Quentin Tarantino: The Complete Syllabus of His Influences and References - Slate Magazine (blog)
Following the one-two punch of 1992’s Reservoir Dogs and 1994’s Pulp Fiction , Hollywood was (and arguably still is) flooded with style-aping films that could be referred to as Tarantino-esque. The weird thing about Tarantino’s influence, though, is that it is derived from his own pop-cultural cherry-picking: Every film he’s directed or written has been loaded with countless homages, lifts, and references to books, movies, TV shows, and... When these references and influences are considered as a whole, it’s easy to see the connections that exist between stylistically opposite corners of Tarantino’s filmography. In a 1994 Los Angeles Times profile that ran shortly before the release of Pulp Fiction , Tarantino professed an artistic impulse to “steal from every movie I see,” and although the discussion regarding what “stealing” is in relation to his... We’ve put together a comprehensive-as-possible encyclopedia, organized chronologically by film and alphabetically within each (and lumping together both volumes of Kill Bill ), of every homage and direct reference to pop culture that Tarantino’s... Source: www.slate.com
