Does Quentin Tarantino still despise Oliver Stone?
The label is "Artistic differences." Oliver Stone has put
thought, hard work and truth with fiction into his movies and I
prefer Oliver Stone to Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino is
narcissistic, his movies are copy-cats of others and seems to make
more fun out of making money than getting things right. I will
admit (a fluke I am sure) that Pulp Fiction was different and a
good movie. Here is a short biography of both men. Oliver Stone
born Sept. 15, 1946 in New York, NY and best known as a
controversial director of JFK and NATURAL BORN KILLERS. He is a
successful screenwriter, producer and film director whose work
during the 1980s and 90s was consistently controversial. Stone, a
veteran of the Vietnam War, began as a screenwriter in the late
70s, with credits that included MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978), CONAN THE
BARBARIAN (1982 and the movie that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a
star) and SCARFACE (1983 with Al Pacino). He won an Oscar for Best
Director for his semi-autobiographical film about the ground war in
Vietnam, PLATOON (1986 starring Willem Dafoe), and within a decade
had made a string of successful and controversial films. His more
controversial films include JFK (1991) and NIXON (1995), historical
dramas about Presidents John F. Kenny and Richard Nixon (1995),
which earned Stone a reputation as a historical revisionist and
paranoid conspiracy theorist. He had a bout with drugs and was
difficult to work with often flying into rages. His 1994 movie
NATURAL BORN KILLERS came under fire for its graphic violence,
again making Stone a lightning rod for harsh criticism. His movies
U-TURN (1997) and ANY GIVEN SUNDAY (1999) did little to diminish
his reputation for controversy. Stone won another Best Director
Oscar for BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY (1989, starring Tom Cruise). An
infantry specialist in Vietnam, Stone was decorated with a Purple
Heart and the Bronze Star. ************************************
QUENTIN TARANTINO born March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee is
best known as writer and director of Pulp Fiction. A high school
dropout and video freak, Quentin Tarantino took Hollywood by storm
in 1992 with the cult hit RESERVOIR DOGS. His combination of clever
dialogue and brutal violence hit a new peak in 1994 with PULP
FICTION, which won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and
revived the career of John Travolta. Tarantino also began to dabble
in acting, appearing with Antonio Banderas in DESPERADO (1995) and
with George Clooney in FROM DUSK TIL DAWN (1996). In 1997 he had a
solid, if not spectacular hit with Jackie Brown, starring Pam
Frier. An overnight success by Hollywood standards, Tarantino is
considered a genius by some and a snotty imitator by others, adding
to his mystique as a moviemaker. In 2003 he announced that his
film, KILL BILL (starring Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu) would be
released in 2 parts. The 1st part was released in 2003, and the 2nd
part was released in 2004. Here are more opinions and answers from
other FAQ Farmers: * Quentin Tarantino hates anyone who sees past
the facade and can identify what and who he really is. A more
salient question is, "Does Roger Avery still hate Quentin
Tarantino, and why?" Plagiarism lies at the heart of the answer,
and Roger was not the one doing the plagiarizing. Google "Quentin
Tarantino" and "plagiarism" and see what well-known Asian films
come up. He has a lot of enemies here in Los Angeles. * Who really
cares who hates who? I personally prefer Tarantino over Stone.
Stone is too much into these conspiracy theories. And what is this
answer about plagiarism? If you bother to do a bit of research, you
would have known that Tarantino has always said that this movie is
based on City of Fire (if I remember correctly). Plagiarism is
something that someone has copied but said that it was original. So
he did not plagiarize "City" to make "Dogs". * No matter how
successful someone is, there's always going to be "haters". I think
that Tarantino is one of the best young directors working
today.
Maxine
Rene
Beau
