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.
Hunt for the book thief: The inside story of the mystery that baffled the literary world
telegraph.co.ukPeople were trying to steal it,’ Margaret Atwood told a BBC reporter just after the launch of her novel The Testaments in September 2019. ‘Really trying.
There were fake emails from cyber criminals – we had to use a lot of codewords and passwords.’The sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale was one of the biggest releases in recent publishing history, but news of surreptitious attempts to procure its manuscript in advance – ‘a phishing exercise,’ as Atwood put it, ‘a commercial venture of a robbery kind’ – still came as a surprise.Booker Prize judging chair Peter Florence – one of a handful of people granted access to the unpublished manuscript – suggested at the time that ‘the most likely hackers would be people trying to extort ransom money’.
This is a familiar practice in Hollywood – the script to Quentin Tarantino’s film The Hateful Eight was illicitly obtained and posted online before filming had even begun, and stolen first-draft screenplays regularly appear on the dark web, offered to impatient movie fans for a fee.
But this sort of thing was rarely seen in the book world – until a few years ago.When it did happen, Atwood’s agent, Karolina Sutton of Curtis Brown, spoke of a devious relentlessness that went far beyond Hollywood’s worst experiences.
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