Friday, January 10, 2014

Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino is up there with the greatest of screenwriters. Not only is he a screenwriter, he's also great director. He won best writing for Django Unchained, and best writing for Pulp Fiction in the Academy Awards. He's also won best screenplay for a motion picture twice in the Golden Globes, and has been nominated a number of times for either best screenplay or director for a motion picture. He started his career in 1987, co-writing and directing a movie that would later be destroyed in a lab. He started to become a success in 1992, when "Reservoir Dogs" came out, becoming an immediate hit. Here's a small portion of part of the script of "Pulp Fiction".


 It is impossible to tell where the Young Woman is from or 
               how old she is; everything she does contradicts something 
               she did. The boy and girl sit in a booth. Their dialogue is 
               to be said in a rapid pace "HIS GIRL FRIDAY" fashion.

                                     YOUNG MAN
                         No, forget it, it's too risky. I'm 
                         through doin' that shit.

                                     YOUNG WOMAN
                         You always say that, the same thing 
                         every time: never again, I'm through, 
                         too dangerous.

                                     YOUNG MAN
                         I know that's what I always say. I'm 
                         always right too, but –

                                     YOUNG WOMAN
                         – but you forget about it in a day 
                         or two -

                                     YOUNG MAN
                         – yeah, well, the days of me 
                         forgittin' are over, and the days of 
                         me rememberin' have just begun.

                                     YOUNG WOMAN
                         When you go on like this, you know 
                         what you sound like?

                                     YOUNG MAN
                         I sound like a sensible fucking man, 
                         is what I sound like.

                                     YOUNG WOMAN
                         You sound like a duck.
                              (imitates a duck)
                         Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, 
                         quack, quack...

1 comment:

  1. What do you like about this section of dialogue? What are some of the trademarks of Tarantino's work?

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