Quentin Tarantino has always been a film lover’s filmmaker. He has constructed his movies with overt and loving references to a near encyclopedic knowledge of previous directors’ work. Critics decry him as a magpie, filching bits and pieces from other movies to build his own. But that overlooks the style and flourishes with which he works, and his uncanny way of combining his various references into something entirely new. He is perhaps the quintessential postmodern director, and his deliberate citations invariably add to a vision that couldn’t belong to anyone else.Sometimes, his references are reasonably open and can be spotted by any viewer with a reasonable movie literacy. Examples include Uma Thurman’s yellow tracksuit in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 — an open nod to Bruce Lee’s outfit in Game of Death — and the vaunted briefcase in Pulp Fiction, which riffs on the central MacGuffin in 1955’s Kiss Me Deadly. But others are less readily noticed, either because the reference is reasonably obscure (sometimes consisting of just a single shot) or because Tarantino has layered it amid a plethora of other content. Below are ten of his more subtle references to other movies, arranged chronologically by the reference in question.Inglorious Basterds culminates with Jewish theater owner Shosanna Dreyfus murdering the German High Command (including Hitler) by igniting a stack of flammable celluloid film behind the screen. Just before she ignites the blaze, her face appears on the movie screen, laughing as it ignites in active emulation of the Maria robot.
Quentin Tarantino has always been a film lover’s filmmaker. He has constructed his movies with overt and loving references to a near encyclopedic knowledge of previous directors’ work. Critics decry him as a magpie, filching bits and pieces from other movies to build his own. But that overlooks the style and flourishes with which he works, and his uncanny way of combining his various references into something entirely new. He is perhaps the quintessential postmodern director, and his deliberate citations invariably add to a vision that couldn’t belong to anyone else.
Sometimes, his references are reasonably open and can be spotted by any viewer with a reasonable movie literacy. Examples include Uma Thurman’s yellow tracksuit in Kill Bill, Vol. 1 — an open nod to Bruce Lee’s outfit in Game of Death — and the vaunted briefcase in Pulp Fiction, which riffs on the central MacGuffin in 1955’s Kiss Me Deadly. But others are less readily noticed, either because the reference is reasonably obscure (sometimes consisting of just a single shot) or because Tarantino has layered it amid a plethora of other content. Below are ten of his more subtle references to other movies, arranged chronologically by the reference in question.
Inglorious Basterds culminates with Jewish theater owner Shosanna Dreyfus murdering the German High Command (including Hitler) by igniting a stack of flammable celluloid film behind the screen. Just before she ignites the blaze, her face appears on the movie screen, laughing as it ignites in active emulation of the Maria robot.
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