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Presenter Jason Solomons looks at Director Quentin Tarantino's incredible career and examines his movies. Tarantino began his career by working in a movie store in California, a massive film geek he used his time to research films all day long as well as attending acting classes at a theatre school. Reservoir Dogs 1992 was the most explosive debut in cinema history, premiering at the Sundance Film festival, it hit the scene like a tornado. An all star cast about a diamond heist, featuring violence, criminal style banter and iconic music. A Tim Roth interview clip is shown, with Roth discussing how he came to be on board the project. It was decided after struggling to raise funding that it was to be a low budget film, however, once Harvey Keitel was cast, the real money followed. Reservoir Dogs changed the face of indie cinema, instantly makingTarantino hot property, from here he formed his production company A Band of Heart, the name influenced by the his favourite director Jean-Luc Godard. From here Tarantino wrote the screenplays for True Romance 1993, Natural Born Killers 1994 and From Dusk Till Dawn 1996. He saved the best film for himself - the hugely successful Pulp Fiction 1994. He wrote and directed this cult classic that's been hailed a beacon for modern cinema. Tarantino has also made a habit of resurrecting the careers of many actors along the way including John Travolta and Robert Forster. A clip of Samuel L Jackson is shown recounting his experience of landing the role of 'Jules'. Artist Banksy painted a mural depicting the character of Jules and Vince holding bananas instead of guns. Jackie Brown 1997 was the next film he wrote and directed about drug smuggling and gun money, starring the iconic Pam Greer and again Samuel L Jackson. Kill Bill 2003 an epic film trigoloy starring the newly resurrected David Carradine and Daryl Hannah playing a woman back from the dead seeking revenge, a pastiche of Japanese samurai, Chinese wushu and Italian giallo horror. Now considered a true 'rock n roll' director he goes onto Inglorious Bastards 2009 starring Brad Pitt about a group of Jewish/American rebels out to assassinate Hitler. This was also hugely successful and his biggest grossing film to date until the next film Django Unchained 2012 starring Jamie Foxx as a renegade slave out for revenge. A western The Hateful Eight 2015 starring a host of regulars playing was a collection of nefarious characters trapped in a cabin in Wyoming. Tarantino even coaxed the famous composer Ennio Morricone out of retirement to do the score. Tarantino champion of cinema, archiving its past, mythologising its present and energising its future. He put a bomb under modern cinema and we're still watching it explode.

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