Quentin Tarantino is one of the most brilliant minds of the century when it comes to writing and directing. His acute sense of binding various plots together into one grand ending keeps him in the good books of cinema. He is one of the harbingers of the Non linear style of story telling. Here are the top 5 films from Quentin Tarantino.
Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (2019)
Rick Dalton rose to fame and riches after appearing in a 1950s television Western. He is now trying to find meaningful employment in a Hollywood he no longer recognizes. He spends the most of his time drinking and hanging out with Cliff Booth. His laid-back closest buddy and longtime stunt double. Rick also happens to live next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate. The filmmaker and aspiring actress whose lives have been permanently changed by members of the Manson Family.
The Hateful Eight (2015)
Years after the American Civil War. Major Marquis Warren, a bounty hunter, is carrying three dead bounties to the city of Red Rock, Wyoming. He boards a stagecoach piloted by O.B. Jackson. Reward hunter John Ruth is on board, tied to fugitive Daisy Domergue. Whom Ruth is bringing to Red Rock to collect her bounty and see her hang. Ruth and Warren are old friends who became close when Warren received a personal letter from Abraham Lincoln. Chris Mannix, a former Lost-Causer militiaman on his way to Red Rock as the town’s new sheriff. He convinces Ruth and Warren to allow him aboard the stagecoach. Warren and Ruth create a partnership to protect each other’s bounty.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Six strangers are recruited by a crime leader, Joe Cabot, to carry out a diamond theft. They are given bogus names from the start. So that they don’t get too close and can concentrate on the task instead. They are quite certain that the robbery will be a success. However, when the police arrive at the exact time and location of the heist, panic spreads among the group members. Two of them are killed in the ensuing firefight, along with a few police officers and civilians. When the remaining members of the group arrive at the pre-planned meeting place (a warehouse). They begin to believe that one of them is an undercover officer.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Shosanna, a teenage Jewish refugee in German-occupied France, witnesses the killing of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. She plans vengeance after narrowly escaping with her life. Years later, German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes an obvious interest in her. He arranges for an epic film premiere at the theatre she now owns. The gathering draws the interest of the “Basterds,” a squad of Jewish-American guerilla fighters commanded by the merciless Lt. Aldo Raine, with the promise of every important Nazi leader in attendance. Their paths will intersect for a momentous evening that will rock the annals of history. The merciless executioners advance and the scheming young girl’s plans are set in action.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are two hitmen. They are on a mission to recover a suitcase stolen from their master, mob lord Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace has also requested Vincent to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) out when Wallace is out of town a few days later. Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) is an elderly boxer who is paid to lose his match by Wallace. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are intertwined via a sequence of amusing, strange, and uncalled-for situations.
