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Quentin Tarantino

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia II - Quentin Tarantino - Career history

While employed as a video store clerk, Tarantino penned the script for "From Dusk Till Dawn." He sold the script to a movie make-up company for $1,500.00 and the promise to do the make-up on a future film that would turn out to be "Reservoir Dogs." His first major break came with the sale of another script called True Romance, written with Roger Avary. It was made into a film starring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater. He also wrote the original screenplay for Natural Born Killers as part of the longer screenplay that T ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia II - Quentin Tarantino - Career history

His big break came with the sale of his script True Romance, written with Roger Avary, which was made into a film starring Patricia Arquette and Christian Slater. He also wrote the original screenplay for Natural Born Killers, as part of the longer screenplay that True Romance came from, although it was changed significantly by subsequent writers, and he does not have a screenwriting credit on that film. The sale of True Romance (eventually released in 1993) garnered him attention. He met Lawrence Bender at ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Number of the Beast

The Number of the Beast is mentioned in the Book of Revelation of the Christian New Testament and has long been accepted to be 666. In some interpretations of Christian eschatology the "Beast" is believed to refer to an Antichrist. The number 666 has many mathematical properties, some more interesting than others. Number of the Beast - References from the book of Revelation. Mark of the Beast Revelation 13:17 states: "... no one may buy or sell exc ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - 1990s

The 1990s decade refers to the years from 1990 to 1999, inclusive, the last decade of the 20th Century. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The 90s were marked with rapid progression of democracy, globalization and global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Key forces shaping the decade were the Gulf War; popularization of Personal Computers and the Internet, leading to the .com boom. ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Bondage BDSM

In the context of BDSM, bondage involves people being tied up or otherwise restrained for pleasure. Bondage is usually, but not always, a sexual practice. The paraphilia of being sexually aroused by bondage is sometimes known as vincilagnia. Studies in the U.S. have shown that about a half of all men find the idea of bondage to be erotic; many women do as well. As with any study of sexual thoughts and behavior, the available studies are not well controlled and the best studies are now out of date. Bondage B ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Bruce Lee

Bruce Junfan Lee (November 27, 1940 — July 20, 1973) was a Chinese American martial artist and martial arts actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential martial artists of the 20th century. Lee's movies, especially his performance in the Hollywood-produced Enter the Dragon, elevated the traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a new level of popularity, paving the way for future martial artists and martial arts actors such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, and Chuck Norris. Bruce Lee sparked the first major surge of in ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation”. It is a film genre which emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban African American audience. The films featured primarily black actors, and were the first to have soundtracks of funk and soul music. Although criticized by civil-rights groups for their use of stereotypes, they addressed the great and newfound demand for afrocentric entertainme ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Bill

A bill can be one of: Banknote, ie. paper currency, in US usage Bill (proposed law), proposed laws put before a legislature Beak, of a bird Bill (weapon), similar to a halberd Bill (payment), document requesting payment for goods and services rendered Peninsula of land jutting out into the sea, such as Portland Bill Bill of lading, issued by a carrier receiving goods for transport Waybill, describing a shipment Billboard (advertising) Billhook, a long-handled saw with a curved blade Pokèmoncard which enables the pl ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Casino Royale 2006 film

Casino Royale, previously known by its working title Bond 21, will be the 21st James Bond film produced by EON Productions. Based on the 1953 novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, it will be the first Bond film to take its title from an Ian Fleming novel or short story since 1987's The Living Daylights and the first to be directly based on any of Fleming's writing's since 1989's Licence to Kill. Currently the film is in pre-production, and is set for release on November 17, 2006. Included in the ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Uma Thurman

Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American model and Academy Award nominated film actor. Thurman began modeling professionally in the late 1980s before moving to acting in 1988, and is best known for her films released in the 1990s and 2000s, specifically those with director Quentin Tarantino. Uma Thurman - Early life and education. Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her half-Swedish, half-German mother Nena von Schlebrugg (b. 8 January 1941) was briefly married to Timothy Leary after t ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as black humor, is a subgenre of comedy and satire where topics and events normally treated seriously – death, mass murder, sickness, madness, terror, drug abuse, rape, etc. – are treated in a humorous or satirical manner. Synonyms created to avoid possible racial overtones include dark comedy/humor, morbid comedy/humor and off-color humor (see also color metaphors for race.) A scene in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot demonstrates black comedy well: a man takes of ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Vanilla Coke

Vanilla Coke is a beverage made by adding vanilla flavoring to Coca-Cola. It was available as early as the 1950s at many soda fountains and restaurants, which added the flavoring themselves. The Coca-Cola Company first tested a Coca-Cola blend with extra vanilla flavoring at the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company began mass-producing Vanilla Coke (also known as Coca-Cola Vanilla) for the United States market on May 15, 2002, as part of competition plans against arch-rival Pepsi and other soft drink producers ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Cottonmouth

The Cottonmouth, or water moccasin (Agkistrodon piscivorous), is a venomous snake closely related to the copperhead. It is a pit viper, with a heat-sensing organ (heat pits) in its nose that allows it to locate warm blooded prey. Scientists at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory designed tests to measure the suite of behavioral responses by free-ranging cottonmouths to encounters with humans. When confronted, 51 percent of the test subjects tried to escape and 78 percent used threat displays or other defensive tactics. ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Unknown Armies

Unknown Armies (abbreviated UA) is an occult-themed RPG by John Tynes and Greg Stolze and published by Atlas Games. Subtitled "A roleplaying game of power and consequences". The first edition was paperbound and published in 1998 (with the original subtitle of "A roleplaying game of transcendental horror and furious action"), the revised and expanded 2nd edition was published in a hardb ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Cult film

A cult film is a movie that attracts a small but devoted group of fans, usually failing to achieve considerable success outside that group. Cult film - Overview. Most movies considered "cult films" failed to achieve mainstream success upon original theatrical release, often grossing more money in video rentals and sales than in theater tickets. In most cases (but by no means all), the film hardly makes an impression with the general public and critics are often apathetic as well. However, a small, devoted g ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Bernard Herrmann

Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was a composer, best known for his film scores, particularly for those directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the scores for Citizen Kane, Cape Fear and Taxi Driver as well as for the original radio broadcast of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds. He also wrote scores for television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time. Bernard Herrmann - Early Life and Career< ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Copperhead

In biology, a copperhead is any of four species of venomous snake: the American copperhead of eastern North America, and three species of Australian copperhead. Other uses of the term copperhead: "Copperheads" was a slur describing a group of Northern Peace Democrats who opposed the American Civil War while it was under way, wanting an immediate peace settlement. They were also against emancipation, and some formed groups to persuade Union soldiers to desert, and to help Confedera

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Christopher Walken

Ronald Walken (born March 31, 1943), known professionally as Christopher Walken, is an American film, television, and theatre actor best known for playing menacing or psychologically damaged characters, but has occasionally used that image for comedic effect. He was born in Queens, New York to a German father and Scottish-born mother. Walken has been married to casting director Georgianne Walken since 1969. Christopher Walken - Career. Walken initially trained as a dancer in musical theatre before mo ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Cinema of the United States

Architecture Cinema Comic books Cuisine Dance Literature Music Poetry Sculpture Television Theater Visual arts The cinema of the United States, although it is sometimes simply referred to as Hollywood does not refer only to the film industry of the United States of America. Other modes of production like documentary film or exper ...

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Quentin Tarantino: Encyclopedia - Battle Royale

Battle Royale is a novel written by Japanese author Koushun Takami. It was first published in Japan in April 1999, and it is one of Japan's best-selling - and most controversial - novels. It later formed the basis for a popular movie (which spawned a sequel), and has been adapted as a manga series (released in 15 issues, currently being adapted into English by TOKYOPOP). An English translation of the novel was published by Viz in 2004. Battle Royale - Plot overview. Battle Royale takes ...

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