Quentin Tarantino

1)      Name two distinctive features of Tarantino’s films.

2)      How was Tarantino’s education in film different to the normal method of film-school?

3)      Despite the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino’s first film in 1992, it was criticized by many. Why?

4)      What genre do Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction belong to?

5)      Identify three recurring CAMERA ANGLES/SHOTS used by Tarantino. Include a screen shot example of each, with a brief caption about the possible effects created by each (eg. to give a sense of power to audience/character, to disorient the viewer, etc)

6)      Explain USING YOUR OWN WORDS what Tarantino’s Mirror shot is, and possible effects of using it. Include a screen shot.

7)      A recurring trope in Tarantino’s films is the Mexican standoff.

a) Briefly explain what it is.

b) Explain where the term comes from.

c) Examples of two non-Tarantino films that use it (with screen shots of possible).

d) Provide screen shots from two Tarantino films that use it.

8)      A “MacGuffin” is used in Tarantino’s film Pulp Fiction.

a)      What is a MacGuffin? Explain in fifty words.

b)     What is the MacGuffin in Pulp Fiction?

c)      Provide examples fo MacGuffins from two non-Tarantino films, with screen shots if possible.

1. The films of Tarantinos where thrillers that were different because of their clever, twisting dialogue, and also because of their extreme violence.

2. Quentin Tarantiro really was a clerk moviemaker, he dont acquired his knowledge by a conventional high school method.

3. Tarantino was critized because of the level of unnecesary violence in their movies.

4. Drama, mystery, crime interviews, he mix humor and ultra-violence in the popular, critically-acclaimed film.


5.                      CSI: Doctors:

POV low angle shot (extreme) , give the sense to the audience, showing how a person is examinated.

In Four Rooms : Chester listens to Ted's monologue.

Medium face-shot.



In Reservoir Dogs : Mr Brown, Mr Pink and Mr White looking at Marvin Nash.

Low angle shot.



6.

 

Mirror shot. (Kill Bill 1) looking herself.

A mirror shot is when a shot of a character is showed when it is seeing himself or herself in a mirror.




7. A) Its refer to a particular type of stand off, maybe the aparition of an incident, a subset of a general standoff. A situation that dont have a original winner.

B) The origin is not really well known but the term comes from Sergio Leone's movie "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," a classic from 1966.

C) D)

The good, the bad and the ugly.

Reservoir Dogs:  

8.

A) The Mac Guffin element drives the movie´s plot forward without having a specific relevance on its own.

B)  In Pulp Fiction, activates the action but don´t have any further purpose.

C) Eleven: All the movie is based in stole a bank, and they do a plan to have the gold egg.