Quentin Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter and producer born in 1963. Some of his notable films include Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and From Dusk Till Dawn. Tarantino is known for his nonlinear storytelling, references to cinema history and distinctive camera techniques such as trunk shots, long takes, 360 degree shots and close ups on lips. He frequently collaborates with actors like Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney and Samuel L. Jackson.

1. By Kelechi Okorie
Quentin Tarantino

2. Quentin Tarantino’s background
Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Born: March 27, 1963 (age 52)
Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
Occupation: Film director,
screenwriter, film producer, and
actor
Years active: 1987–present

3. Typical narrativesTwo years before the Civil War, Django (Jamie
Foxx), a slave, finds himself accompanying an
unorthodox German bounty hunter named Dr.
King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) on a mission to
capture the vicious Brittle brothers. Their
mission successful, Schultz frees Django, and
together they hunt the South's most-wanted
criminals. Their travels take them to the
infamous plantation of shady Calvin Candie
(Leonardo DiCaprio), where Django's long-lost
wife (Kerry Washington) is still a slave.
Release date: January 18, 2013 (United Kingdom)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Running time: 2h 45m
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
Featured songs: 100 Black Coffins, Ancora Qui, I
Got a Name, Django, Freedom, Who Did That
To You?

4. While racing toward the town of Red
Rock in post-Civil War Wyoming,
bounty hunter John "The Hangman"
Ruth (Kurt Russell) and his fugitive
prisoner (Jennifer Jason Leigh)
encounter another bounty hunter
(Samuel L. Jackson) and a man who
claims to be a sheriff. Hoping to find
shelter from a blizzard, the group
travels to a stagecoach stopover
located on a mountain pass. Greeted
there by four strangers, the eight
travellers soon learn that they may
not make it to their destination after
all.
Initial release: December 25, 2015
(USA)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Running time: 3h 2m
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
Music composed by: Ennio
Morricone

5. On the run from a bank robbery that
left several police officers dead, Seth
Gecko (George Clooney) and his
paranoid, loose-cannon brother,
Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail
it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping
preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel)
and his kids, the criminals sneak
across the border in the family's RV
and hole up in a topless bar.
Unfortunately, the bar also happens
to be home base for a gang of
vampires, and the brothers and their
hostages have to fight their way out.
Release date: May 31, 1996 (United
Kingdom)
Directors: Robert Rodriguez, Sarah
Kelly
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
Featured song: Dark Night
Film series: From Dusk till Dawn

6. Jamie Fox – “Django unchained”
Christoph Waltz - “Django unchained”
Leonardo DiCaprio - “Django unchained”
George Clooney – “From Dusk till Dawn”
Harvey Keitel - “From Dusk till Dawn”
Samuel L. Jackson – “The Hateful Eight”
Kurt Russell - “The Hateful Eight”
Jennifer Jason Leigh - “The Hateful Eight”
Actors Quentin has worked with:

7. The Trunk & Hood POV Shot
Quentin Tarantino has trademarked the trunk shot camera angle and he's used
it in every movie he has directed. He also uses reverse trunk shots with
characters being watched from outside the trunk
In Reservoir Dogs : Mr Brown, Mr Pink and Mr White looking at Marvin Nash.
Camera Angles and Shots

8. Long Takes & Tracking Shots
These kinds of shots let us follow the characters and spend time with them
without cuts/edits. There is a real beauty and daring to these kinds of
cinematic sequences.
Camera Angles and Shots

9. The 360 Shot
As Quentin Tarantino noted, his use of this shot was inspired by Director
Brian DePalma who often used the 360 tracking shot to emphasize the feeling
of love or togetherness. It can also be used to emphasize confusion as in
“DePalma's Blow Out” (the scene when Jack's tapes are erased) and in
Quentin Tarantino’s “Jackie Brown” where the camera spins around Jackie.
This is actually a trick on the viewer because as we find out, Jackie plans out
the entire caper and is merely acting confused.
Camera Angles and Shots

10. The God's Eye POV
This shot is filmed with the camera directly above the actors. It is used to convey
something bigger than the characters is watching them and what they are doing. In other
words, a cinematic inner conscious. In Kill Bill, the Gods Eye POV seems to be
accompanying The Bride on her justified journey of revenge.
In “Jackie Brown” : Jackie Brown hides money in her bag at the airport's toilets.
Camera Angles and Shots

11. The Use of Black and White
Quentin Tarantino has had black and white sequences in two of his films. They appear
in “Kill Bill” and “Death Proof ”. These sequences are definitely inspired by his love
of the way movies looked in the early days of cinema up to the way it was used in the
French New Wave era.
In “Natural Born Killers”
Screenplay

12. The Map Shot
Used in “Jackie Brown” and again in “Kill Bill”: Volume 1 to show you the
Bride's trip to Okinawa
Shots

13. Close Ups on Lips
Shots

14. The Mirror Shot
Tarantino characters often speak and look at themselves in a mirror.
Shots