The Tarantinesco Plan: Stylistic Strategies from the Independent cinema to the Blockbuster Film
Film style; Hollywood; Quentin Tarantino.
This research aims to investigate the film style of director Quentin Tarantino in order to assign him an authorial style outside the dominant patterns. We did so primarily through his independent films (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown), identifying several of the director's stylistic characteristics in how he deals with aspects of filmic time and space. Then we go to big budget films made in Hollywood (Kill Bill, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood), to show how the director continues to use his own style and does not reproduce the dominant style of Hollywood. For this, we started from the research methodology of the Poetics of Cinema (BORDWELL, 2008) and articulated concepts regarding the form and style of film (BORDWELL, 2006, 2013; BURCH, 1973; AUMONT, 2003; MERCADO, 2011) to understand how Tarantino build your films and compare them to the dominant standards regarding style.