Quentin Tarantino

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.

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)

City on Fire (1987): 1 line

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)

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)

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)

Drawn on by

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

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Directing (51) everyone in directing

• director, Inglourious Basterds (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Raging Bull with David Krumholtz)
• director, Pulp Fiction (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Raging Bull with David Krumholtz)
• director, Pulp Fiction (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Blank Check with Griffin & David, Miami Vice - Pilot Episode)
• director, Jackie Brown (Blank Check with Griffin & David, As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard)
• director, Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)
• director, Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)
• director, Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘After Hours’ with Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)
• director, Jackie Brown (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Kill Bill (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Inglourious Basterds (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• writer-director (directing half), Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Die Hard 2’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Jackie Brown (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Django Unchained (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Kill Bill (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Death Proof (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald)
• director, Jackie Brown (The Rewatchables, ‘The Royal Tenenbaums’ With Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald)
• writer/director whose roles suit Pitt (directing half), Inglourious Basterds (The Rewatchables, ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director/writer, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Rewatchables, ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Inglourious Basterds (The Rewatchables, ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Django Unchained (The Rewatchables, ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, The Hateful Eight (The Rewatchables, ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• writer/director (directing half), Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris)
• director, Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Jackie Brown (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Inglourious Basterds (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Django Unchained (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Kill Bill (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director, The Hateful Eight (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director (wanted My Sharona), Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Big Picture, ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!)
• director, Jackie Brown (The Big Picture, ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!)
• director, Kill Bill (The Big Picture, ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!)
• director of Reservoir Dogs (Sean's #1), Pulp Fiction, Inglourious Basterds; writer of Natural Born Killers script, Reservoir Dogs (The Big Picture, Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Big Picture, Our Alternative Academy Awards | The Oscars Show)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Big Picture, The Snubs and Surprises of the 92nd Academy Award Nominations | The Oscars Show)
• writer-director (directing half), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Big Picture, The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Big Picture, The Oscars Schedule Changes, and Andrew Garfield On ‘Under the Silver Lake’ | Interview)
• director, Django Unchained (The Big Picture, Steven Spielberg's Top 5 Movies With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan | The Big Picture (Ep. 57))
• director who worked with Bichir, unspecified (Blank Check — Patreon, Alien: Covenant)
• director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Blank Check — Patreon, The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free))

Writing (17) everyone in writing

• writer (True Romance), True Romance (The Rewatchables, ‘Rocky’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan)
• writer-director, Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• director, True Romance (screenwriter) (The Rewatchables, ‘The Ice Storm’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• writer/director whose roles suit Pitt, Inglourious Basterds (The Rewatchables, ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• writer, True Romance (The Rewatchables, ‘Se7en’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• writer, True Romance (The Rewatchables, ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• director/writer (writing half), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Rewatchables, ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• writer/director, Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris)
• writer, True Romance (The Rewatchables, ‘Do The Right Thing’ With Sean Fennessey and Wesley Morris)
• writer, Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• writer, True Romance (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• writer, Natural Born Killers (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• writer, The Further Misadventures of Cliff Booth (The Big Picture, ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips!)
• writer, True Romance (The Big Picture, The Top 10 Fantasy Films, The Toy Movie Hall of Fame, and ‘Masters of the Universe,’ with Griffin Newman!)
• writer of the original, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (and the planned Fincher follow-up) (The Big Picture, ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best …)
• author of Cinema Speculation, wrote about Hardcore and Rolling Thunder, Cinema Speculation (The Big Picture, Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons)
• writer-director, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Big Picture, The Future of ‘Star Wars,’ Marvel, Pixar, and Disney’s Movie Monopoly. Plus: Our Summer Movie Awards and Paul Downs Colaizzo on ‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ | The Big Picture)

Other (10) everyone in other

• admirer ('one of the few perfect movies'), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (The Rewatchables, ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan)
• owner of the New Beverly theater, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (The Rewatchables, ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ Live From Sundance With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• rumored to want a Bond movie, James Bond series (The Rewatchables, ‘Skyfall’ With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Amanda Dobbins)
• referenced as the 'post-Tarantino' fanboy-critic phenomenon, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (The Big Picture, The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun!)
• guest on Rewatchables episode, King of New York (The Big Picture, The 1990 Movie Draft)
• director (Oscar roundtable) (The Big Picture, The Great ‘Avatar’ Debate with Blank Check’s Griffin Newman and David Sims)
• filmmaker; cited on Buddy Buddy and Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Buddy Buddy (Blank Check — Patreon, Zodiac with Leslye Headland (Ad-Free))
• champion of The Killing in the 90s, The Killing (Blank Check — Patreon, Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey (Ad-Free))
• commentator on Twilight, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Blank Check — Patreon, Eclipse)
• fan of, Breathless (Blank Check — Patreon, Return of the Jedi)

Acting (6) everyone in acting

• actor (Jimmy), Pulp Fiction (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• actor, Death Proof (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• narrator, The Hateful Eight (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)
• actor (Mr. Brown), Reservoir Dogs (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• actor (cameo), Sleep with Me (The Rewatchables, ‘Reservoir Dogs’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan)
• actor, Sleep with Me (The Rewatchables, ‘Reality Bites’ 25th Anniversary With Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman, and Chris Ryan)

Producing (1) everyone in producing

• producer, Killing Zoe (The Rewatchables, ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey)

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)