Referencing Tarantino

In lieu of the recent release of the heavily borrowed Kill Bill, let's put things on the table, get 'em out in the open, and list some of those subtle references made in the films of Quentin Tarantino.

I'll start us off:

Reservoir Dogs was pretty damned similar to Kubrick's The Killing. It surprised me that Tarantino was so thoroughly lauded for a unique narrative structure because of it.

From Dusk til Dawn's beginning was as good as anything he's done, and contains the best line from the film, a line filched from The Wild Bunch. Because "What's in Mexico?" Well, "Mexicans.

The infamous drug resuscitation scene in Pulp Fiction is, as I'm sure most of us now know, word for word from Scorsese's American Boy.

We need more, and the name of his production company doesn't count.

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Reservoir Dogs (1992) - Rashômon (1950), City on Fire (1987)

I don't wanna do it, but I'll turn this ****in' store into the Wild Bunch if I even think you're ****in' with me.

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"If you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.."

Paraphrased from the great Muhammed Ali.

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TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC - Monkey Punch i love your avatar! Thats sid and olly or whatever their name is on MTV right? We dont get them on MTV UK but when ever im in the states me and my brother watch them and they just crack us up.
Who ever knew two socks could be so funny?

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Although I've been made aware of the MPAA suggesting Tarantino make the scene in black and white, the way the House of the Blue Leaves was shot in Kill Bill seemed reminiscent of the "mind fight" in Hero.

The colors-for-names thing in Dogs was filched from a seventies heist movie called The Taking Of Pelham, 1 2 3, .

Yeah, Sifl and Olly! I loved that show, but they don't run it anymore over here....very sad. I have a few eps on tape, though, and Liam Lynch, who played Olly has a comedy/music CD out (Fake Songs) that is hilarious.

Let's not get confuse, Tarantino is a good director, and yes of course he had his big japanese influence,he mix japanese narrative with american violence . What do you think is Natural Born Killers?, ****ing good storie. In his last movie Kill Bill and is full japanese style with a little of Tarantino's violence. He is good , of course he is not one of the best, but has done good movies.

well you know any director can see a movie, and see a good idea and use it in his/her movie, but a great director can use what they see from other films and turn it into a great piece of art (yeah i said art, c'mon). If Tarantino wasnt a great director, would we even bother talking about him and this subject right now?

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Way to many Kill Bil lreferences, I'll add a couple

Close up on the bride's eyes theme is from Five Fingers of Death , I've also heard its a theme from a show called Ironside.

Red Apple Cigarettes ad in the Airport is a reference to Pulp Fiction, i think butch has those..

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