12/3/2023 0 Comments From dusk till dawn cast scott er![]() ![]() Naturally, a genre exercise directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Tarantino sounded like a can’t fail proposition.įrom Dusk Till Dawn is a Frankenstein movie, with two entirely different halves hammered together right in half. At the time, common knowledge held that Tarantino’s big secret strength was an impeccable ear for dialogue and genre re-mashing, while Rodriguez’s strength was in his ability to craft an impeccable gritty action movie on budget and on schedule. Hot on the heels of Four Rooms came the first of Rodriguez and Tarantino’s collaborations, From Dusk Till Dawn. Even so, Four Rooms is considered a critical and financial failure pulling the names of all involved through the dirt. Consisting of four segments in a hotel room, each with different writer-directors, the crown jewels of the movie were the final two segments directed by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino. Rodriguez followed up El Mariachi with a largely unseen movie for Showtime’s Rebel Highway series, Roadracers, but came out swinging with his second entry in the Mexico Trilogy, 1995’s Desperado, featuring a cameo by Quentin Tarantino.Īt the end of 1995, Lawrence Bender, who had produced Tarantino’s films, would celebrate the indie scene with the anthology comedy Four Rooms. Rodriguez exploded onto the scene with El Mariachi, a bloody grindhouse movie produced for $7,000 intended for the Mexican video market that became a hit in the American arthouse circuit. While on the festival circuit with Reservoir Dogs, he became friends with another freshman independent director, Robert Rodriguez. In her must-read novel Killer Instinct, Jane Hamsher made the claim that Tarantino original wrote a single 300+ screenplay that he chopped into Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Natural Born Killers, and Pulp Fiction, all of which were released from 1992-1994. Tarantino’s 1994 sophomore directorial feature, Pulp Fiction was nominated for multiple Academy Awards and won the Best Picture award at both Independent Spirit Awards and the MTV Movie Awards.īy 1995, Tarantino was writing his own checks. Quentin Tarantino had burst onto the scene in 1992 with a handful of luridly violent scripts that reworked the crime genres into an expression of hip and cool entertainment. ![]() Through the early 1990s, independent cinema auteurs were rising through the indie film ranks to become Hollywood darlings.
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