Quentin Tarantino

Visual Style and Techniques

Trunk & Hood POV shot

Tarantino has used this in almost all of his movies that he has directed this shot involves a POV shot  of someone in the boot of the car as it is being opened.

The corpse p.o.v

A shot where it is from the P.O.V of a dead body with people looking at it

Reservoir dogs 

Jackie Brown 

Kill Bill Vol1/2

The 360 Shot

A shot inspired by Brian Depalma used to shown togetherness  and these are seen in Reservoir Dogs in the opening Diner scene and in Jackie brown during the mall scene.

The Use of black and white .

Black and White is used in some of Tarantino's movies because of how he liked the look of early cinema up to the way it was used in the French new wave era.

Recurring Theme's

The mirror conversation

A lot of Tarantino characters have small monologues in front of a mirror in which they generally reflect what has happened to them.  Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown

Dancing scene's are common in Tarantino movies and they are often light hearted and for fun but are not always the case. Reservoir dogs, Jackie Brown, Pulp fiction. 

Torture Scene's 

Has used a lot of torture scenes in his movies and these parts are to really get under the audiences skin they are very graphic and show characters in very uncomfortable scenes. 

Reservoir Dogs Ear scene

Jackie Brown

Pulp Fiction

Car Scene's

In Reservoir dogs you have many conversations of people in a car. Pulp fiction, Jackie Brown Kill Bill. And a scene of Sin City which he directed. 

Mexican Standoff 

In the Reservoir dogs ending scene

True romance, the cops vs the mafia 

Pulp fiction the ending diner scene 

Recurring Actors and Crew

There have been a lot of actors who have appeared in several of Tarrantino's work.

Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Samuel Jackosn, Uma Thurman, Michael Madsen, Christoph Waltz, Chris Penn, Steve Bucsemi, Christopher Walken and Brad Pitt. Crew that worked on Reservoir dogs also worked on Pulp fiction. Lawrence Bender produced most of tarantino's movies. 

He's had a significant body of work including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp fiction, Jackie Brown, True Romance. Directed 7 movies.