{"id":9378,"date":"2010-11-26T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=9378"},"modified":"2010-11-17T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T21:55:57","slug":"quentin-tarantino-films-your-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/quentin-tarantino-films-your-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino Films @ Your Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>One of my very favorite directors is Quentin Tarantino.\u00a0 I think his movies are so original and witty, all while being filled with crazy action scenes.\u00a0 I can’t think of one of his movies that I’ve seen and not liked.\u00a0 Of course Pulp Fiction<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Reservoir Dogs<\/a><\/em><\/strong> are two of his most well-known films and are both fantastic.\u00a0 But for me, in the race for favorite Tarantino film, it’s a tie between two of his most recent works.\u00a0 The first is the Kill Bill saga, comprised of Kill Bill: Volume 1<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Kill Bill: Volume 2<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 It’s the story of a former assassain who tries to quit the business and is hunted down by her former boss and his minions on her wedding day.\u00a0 She survives the attack, and now she’s out for revenge.\u00a0 Volume 1 is pretty heavy on the beautifully\u00a0directed (and fairly bloody) action scenes, while Volume 2 focuses more on the backstory and Tarantino’s signature dialogue.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My other favorite is Inglourious Basterds<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, the fictionalized World War II story about a group of Jewish-American soldiers banding together to bring down as many Nazis as possible.\u00a0 This movie surprised me in so many ways.\u00a0 I have to admit, I’ve always thought of Brad Pitt as just a pretty face rather than a great actor, but he’s absolutely hilarious and perfect in his role as Lt. Aldo Raine, the leader of the rogue team of Nazi hunters called The Basterds.\u00a0 But the best performance in this movie is Christoph Waltz as Hans Landa, a member of the Nazi high command obsessed with tracking down any Jewish person who might have escaped initial searches.\u00a0 I think I held my breath during the entire first scene of the movie because his performance was so riveting.\u00a0 Even though I have to turn my head away from the screen every now and then (after all, it’s a Tarantino film, and bloody violence is bound to happen), I loved every\u00a0 minute of the film:\u00a0 the intense drama, the hilarious dialogue, and the inspired performances.\u00a0 I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my very favorite directors is Quentin Tarantino.\u00a0 I think his movies are so original and witty, all while being filled with crazy action scenes.\u00a0 I can’t think of one of his movies that I’ve seen and not liked.\u00a0 Of course Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs are two of[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[211,3254,85],"class_list":["post-9378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","tag-action","tag-dvds","tag-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2rg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9378"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9460,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9378\/revisions\/9460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}