Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American filmmaker, actor, film programmer, and cinema owner.
His films are characterized by nonlinear storylines, satirical subject matter, aestheticization of violence, extended scenes of dialogue, ensemble casts, references to popular culture and a wide variety of other films, soundtracks primarily containing songs and score pieces from the 1960s to the 1980s, alternate history, and features of neo-noir film.
The Happy Sad Confused podcast is the end-of-year gift that keeps on giving this week. This week, the podcast’s guest was Academy Award winner Gary Oldman (“The Darkest Hour”).
Oldman talked about his time in the “Harry Potter” series (he thought he was mediocre), he lamented never being directed by Quentin Tarantino (though speaking his dialogue in “True Romance”), and he says he was up for a villain role in Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins,” before eventually landing the Jim Gordon good guy cop role instead.
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