Quentin Tarantino had an unusual childhood. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee in 1963 to Tony and Connie Tarantino. Their marriage was just for Connie to get away from her family and they divorced before Quentin was born (Wild 3). After the divorce his mother took him to California when he was two years old, here he grew up in the Southbay area (Wild 3). Quentin frequented the movies and his mom exposed him to many films, many of which were restricted (Dawson 19). In school Quentin was recognized as very bright, he scored over 150 on IQ tests, yet he hated school ("Tarantino, Quentin" 559). As a result of his hatred of school, he soon became a truant and his mother decided it would be better for him not to go and she know where he is, rather than he n

"I love City On Fire and I have the poster for it framed in my house. It's a great movie. I steal from every movie. I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it. If my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together and if people don't like them then tough titty, don't go and see it, alright. I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don't do hommages"(Dawson 91). Even with the criticism the film was successful and helped lay the framework for his next movie.

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As much as Reservoir Dogs brought him closer to the Dream, Pulp Fiction helped him achieve it. Quentin wrote Pulp Fiction in 1993 (Quentin Tarantino-All Movie Guide 1). Pulp Fiction was distributed in 1994 and grossed over $100 million, it was produced for only $8 million (Quentin Tarantino-All Movie Guide 1). The movie was very popular and many critics praised it. The film made many top ten lists (Quentin Tarantino-All Movie Guide 2); it also won many awards in 1994 including an Oscar, multiple Golden Globes, and an Academy Award among others (Quentin Tarantino-E!Online Fact Sheet 1). Pulp Fiction made Tarantino a star.

ot go and her not know where he was, so she allowed him to drop out when he was sixteen years old and still in the ninth grade (Dawson 22). Still a child, Tarantino entered the work force.

More problems occurred with the first film he directed. At first Tarantino was having a hard time finding backing for Reservoir Dogs. However, a friend was able to give the script to Harvey Keitel who decided he wanted to be in it and agreed to help fund the film, with Keitel backing the film LIVE Entertainment also agreed to back the film ("Tarantino, Quentin" 560). Once the film was finished it another problem arose. The problem was not with critics because many hailed it as a great movie. The problem arose when a magazine published an article that noted the similarities between Reservoir Dogs and the Japanese Action movie City On Fire (Dawson 91). However, Tarantino took the accusation of copying the movie in stride and seemed unaffected by the accusation. In fact, at a press conference where Tarantino addressed the accusations he said he loved City On Fire and that he stole from it:

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