Watch A Supercut Of All Of Quentin Tarantino’s Visual References To Film History
Quentin Tarantino has been a living legend ever since his first film Reservoir Dogs premiered at Sundance Film Festival back in 1992 and became an instant classic. He's revered for his non-linear storytelling style of cinema in which he weaves in and out of satire and violent subject matter often (read: always) displayed visually and graphically. Tarantino self-proclaims as a "cinephile," meaning he's obsessed with cinema. Because of that fact, he often pays homage to film in his films.
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Audiences and critics often say that Tarantino is simply lazy and ripping-off other filmmakers, but his recreations are more than just that. As a self-proclaimed "cinephile" he is literally showing his affection for his life's passion, yet weaving it beautifully into his own craft.
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Jacob T. Sweeney for IndieWire says that these recreations are simply "love letters" to the films he's loved throughout his life. And, he's seen them all. Everything from German silent-cinema, to kung-fu movies, to American Westerns and B-movies, Tarantino has seen it and potentially pay homage to it.
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In all, these are the films that Tarantino has paid homage to past cinema:
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
• Death Proof (2007)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• City on Fire (1987)
• Django (1966)
• Band of Outsiders (1964)
• 8 1/2 (1963)
• The Warriors (1979)
• Psycho (1960)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• The Flintstones (1960-66)
• Superchick (1973)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell (1968)
• Lady Snowblood (1973)
• City of the Living Dead (1980)
• Black Sunday (1977)
• Game of Death (1978)
• Miller's Crossing (1990)
• Death Rides a Horse (1966)
• Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
• Samurai Fiction (1998)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Five Fingers of Death (1972)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Convoy (1978)
• The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• Unforgiven (1992)
The Searchers (1956)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Django (1966)
• Gone With the Wind (1939)
• The Great Silence (1968)
• A Professional Gun (1968)