Whole filmmaking research #1: Kill Bill and Quentin Tarantino

 Recently I have watched Kill Bill, the two part film from 2003-2004 directed and written by ex-indie filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. To me, the film and Tarantino as a person are very inspirational and useful; to my project so I have decided to devote this post to research about him and my film.


Tarantino is a very useful and inspirational figure to me as a person who wishes to make my own film from scratch, as he started out as an independent writer from a poor family in Texas but managed to make enough connections and a large enough network to get his first film - Reservoir Dogs, off of the ground by sending it to a film festival and netting him enough notability to continue his career and become one of the most famous and beloved directors.


Kill Bill was the fourth film by Tarantino and displays many of the hallmarks that make a Tarantino film special: witty and sharp dialogue, brutal, comic violence, the combining of conventions of many different genres, well crafted and natural characters and plentiful intertextual references to other films. Such as the fight against O-Ren Ishii which is inspired by the 1973 Japanese revenge film Lady Snowblood or the music: which is directly inspired by Spaghetti Westerns like For a Few Dollars More (1965) by Sergio Leone.


Overall Tarantino is a very helpful figure to take into account when making my first film as he is a man who was once in my situation but managed to work his way up to being one of the world's most respected directors. So in order to follow in his footsteps i need to observe the ways he made his start and how I can replicate it

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