Quentin Tarantino has a catalogue of celebrated films that he has directed, produced, written and acted in, behind him. Tarantino has over the years created some instantly recognisable trademarks in his filmmaking, and has inspired others to take interest in his style of writing and directing. He has worked through many different genres including Arts house crime in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs; war genre in Inglourious Basterds; action horror grindhouse with Death Proof; and action thriller with Kill Bill.
Kill Bill was one of the main influences for my teaser trailer and storyline idea. In Kill Bill there is a mixture of homages to different genres including: Hong Kong Martial Arts, Japanese chanbara , Italian spaghetti western, girls with guns, rape and revenge. In my film, I took some of these genres and hoped to make the trailer portray this. I used the idea of revenge, and the idea of ‘girls with guns’ i.e. making my character a strong female, who would go on her rampage of revenge and find her ex-husband and kill him in order to get back her ‘possession’. The audience are never clear in the trailer or in any of the forms of advertisement what the possession that she is searching for is. Nor are they aware what it is throughout the film until the final scenes in the storyline.
Kill Bill was one of the main influences for my teaser trailer and storyline idea. In Kill Bill there is a mixture of homages to different genres including: Hong Kong Martial Arts, Japanese chanbara , Italian spaghetti western, girls with guns, rape and revenge. In my film, I took some of these genres and hoped to make the trailer portray this. I used the idea of revenge, and the idea of ‘girls with guns’ i.e. making my character a strong female, who would go on her rampage of revenge and find her ex-husband and kill him in order to get back her ‘possession’. The audience are never clear in the trailer or in any of the forms of advertisement what the possession that she is searching for is. Nor are they aware what it is throughout the film until the final scenes in the storyline.
Another Practitioner I used for inspiration in my trailer was the Theatre practitioner and playwright Bertolt Brecht. I found his words inspirational to use in the trailer and the quote I used and coloured the text in red “Behind the pretty words lies a bloody reality” was very fitting to the film. I wanted to give an incentive for my audience to think about the subject of the film. I also wanted to create a contrast between the two Arts of Theatre and Film.
These two practitioners have something in common between their works: Both of their uses of realism. Or lack of it. Tarantino creates ‘What if’ storylines to his films, where it is partly fantasy. Some parts of reality are left out in order to create a good story. For example in Kill Bill, the law enforcements are not mentioned or even thought about as the bride travels around the world killing those involved to avenge the ‘death’ of her child. In Brechtian theatre, it was not the storylines that weren’t realistic as such, but the methods of acting were never made to look like real life, Brecht believed that an audience should always be aware that they are watching a show or piece of theatre, and that the people onstage were, indeed, just actors.
These two practitioners have something in common between their works: Both of their uses of realism. Or lack of it. Tarantino creates ‘What if’ storylines to his films, where it is partly fantasy. Some parts of reality are left out in order to create a good story. For example in Kill Bill, the law enforcements are not mentioned or even thought about as the bride travels around the world killing those involved to avenge the ‘death’ of her child. In Brechtian theatre, it was not the storylines that weren’t realistic as such, but the methods of acting were never made to look like real life, Brecht believed that an audience should always be aware that they are watching a show or piece of theatre, and that the people onstage were, indeed, just actors.
