Tarantino’s film career began after meeting Lawrence Bender (an American film producer) at a party in Hollywood. He encouraged him to write a screenplay. In 1987 Tarantino co-wrote and directed his first film, ‘My Best Friend’s Birthday. Sadly the final reel of the film was nearly all destroyed in a fire in a lab that broke out while editing. However, the screenplay survived and later formed the basis for the film ‘True Romance’.
At the Sundance Film Festival in January 1992 Tarantino’s film ‘Reservoir Dogs’ was premiered. He wrote the script in just three and a half weeks. Film producer Lawrence Bender gave it to director Monte Hellman, who helped with the next process which included the funding, given by Richard Gladstein and Harvey Keitel who also took a co-producer role and also had a part in the film itself. This film was an instant hit and set the mood for his later films.
In 1993 Tarantino’s Screenplay ‘True Romance’ was released. He then sold his second script ‘Natural Born Killers’, but was given story credit.
Following on from the success of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ Tarantino was offered many more ventures including ‘Speed’ and ‘Men in Black’. However he decided to go to Amsterdam to work on his script for ‘Pulp Fiction’. Once this was completed he went on to direct episode four of ‘Four Rooms’, ‘The Man from Hollywood’ which was a tribute to the ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents’ episode. Tarantino worked with various filmmakers on this project including ‘Robert Rodriguez’ whom he worked with many times.
In 1997 Tarantino made his third feature film ‘Jackie Brown’. After that followed ‘Kill Bill’ which was released as two films, volume 1 and volume 2. Next came ‘Grindhouse’ followed by ‘Inglourious Basterds’, in 2009 which went on to become his highest earning film worldwide.
Tarantino continues his worldwide success within the film industry and with plans later to involve writing novels and film literature.