I started taking them home and it was in the context of seeing a heist movie every night that I put my head round what a neat genre that would be to redo." The Guinness long forgotten, Tarantino is now in full swing. And one time I had heist films, like Rififi and Topkapi and The Thomas Crown Affair. When I worked at the video store we had this one shelf that was like a revolving film festival and every week I would change it - David Carradine week or Nicholas Ray week or swashbuckler movies. "I'd had the idea in my head about a film that doesn't take place during the robbery, but in the rendezvous afterwards. "It's a simple fact that I get a kick out of heist films, so I thought I'd write one," begins Tarantino matter-of-factly. I didn't write the part for Harvey because I thought it'd probably be, you know, my uncle Pete." video shop until one day, out of pure frustration, he began to hatch a big idea. After training as an actor and enduring various false starts on the production side of things (his first job was as an assistant on a Dolph Lundgren video, literally clearing the dog shit out of the car-park so Dolph wouldn't get his trainers dirty) he spent six years killing time in an L.A. The 29-year-old writer-director has come a long way in the last couple of years. Speaking quickly in a voice not unlike that of Mickey Dolenz and punctuating his enthusiasm - "It's a really incendiary movie, you can't show it to an audience without getting a reaction" - with words like "man" and "cool", he really is rather proud of his creation.Īnd so he should be. He is also eminently likeable, which probably explains how he got away without a dressing down from the world's number one female recording artist, having described her as a "regular fuck machine" in his script. Probably because he wolfed down too many E numbers as a child, Tarantino is extremely animated.
Tucked away in the corner of a Whitehall pub, he is more interested in this, his third pint of draught Guinness, than buying into the Next Big Thing malarkey. Tall, rangy and sporting an unkempt thatch of hair, Quentin Tarantino is not, however, your immediate idea of a "man of the moment".
Brown - played by Tarantino himself - expounds to the guys in the diner his somewhat eccentric interpretation of Like A Virgin ("It's about a girl who digs a guy with a big dick") a scene which swishes back the curtain on a tale of macho bravura in the aftermath of a diamond heist - a high testosterone movie redolent of Kubrick's The Killing or Huston's The Asphalt Jungle made by a young Scorsese - which, translated, means that Tarantino is the hot new Hollywood talent. Quentin Tarantino is, of course, referring to the classic opening of Reservoir Dogs, his stunning directorial debut, in which Mr. She said, 'No, it's about love, it's about a girl who's been messed over and she finally meets this one man who loves her.' She signed my Erotica album, 'To Quentin. "So I asked her, 'Am I right about the song?' because I really believed that was the subtext. "You know, Madonna liked the movie a lot and wanted to meet me," chuckles Quentin Tarantino. Jeff Dawson meets the director and his stars Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel. It is, of course, Reservoir Dogs, and it is currently earning its creator, Quentin Tarantino, major Boy Wonder status around the world. It has been likened to Scorsese at his very best.
It has been hailed as the most original debut for decades.
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