Experimental Film
Film form Meaning and response Context Narrative Auteur Tarantino as an Auteur: - Gratuitous and comic like violence - Pop culture and intertextuality - Soundtracks over scores - Self-referential - Recurring actors - Cameos - Verbose dialogue, non expositional, non literal, colloquial - Film - Post Modern - looks nice, not much beneath the surface - Swearing - racist terminology - trunk shot - atypical/contrapuntal music - master of self promotion Influenced by martial arts films of the 60's and 70's and westerns, (drunken master, quick zooms) As well as intertextuality (e.g. through the filmic aesthetic), Tarantino also peppers his films with pop references bia extended dialogue sequences. These often have no relevance to the narrative, representing a break from traditional Hollywood expositional or literary dialogue. The Reservoir Dogs 'Like a Virgin' sequences is an often cit...
