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Quentin Jerome Tarantino (; born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. His films are characterized by non-linear storylines, satirical subject matter, an aestheticization of violence, references to pop culture, their soundtracks and features of neo-noir film. Tarantino grew up as a devoted film fan and worked at Video Archives, a video rental store, while training to act. His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed ''My Best Friend's Birthday'', the screenplay of which formed the basis for ''True Romance''. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of ''Reservoir Dogs'' in 1992; regarded as a classic and cult hit, it was called the "Greatest Independent Film of All Time" by ''Empire''. Its popularity was boosted by his second film, ''Pulp Fiction'' (1994), a black-comedy crime film that was a major success both among critics and audiences. Judged the greatest film from 1983–2008 by ''Entertainment Weekly'', many critics and scholars have named it one of the most significant works of modern cinema.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''Pulp Fiction'' (1994) )〕 For his next effort, Tarantino paid homage to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s with ''Jackie Brown'' (1997), an adaptation of the novel ''Rum Punch''. ''Kill Bill'', a highly stylized "revenge flick" in the cinematic traditions of Japanese martial arts, spaghetti Westerns and Italian horror, followed six years later, and was released as two films: ''Volume 1'' in 2003 and ''Volume 2'' in 2004. Tarantino directed ''Death Proof'' (2007) as part of a double feature with friend Robert Rodriguez, under the collective title ''Grindhouse''. His long-postponed ''Inglourious Basterds'', which tells the fictional alternate history story of two plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's political leadership, was released in 2009 to positive reviews. His most recent work is 2012's critically acclaimed ''Django Unchained'', a Western film set in the antebellum era of the Deep South. It became the highest-grossing film of his career so far, making over $425 million at the box office. His eighth film, ''The Hateful Eight'', will be released on December 25, 2015 in 70 mm film format. Tarantino's films have garnered both critical and commercial success. He has received many industry awards, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and the Palme d'Or, and has been nominated for an Emmy and a Grammy. He was named one of the ''100 Most Influential People in the World'' by ''Time'' in 2005. Filmmaker and historian Peter Bogdanovich has called him "the single most influential director of his generation". ==Early life== Tarantino was born on March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, to Tony Tarantino, an entertainer and actor, and his wife for a brief time, Connie ( McHugh). His father is of Italian descent, and his mother has English and Irish ancestry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Quentin Tarantino )〕 Quentin was named for Quint Asper, Burt Reynolds' character in the CBS series ''Gunsmoke''. Quentin's mother met his father during a trip to Los Angeles, when Tony Tarantino was a law student and would-be entertainer. She married him soon after, to gain independence from her parents, but the marriage did not last. Connie Tarantino left Los Angeles, and moved to Knoxville, Tennessee, where her parents lived. In 1966, Tarantino's mother, after finishing her nursing studies, moved back to Los Angeles with her then three-year-old son. They lived in South Bay, in the southern part of the city. Quentin Tarantino would grow up here. Tarantino's mother married musician Curtis Zastoupil soon after coming to Los Angeles, and the family moved to Torrance, a city in Los Angeles' South Bay area. Zastoupil encouraged his love of movies, and accompanied him to numerous film screenings. Tarantino's mother allowed him to see movies with adult content, such as ''Carnal Knowledge'' (1971) and ''Deliverance'' (1972). After his mother divorced Zastoupil in 1973, and received a misdiagnosis of Hodgkin's lymphoma, Tarantino was sent to live with his grandparents in Tennessee. He remained there for about six months to a year, before returning to California. His mother's next husband, to whom she was married for eight years, also took Tarantino to films. At 14 years old, Tarantino wrote one of his earliest works, a script called ''Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit'', where a thief steals pizzas from a pizzeria. It was based on Hal Needham's 1977 film ''Smokey and the Bandit'', starring Burt Reynolds. The summer after his fifteenth birthday, Tarantino was grounded by his mother for stealing Elmore Leonard's novel ''The Switch'' from Kmart. He was only allowed to leave to attend the Torrance Community Theater, where he participated in such plays as ''Two Plus Two Makes Sex'' and ''Romeo and Juliet''. At about 15 or 16, Tarantino dropped out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, Los Angeles. He got a job ushering at a porn theater in Torrance, called the Pussycat Theatre, after saying he was older than he truly was. Later, he put himself in acting classes at the James Best Theatre Company, where he met several people who would later appear in his films. While at the James Best, Tarantino also met Craig Hamann, with whom he collaborated to produce ''My Best Friend's Birthday'', an eventually-forsaken film project. In the 1980s, Tarantino worked in a number of places. He impersonated Elvis Presley in "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1", an episode in the fourth season of ''The Golden Girls'', which was broadcast on November 19, 1988. Tarantino also worked as a recruiter in the aerospace industry, and for five years, he worked in Video Archives, a video store in Manhattan Beach, California.〔 Former ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' actor Danny Strong described Tarantino as a "fantastic video store clerk." "() was such a movie buff. He had so much knowledge of films, that he would try to get people to watch really cool movies." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quentin Tarantino」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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