Quentin Tarantino likes to make movies that he would like
to watch. Well, shouldn’t every filmmaker do the same? It’s widely known that
Tarantino came up on movies by working in a video store and devouring all the
trashy B-movies he could get his eyes on. All of his movies are basically
slicked up versions of those same midnight and drive-in classics that were his
film education. Spaghetti westerns have served as one of the largest influences
on his movies, particularly the Mexican standoffs that tend to occur in the
climaxes of films like Reservoir Dogs
and Pulp Fiction. In the last decade
he has specialized in revenge pictures, with Django Unchained being the latest, this time an American slave
revenge fantasy in the style of a cheap spaghetti western.
