Quentin Tarantino

Cited on the shows, as a critic is, not present.

Wikidata Q3772: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Reservoir Dogs (1992); Pulp Fiction (1994); Jackie Brown (1997); Kill Bill (2003); Death Proof (2007); Inglourious Basterds (2009); Django Unchained (2012); The Hateful Eight (2015); Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019); unspecified. Count them as writer (10 films), actor (5 films), producer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

City on Fire (1987): 2 lines

  1. industry (industry) · them, directly: City on Fire ⇒ Quentin Tarantino (the host's read). Tarantino was accused of ripping off many movies while he called it homage.
    “He was saying he was doing homages and other people were saying, you just ripped off all of these 7 movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: City on Fire ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). City on Fire contains huge parts of Reservoir Dogs, which raises the homage-versus-theft question.
    “This might make you mad to watch this movie because City on Fire is Reservoir Dogs.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:12 · unknown (0.35 sure it was them)

Django (1966): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: Django ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Corbucci's 1966 Django is credited as an inspiration for the torture scene.
    “Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. career (career) · through Django Unchained (2012), which they directed: Django ⇒ Django Unchained (the host's read). Django is a better rewatch now because Tarantino later made Django Unchained.
    “Django is a better rewatch now because he made Django unchained.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:48:01 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Apocalypse Now (1979): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they directed: Apocalypse Now ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). The dogs at Spahn Ranch play the role of the Duvall helicopters, constantly present and disorienting.
    “He wanted the dogs to be the helicopters.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:25 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they directed: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so). Tarantino said Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice influenced the characters, looks, and scenery.
    “Quinn said Bob and Carol and Ted Alice was a big influence on this movie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Buddy Buddy: 1 line

  1. unmapped (reason to retire) · them, directly: Buddy Buddy ⇒ Quentin Tarantino (the maker said so: every interview). Tarantino says in interviews he is retiring so as not to make a Buddy Buddy.
    “I was like, don't want to make buddy buddy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Deliverance (1972): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Deliverance ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). The pawn shop sequence is inspired by Deliverance and transplants a Tennessee 1974 pawn shop to Hollywood.
    “It's not just that he's inspired by deliverance.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:41:44 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Do the Right Thing (1989): 1 line

  1. unmapped (borrowed line) · them, directly: Do the Right Thing ⇒ Quentin Tarantino (the host's read). Sean says Tarantino lifted the 'shoot me in a dream, wake up and apologize' line from Do the Right Thing into Reservoir Dogs.
    “you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize, which is something that I think Robin Harris says in the movie, which later appears in Reservoir Dogs”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Fox Force Five: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Kill Bill (2003), which they directed: Fox Force Five ⇒ Kill Bill (the host's read). Mia's Fox Force Five pitch (five women with different skills) is a seed of Kill Bill.
    “He kind of makes this with Kill Bill.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:26:49 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Hard Boiled (1992): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: Hard Boiled ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The speaker had not yet seen Hard Boiled, but the standoff read as John Woo.
    “I don't know if I'd seen hardboiled or whatever, any of those movies yet”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Joe Dante: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Joe Dante ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). Monster Joe's truck and tow is named after Joe Dante, whom Tarantino interviewed in the 80s.
    “Apparently named after Joe Dante, director of Gremlins”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 2:06:41 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

John Woo: 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: John Woo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The Mexican standoff was the first visual reference the speaker caught: like a John Woo Hong Kong action movie.
    “It was very like John Wu Hong Kong action movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:12 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Kiss Me Deadly ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). The briefcase is an overt mimic of the Kiss Me Deadly briefcase, a metaphor for danger.
    “It's interesting because it is such an overt mimic of the Kiss Me Deadly briefcase”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 2:23:29 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Lee Majors: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Lee Majors ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). The setup of Vincent taking the boss's wife out echoes a Hollywood story about Lee Majors asking someone to take Farrah Fawcett out while he was away.
    “Because Lee Majors is going out of town.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:09:49 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Lee Van Cleef: 1 line

  1. lineage (source of a detail) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they directed: Lee Van Cleef ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the maker said so: he told me; I asked Quentin about it). The painting of Rick in the driveway came from Tarantino finding a giant Lee Van Cleef painting in the actor's garage while scouting.
    “that's why I put a painting of Rick in the driveway.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:44:51 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Pulp Fiction (1994): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they directed: Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
    “And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Reservoir Dogs (1992): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs.
    “Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)

Shaft (1971): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Shaft ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). Bad motherfucker wallet reference to the Shaft theme.
    “It was a reference to the theme song of Shaft.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:55:45 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Spike Lee: 1 line

  1. people (feud) · them, directly: Spike Lee ⇒ Quentin Tarantino (the host's read). Sean thinks Spike's long clash with Tarantino is partly because Tarantino took things directly from this movie.
    “So there's this longtime clash between Spike and Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

The Big Combo (1955): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: The Big Combo ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Per the host's notes, The Big Combo and Corbucci's Django inspired the scene of a cop torturing a chair (sic).
    “Joseph H. Lewis's filmed the big combo and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 spaghetti western Django inspired the scene”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:43 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)

The Hateful Eight (2015): 1 line, within their own work

  1. theme (opening echo) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they directed: The Hateful Eight ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). The slow pan out to the painting of Rick echoes the slow pan out to the Jesus statue in Hateful Eight.
    “It's very similar to the beginning of Hateful 8, where there's this very slow panout and it's like a Jesus Christ statue.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:44:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Killer (2023): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Jackie Brown (1997), which they directed: The Killer ⇒ Jackie Brown (the host's read). Jackie Brown has a monologue about The Killer, showing Woo's aesthetic was known to Western audiences.
    “Jackie Brown has a whole monologue about the killer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:35 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

The Killing (1956): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: The Killing ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the maker said so: a Tarantino quote the host reads). Tarantino said Reservoir Dogs was his version of Kubrick's heist film, without meaning it as a ripoff.
    “but I did think of it as my killing, my take on that kind of heist movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:47:05 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). The color-name aliases were first seen in Pelham; called a great homage.
    “It's just a great homage, great Walter Mathow in taking Pelham one, 2, 3.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:00 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974): 1 line

  1. lineage (visual influence) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they directed: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). Tarantino wanted the Spahn Ranch sequence to feel like Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
    “Tarantino wanted it to look like the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and had his crew research, Texas Chant, and the whole feel of it and how desolate it was.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:06 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Video Archives: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: Video Archives ⇒ Reservoir Dogs (the host's read). Tarantino distilled the video-store aesthetic into the film; he programmed shelves like a film festival.
    “he talks about how he used to program shelves at the video story worked at as if it was like a film festival.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:17 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958): 1 line

  1. lineage (based on) · through Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019), which they directed: Wanted: Dead or Alive ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). Bounty Law is based on Steve McQueen's Wanted Dead or Alive.
    “Bounty Lostar, which was based on Wanted Dead or Alive with Steve McQueen”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:14 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. theme (opening echo) · through The Hateful Eight (2015), which they directed: The Hateful Eight ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). The slow pan out to the painting of Rick echoes the slow pan out to the Jesus statue in Hateful Eight.
    “It's very similar to the beginning of Hateful 8, where there's this very slow panout and it's like a Jesus Christ statue.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:44:05 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Pulp Fiction ⇒ Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (the host's read). Marcellus's you-pride-only-hurts speech to Butch is the same speech Pacino gives DiCaprio in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
    “And it's the same speech that Pacino gives DiCaprio at Rousseau and Frank in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:17:32 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Captain Marvel (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Pulp Fiction ⇒ Captain Marvel (the host's read). Samuel L. Jackson driving around mid-90s Los Angeles evokes Jules Winfield, a clever but surface 90s nod.
    “a Samuel L. Jackson character in the mid 90s driving around in a car in Los Angeles, a la Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Captain Marvel’ Is a ’90s Nostalgia Play. Did It Work? | Exit Survey · 0:18:39 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Misery (1990): 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Pulp Fiction ⇒ Misery (the host's read). Butch's Girlfriend Award for weak link of the film is borrowed from Pulp Fiction.
    “The Butch's girlfriend Award, Butch's girlfriend from Pulp Fiction.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Misery’ With Bill Simmons and Brian Koppelman · 0:59:07 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)

Pulp Fiction (1994): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Pulp Fiction (the host's read). Pulp's opening two-song credits echo the radio dial concept from Reservoir Dogs.
    “Well, the radio, the concept of the radio had been in Reservoir Dogs, but I think switching the songs in the middle, because you hear him change the dial.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:04:26 · Sean Fennessey (0.35 sure it was them)

Pulp Fiction imitators: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Pulp Fiction ⇒ Pulp Fiction imitators (the host's read). The Royale-in-Paris, Amsterdam conversation is the most parodied and copied stretch of screenwriting of the last 30 years.
    “Yeah. I would argue this is the most ripped off four and a half minutes of screenwriting in the past 30 years.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:06:07 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

Samuel L. Jackson: 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Pulp Fiction ⇒ Samuel L. Jackson (the host's read). Nick Fury's diner scene is described as a try at a Tarantino diner, with Jules-style rhythm.
    “I'm trying to do some like fucking Tarantino diner scene.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:05:14 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Station Eleven (2021): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Pulp Fiction (1994), which they directed: Pulp Fiction ⇒ Station Eleven (the host's read). Time-shifting storytelling that Pulp put front and center is still used in current TV.
    “Yeah, it's like still showing up in like station 11.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:08:39 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

Swingers (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Swingers (the host's read). Swingers openly ripped off the opening credit strut and joked about everyone copying Tarantino.
    “The opening credit sequence is really fun to watch after swingers blatantly ripped it off”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Farewell (2019): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ The Farewell (the host's read). The slow-motion group walk in The Farewell echoes the Reservoir Dogs shot, which remains influential.
    “And that shot is still really influential.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (the host's read). Called a bad-but-fun movie that would not exist without Tarantino, part of the ripoff era.
    “kind of bad and would not exist without Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:47 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Very Bad Things (1998): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Reservoir Dogs (1992), which they directed: Reservoir Dogs ⇒ Very Bad Things (the host's read). Part of the era of Tarantino ripoffs about groups of friends.
    “Well, that was the era of the Tarantino Ripoff era.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:51 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (51) everyone in directing

Writing (17) everyone in writing

Other (10) everyone in other

Acting (6) everyone in acting

Producing (1) everyone in producing

What was said about them, by kind

career (11)

  1. career (career): Don Johnson → Quentin Tarantino. Directors who grew up on him now cast him: Rian Johnson, Tarantino, McBride, Hill.
    “all these guys, like Ryan Johnson and Tarantino and McBride and Hill, are all in the age range too, have been like, Don Johnson, that's the coolest guy.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Miami Vice - Pilot Episode · 0:56:55 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Sylvester Stallone → Quentin Tarantino. Stallone's self-made breakout is likened to Tarantino crossed with acting, and Tarantino was the runner-up for who won the movie.
    “It's Tarantino crossed with acting almost?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 0:14:52 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Quentin Tarantino → Pulp Fiction. Tarantino was in Amsterdam when he wrote the film, so Vincent's Amsterdam talk is his own life.
    “Quentin was literally in Amsterdam when he was writing it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:06:31 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Quentin Tarantino → Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. Siskel and Ebert asked whether Tarantino was too much too soon; 30 years later he is one of the best.
    “Tarantino gets what's age the best too, because even they said that in that Ebert Cisco thing I mentioned earlier where they're like, is this too much too soon?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:47 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Quentin Tarantino → Jackie Brown. Tarantino waited 3 years for Jackie Brown, which was not celebrated like Pulp, so the proof took closer to 10 years.
    “he waited 3 years to make Jackie Brown and Jackie Brown, which is incredible film, but was not celebrated like pulp too.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:09:59 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Quentin Tarantino → The Hateful Eight. Tarantino keeps putting himself in his movies, e.g., Death Proof and narrating Hateful Eight.
    “He puts himself in a lot of the movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:42:55 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Quentin Tarantino → Daniel Day-Lewis. Tarantino is fine disappearing for years then coming back, like Day-Lewis.
    “almost like a Daniel DeLouis.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 2:42:25 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  8. career (career): Quentin Tarantino → Sleep with Me. His cameo in Sleep With Me, riffing on Top Gun, is the same kind of theory talk.
    “It was like that movie we talked about on a previous pod about his cameo and sleep with me.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  9. career (career): Reservoir Dogs → Quentin Tarantino. He cast himself in his first film and became a rock-star director unlike any since.
    “He put himself front and center in the 1st movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:26:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. career (career): Quentin Tarantino → Spike Lee. Spike (via Jordan) is named as a rare comparable in sought-after notoriety.
    “Maybe Spike. It's like, because of Jordan.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:39 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  11. career (career comp): Zach Cregger → Quentin Tarantino. Four films then a breather would be like Tarantino's Kill Bill then the stop-down.
    “for Quentin, that would have been like the kill Bill and then the stopdown after that, right?”
    The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:16:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

contrast (4)

  1. contrast (contrast): Quentin Tarantino → Steven Soderbergh. His press presence lifted him beyond being just a cool indie filmmaker like Soderbergh.
    “propelling him out of just being like Soderberg or like a cool interesting indie filmmaker”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:10 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Quentin Tarantino → Steven Spielberg. Spielberg would not do a talk-show couch turn the way Tarantino did.
    “That is Steven Spielberg doesn't do that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Quentin Tarantino → Orson Welles. After the debut he was compared to Welles, but unlike Welles he topped it with Pulp Fiction.
    “The the person, the number one person that he was compared to after this came out was Orson Wells.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:26:45 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): James Cameron → Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino promised early retirement; Cameron said he would never retire and was spending his prime years diving.
    “But Tarantino was talking about his long promise thing of, you know, I'll retire when I'm 50.”
    The Big Picture · The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims · 0:28:23 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Bronagh Gallagher → Quentin Tarantino. Trudy is the silent third person every drug house has, which Tarantino had to put in a movie.
    “So he's like, I got to put that into a movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:33:33 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

industry (4)

  1. industry (industry): Quentin Tarantino → Killing Zoe. Tarantino produced Killing Zoe, written and directed by Roger Avery.
    “He produced that, which was written by and directed by Roger Avery.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:23:57 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Quentin Tarantino → Reality Bites. Reality Bites got My Sharona for its convenience store scene; licensing chose it over the gang rape scene, and Tarantino says he is glad.
    “Reality Bites also wanted it for the convenience store scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:49:51 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Quentin Tarantino → City on Fire. Tarantino was accused of ripping off many movies while he called it homage.
    “He was saying he was doing homages and other people were saying, you just ripped off all of these 7 movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:33 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma → Quentin Tarantino. The movie sits in the post-Tarantino phenomenon of cinephile-flattering films, but Jane is an artist, not a hack.
    “this is the post-Tarantino phenomenon of like, you know, critics get turned into to fanboys”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:12:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)

people (5)

  1. people (feud): Spike Lee → Quentin Tarantino. Sean thinks Spike's long clash with Tarantino is partly because Tarantino took things directly from this movie.
    “So there's this longtime clash between Spike and Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Quentin Tarantino → Lawrence Bender. Bender's acting teacher's wife passed the script to Harvey Keitel, which got it financed.
    “Bender gives the script to his acting teacher, whose wife gave the script to Harvey Keitel.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:21:15 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. people (original writer): Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (and the planned Fincher follow-up) → Quentin Tarantino. The Netflix deal ties Fincher and Tarantino.
    “I know you're very upset about the Netflix vacation of Fincher and Tarantino.”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:35:17 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Natural Born Killers → Quentin Tarantino. Brian loves the Tarantino script of Natural Born Killers but hates the Stone film.
    “which I hate the movie, but I love the script”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:20:26 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)
  5. people (people): Breathless → Quentin Tarantino. The Richard Gere remake of Breathless is one Tarantino loves.
    “Tarantino loves?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:13:27 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): King of New York → Quentin Tarantino. The Rewatchables did a King of New York episode with Quentin Tarantino.
    “We did a great rewatchables episode about it with Quentin Tarantino about 5 years ago.”
    The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 1:07:25 · Chris Ryan (0.85 sure it was them)

theme (2)

  1. theme (cultural-impact-comparison): Wes Anderson → Quentin Tarantino. In 2001 there was a sense Anderson could be as significant a voice as Tarantino, who came slightly earlier.
    “there was a feeling in 01 that I think he had a chance to be like as significant a voice as Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald · 0:17:14 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Quentin Tarantino → Antonioni and Kurosawa. He married high and low: exploitation plus Antonioni and Kurosawa plus yakuza movies.
    “It's the marriage of the high and the low.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:14:48 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

unmapped (5)

  1. unmapped (admirer): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino wrote that Chainsaw is one of the few perfect movies ever made.
    “To me, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre is one of the few perfect movies ever made.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:00:56 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (reviver of stars): Quentin Tarantino → Brad Pitt. Tarantino revives superstars; Brad and Leo got best performances from Basterds, Django and this.
    “He likes to revive superstars and he's the fixer.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:54 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (borrowed line): Quentin Tarantino → Do the Right Thing. Sean says Tarantino lifted the 'shoot me in a dream, wake up and apologize' line from Do the Right Thing into Reservoir Dogs.
    “you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize, which is something that I think Robin Harris says in the movie, which later appears in Reservoir Dogs”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris · 0:50:46 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (reason to retire): Quentin Tarantino → Buddy Buddy. Tarantino says in interviews he is retiring so as not to make a Buddy Buddy.
    “I was like, don't want to make buddy buddy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:04:58 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (advocacy): Quentin Tarantino → The Killing. Tarantino championed The Killing in the 90s, drawing more people to it.
    “I think Tarantino was like really, really advocating for that movie in the 90s, and so a lot more people got onto it that are more our age.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free) · 0:45:13 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)

verdict (4)

  1. verdict (verdict): Quentin Tarantino → Pulp Fiction. Quentin won the movie; Jackson is the runner-up.
    “Sam Jackson didn't win the movie, but it's definitely Tarantino.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 2:40:51 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (favorite actors): Quentin Tarantino → Michael Madsen. Tarantino has gotten the best out of actors like Travolta, Madsen, Jamie Foxx, David Carradine.
    “He's definitely gotten the best Madsons, yeah.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:19:29 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. verdict (verdict): Quentin Tarantino → The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. Tarantino said on a Video Archives episode this was the Wilder film to end on.
    “this is the one he should have ended on.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free) · 0:05:09 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. verdict (verdict): The Twilight Saga: Eclipse → Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino told Eli Roth the Twilight movies are for 12-year-old girls and a gateway drug to cinema.
    “They're for 12-year-old girls and they might be a great gateway drug to cinema.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eclipse · 0:09:36 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Quentin Tarantino: Bill's Jimmy Kimmel story: Tarantino picked his audience-theater parody script, gave notes, and directed it on air.
    “So he picked my bit.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:28:30 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Quentin Tarantino: Tarantino planned My Sharona for Pulp Fiction but Reality Bites got the rights first.
    “Quentin Tarantino, was supposed to use my Sharona.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan · 0:59:17 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Quentin Tarantino: Reservoir Dogs is disqualified for Brian because Tarantino disowned his earlier first feature, never properly distributed.
    “he's disowned it as a formal part of his filmography”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 0:40:29 · Brian Koppelman (0.85 sure it was them)