How Quentin Tarantino Has Influenced Cinema (Part 3)
“Pulp Fiction is the seminal movie of the 90s,” said Rich Freeman, literary agent at Code Entertainment, which financed and produced The Ice Road (Netflix) with Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne. Quentin Tarantino broke new ground in terms of what is possible in storytelling and for me, it’s the best one of the best written […]
How Quentin Tarantino Has Influenced Cinema (Part 2)
Mark Mori continued, “Tarantino is looking for justice in an unjust world in his work. These films can provide a kind of cathartic emotional satisfaction for the audience, a kind of settling of scores, so to speak. The revenge theme is consistent with Tarantino as what I’d call a ‘blue collar filmmaker.’ He was raised […]
How Quentin Tarantino Has Influenced Cinema (Part 1)
In the mid-1980s, a video rental store in Manhattan Beach, California blended in with the traffic on North Sepulveda Blvd. It was called Video Archives, owned by film fanatics Lance Lawson and Rick Humbert. VHS and Betamax tapes lined the shelves, the aisles stacked with Westerns like Shane and The Searchers, classics from the Golden […]
The Rarity of Rug-Pulls in the Modern Era of Entertainment
Pulling the rug out from under an audience is tricky work these days. We’ve all seen so many hours of entertainment, even the casual viewer has become well-versed in narrative structure, the tropes of Hollywood storytelling, and genre clichés. For a screenwriter, trying to write a screenplay that will surprise an often jaded audience becomes […]
Producers At Comic-Con State Their Intention Not To Stray Too Far Into The Unknown
At Comic-Con in San Diego two weeks ago, the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) mapped out all of the projects in their “Phase 4” for the next few years. What was surprising was how much of what they’ve got planned is for the small screen. As part of what they’re calling Disney+ series, a host of […]
