A Research On Cinematography Style Of Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is a brilliant director in1990s, who is a symbolic person leadAmerican independent film, became a legend. There is a strong personal style in hisworks, and he had possessed a high research on both commercial film and art film.Quentin’s works are not too much but chased by a large number of film fans, also thereare many film critics given out high evaluation upon them. Quentin, a simple youngman who was not graduated in Film College, be good at nonlinear narrative leadAmerican independent film to a new high level, and be copied by a lot of film workers.In47thCannes Film Festival the low-budget film 《pulp fiction》had defeated 《BurntBy The Sun》,《Red》and 《Lifetimes》, then won the Golden PalmBased on a clear exploration of Quentin Tarantino’s life experience, withcombining the understanding of the development of American independent film, thisessay is aiming at explaining the creative inspiration of Quentin Tarantino’s film works.By specifically emphasizing on Quentin Tarantino’s childhood family background,personality, and the era background of his times, this essay is also trying to find out themotivations and influential elements towards Quentin Tarantino’s film creation.Quentin Tarantino’s career stage is developing with the American independent filmwhich has a totally different film production system from the famous Hollywood majorstudios. This sort of particular film production system matches with the requests of theindependent filmmakers, such as Quentin Tarantino. It seems obviously that thecreative style and themes of Quentin Tarantino’s work is similar with the essence ofAmerican independent film. That is to say, Quentin Tarantino, himself, iscomplementary to American independent film, vice versa.In order to better understand the unique artistic features of Quentin Tarantino’swork, this essay especially studies the long dialogues in his film with a great explorationof the line styles. According to the analyzing of the content of the lines, it has beenproved that the lines are a reflection of Quentin Tarantino’s personal values.Moreover, the lines fully embody the story-telling capability of Quentin Tarantino whowas a screenwriter. With the help of the movies’ themes, it is to say that the content ofthe lines is a pivotal component of Quentin Tarantino’s black humor and an importantartistic feature in Quentin Tarantino’s works.What’s more, the dealing with the violence in Quentin Tarantino’s works is a good representative of the “violence aesthetics”. With the study of the audiences’psychological aesthetics mechanism and psychological receiving level, this essay isintended to find out the connections between the violence on the screen and theaudiences’ acceptance level. Violence plays a subtle role in the audiences’ subconscious.Thus, some deconstructed violence on the screen meets their needs. Quentin Tarantinosmartly uses this sort of connections between violence and the audiences to providethem an alternative satisfaction of violence in his films. That is to say, the main reasonthat Quentin Tarantino’s films are liked by the audiences lies on the entertaining andgaming violence catering to their needs.