Film role: Director - Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino - Director role

A film director is a role in the creation of a film where the director has absolute authority over everyone working in the film and essentially lets them know how and what they should be doing for the creative aspect of the film production. Commonly referred to as the “boss” of the film production, the jobs for the control over the team overlap with the producer of a film in most circumstances. What’s different to note is that the producer is the one who has the authority to manage the finance and budget of the film to managing the logistics and hiring staff; ultimately all the assets and funds needed for the film are managed by the producer. However the film director may take on some of the responsibilities that the producer would have to undertake. The director of the film is the one who is responsible for the creative aspects for the films production. Aspects of the film production are: overseeing the cinematography that is in control by the camera operator, coaching the actors and directing them on the scene within the film, supervising the staff and telling them what to do on set, directing the shooting timetable, overseeing the technical aspects and interpreting the script to try and visualize it on set with the objective to recreate the narrative in reality.

Quentin Tarantino began his career in the film industry working as an independent film maker. His first independent films were an immense success with films as Reservoir Dogs, released in 1992 along with the famous film Pulp Fiction which was also released in the same decade, 1994, just two years after the release of his first successful film.  Both of these films were regarded as classics and were a cult hit at the time in Hollywood. Right after his first film was released (Reservoir Dogs), Tarantino immediately became a legend in the film industry due to how well the film had gathered critical acclaim and financially successful.

Tarantino’s films typically incorporate many characteristics in his work which are distinguishable from just watching the film without even knowing who directed it. This is Tarantino’s style, one can normally deduct who directed the film just from the characteristics alone. Tarantino’s films are characterized by satire, non-linear narrative structures, elements of neo-noir genres (Kill Bill 1 and 2) and a particular love for violence as to quote from the director himself “Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.”

However although Tarantino is a director, as stated some of his films he doesn’t direct but then the majority he is the director for and writes the films, while even fulfilling the role as an actor in a few films he’s worked on such as Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. 

Directors may also write up scripts for a film without the need for a writer in the production process, as the director can fulfil many roles single headedly.  Tarantino has demonstrated this as with the works of Pulp Fiction while working as an independent film maker. During the pre-production of the film, Tarantino in his thirties had written the script for pulp fiction in a “dozen school notebooks”, provided the script to the producer, Lawrence Bender, the notebook had also included at least nine thousand grammatical errors which would have had needed to been corrected by the typist of the film, Linda Chen. This is an example of how rigorous the script writing was and devoted Tarantino is to his role as a director and writer.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino_filmography

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