Why Quentin Tarantino in an auteur.

The Oxford Dictionary defines an auteur as ‘a film director who influences their films so much that they rank as their author’. This could be through camera placement, regular use of the same actors, specific editing techniques or a plethora of other ways and means that directly reflect an individual originator. With some of the greatest envelope-pushing films, the infamous Quentin Tarantino is arguably one of the top auteurs in today’s film industry. With most of his films, Tarantino generally sticks with common fundamental themes and techniques that put his personal signature on them. If you have previously seen a Tarantino movie, it isn’t rocket symmetry to tell other movies which he has directed. Ridiculous amounts of blood, repetitious use of racial slurs, collaborated with the many cinematography techniques from classic film; like the crash-zoom technique, which emphasizes viewpoints of actors in relation to the cameras angle. However, there is one technique that Tarantino is world known for; the gratuitous use of violence. Now, people could say that the violence itself does not make him an auteur, but it is how it is used that adds to the narrative, thus making Tarantino an auteur of the violent sort. In Pulp Fiction, the protagonists (played by Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta) are retrieving a briefcase for their employer. During this, they kill two of the three people in the apartment the briefcase is in on purpose and the third by accident on the way back from the job. The reasoning behind the violence is to show more of the characters than just listening to a long monologue by them, another technique that Tarantino uses (the most famous probably being ‘Ezekiel 25:17’ by Jules in Pulp Fiction). It is easy to conceive from the above that Quentin Tarantino is a true auteur and develops his own original work by expanding on others ideas with his own take and characters. Tarantino's true autership can be discovered through the use of the various characters he creates and how he develops and uses them throughout his films. This can be explicitly noticed when examining both Christoph Waltz's characters Hans Landa and Dr. Schultz and the same with Uma Thurman's characters Mia Wallace and the Bride. Both characters were developed out of the same spectrum, but were placed in different lights. These decisions by the director directly reflect Quentin Tarantino's artistic ability in the film making process.