Quentin Tarantino - Auteur

Quentin Tarantino - Auteur

Does Quentin Tarantino's dependence on other films for creative inspiration make him a cinematic con artist or a media-stimulated filmmaker?

• Arguments have been made concerning Tarantino discussing how he "steals" ideas from his favourite movies and how they are structured cinematically.

• "Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Basterds have something that Tarantino's other "films" don't--original cinematography."

• Tarantino is incorrectly quoted frequently. In an article on a film forum I found (here) the writer says the director "lightly calls" his stealing technique "paying homage," whereas a direct quote from Tarantino himself tells us he embraces this adopting of cinematic techniques. 
• “I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it – if my work has anything it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together."

• He talks about taking inspiration from these films but also talks upfront about how he steals from movies.

• Fans of Tarantino call this homage to his favourite films "an appreciation for cinema's history.

• Quentin Tarantino's influence can be seen in the most blindly obvious ways. His film Django Unchained is clear evidence of the postmodern theory of recycling media. The director based his ideas massively off the 1966 film Django, an Italian spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Corbucci.

• The postmodern theory can be argued as a positive or negative thing. In this case it depends on the audience's view on the director. Critics say this is a negative thing as he simply steals ideas from other films and therefore doesn't come up with his own, original ideas. People seem to like this originality but also manage to develop a hate for the successful career Tarantino has taken on due to this "plagiarism.