by saying:
I don't think the word is offensive in the context of this film ... Black artists think they are the
only ones allowed to use the word. Well, that's bull. Jackie Brown is a wonderful homage to
black exploitation films. This is a good film, and Spike hasn't made one of those in a few
years.
Tarantino has defended his use of the word, arguing that black audiences have an
appreciation of his Blaxploitation (The exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies)-
influenced films that eludes some of his critics, and, indeed, that Jackie Brown, another oft-
cited example, was primarily made for "black audiences".
According to a 1995 Premiere magazine article, actor Denzel Washington also confronted
Tarantino on his usage of racial slurs in his pictures, but mentioned that Tarantino was a "fine

4. Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Six criminals, who are strangers to each other,
are hired by a crime boss Joe Cabot to carry
out a diamond robbery.
Right at the outset, they are given false names
with an intention that they won't get too close
to each other and to concentrate on the job
instead. They are completely sure that the
robbery is going to be a success.
But when the police show up right at the time
and the site of the robbery, panic spreads
amongst the group members which involves
one of them being killed in the subsequent
shootout along that includes a few policemen
and civilians.
When the remaining people assemble at the
decided rendezvous point (a warehouse), they
begin to suspect that one of them is an
undercover cop…

5. Contravercy
The film has received substantial criticism for its strong violence and language. There
is one scene that viewers found particularly unnerving; this was the ear-cutting scene.
Madsen himself reportedly had great difficulty finishing it, especially after Kirk Baltz
(character) said the desperate plea "I've got a little kid at home."
Many people walked out during the film and Tarantino commented about it at the time:
“It happens at every single screening. For some people the violence, or the rudeness
of the language, is a mountain they can't climb. That's OK. It's not their cup of tea. But I
am affecting them. I wanted that scene to be disturbing”
During a screening of the movie at a Film Festival in Barcelona, fifteen people walked
out, including horror film director Wes Craven and special effects artist Rick Baker.
Baker later told Tarantino to take the walkout as a "compliment" and explained that he
found the violence unnerving because of its heightened sense of realism.

6. Sex & Nudity Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking
Rated R for strong bloody brutal violence and
for pervasive strong language. A joke about marijuana usage.
The opening dialog is a lengthy and graphic
explanation of an extremely vulgar Several characters smoke cigarettes and
interpretation of Madonna's "Like a virgin." cigars.
Several characters drink.
There is joking around about prison sex.
One character tells a story about a woman Frightening/Intense Scenes
who super glues a man's penis to his belly for
revenge
A man deliberately cuts a tied up police
There is no nudity or strong sexual content officer's ear off. The scene is extremely
intense, mostly during the build-up of tension
Violence & Gore before the actual torture happens, yet the
actual cutting of the ear is off-screen.. A man
There is not much violence but it´s quite slowly bleeds to death throughout the movie.
ruthless and brutal, the gangsters lack all
what empathy means. Plenty of blood is usually seen in a puddle
around him.
Profanity The violence in this movie can be intense
272 Fuck Words used, 5 utterings of the word and is not suitable for the faint of heart.
"nigger", several uses of dick, many uses of
shit, and other standard R-rated phrases and
jokes. In the opening scene, strong sexual
dialogue is used frequently and graphically.
The language in this film is pervasive and
might be offensive to some viewers.

7. Jackie Brown (1997)
Jackie Brown is the name of a flight attendant who gets
caught in the action of smuggling her boss' gun money on
the airline she works for. Luckily for her, the Fed Ray Nicolet
and the LA Cop Mark Dargus decide to team up in order to
arrest the arms dealer she works for, whose name they don't
know.
Here's when she has to choose one way: tell Nicolet and
Dargus about Ordell Robbie (who is the arms dealer) and
get her freedom -except that if Ordell suspects you're talking
about him, you're dead- or keep her mouth shut and do
some time. That's when she meets Max Cherry -her bail
bondsman-, a late fifties, recently separated, burnt-out man,
who does fall in love with her. During the film
Then Jackie comes up with a plan to play the Federal
Government off against Ordell plus the guys he is working
with -Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston, among others- and
then walks off with their money. But she needs Max's help.
As nobody is going to stand in the way of his million dollar
payoff.

8. Controversial points
Sex & Nudity Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking
In one scene that last only 10 seconds, we see a man Two characters smoke pot in several scenes (bong and
thrusting into a women from behind as they stand pipe).
upright. Once they both climax, the woman lifts herself
up a little bit so the man can pull out. He tells the women
how "that felt so good". You see her backside as she There are numerous scenes where alcohol is
walks away. Other than the brief shot of the woman's consumed.
backside, this scene has no nudity.
Cigarettes are smoked a lot in this movie (particularly by
Violence & Gore the title character).
This is the least violent of all Quentin Tarantino's films:
A man in the trunk of a car is shot three times and killed, Frightening/Intense Scenes
seen from a far distance. No blood.
Some of the violence is sudden and unexpected, so it
A man shoots a woman twice and kills her, off-screen. may be shocking.
No blood.
A man sitting in a van shoots the man sitting next to him
point-blank in the chest; blood sprays the window and
the man is still alive. We hear another gunshot, implying
that the man was killed.
A man is shot in the chest and killed, and there is a little
blood on the wound.
Profanity
Frequent use of the nigger and fuck (and it's
derivatives.)

9. Pulp Fiction (1994)
Pumpkin and Honey Bunny are two thieves
who, while dining at a coffee shop, decide
that the best thing to do is to rob it. Vincent
and Jules, two hit men working for mob
kingpin Marcellus Wallace, are sent to
retrieve a very special and very mysterious
briefcase for their boss.
Vincent later must also show Mrs. Wallace a
good time while her husband is out. Butch
Coolidge is an aging prize-fighter who is
being paid to "take a dive", but instead,
accidentally kills him opponent, and tries to
flee town, but not before getting his dead
father's lucky golden watch.
These four seemingly unrelated stories are
interwoven together in a non-linear fashion.

10. Sex & Nudity Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking
Two men discuss the possible sexual implications of a Two men talk about the availability of hash in Amsterdam,
foot massage. Other than brief references to cunnilingus, and getting high on it.
this is not explicit.
Characters are seen smoking and drinking alcoholic
A man makes out with his girlfriend on a bed. She asks beverages at a bar.
him to perform oral sex on her. While the act is performed
off-screen, we see his head move towards her waist and A man buys heroin from his drug dealer; the dealer asks
she moans. the man if he wants to hang around and "get high."
A man comes out of a shower covering his waist with a In one scene, we see several close-ups of a man
towel. He then removes the towel and we very briefly get preparing heroin and injecting it. In later scenes, the man
a glimpse of his pubic hair. is seen obviously high.
One scene contains strong S&M themes, including a A woman is seen preparing cocaine and snorting it from a
"Gimp" wearing a black leather jumpsuit and tied up for mirror.
sexual purposes.
A woman overdoses. This scene is incredibly graphic.
A man takes another man into a room with the intent of She is revived with an injection of adrenaline.
raping him. We hear muffled screams as another
character tries to escape. He decides to save the man All depictions of drug use in the film are graphic and
and we see the rapist thrusting his victim He saves the sometimes intense.
man by mortally wounding the perpetrators. This scene is
disturbing.
Frightening/Intense Scenes
Some graphic sexual references, though no gratuitous or
explicit nudity. Pulp Fiction contains a very strong Black Comedy
overtone, but that's not to say that it is any less intense
and frightening.
The rape scene described in Sex/Nudity is very
Profanity disturbing.
243 uses of the word 'fuck.' A woman snorts heroin assuming it to be cocaine,
therefore she overdoses. She is later seen with a large
Various uses of the word 'shit' and other profanities. amount of blood and mucus coming out of her mouth and
nose.
The word 'nigger' is said roughly 15 times, though never
in a racially derogatory way and almost always spoken by She is later revived with an adrenaline shot to the heart;
African-American people. this scene is particularly tense.
Miscellaneous racial insults may be heard. Some viewers may find the scenes listed under "Violence
& Gore" intense or frightening, although some of it is
There is a small amount of sexual language. played out for comedic effect.

11. Violence & Gore
Mostly gunfights; graphic, little gore.
Two robbers hold up a restaurant. Threats are
shouted.
A man is shot in the chest and multiple bloody
wounds are seen. A man gives an unconscious woman an adrenaline
shot in the heart.
A man shoots at two other men.
A man is unintentionally shot in the head at point-
A man is shot three times and one of the bullet holes blank range. This happens in a car and is very
is large and graphic. graphic to the point where the man's head literally
explodes. This is immediately followed by a huge
A man hits another man with a car. He is knocked wave of blood on the rear window of the car, as well
unconscious. as blood splattering on the two other men other men
in the car.
A man gets in a collision with another car, causing
his car to career into a telephone pole. A man is gunned down as he leaves a bathroom. We
see him get shot repeatedly in the abdomen and
A man's nose is injured, a lot of blood has poured chest, stumble backwards and fall into a bath. Blood
down his face and on his t-shirt. A relatively graphic can be seen on his clothes and the wall.
split in his nose is seen.
A man is shot in the groin with a shotgun. The
After a car crash, a woman assists one of the shooting itself is not that graphic, but the victim
victims. She is shot in the leg from across the road. writhes around on the floor, audibly moaning in pain
Blood runs down her leg and onto the sidewalk. for about 5 minutes. The shooter says that he
intends to torture and kill the victim; 'go medieval on
A man tackles another man and repeatedly punches his ass.'
him in the face, giving him a bloody nose.
A man's chest is sliced vertically with a Samurai
Throughout much of the film, two men are in a car, sword creating a bloody wound. He is then stabbed.
the interior of which is covered in blood and bits of
brain and skull. We briefly see the body of a man who was shot in
the head. He is in the trunk of a car and is on screen
A woman overdoses on heroine. Blood comes out of for less than a second.
her nose and mucus comes out of her mouth.
Some of the violence is sudden and unexpected so
could be shocking/startling for some viewers.

12. Kill Bill (2003)
The Deadly Viper Assassination Squad consists of five
most deadly killers, led by Bill. There is O'Ren-Ishii as
Cottonmouth, Elle Driver as California Mountain Snake,
Vernita Green as Copperhead, Budd as Sidewinder. And
there is The Bride, whose name is not said, who had
wanted to quit because she was pregnant.
One day, somewhere in the Texas desert, The Bride
wanted to marry the love of her life. When Bill and her
former colleagues showed up and killed everyone there.
But they did not do a good enough job: The Bride survives,
barely, and is in a coma for four years. Her colleagues
know this but won't kill her in her sleep, it would just ruin the
reputation of the gang.
One day, The Bride awakens. For her, not a second has
consciously passed, and after she realizes all the things
that have happened, The Bride decides to take revenge.
Bloody revenge.
On each single one of those who betrayed her. First on her
death list is Cottonmouth, who has become the yakuza
boss of Tokyo, Japan, second in line is Copperhead, who
chose a more decent life as well. The Bride sets out to take
back what was once hers: Her life.

13. Controversial points
Sex & Nudity
A hospital orderly brings in another man to have sex with the
presumably comatose Black Mamba (although she's now just
faking it). The orderly says, "$75 a f*ck," comments on the guy
getting "your freak on," and tells the man that since her
"plumbing doesn't work down there," that he can "come in her
all you want." He then gives the man some Vaseline and
comments on lubing her up with that due to dryness down
there. The orderly leaves and the man then crawls on top of
Black Mamba, but she bites into his tongue (and apparently kills
him off screen). Later, a comment is made, "My name's Buck,
I'm here to f*ck."
We see an animated version of O-Ren Ishii (age 11) getting
revenge on the man who killed her parents. He's noted as being
a pedophile (which is how she apparently got to be with him)
but she stabs down into him with a large blade, killing him.
In one scene, there is an underage girl (like 16) who asks a
man if he wants to "screw her". After he reluctantly says ok, she
stabs him and she tells him "now would you like to penetrate
me? Or is it I who penetrated you?!?“
Frightening/Intense Scenes
There is a long scene depicting the preparation and
imminent poisoning of The Bride - while she is still
Profanity comatose, - by Elle Driver though this 'mission' is aborted
by Bill at the last minute.
About twenty uses of the word 'fuck', a few times used sexually
and paired with 'mother'. The Showdown at House of Blue Leaves chapter
contains an intensely violent and gory fight between The
'Cunt' is said twice, harshly. Bride and dozens of Katana-wielding men constituting
'The Crazy 88.' In all versions but the Japanese release,
this scene is partially shown in monochrome to avoid
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking drawing more stringent censorship.
The Anime segment of the movie is very exaggerated
Characters are infrequently seen smoking and drinking. and rather intense. Highly artistic; the depiction of the
A 17-year-old girl is seen drinking heavily from a bottle in a bar. brutal murder of a married couple while their daughter
She slams it down aside scattered empty glasses. watches undetected below a bed is very graphic and
shocking. Similarly, it seems to have seriously
psychologically damaged the daughter.

14. Violence & Gore
The violence and gore in this movie is extreme, stylized and ~A woman seduces a man. When the man says yes, she then
highly choreographed (this might reduce its intensity). There is an stabs him in the stomach. She makes a very dark joke about it.
uncut version which intensifies the scenes which I will mark with a His guts fall onto the floor.
~
A woman's arm is sliced off; she flails around, blood spraying
A woman, bruised and bloody, is shot in the head and blood from the stump. Throughout the next scene, she is seen
splatters out. screaming and rolling around in a pool of her own blood.
Extremely exaggerated.
Two women fight inside a family home. Rather stylised violence
involving punches, kicks, melee attacks with blunt objects and A man is stabbed in the abdomen with a Katana. He is then lifted
eventually knives. The fight is interrupted when a belligerent's above the attacker's head with the sword and thrown into a pool.
daughter enters the house.
Several dozen masked henchmen are dispatched in a very
After a short break, the fight continues; one fires a concealed gun gruesome manner by The Bride and her Samurai sword.
at the other, who promptly throws a knife into the first's heart,
killing her. It is implied that the young daughter witnesses her A 17-year-old girl (who is the personal bodyguard of one of the
mother's death. antagonists,) attacks The Bride with a Meteor Hammer on a
chain. The Bride is hit in the chest several times and choked with
The movie depicts a wedding chapel littered with bodies the chain. While suffocating, The Bride reaches for a piece of
(precisely nine; eight of which are dead, one in a coma.) Bullet wood with jagged nails protruding from the end, with which she
damage and blood can be seen on the walls and floor. stabs her attacked in the toes, then in the head, resulting in her
death.
In the above scene, it is also strongly implied that The Bride's
unborn baby was also killed. However, we find out at the end of ~At one point during the 'Showdown at House of Blue Leaves'
the movie that she is still alive. scene, the picture turns to monochrome to lessen the effect of the
gratuitous gore and violence of The Bride's fight with the Crazy
An unconscious woman (believed, until this point, to be dead,) 88. In the Japanese version, however, this does not happen; the
spits blood into a man's eye in a reflex action. scene is in full colour. The monochrome effect was used to avoid
an "NC-17" rating.
A woman bites a man's lip so severely that it leaves them both
bloody and him unconscious (or perhaps dead.) During the monochrome segment, dozens of Katana-weilding
henchmen are dispatched and graphically dismembered. This
A man's Achilles Tendon is slashed and he falls to the ground. scene is most definitely not for those of a sensitive nature,
especially as the blood is so exaggerated. During this scene, the
Moments later, the same man has his head repeatedly slammed following occurs:
in a door. Finally, The Bride crushes his head in the door with
such force that it results in his death; his body twitching - A man's eye is plucked from his face.
noticeably.

15. - A man has is neck broken and the one opposite of him has a ~A man fights off two attackers in his home while his wife is held by
katana penetrated through his chest coming out at his back. a third. His daughter watches from under the bed. The man
damages the face of one of the attackers (this is more graphic in the
uncut version) and breaks the arm of another before throwing him
- Several people have their arms sliced off. into a bookshelf.
- A man's mouth is sliced open, resulting in a 'Glasgow Smile.' The man is finally killed when he is stabbed in the back with a
Katana. In true Anime style, the blood that ensues from the wound is
- A man is literally sliced in half vertically with a Samurai sword. hyperbolic in both amount and sound. The man is then stabbed in
the temple right in front of his hidden daughter. His eyes rolled back
- At one point, The Bride is urgently trying to get to O-Ren Ishii into his head, indicating his death.
but is in the midst of fighting a small army of men. So, in an
attempt to finish the fight, she aims her blades for the attacker's ~Later, the daughter is seen straddling a scantly clad man who is the
ankles, resulting in many detached feet. The attackers can be Yakuza boss responsible for her parents' deaths, and is revealed to
seen fumbling in panic with their dismembered feet. be a pedophile. While atop him, she stabs him in the chest with a
blade. She taunts him while he visibly suffers and bleeds from the
The Bride then blinks, and normal colour is restored. mouth (longer in the uncut version) Eventually, she slices through
his stomach all the way to his chest (in the uncut version you get a
A woman is scalped with a samurai sword. Her open cranium can good view of this) to cause a similarly prolific gush of blood that
be seen, as can part of her brain. literally covers the walls (this is also a bit longer in the uncut
version).
We see the bloody carnage resulting from a previous battle.
The commotion attracts two guards to the room. They open fire with
Mutilated people writhe around among the bloody corpses of their
9mm pistols, only to realise that their target has hidden under the
fallen comrades. This image is rather disturbing.
bed.
~A woman who has recently had her arm dismembered is She then shoots one in the leg, causing his foot to fly off, before
threatened with loosing her other arm if she doesn't give The shooting him in the head. A similar fate befalls the second guard.
Bride information. In the uncut version, her other arm gets cut off,
with blood present. Later in the scene, a man is shot in the head with a sniper rifle. The
camera follows the bullet as it passes through his head and out the
~An anime scene depicts the history of one of the main back. Two women look through the exit-wound and scream.
antagonists. While animated, it is nonetheless very violent and
rather disturbing. Details follow: A woman is shown graphically slicing the feet and ankles from a
dozen of men rapidly one by one. Galons of blood burst out and
~A man fights off two attackers in his home while his wife is held some bone matter is shown as a result.
by a third. His daughter watches from under the bed. The man
damages the face of one of the attackers (this is more graphic in A woman is shown plucking the eye out of a man. Some blood is
the uncut version) and breaks the arm of another before throwing shown and the optic nerve of the eye is graphically shown.
him into a bookshelf.
A woman dodges incoming hatchets, ending in the forehead of two
men. Bloody, but nothing so gross.

16. Kill Bill (2004)
It all began when the nefarious Deadly Viper
Assassination Squad moved in and assassinated the
Plympton wedding party at the Two Pines Wedding
Chapel in El Paso, TX. Well, all but one: The Bride,
their real target.
All they managed to do to her was put her in a coma.
And four years later, she woke up and swore revenge
on the lot of them. It began with the disposing of O-
Ren Ishii/"Cottonmouth" and Vernita
Green/"Copperhead".
Now, the "Black Mamba" has only three left on her
Death List: Budd/"Sidewinder“ who is Bill's brother;
Elle Driver/"California Mountain Snake” who is the
deadly one-eyed assassin; and, of course, Bill/"Snake
Charmer“ who was her boss, teacher, and lover.
However, Bill does possess one thing that keeps the
ball in his court: B.B., the daughter the Bride thought
she had lost in her coma. And now, at this point, the
Bride knows only one thing: in the end, she will kill Bill.

17. Controversial points
Sex & Nudity
-We see several women wearing revealing outfits throughout
the movie; they show cleavage/deep-cleavage, legs and
abdomens; one scene takes place in a brothel (we hear it's a
brothel, nothing suggestive shown), another in a strip club (we
see the poles, but no one is dancing)
-We see a couple of pornographic magazines with suggestive
pictures lying on the floor. They are somewhat out of focus but
unmistakable.
-Some sexual dialogue.
Profanity
A man and a woman talk and a man asks for sexual reasons for "Fuck" is said nine times, infrequently throughout.
money but they stop there. A few phrases such as "Give me a
real good time" she then replies "I give you a slice where you "Shit" is said about ten times.
won't need some sex“
"Cunt" is said once, non-aggressively.
Violence & Gore Some milder language throughout.
-A woman asks another woman how she lost her eye, and we
briefly see, in a flashback, her face with lots of blood where her
eye used to be. A person pokes another person's eye out, and Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking
we see the very bloody face where the eye used to be and the
victim thrashes and screams. We see the eyeball fall onto the
floor, and we see a close up of it being squished by a foot. This Three characters are smokers.
is the brief scene mentioned above.
We see two characters clearly snorting cocaine casually, one of
-Several scenes of gun-play, sometimes with bloody results, but them a prostitute and the other telling her to do it.
not very graphic.
A drunk man continues to drink. Other characters drink as well,
-Several Close Combat fighting with lots of kicking, punching, sometimes to excess.
and Mêlée weapons; sometimes with somewhat bloody results.
A woman tells a man to smoke some pot.
-A man is attacked by a snake. It bites his face several times,
we see him on the floor with a swollen face.
Frightening/Intense Scenes
-In the cast sequence we see brief images of vol.1 that contain
several bloody injuries including a brief image where a woman One extremely tense scene involves a character being buried
is holding a man's decapitated head. alive.
In the first opening minutes of the film we see the bride getting Though slightly comical in nature, the scenes in which Elle
shot in the head. It is in black and white, but the blood pours out Driver's eyes are literally pulled out of her head are extremely
of her head. A brief scene. painful to watch, not for the squeamish.
Volume 2 is less violent than the first.

18. Sequel to Kill Bill (volume 3?)
Tarantino told Entertainment Weekly in April 2004, that he is planning a sequel:
“Oh yeah, initially I was thinking this would be my "Dollars Trilogy". I was going to do a new one
every ten years. But I need at least fifteen years before I do this again. I've already got the whole
mythology: Sofie Fatale will get all of Bill's money. She'll raise Nikki, who'll take on The Bride. Nikki
deserves her revenge every bit as much as The Bride deserved hers. I might even shoot a couple
of scenes for it now so I can get the actresses while they're this age.”
According to Bloody-Disgusting.com, details emerged around 2007 about two possible sequels, Kill
Bill Volumes 3 and 4. According to the article, "Bennett Walsh said at the Shanghai International
Film Festival, the third film involves the revenge of two killers whose arms and eyes were hacked by
Uma Thurman in the first stories". The article adds that the "fourth installment of the popular kungfu
action films concerns a cycle of reprisals and daughters who avenge their mother's deaths".
Quentin Tarantino said at the 2006 Comic Con that, after the completion of Grindhouse, he wants to
make two anime Kill Bill films. One will be an origin story about Bill and his mentors, and the other
will be an origin starring The Bride. The latter is most likely to be a prequel, but could also follow the
rumored (sequel) plot reported in Entertainment Weekly in April 2004.
At the Morelia International Film Festival on October 1, 2009, while being interviewed on an Italian
TV show after being asked about the success of the two Kill Bill films, Tarantino addressed the
hostess by claiming "You haven't asked me about the third one" then asking the woman to ask the
question would he be making a third Kill Bill film, which he replied "Yes", and claiming "The Bride
will fight again!" On October 3, 2009, he further predicted that Kill Bill 3 would be his ninth film, and
would be released in 2014. He said he intends to make another unrelated film before that date as
his eighth film. He confirmed that he wanted ten years to pass between the Bride's last conflict, to
give her and her daughter a period of peace.

19. Death Proof (2007)
In Austin, Texas, girlfriends Julia Lucai,
Arlene, Shanna and Lanna Frank meet in a
bar to drink, smoke and make out with their
boyfriends before traveling alone to Lake
LBJ to spend the weekend together.
They meet the former Hollywood stunt
man, Mike, who takes Pam out in his
"death-proof" stunt car. Pam soon
discovers Mike's secret. Fourteen months
later, Mike turns up in Lebanon, Tennessee.
Abernathy "Abbie" works in the make-up
department on a film set. Zoë Bell, Kim and
Lee are all chased by him but the girls are
tough and decide to pay-back the attack.

20. Controversial points
Sex & Nudity Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking
Suggested MPAA Rating: Rated R for Pervasive Strong Language, Some For the first half of the movie, many scenes are set in a bar, and numerous
men and women constantly drink, smoke cigarettes, and smoke pot.
Violence including a Graphic Bloody Accident, Sequences of Action, Sexual
Content and Drug Use Alcohol is often referred to in conversations as well.
This movie doesn't contain any actual nudity or sex, only a suggestive lap
dance, some fairly sensual clothes, and plenty of sexual references and Frightening/Intense Scenes
dialogues.
Almost all the violent scenes are very intense, there isn't much violence and
gore in the movie, but when it occurs it's very disturbing and realistic. The
- In the extended (European) release, a young woman performs an erotic lap main car crash scene is very gory.
dance on a much older man. She dances around him wearing hot pants, she
caresses his shoulders and face, and shakes her clothed buttocks briefly on
his lap. Violence & Gore
- Many women wear skimpy clothes that reveal lots of legs/thighs, and Death Proof doesn't contain many scenes of violence, but the few violent
sometimes bare abdomen and parts of the buttocks. scenes are quite graphic.
- We see a woman walking around in her underwear, parts of her bare - A woman is violently bumped around inside the killer's car. She hits the
glass and the interior of the car, we see her with a bloody hand and some
buttocks are seen, we see her legs and bare back as she slips into a T-shirt, blood on the glass. She later gets her face smashed against the dashboard
we see a close up of a woman's clothed crotch with her hand pushing of a car, we see a brief glimpse of the scene, and hear a loud crunch as she
against it, as she walks towards the rest room. presumably hit her face/nose/teeth on the dashboard. After that, we see her
as she gasps for breath and then quickly dies (thick blood is covering her and
the her clothes, as will as the dashboard).
- In the Extended (European) release a man briefly licks a woman's foot.
- A man crashes his car into another car full of young women. We see a
- We briefly see covers of several magazines that show many half-naked woman getting thrown out of a car and landing on the road. Another woman's
women. leg gets severed in the impact, flies from her body, and splashes onto the
road (very graphic). A woman's face is struck with a moving wheel, her face
tears off (we briefly see a bloody pulp where her face used to be). This is the
- A man and a girl are left alone, he laughs and she gulps at his sight. It goriest scene in the movie.
might be minimally implied that he's about to molest and/or rape her, but it is
never shown nor told. Before this sequence, another woman tells that man - A woman shoots a man in the arm, we see some blood.
that the girl is a porn actress (which is not the truth). - A group of women pull a man out of his car, and then punch him repeatedly
until he falls to the ground. A woman kicks him in the face and he is
supposed to be dead, it is shown but not in close-up.
Profanity - A very long sequence of car chase, involving a woman on top of the car.
She is constantly threatened with being thrown off the car, moving at 100-
This movie has some very foul language. miles-per-hour.
147 f-words, 37 s-words, 12 uses of God ****, 2 uses of son of a bitch, at
least 60 uses of ass, and about 10 or so uses of the N word. In
conversations they also use sexual language and references quite often.

21. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
During World War II, Lt. Aldo Raine leads his squad of
Jewish-American soldiers behind enemy lines in Nazi
occupied France. Their job is simple: kill the enemy.
They also have a particularly violent approach to what
they do: scalping their victims. Soon they are known
and feared throughout the German army. In Paris,
Shosanna runs a cinema and through a chance
meeting with a German war hero, is selected to host
the premiere of one of Dr. Josef Goebbels propaganda
film.
With all of the German high command scheduled to
attend - including Hitler, Goering and Martin Bormann -
it seems like the ideal opportunity for Lt. Raine and his
men to bring the war to a quick end.
Shosanna, who is Jewish and whose parents and
siblings were killed before her eyes, also has her own
plans for the evening's festivities. When she realizes
that the man who killed her family Colonel Hans
Landa, known as the Jew Hunter, will also be there
makes her own plans complete.

22. Controversial points
Violence & Gore
strong, graphic, explicit and detailed violent/bloody/gory scenes
throughout the film
A group of Nazi soldiers shoot through the floorboards of a house,
killing the Jewish family that was hiding there. One girl gets away (we
see some blood on her).
In a montage, a man slits another man's throat, places a pillow over a
man's head and stabs his face repeatedly and shoves his fist into
another sleeping man's mouth, presumably suffocating him.
A man slits a Nazi's throat and then a group of men gun down several Sex & Nudity
more Nazis. Some blood is shown.
There is a brief scene when Shoshana and Frederich are sitting at
We see some Nazi corpses being scalped. Very gory. lunch with Goebbels and his translator in which when the translator
introduces herself, it cuts to a scene with Goebbels and her having
A Nazi's head is beaten in with a baseball bat. Extremely graphic and sex This only lasts for a few seconds, but features a lot of moaning
brutal. Most of this is shown from a distance but there are a few close- and graphic movement.
ups. A different Nazi is then shot (no blood). It is then implied that a
man carves a swastika into a third Nazi's forehead.
Profanity
There is a brief scene where a man is shown being whipped. His back
is bloody. 25 f-words, normally limited to outbursts in a few scenes. In addition,
an anatomical insult, 10 s-words round out the count.
A shoot out occurs in a bar. Some blood is shown; there is also a
close-up of two men shooting each other in the legs repeatedly. Many
people die in this scene. Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking
A man shoves his finger into a bullet wound in a woman's leg in order (Pipe)smoking and drinking throughout, including a scene taking place
to obtain information from her. in a pub where a few people are very drunk. Also Brad Pitt's character
sniffs powdered snuff in many scenes.
A woman is strangled to death. Very brutal.
A woman shoots a man in the back several times. He then shoots her
several times. They both die. Frightening/Intense Scenes
Three men fire into the windshield of a Nazi vehicle, killing the soldiers Some scenes graphic violence could be very disturbing to some
inside. Blood splatters. viewers.
A theatre is lit on fire when a large number of Nazis are trapped inside. Some intense shoot out scenes where shots come suddenly and
Two men then open fire onto the trapped people, with lots of blood unexpectedly.
spraying. Hitler is shown being shot in the face multiple times up-
close. The scalping scenes are gross but semi comedic as the eccentric
nature of the film
Several bombs go off inside the theatre, completely destroying it.
The ending scene can be very intense to certain viewers.
A Nazi is shot, no blood.
A woman is strangled to death.
A Nazi has a swastika carved into his forehead with a large hunting
knife. Extremely graphic. We see a close-up of the knife cutting the

23. Up and Coming Films
Django Unchained is an upcoming
western film written and directed by
Quentin Tarantino. The film stars Jamie
Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio, and
Christoph Waltz.
Django Unchained is set in the Old Poster
South, and follows Django , a freed is
slave who treks across America with
the German dentist turned bounty unknown
hunter Dr. King Schultz (Waltz) to
retrieve his wife Broomhilda from the
charming but sadistic Francophile
plantation owner Calvin Candie and his
entourage of ruthless slavers. The film
is scheduled to be released on
Christmas Day 2012. Principal
photography started in January 2012.
Release date in the USA is the 25th
December