An in-depth look at one of the most enigmatic and gifted directors ever to grace the film industry and the films that show just how good he is. As you may now have realised, we at Scrambled Pixel rather admire Quentin Tarantino. Personally, I regard him as one of the most inventive and creative people in the film industry. He...
read moreYou can ask people who have seen any of Tarantino's films "what do you remember?" and the most likely answers are going to be something along the lines of "that scene with the huge fight", "that bit where the guy dies" or "the scene where those people are trying to escape and they die" but I'm betting at least someone will bring up a section of dialogue.
read moreThere are several aspects of Quentin Tarantino's films to be admired, whether it's the music, the script, the choice of cast... But for this piece I'm taking a look at some of his finest moments behind the camera (well, he won't have manually operated it but his direction would have... you know... ah, just read on).
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Non-diagetic sound is an important part of any film, whether it’s used or not. Sometimes it’s not given enough consideration. When it is though it’s sweet music to your ears. Quite literally. Directors such as Haneke and Kubrick implement the sound of silence into their films because the effect of the film is...
read moreAldo Raine: Each and every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y’all will git me one hundred Nazi scalps, taken from the heads of one hundred dead Nazis. Or you will die tryin’. Inglourious Basterds is the latest film in a list of Tarantino triumphs sitting alongside the...
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The proud do not endure, like a passing dream on a night in spring; the mighty fall at last, to be no more than dust before the wind. Sukiyaki Western Django is as strange as the title sounds: a Japanese spaghetti western starring Quentin Tarantino, directed by Takashi Miike, and inspired by Clint Eastwood’s Dollars trilogy....
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Stuntman Mike: Well, Pam… Which way you going, left or right? Pam: Right. Stuntman Mike: Oh, that’s too bad… Released in 2007, Death Proof was one half of the “grindhouse” tribute that Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez directed. With Rodriguez heading up the zomedy grindhouse flick Planet Terror,...
read moreQuentin Tarantino’s latest film, Inglourious Basterds, is his unique take on World War II, which focuses on a group of Jewish-American soldiers who are just looking to kill as many Nazis as they can. Tarantino has spent a decade working on the script for this film, and, if any of his other films are anything to go by, it will...
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