Quentin Tarantino: The Movie Geek Who Rewrote Cinema

di Lawrence James (Autore)

James Lawrence, 2025

Quentin Tarantino did not enter Hollywood so much as he detonated inside it. A high-school dropout and video-store clerk with an encyclopedic memory and a bottomless love for film, he transformed pure obsession into one of the most distinctive voices modern cinema has ever seen. Quentin Tarantino: The Movie Geek Who Rewrote Cinema is the first narrative biography that truly captures the strange blend of genius, geekdom, ambition, and audacity that made him a global cultural force. From a chaotic childhood in Tennessee and California to marathon nights working the counter at Video Archives, this book traces how Tarantino educated himself by devouring three to five movies a day—absorbing structure, rhythm, tone, and genre the way a musician absorbs scales. His ascent begins not with privilege or connections, but with pages, written in longhand, driven by a mind bursting with dialogue. When Reservoir Dogs erupted at Sundance, it announced a new kind of director—one who mixed crime and opera, pulp and philosophy. Pulp Fiction did more: it rewired cinema itself, inventing a nonlinear grammar that influenced an entire generation. Yet the fame that followed triggered controversy, backlash, and fierce debate over violence, race, originality, and the ethics of artistic sampling. This biography treats those debates seriously, showing Tarantino not just as a provocateur but as a theorist of film through film. Across chapters on Jackie Brown, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the book explores Tarantino's evolving worldview: nostalgia as philosophy, revenge as myth, history as emotional truth, and cinema as a universal language. In his later years, Tarantino becomes something unexpected—a critic, historian, and self-made philosopher of the medium he worships. His claim that he will stop at ten films reveals a man obsessed not with fame but with legacy, with ending on his own terms, and with preserving the purity of his lifelong religion: movies. For readers of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Rebel Without a Crew, The Big Picture, and serious film biography, this is a portrait of the last great video-store auteur—an outsider who reshaped Hollywood using nothing but passion, memory, and a voice instantly recognizable on the page. He didn't just make movies. He made movies about movies—and somehow made the whole world care.

• Autore: Lawrence James
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: James Lawrence
• Formato: EPUB3 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798231532155