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Quentin Tarantino: The Definitive Guide to Homages, Influences and References

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Nice, thanks. And yeah, I had heard about the similarities between Reservoir Dogs and City on Fire. Finally saw City on Fire a couple years ago and I can definitely see the stuff that QT stole, but they're 2 completely different movies.
 

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Great links! Definitely have to check them out. Though, like you said, I highly doubt it is actually "definitive." I'm sure it's near impossible to sort out all the references. I made a video project some time ago with some friends, and we weren't feeling very creative, so almost all our jokes were pop-culture references. When I re-watch the video, I find there are some references that even I've forgotten about, and it's only a few minutes long.
 

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Gatos said:
I haven't looked through this site yet. I doubt it's the definitive guide, but still pretty cool IMO

http://whatculture.com/film/quentin-tarantino-definitive-guide.php

And here are some cool vids concerning QT references


The next two vids, this guy says Quentin flat out steals (which i guess is true, QT never made it a secret)



Bumping this since it's been a long time and there may be some others who are interested in it.  I was a huge Tarantino fan from his very beginning, but as I've watched more films, especially more old films, I've really gotten a different take on him.

He's not so much a director as the ultimate faneditor.  He writes slash fiction, mashing different genres, then assembles characters, dialogue, music, and shots from all the things he's seen before to try to make a different version.  At his best, the assemblage seems to be so different (because so many people don't recognize what the sources are) that he seems to have created something new.  At his worst, his theft doesn't seem very creative, because he has the same actor playing the same character and doing the same thing, just in his movie (Go-Go from Kill Bill is a prime example).

Love him, hate him, or somewhere in between...in terms of Hollywood directors, you have to admit that Tarantino is really different.
 
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