{"product_id":"quentin-tarantino-interviews-revised-and-updated-9781617038754","title":"Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, Revised and Updated","description":"Here, in his own colorful, slangy words, is the true American Dream saga of a self-proclaimed \"film geek,\" with five intense years working in a video store, who became one of the most popular, recognizable, and imitated of all filmmakers. His dazzling, movie-informed work makes Quentin Tarantino's reputation, from his breakout film, \u003ci\u003eReservoir Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e (1992), through \u003ci\u003eKill Bill: Vol. 1\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) and \u003ci\u003eKill Bill: Vol. 2\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), his enchanted homages to Asian action cinema, to his rousing tribute to guys-on-a-mission World War II movie, \u003ci\u003eInglourious Basterds\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). For those who prefer a more mature, contemplative cinema, Tarantino provided the tender, very touching \u003ci\u003eJackie Brown\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). A masterpiece--\u003ci\u003ePulp Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e (1994). A delightful mash of unabashed exploitation and felt social consciousness--his latest opus, \u003ci\u003eDjango Unchained\u003c\/i\u003e (2012). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the beginning, Tarantino (b. 1963)--affable, open, and enthusiastic about sharing his adoration of movies--has been a journalist's dream. \u003ci\u003eQuentin Tarantino: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e, revised and updated with twelve new interviews, is a joy to read cover to cover because its subject has so much interesting and provocative to say about his own movies and about cinema in general, and also about his unusual life. He is frank and revealing about growing up in Los Angeles with a single, half-Cherokee mother, and dropping out of ninth grade to take acting classes. Lost and confused, he still managed a gutsy ambition: young Quentin decided he would be a filmmaker. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTarantino has conceded that Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), the homicidal African American con man in \u003ci\u003eJackie Brown\u003c\/i\u003e, is an autobiographical portrait. \"If I hadn't wanted to make movies, I would have ended up as Ordell,\" Tarantino has explained. \"I wouldn't have been a postman or worked at the phone company. . . . I would have gone to jail.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Peary \u003c\/b\u003eis professor emeritus of film studies at Suffolk University, Boston, film critic for \u003ci\u003eArts Fuse, \u003c\/i\u003eand editor of \u003ci\u003eQuentin Tarantino: Interviews, John Ford: Interviews, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSamuel Fuller: Interviews\u003c\/i\u003e, all published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50856070480146,"sku":"9781617038754","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6f5000d8-b4c0-41f1-b765-c9e60feecd4c.jpg?v=1737494689","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/quentin-tarantino-interviews-revised-and-updated-9781617038754","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}