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 mythic, epic long cut of any movie, aka when people don’t understand the difference between an assembly cut—all the footage actually shot assembled into a raw edit—and what a director would want with their final version of the best of the best material (generally much shorter than an assembly, filmmakers don’t want every frame of footage in their film, because not everything is always A+).
And then there’s the mythic, epic purported length of a Quentin Tarantino film which generally becomes inflated and exaggerated.
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