Video Breakdown Shows How Quentin Tarantino Steals From The Films He Admires
Quentin Tarantino like to steal from the movies he admires in the process of telling his own stories. This is no secret, this is something that he freely admits to. In a previous interview with Empire Magazine, the filmmaker said:
“I steal from every single movie ever made. If my work has anything, it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don’t like that, then tough titty, don’t go and see it, alright? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don’t do homages.”
We have a great video essay for you to watch today that gives us a breakdown of how Tarantino steals from other films and seamlessly takes certain elements from the movies he loves and weaves them into his own work. The video comes from Nat Lee of Insider, who says:
“Tarantino’s references are often seamless and easy to miss because they enhance the scenes… ‘Reservoir Dogs’ is a pastiche of the gritty Hong Kong crime films and ‘Pulp Fiction’ is based on the unconventional French New Wave movement. ‘Jackie Brown’ bases itself off the 70s controversial blaxploitation films while ‘Kill Bill’ is reminiscent of the classical Japanese samurai and Chinese consul movies ‘Deathproof’ pays tribute to low-budget exploitation movies while ‘Inglorious Basterds’ references World War II cinema. His two most recent films ‘Django Unchained’ and ‘The Hateful Eight’ are modern takes of the Italian spaghetti westerns”
There’s a lot of interesting stuff pointed out in this video that you may not have known and it’s a great watch that any Tarantino fan will appreciate.