On the QT - Part 5

Quentin Tarantino knows movies. Being a self confessed movie geek though, that’s not surprising. From the gangster/heist movies that gave us “Reservoir Dogs” and “True Romance” and of course the mega “Pulp Fiction”, to the king fu movies that brought us the “Kill Bill” saga. “Jackie Brown” comes from the influence that the blaxploitation era of American cinema and television had on Quentin’s own fascination with film. It also comes from an adaptation of the book “Rum Punch”. We all know that Quentin loves to link his films together with references to both his own work and that of the people he has in the films. This is true here with Pam Grier playing the title role, while probably still fresh in Quentin’s and other’s minds as Foxy Brown from the 70′s. Pam Grier is also mentioned in “Reservoir Dogs” in a car scene where the gangsters try to remember … There’s more