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28 Blood-Spattered Facts About Quentin Tarantino Movies

September 22, 2023

Don’t you hate it when you’re sitting in a car with your co-worker, passing the time before your next big assassination? Here are some fun facts about the films of Quentin Tarantino that’ll make you look like the real Big Kahuna before you go off and, you know, walk the path of righteousness or whatever…

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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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Mr. Blue in Reservoir Dogs was played by an actual felon. The actor, Edward Bunker, went to prison for robbing banks, forging checks, assault ...etc. He also wrote novels and screenplays, and eventually became an actor. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Actress Linda Kaye was a HARD LUCK WOMAN PULP FICTION RESERVOIR DOGS CRACKED That innocent woman who got carjacked by Mr. Pink? She's the same unfortunate bystander who gets shot by Marsellus Wallace. Some people are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx kinda trolled Christoph Waltz on the set of Django Unchained. Waltz broke his pelvis by falling off a horse on the set, so Foxx gave him a saddle with a seat belt. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Better drag. More flavor. Less throat burn. RED APPLE ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD Red Apple REGULAR CRACKED.COM Red Apple cigarettes have appeared in nearly every Tarantino film. Since the fictional company has been around since 1862, Bounty Hunter Jake Cahill can roll his own. Take a bite and feel all right. Take a bite of Red Apple. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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The Japanese girl band made it into kill Bill because of a random encounter Tarantino had. He heard the 5.6.7.8's in a second-hand shop in Tokyo and asked to buy their album, but they told him no, because that was the owner's album. He insisted, because he was on his way to the airport -- and he got it. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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The Tarantinoverse found its way to THE MCU CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER LOL. NICHOLAS J FURY The PATH OF the RIGHTEOUS MANA EZERIEL 25:17 19 201 CRACKED.COM When Nick Fury died, directors Joe and Anthony Russo needed to enscribe his tombstone with an epitaph. They decided on Ezekiel 25:17, the path of the righteous man verse Samuel L. Jackson recited in Pulp Fiction. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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Tarantino typed Django Unchained with one finger. He first wrote it out in longhand, then typed it up, using one finger, on the same old typewriter / word processor he'd used to write Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Is Mr. Pink masquerading as BUDDY HOLLY? PULP FICTION SHIT CRACKED.COM While it's unclear which movie is set earlier in time - Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs -- some fans speculate that Steve Buscemi's Mr. Pink is hiding behind those Buddy Holly hornrims. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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At one point, Will Smith was the top choice to play Django in Django Unchained. He ended up passing because he thought it should be a movie about love, not vengeance, and that just didn't work for Tarantino. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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OH BROTHER where art thou? PULP FICTION RESERVOIR DOGS CRACKED.COM We never see Vic and Vince Vega in the same movie, but they're criminal siblings all the same. Tarantino had a prequel in the works with the brothers opening a club in Amsterdam, but unfortunately it never came to be. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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The Reservoir Dogs car showed up again in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Rick Dalton's '66 Cadillac was also Mr. Blonde's car. Michael Madsen (who played Mr. Blonde) had kept it in storage all those years. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Count Chocula's forgotten cousin was FRUIT BRUTE PULP FICTION CRACKED Count Chocula and FrankenBerry are the popular monster cereals, but in Tarantinoverse, it's all about the Fruit Brute. The fruit-flavored cereal with marshmallow bits made cameos in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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Eli Roth got into character for Inglorious Basterds with the help of Hannah Montana. He thought about his relatives being killed in the Holocaust while listening to a Hannah Montana song, and that put him in the crazy, murderous mindset he needed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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There's something familiar about FOX FORCE FIVE PULP FICTION CRACKED.co Mia Wallace explains the premise of her failed TV pilot: Five foxy, forceful secret agents take on the world, each an expert in various kinds of violence. Which sounds an awful lot like the Bride's enemies in the Kill Bill movies. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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Simon Pegg was originally supposed to play Lt. Hicox in inglorious Basterds. They only got Michael Fassbender once Pegg dropped out due to scheduling problems. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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TARANTINO WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT SHAFT DJANGO UNCHAINED CRACKED 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 Hidden in Tarantino Films

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Tom Waits auditioned for one of the gangster roles in Reservoir Dogs. Tarantino had him come in and read the Madonna speech, just so he could hear Tom Waits say all that. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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BIG KAHUNA BURGER got some tasty burgers PULP FICTION CRACKED.COM Those Hawaiian burgers are so damn tasty, in fact, that they show up in six films by Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez: Reservoir Dogs, Death Proof, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, From Dusk till Dawn, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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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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Kill Bill

The Bride's fightin' clothes are a tribute to BRUCE LEE KILL BILL GRACKED.COM The Bride's yellow jumpsuit is a salute to Bruce Lee's outfit in Game of Death. Another nod to Bruce in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood wasn't as well received by fans. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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Tarantino insisted he had to be the one strangling Diane Kruger in Inglourious Basterds. If it's just a guy with his hands on your neck, not putting any kind of pressure... you're not going to get the blood vessels bulging, or the eyes filling it with tears, he said, and requested to commit to choking you. She agreed. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Django, meet DJANGO DJANGO UNCHAINED CRACKED.COM Foxx's Django explains how to pronouce Django to an Italian gangster. That gangster is played by Franco Nero, the star of 1968's Django. That's some Inception-style, Django- within-a-Django meta-scene. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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There's no official answer to what's in the Pulp Fiction briefcase. It was originally supposed to be diamonds, but they decided against that because it felt too hokey and unoriginal. So they left it a mystery. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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Q's fave kung fu flick is THE FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH KILL BILL CRACKED.COM So it's no surprise that the Bride's finishing move was called the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart. Kill Bill's Vengeance Theme was also featured in Five Fingers. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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Beatrix and Elle's fight in Kill Bill owes a debt to Jackass. jackass the movia The first Jackass movie played an influence on the gross parts of that fight, Tarantino said. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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BIG TROUBLE was just hanging around DEATH PROOF these only SHI B'E CRACKEDo COM Kurt Russell's Stuntman Mike liked to eat at the Texas Chili Parlor, a joint with a lot of retro memorobilia hanging on the wall. One tasty item was Jack Burton's iconic vest from Russell's Big Trouble in Little China. — Source: 13 Royale Easter Eggs With Cheese Hidden in Tarantino Films

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The Pulp Fiction car got stolen in 1994 (and recovered almost 20 years later). It was Tarantino's owned car, and it was recovered kind of by accident-- in 2013, cops saw two guys stripping down a Chevrolet Malibu, and it turned out the Malibu was stolen ... from Quentin Tarantino. CRACKED.COM — Source: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Facts About Tarantino Movies

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