Quentin Tarantino

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

1.Clever Dialogues

2.Combined "ultra-violence" scenes with humor.

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

He started his career as a video clerk. He started being and actor while he studied film in Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, CA. While he was studying he began writting his own screenplays.

3)      Despite the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino’s first film in 1992, it was criticized by many. Why?
Tarantino's first film "Reservoir Dogs" in 1992 was criticized by many because it used ultra-violent scenes. The movie was about six strangers who had to conduct a diamont heist that unraveled rapidly in the aftermath.

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

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) 
Low angle shot (looking up)

Makes the viewer feel inferior because they are looking down at something and in this case they seem to be laughing about the spectators
(In Reservoir Dogs : Mr Brown, Mr Pink and Mr White looking at Marvin Nash.)


POV

 Makes the viewer feel as the character, makes the viewer feel curiosity to know what they are looking at and indentifies with the character being observed.
(In Pulp Fiction : When Marsellus wakes up after being hit by Butch's car)


EXTREME CLOSE-UP

This kind of shot focalises in making the viewer concentrate in what she is saying, this helps because it provides no distractions.
(In Pulp Fiction : Mia's lips)



6)      Explain USING YOUR OWN WORDS what Tarantino’s Mirror shot is, and possible effects of using it. Include a screen shot.
The mirror shot represents the "double" of the character. By saying the double I mean the other side of the person, the inner side. The reflection in the mirror can show real feelings that the character is having but he cant show them by themselves.  When people look their reflection in the mirror is a personal, intimate moment in which they can express their real feelings and show what they really are to the viewers

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

a) Briefly explain what it is. 
A Mexican standoff is a situation in which 2 or more people ar pointing each other with a gun in a circle, which means than one life depends on the other.

b) Explain where the term comes from.
It was invented by an italian-american film director, Sergio Leone.

c) Examples of two non-Tarantino films that use it (with screen shots of possible). 
“The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”

Three Kings

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

True Romance

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

a)      What is a MacGuffin? Explain in fifty words.
The MacGuffin troop were the conventions in which a scriptwriter can rely on as being reasonable as being part of audience and viewers minds such as their expectations. This would help the writer to discover what will the audiense like to see and what will surprise them.

b)     What is the MacGuffin in Pulp Fiction?

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

The 39 steps.

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