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    Django did a great job of expressing the dual purpose of art. Write and director Quentin Tarantino, delivered very deep emotional arousal and entertainment with this film. From my prospective Tarantino use the dual purpose of art as a magnifying glass. To give his artistic view on slavery. Through the basic elements of drama and the six plot devices. For example, take the introduction scene with Dr. Schultz, Django, and Calvin Candie. This scene diction of the N-word was used a number of time. Which

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    Comparison Between W.D. Griffith and  Quentin Tarantino  W.D Griffith and Quentin Tarantino have a lot of thing in common from the awards they received and their personality as directors. One Thing they both have in common is they both have won academy awards Griffith won the Academy Honorary Award and Tarantino won Best Director. Another thing they have in common is at a young age they both dropped out of school Griffith dropped out to take care of his family Tarantino dropped out to pursue his acting career

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    boxer on the run, and mentally unstable married robbers are all intelligently and comically combined to create the three-hour spectacle, Pulp Fiction (1994). The famous auteur director, Quentin Tarantino created the visually stimulating success, leaving him decades to create major blockbuster hits. Tarantino has not only directed well known films such as Reservoir Dogs (1992), The Hateful Eight (2015), and Django Unchained (2012) but is credited as a co-writer on each of these projects. His genius

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    You Are What You Eat Food has evolved from so much more than a source of nutrition in today’s society. It contains culture, traditions, and is shared with others. Quentin Tarantino’s movie, Pulp Fiction, briefly brings light to the importance and uniqueness of food from different cultures. There is a scene where two men, Vincent and Jules, sit in a car having small talk about food in Europe. Parts of their conversation, however, contain some very resonant discussions of food, place, and identity

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    In his interview, Quentin Tarantino describes Inglourious Basterds as a product of his imagination (Gilby 175). If one had watched the film, he can see that the film is based on the real World War II setting as it portrays actual key figures - Hitler, Goebbels, and Churchill - and events around that time, such as German occupation in Paris and the Holocaust. Even though the film uses actual World War II setting, the story as a whole is a pure fiction. The film is a fictional alternate history of

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    television, but other forms of art as well, such as music and video games. One of the most well-known directors often cited as being influenced by Lynch is Quentin Tarantino. The most commonly used examples are Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart and this isn't surprising as they portray violent criminals having trivial conversations. Tarantino is clearly a very different filmmaker and I can't see him making something like Mulholland Drive or Inland Empire. Tarantino's work has a very different tone and

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    Since the 1990’s Quentin Tarantino has been viewed as one of the most iconic directors of modern cinema. His most praised scenes are always his combat scenes, or the finals scenes of each film. While there are plenty of good combat scenes in each Quentin Tarantino film, the Showdown at House of Blue Leaves scene from Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) is by far the most beautiful and impactful. Kill Bill Vol. 1 follows an female ex-assassin- The Bride - on a brutal Atkinson 2 revenge filled journey. Within

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    This essay will be covering Quentin Tarantino an American director, writer, and actor. His films are characterized by non-chronological storylines, satirical subject matter, and violence. Tarantino is not only a fantastic writer but a tremendous filmmaker. He has won multiple Oscars for his films. The man to me is a genius in the film industry. Throughout this essay, I will speak of what makes a Tarantino movie, how Tarantino 's Screenplays are a nice change of pace, how he changed how I view dialogue

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    Humor. Mockery. Relationship Goals. Can you consider these three things in a story about slavery? Slavery is typically a sensitive and serious topic. In Charles W. Chesnutt’s short story, “The Passing of Grandison” and Quentin Tarantino 's film, "Django Unchained", these three components were combined for entertainment purposes. In this essay, I will implement the comparison that both the short story and film shows with the three component of humor, mockery and the relationship goal of a slave

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    Quentin Tarantino presents us with another classic Tarantino-style movie; this time in a Western murder mystery setting. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell and Jennifer Jason Lee, Tarantino’s unwholesome crazy, yet funny and violent elegance is captured throughout the film in just one room. This gristly, yet brutal and blood-letting ‘whodunit’ mystery provides all the Tarantino-esque features that renowned his legendary career. Needless to say, if “Kill Bill” and “Inglorious Bastards” were

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