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-== HONOR
ROLL: QUENTIN TARANTINO ==-
Michael Rubiner l
Quentin Tarantino
He is now the worst-kept secret in the movie business. What
started as a buzz with 1992's Reservoir Dogs has become a sonic
boom with his masterful gangster romp, Pulp Fiction. By combining
graphic violence, rock & roll and reheated pop-culture leftovers,
the lanky 31-year-old filmmaker has devised what may be the perfect
aesthetic for the '90's. It equates sex with danger.
Its blood- spattered humor can rattle even the most jaded audiences.
And its look-back-in-irony appropriation of B movies is the perfect
insider's joke for the VCR age. Even Quentin Tarantino's casting
is audacious - who else could have made John Travolta a heartthrob
again? From his impeccably hip soundtracks to his virtuoso
riffs on Madonna and foot massage, Tarantino makes films that are
every bit as smart as they are cool.
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