{"id":124,"date":"2013-04-30T13:57:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T20:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=124"},"modified":"2019-04-12T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T04:16:19","slug":"quentin-tarantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/?p=124","title":{"rendered":"Quentin Tarantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Q-Tarantino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-125 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Q-Tarantino.jpg\" alt=\"Q Tarantino\" width=\"152\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Q-Tarantino.jpg 152w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Q-Tarantino-114x150.jpg 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a>Quentin Tarantino born in Knoxville, Tennessee, grew up an avid film fan and worked in a video rental store while training to act. His career began<br \/>\nin the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed <i>My Best Friend&#8217;s Birthday<\/i>;<br \/>\nits screenplay would form the basis for <i>True Romance<\/i>. In the early<br \/>\n1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of <i>Reservoir Dogs<\/i> (1992). He dropped out of high school because he felt he could teach himself more than the public school system.<\/p>\n<p>His second film, Pulp Fiction (1994), a neo-noir crime film that became<br \/>\na major critical and commercial success, widely regarded as one of the greatest\u00a0 films of all time. Paying homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, Tarantino released Jackie Brown in 1997, an adaptation of the novel Rum Punch. The \u00a0eccentric director behind such highly regarded films as &#8220;Reservoir\u00a0 Dogs,&#8221; &#8220;Pulp Fiction&#8221; and &#8220;Inglorious Basterds&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-313\" src=\"http:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg\" alt=\"dropout contact\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-300x62.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-1024x212.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact-250x52.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/dropout-contact.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">[bigContact form=on phones=on emails=on hours=on map=on]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-living-legends","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-4-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4559,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/4559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dropoutnotes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}