英語名人堂：昆汀·塔倫蒂諾

昆汀·塔倫蒂諾(Quentin Tarantino)，1963年3月27日生于美國田納西州的挪克斯維爾，美國后現(xiàn)代主義導(dǎo)演、編劇、演員、制作人[1] 。

1987年，拍攝個人首部喜劇短劇《我最好朋友的生日》。1991年，憑出售《致命浪漫》劇本所得的5萬美元，決定開始拍攝自己的第三個劇本《落水狗》。[2] 1994年憑借執(zhí)導(dǎo)拍攝犯罪劇情電影《低俗小說》獲得戛納影展金棕櫚獎，1995年獲奧斯卡最佳原著劇本獎，奠定了他的好萊塢地位[3] 。1997年，拍攝驚悚電影《危險關(guān)系》。2003年，連續(xù)推出《殺死比爾1》和《殺死比爾2 》，再掀昆式暴力美學(xué)高潮。2009年拍攝了布拉德·皮特領(lǐng)銜主演的電影《無恥混蛋》。2013年憑借電影《被解救的姜戈》獲第85屆奧斯卡獎最佳原創(chuàng)劇本獎[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.’”