英语名人堂：昆汀·塔伦蒂诺

昆汀·塔伦蒂诺(Quentin Tarantino)，1963年3月27日生于美国田纳西州的挪克斯维尔，美国后现代主义导演、编剧、演员、制作人[1] 。

1987年，拍摄个人首部喜剧短剧《我最好朋友的生日》。1991年，凭出售《致命浪漫》剧本所得的5万美元，决定开始拍摄自己的第三个剧本《落水狗》。[2] 1994年凭借执导拍摄犯罪剧情电影《低俗小说》获得戛纳影展金棕榈奖，1995年获奥斯卡最佳原著剧本奖，奠定了他的好莱坞地位[3] 。1997年，拍摄惊悚电影《危险关系》。2003年，连续推出《杀死比尔1》和《杀死比尔2 》，再掀昆式暴力美学高潮。2009年拍摄了布拉德·皮特领衔主演的电影《无耻混蛋》。2013年凭借电影《被解救的姜戈》获第85届奥斯卡奖最佳原创剧本奖[4] 。

Quentin Tarantino is an award-winning American film director, screenwriter and actor. He is known for his stylish and violent movies. He rose to fame in the early 1990s for his unique directing method that relied heavily on dialogue. His screenplays are usually full of unforgettable lines and scenes. He has become a cult director around the world while achieving superstar status.

Tarantino was born in Tennessee in 1963. He dropped out of high school when he was 15 to learnacting. He got a job in a video rental store and spent all day watching and analyzing films. He had long discussions about them with customers. For Tarantino, this proved to be an education in directing that he would bring to his own moviemaking.

Tarantino met a movie producer at a Hollywood party who encouraged him to write a screenplay. In January 1992 ‘Reservoir Dogs’ came out and Tarantino instantly became a cult legend. He then wrote the screenplays for the box-office hits ‘True Romance’ and ‘Natural Born Killers’. In 1994, Tarantino made his classic ‘Pulp Fiction’ and won the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

Tarantino made a few more films before writing and directing the ‘Kill Bill’ movies. These films combined the movie styles of Chinese martial arts, Japanese drama, spaghetti westerns and Italian horror. They confirmed him as one of Hollywood’s elite directors. Tarantino once said: "When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.’”