Watch A Supercut Of All Of Quentin Tarantino’s Visual References To Film History
Quentin Tarantino has been a living legend ever since his first film Reservoir Dogs premiered at Sundance Film Festival back in 1992 and became an instant classic. He's revered for his non-linear storytelling style of cinema in which he weaves in and out of satire and violent subject matter often (read: always) displayed visually and graphically. Tarantino self-proclaims as a "cinephile," meaning he's obsessed with cinema. Because of that fact, he often pays homage to film in his films.
Audiences and critics often say that Tarantino is simply lazy and ripping-off other filmmakers, but his recreations are more than just that. As a self-proclaimed "cinephile" he is literally showing his affection for his life's passion, yet weaving it beautifully into his own craft.
Jacob T. Sweeney for IndieWire says that these recreations are simply "love letters" to the films he's loved throughout his life. And, he's seen them all. Everything from German silent-cinema, to kung-fu movies, to American Westerns and B-movies, Tarantino has seen it and potentially pay homage to it.
In all, these are the films that Tarantino has paid homage to past cinema:
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
• Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
• Death Proof (2007)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009)
• Django Unchained (2012)
• City on Fire (1987)
• Django (1966)
• Band of Outsiders (1964)
• 8 1/2 (1963)
• The Warriors (1979)
• Psycho (1960)
• Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
• The Flintstones (1960-66)
• Superchick (1973)
• The Graduate (1967)
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell (1968)
• Lady Snowblood (1973)
• City of the Living Dead (1980)
• Black Sunday (1977)
• Game of Death (1978)
• Miller's Crossing (1990)
• Death Rides a Horse (1966)
• Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
• Samurai Fiction (1998)
• Blade Runner (1982)
• The Searchers (1956)
• Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
• Five Fingers of Death (1972)
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
• Convoy (1978)
• The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (1970)
• Unforgiven (1992)
The Searchers (1956)
• Metropolis (1927)
• Django (1966)
• Gone With the Wind (1939)
• The Great Silence (1968)
• A Professional Gun (1968)