10 Facts About Today
#16 - Quentin Tarantino | March 27, 2020
Episode Summary
Did Quentin Tarantino really sell his first script? Did he really choke-out an actress? How far did he get in school? Let's find out because today is Quentin Tarantino's Birthday Day.
Episode Notes
March 27, 2020 - 10 Facts About Quentin Tarantino.
Today is Quentin Tarantino’s birthday.
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Here are 10 inglorious facts and pulp non-fictions about Quentin Tarantino that you didn’t know, that you didn’t need to know:
- He dropped out of high school at 16. His mom forced him to get a job, so he got one… at an adult video theater.
- He made cards for his mom every Mother’s Day but they had a twist. They always contained a story where she died.
- He hates product placement in films, so he creates his own brands for his movies.
- He wrote the scripts for True Romance and Natural Born Killers as a clerk at Video Archives.
- You'd most likely never catch him watching Netflix. He sees it as thoughtless scrolling.
- Tarantino wrote the script True Romance and sold it for $50,000.
- He used the True Romance money to make Reservoir dogs.
- He was named after Burt Reynolds… kind of. (Quint Asper from Gunsmoke)
- His movies take place in his “realer-than-real” universe.
- He’s vowed to retire from movies after 10 feature films.