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Quentin Tarantino 's The Giant Face

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Quentin Tarantino is one of the most recognizable directors alive today and one of the most influential during the 1990’s to 2010s’s. The passion he poured into his films garnered worldwide acclaim and recognition. He has won two Oscars for best writing and original screenplay and been nominated for best director twice. His films are generally characterized by two aspects: excellent dialogue and masterfully edited scenes. Two of his masterpieces are Pulp Fiction (1994) and Inglorious Basterds (2009). In Pulp Fiction, I have chosen the excerpt from when the pawn shop owner enters the back room to just before Julius calls Jimmy (1:42:09-1:56:37,) and from Inglorious Basterds, I have chosen from the title ‘Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face’ to when Colonel Landa bids the Basterds impersonating Italian cameramen farewell (1:45:43-1:55:10) to analyse. Tarantino is an undeniable auteur, creating worlds that could exist in our own, enabling his audiences to be emersed in stories far more intresting than our own mundane lives. Through his excellent direction, the films draw attention to the cheapness of life and society’s desensitised attitude towards violence. One of the many aspects of film that Tarantino excels at is dialogue. In the film Inglorious Basterds, Tarantino explores suspense and tension with a variety of tools, foremost among them, the use of dialogue to immerse the viewer in the suspense of the film. In the excerpt from Inglorious Basterds, while

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