Postavant

I probably should have been thinking about this, but the fact is, I really haven’t. But the truth is that since the beginning of time, much like Bret Easton Ellis, Quentin Tarantino’s films can easily be tied to one another, because of character connections that place some of his films in the same universe. With Inglourious Basterds, the trend continues as the guys at /film have successfully pointed out. Allow me to run it all down, as it’s something that is much cooler spelled out as opposed to just knowing it, like I have. I knew it was the case that there’s a connection between his “real” movies and his “movie” movies, in two separate universes, but never really thought about it.

The obvious connections are just that. Someone always has to be eating or talking about eating at Big Kahuna Burger or smoking Red Apple, it can’t be a Tarantino movie without it. Family members show up all the time, some obvious, some far less so. It’s important to note before I forget that From Dusk Till Dawn, True Romance, and Natural Born Killers count as “Tarantino” movies. Saul Rubinek’s character in True Romance, Lee Donowitz, is an obvious but something I was not aware of because I’m just a dumb schmuck, the son of Eli Roth’s character in the film, Donnie Donowitz. Donnie’s haunting scowl in the teaser trailer for Basterds and his exceptional handling of a baseball bat is proof enough that the guy is the deranged, violent one of the group, which his son seems to take some traits of.

To quote Harry Knowles, there’s two universes of QT, the “realer than real” universe and the “movie movie” universe. You can place them easily. Stuff like True Romance, Death Proof, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, real. Kill Bill and From Dusk Till Dawn, movies. The two universes hardly if ever intersect, except in the case of the sheriff who just pops up everywhere he possibly can.

So, yeah. Bravo to you Quentin, you meticulous, eccentric maniac.

Also, his top 20 films since 1993.

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Tags: Basterds, Brad Pitt, Eli Roth, Hostel, Inglorious Bastards, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Quentin Tarantino universe, Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino movies, Tarantino universe, universe

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