Waking up from a coma 5 years later, The Bride is understandably a little bit peeved and sets out to get even with her former colleagues (Lucy Liu, Vivica A Fox, Michael Madsen and Daryl Hannah) and Bill (David Carradine). Kill Bill is a sprawling martial arts epic charting the globetrotting vengeance wrought by The Bride (Uma Thurman), a pregnant assassin, who is shot and left for dead on her wedding day on the orders of her former lover and employer, Bill. But now he's back, louder than ever, with his magnum opus, Kill Bill Volumes 1 & 2, based, apparently, on several drunken conversations between Tarrantino and Uma Thurman while they were filming Pulp Fiction. Particularly if George Clooney follows it up by driving a table leg through his heart.Īfter the two-for-one failure of Jackie Brown and his acting career, Tarrantino disappeared and spent a couple of years sulking, licking his wounds and battling writer's block. Audiences really enjoy seeing Tarrantino take a bullet between the eyes. And here lies one of the guilty pleasures of any Tarantino performance. But other people started using him too, and he made a pretty good motor-mouthed scumbag who gets shot in the face in films as diverse as Reservoir Dogs, Desperado and From Dusk Til Dawn. If you had an ego bigger than your gargantuan chin, you would too. Obviously he put himself in his own movies. Despite a stellar cast, 1997's Jackie Brown just wasn't very good and for a while it seemed that Tarrantino was more interested in his acting career than on delivering a good film. So what if he had to share it with former friend Roger Avary, whose story (about a boxer and his daddy's gold watch) he'd filched and made the backbone of his movie? It won him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. It jump-started John Travolta's failing career and made a star of Samuel L Jackson. No-one knew what he was going to do next.

He was 30 and he had the world at his feet. Passionate, arrogant and as excitable as a puppy in a room full of unhumped legs, you either loved him or you loathed him. So what if we found out later that the film was an unacknowledged remake (or rip-off) of Hong Kong director Ringo Lam's excellent City on Fire? The controversy surrounding that scene made the film and gave Tarantino a reputation as a dangerous young director surfing the pop culture zeitgeist. Worse still, it has inspired drunken men to dance to Stuck in the Middle With You. Unfortunately, the cop still has one ear left and is forced to listen to the rest of the song. And slicing off his ear with a straight razor. Elvis impersonator Michael Madsen tortures a bound and gagged cop by dancing to a Gerry Rafferty song. And Quentin Tarantino.Ī model of low-budget independent cinema, 1992's Reservoir Dogs was fresh, vibrant, funny and violent a showcase for Tarantino's pop culture sensibilities, his perverse sense of humour and his cheerfully vulgar dialogue, which amused and offended audiences in equal measure. Under his guardianship, Sundance has become one of the most influential film festivals in the world, championing the best modern American and international independent film makers, among them the Coen Brothers and Steven Soderbergh. When he bailed out a small, Utah-based independent film festival, the Sundance Film Festival was born.

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