Tarantino Auteur Traits
Tarantino Auteur Traits
Aestheticisation of Violence: Images and descriptions of violence a key component of the film in a 'stylistically excessive' and a 'significant and sustained way' where the audience connect to genre conventions
Dance Scenes: Ironically joyous scenes
Ensemble Casts: A cast assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and Tarantino's ensembles consists of established actors and lesser known actors
Fake Product Placements: Makes the film more realistic, an extra trademark for Tarantino
Long Takes & Tracking Shots: Develops a deeper connection with the characters
Mexican Stand-Off: Confrontation amongst two or more parties where no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve a victory. Was originated in Sergio Leone's 'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly' (one of QT's favourite films and a key inspiration to him)
Neo-Noir: A 'dark movie' that involves a sense of something sinister and shadowy but expresses a style of cinematography. Tarantino uses this technique as he inspired by the techniques of crime dramas from the 40's and 50's. The film directors knowingly refer to 'classic noir' in the use of tilted camera angles, interplay of light and shadows, unbalanced framing; blurring of the lines between good and bad and right and wrong, and a motif of revenge, paranoia, and alienation, among other sensibilities.
Non-linear narrative: Events are portrayed out of chronological order or doesn't follow the direct pattern of the events featured
Pop Culture: Tarantino uses objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time
Recurring names of characters & references to famous people
Revenge Plots: Tarantino films often contain a character getting revenge (e.g. Kill Bill, Django)
Scenes shot in bathrooms, restaurants, cars, involving a phone: Present in most of his films
Similar Camera Angles & Shots: e.g. close-ups of lips and feet, birds eye shots, POV shots (such as trunk shots which he has used in every movie), the corpse POV shot, mirror shots (reflecting intimacy of being alone)
Soundtracks: Uses music to shape the characters and plots of the film. Usually uses music from the 60's to the 80's and are used in an ironic sense (e.g. Son of a Preacher Man in Pulp Fiction and the ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs)
The Black & White Suits: Tarantino states these are his characters' suits of armor
The use of Black & White Scenes: Inspired by his love for classic cinema and French New Wave
Torture Scenes: Brutal in imagery
Aestheticisation of Violence: Images and descriptions of violence a key component of the film in a 'stylistically excessive' and a 'significant and sustained way' where the audience connect to genre conventions
Dance Scenes: Ironically joyous scenes
Ensemble Casts: A cast assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and Tarantino's ensembles consists of established actors and lesser known actors
Fake Product Placements: Makes the film more realistic, an extra trademark for Tarantino
Long Takes & Tracking Shots: Develops a deeper connection with the characters
Mexican Stand-Off: Confrontation amongst two or more parties where no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve a victory. Was originated in Sergio Leone's 'The Good, The Bad & The Ugly' (one of QT's favourite films and a key inspiration to him)
Neo-Noir: A 'dark movie' that involves a sense of something sinister and shadowy but expresses a style of cinematography. Tarantino uses this technique as he inspired by the techniques of crime dramas from the 40's and 50's. The film directors knowingly refer to 'classic noir' in the use of tilted camera angles, interplay of light and shadows, unbalanced framing; blurring of the lines between good and bad and right and wrong, and a motif of revenge, paranoia, and alienation, among other sensibilities.
Non-linear narrative: Events are portrayed out of chronological order or doesn't follow the direct pattern of the events featured
Pop Culture: Tarantino uses objects that are dominant or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time
Recurring names of characters & references to famous people
Revenge Plots: Tarantino films often contain a character getting revenge (e.g. Kill Bill, Django)
Scenes shot in bathrooms, restaurants, cars, involving a phone: Present in most of his films
Similar Camera Angles & Shots: e.g. close-ups of lips and feet, birds eye shots, POV shots (such as trunk shots which he has used in every movie), the corpse POV shot, mirror shots (reflecting intimacy of being alone)
Soundtracks: Uses music to shape the characters and plots of the film. Usually uses music from the 60's to the 80's and are used in an ironic sense (e.g. Son of a Preacher Man in Pulp Fiction and the ear cutting scene in Reservoir Dogs)
The Black & White Suits: Tarantino states these are his characters' suits of armor
The use of Black & White Scenes: Inspired by his love for classic cinema and French New Wave
Torture Scenes: Brutal in imagery
Your notes are always really good Jordan but I have definitely noticed a drop off in level of attention to detail. When you are looking at the auteur traits of a director it is vital that you have visuals to support your points. Many of the motifs are visual in themselves and screenshots from key scenes will help no end in making this a brilliant revision resource.
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Mr Cooper