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November 21, 2024

Out of everyone on the planet right now, we’re 100 percent certain that Quentin Tarantino himself will be the biggest fan of this list. Not only is it all about him, but the random order of these facts is some serious non-linear storytelling.

Just look at these first three facts. We start with Once Upon A Time… in Hollywood, dip back to Reservoir Dogs, then hit From Dusk Till Dawn. Hope you enjoy that and the rest of these facts, Quentin. We know you’re reading.

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Poster Cameo

EASTER EGGSTRA HIDDEN MEANINGS & REFERENCES ONCE UPON A TIME IN... HOLLYWOOD TARANTINO'S POSTER CAMEO THE 9TH FILM FROM QUENTIN TARANTINO ONCE UPONATIME A IN... HOLLYWOOD He's believed to be the director behind the camera right below Margot Robbie's face. CRACKED.COM — Hidden Details In Recent Movie Posters

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Coming Up with the Name for Reservoir Dogs

THERE WEREN'TANY RESERVOIRS OR DOGS In RESERVOIR DOGS. THE name comES FROM Quentin TARANTINO MOCKING A FRENCH movie. Before making movies, Tarantino w

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From Dusk Till Dawn

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ FROM DUSK TILL DAWN TARANTINO WAS GOING TO DIRECT. In the end, though, he found that being a writer, actor, and director at the same time was too much. Не considered Renny Harlin and Tony Scott for the job, before landing on Rodriguez. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Sin City

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ SIN CITY TARANTINO DIRECTED A SCENE FOR MUSICAL REASONS. Robert Rodriguez had written a sweet guitar score that Tarantino wanted for Kill Bill Vol. 2, and Rodriguez agreed to sell it to him for just one dollar -under one condition. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

CRACKED.COM somu T SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD GUILLERMO DEL TORO AND QUENTIN TARANTINO HELPED. Del Toro recommended martial arts expert Brad Allen for the fight scenes. Tarantino gave Edgar Wright tips on shooting action scenes, and suggested the stretching room effect for the title sequence. — Universal Pictures
Entertainment Weekly
Screen Rant

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His Early Work

Directors and their beginnings Then vs. Now ICE Quentin Tarantino The Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill director began by watching movies at a video store. His first film was My Best Friend's Birthday, a dark comedy that almost burned completely in a fire lab-except not really. Tarantino just told that story because he didn't like the result, and only edited the 36 minutes he did. CRACKED.COM — Wikipedia

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The Idea for Death Proof

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ TARANTINO LEARNED ABOUT DEATH-PROOFING FROM SEAN PENN. While drinking together, Penn suggested that instead of buying a boring Volvo, Tarantino could have any car death-proofed by a stunt crew. Tarantino became obsessed with the idea, and wrote a movie about it. DEATH PROOF CRACKED.COM — Sources: Screen Rant, Wikipedia

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Origins of Grindhouse

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ QUENTIN HOPE FOR HUMANITY... These . woman TARANTINO - about - - * dishofical mani $ ON A HIGH-POWER MACHINE GUN! ROBERT RODRIGUEZ 100 the and - BACK to BACK! KURT RUSSELL GRINDHOUSE THE MOVIE EXISTS BECAUSE TARANTINO AND RODRIGUEZ OWNED THE SAME POSTER. Tarantino held actual double features at home, complete with trailers. During one of these, Rodriguez noticed a double feature poster he also had, and asked Tarantino if he wanted to recreate the tradition. WO GREAT MOVIES FOR THE PRICE OF CRACKED.COM — Source: Wikipedia

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Laurence Fishburne

Marvel Stars from the A Quentin Tarantino wanted Laurence Fishburne as Luke Cage. Tarantino almost directed a Luke Cage film - and he would've cast Fishburne in the mail role. Well, watching any other Tarantino movie is probably a good way to figure it out what that'd be like. CRACKED.COM — Source: Cinemablend

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The Pulp Fiction Wallet

The wallet in Pulp Fiction was owned by Quentin Tarantino. Jules' profanity-enhanced wallet wasn't a prop. Tarantino had it as his own personal wallet. Не owned it as a reference to the movie Shaft. BAO MOTH R CRACKED.COM — Source

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Bong Joon-ho

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS CRACKED.COM QUENTIN TARANTINO HAS BEEN A LONGTIME FAN. HI In 2009, Tarantino included Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder and The Host on his list of favorite 20 movies since 1992. Bong ended up thanking Tarantino for introducing Western audiences to his films during his Oscar acceptance speech. — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Bong Joon-ho Films

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Margaret Cho’s All-American Girl

Quentin Tarantino MARGARET CHO'S ALL-AMERICAN GIRL CRACKED.COM Tarntino waggled his finger through a full 20-minute inside joke fest, pausing only to violently stab a meat thermometer into a turkey. — Source

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Sherriff McGraw

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ a S BACK FROM DUSK TILL DAWN SHERIFF EARL MCGRAW IS KIND OF A WATCHER OF THE TARANTINO- RODRIGUEZ MULTIVERSE. The character played by Michael Parks dies early in the movie, but then magically reappears in Planet Terror, Death Proof, and Kill Bill Vol. 1. Quentin, Robert: there, there's your next collaboration. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Birds of Prey

Quentin Tarantino's movies kind of ended up inspiring Birds of Prey. I Director Cathy Yan said that the structure of the film was a bit like Pulp Fiction meets Rashomon. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pulp Fiction’s Screenplay

This is the worst screenplay that this film company has ever been handed. This is awful. TriStar executive Mike Medavoy said about Pulp Fiction. PULP FICTION Luckily after some editing Quentin Tarantino managed to get the movie picked up. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Desperado

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ DESPERADO TARANTINO'S CAMEO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE STEVE BUSCEMI. Rodriguez gave Tarantino the part when he showed interest. Tarantino's other big contribution to the Mariachi Trilogy is the title Once Upon a Time in Mexico (he seems to like once upon a time). CRACKED.COM — Source: 20 Friendly Facts About Quentin Tarantino & Robert Rodriguez Collaborations

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Vincent vs. Marvin

Originally, Vincent Vega wasn't supposed to blow Marvin's brains out right away. In the script, Vega would first shoot him in the throat, then he and Jules would frantically try and figure out what to do (while poor Marvin gurgled in the background). Their solution would be blowing Marvin's brains out. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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A Shaft Prequel?

TARANTINO WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT SHAFT DJANGO UNCHAINED CRACKED.COM Kerry Washington plays Brunhilde von Shaft, who will eventually have a child with Django. Tarantino confirms they're the great-great-great-grandparents of 'Shut your mouth! — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hiding in Tarantino Films

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino can't stand cell phones on set. Timothy Olyphant, who worked with Tarantino on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, said the director refused anyone to have their cell phones with them. Apparently, if you're caught with one on set, you're immediately fired. CRACKED.COM — Source: 17 Directors And The Things They Hate

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Ezekiel 25:17

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ FROM DUSK TILL DAWN THE EZEKIEL 25:17 QUOTE FROM PULP FICTION STARTED HERE. Inspired by 1973's Karate Kiba, Tarantino included the reworked biblical passage in an early draft of From Dusk Till Dawn. It was meant to be delivered by Harvey Keitel's Jacob as he faced the vampires. CRACKED.COM — Sources: Screen Rant, Screen Rant

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Four Rooms

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ FOUR ROOMS BRUCE WILLIS APPEARED FOR FREE AS A FAVOR TO TARANTINO. There was the problem, however, that acting for no money broke SAG rules. But the guild agreed not to take any action against Willis if he wasn't credited. CRACKED.COM — Source: IMDb

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Planet Terror

QUENTIN TARANTINO + ROBERT RODRIGUEZ PLANETTERROR THE MOVIE HELPED JOSH BROLIN GET ON NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN. Brolin really wanted to audition for the Coens but couldn't, so Rodriguez and Tarantino shot his audition tape right there and sent it to the brothers -who were impressed with the lighting, of all things. (Oh, and they also did cast Brolin.) CRACKED.COM — Source: Screen Rant

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The Golden Girls

A 25-year old Quentin Tarantino appeared as an Elvis Presley impersonator in one episode of THE GOLDEN GIRLS GRAGKED.COM — Source: 36 Bananas Facts About Fav Celebs

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His Role in Pulp Fiction

writers on screen Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino Tarantino put himself in his own movie and dropped a ton of n-slurs he had written himself. Yeah, Quentin, you're S000 edgy. We get it. CRACKED.COM — Source: Miramax/YouTube

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His Refusal to Watch Netflix

Quentin Tarantino doesn't use Netflix, just old-fashioned TV and tapes. And I can't watch a movie on a laptop. I don't use Netflix at all. I don't have any sort of delivery system, he said, later adding, I still tape movies off of television on video so I can keep my collection going. CRACKED.COM — Source

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True Romance

CRACKED COM Clarence Worley, the main character of one of Quentin Tarantino's first screenwriting credits, TRUE romance is 100% based on Tarantino himself. (Не thought Christian Slater was too good looking to play him.) — Characters Based On Celebs, Really

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His Collection of Board Games

QUENTIN TARANTINO COLLECTS BOARD GAMES The director collects film and TV-related games. John Travolta once said, All wanted to do was spend the evening playing board games of my old movies. CRACKED.COM — News.com.au

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Spitting in Uma Thurman’s Face

That's Tarantino spitting in Uma Thurman's face in Kill Bill. Michael Madsen's character is spitting, but Tarantino wanted to do it himself. I love Michael, he's a terrific actor, but I didn't trust him with this kind of intricate work, of nailing this. So the idea is, I'm doing it, I'm taking responsibility. Also, I'm the director, so I can kind of art direct this spit. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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It’s Pat

In the mid-90s, Quentin Tarantino rewrote what turned out to be one of SNL's worst movies. Hers His It's Pat was a comedy based on an SNL sketch about a character whose gender was uncertain - and they got Tarantino, of all people, to rewrite the script. CRACKED.COM — Source: IndieWire

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Writing Reservoir Dogs

The Reservoir Dogs characters started speaking to Quentin Tarantino when he was writing the Pulp Fiction script. He'd holed himself up in his mother's — Source: Vanity Fair

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Ownership of His Movies

Quentin Tarantino owns the copyright on his films. According to his contract, the studios gradually cede ownership to Tarantino over time, which, amon

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The Hateful 8

CRACKEDCO THE HATEFUL 8 Quentin Tarantino asked Kurt Russell to base his 0-nonsense lawman character, John Ruth, on John Wayne Russell even got the ch

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Django’s Look

CRACKEDOON DJANGO UNRAIINE D Director Quentin Tarantino was adamant that Django's main costume look as close as possible to Michael Landon's Little J

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Violence Is Fun

CRACKEDCON WHILE BEING GRILLED OVER THE VIOLENT CONTENT OF HIS FIIMS IN AN INTERVIEW, QUENTIN TARANTNO WAS ASKED WHY THE NEED FOR SO MUCH GRUESOME, G

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Choking Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger let Quentin Tarantino choke her until she passed out, in Inglourious Basterds. E In the scene, Christoph Waltz's character discovers Krug

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