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I like how this video's advice can boil down to "show, don't tell". But he doesn't tell us that, he shows us that. It's poetic.

Tarantinos talent aside, he does use one trick that makes it way easier for him to do these scenarios. He always writes movies about dangerous people doing dangerous shit. On top of that he often has famous people reciting his words in his movies which makes it a tad more interesting. But think of his least popular movies and you'll get movies like Death Proof and Jackie Brown that still fits the bill of danger, but for long periods of time doesn't. Because one could argue the dangerous parts of those movies are some of the best. When you think of the Diner scene in Death Proof with the girls, you'll know why this movie isn't as popular as his other movies. The presence of danger is not there. These girls are not killers.

heavily disagree tbh. Having emotions effect actions is like screenwrighting 101. Tarantino just boils the dialogue down to its absolute necessities, which makes it so much tenser

Thank you for the instructions. It helped me visualize one of my characters who suffers heart-rending loss and his reaction is terrible but understandable. Thanks.

For me TH8 takes the cake when it comes to dialogs

I am looking forward to a video from you where you describe succession dialogue

Bruh for a vid about dialgoue you managed to make this video 5 minutes longer than it needed to be, so much yapping

tarantinos dialogue is trahs tho

Studiobinder did this subject way better, and you stole their thumbnail.

This video is completely wrong. The reason Tarantino's dialogue works is not because of how it makes you feel, it usually doesn't makes you feel anything at all at the moment it is delivered. It works because every single line tells you something. It's either character development or plot, or foreshadowing, or information about past events. There are no extraneous lines, there is never random dialogue. None of the conversations can be cut. This is why imitations fail, they think the dialogue is random.

No, I haven't wondered because Tarantino's dialogue is dull, boring, an endless shallow, cringeworthy banter. Cut away 20, 30% and it would be good, maybe. His one novel is even worse, on the nose, flat prose, just plain bad writing. He's the living example of how far arrogance and conviction carry you.

His dialogues explain EVERYTHING. EVERY THING. They are dead at arrival. There's no subtext in his writing and that's one of the reasons why he is incapable of creating a meta layer in his movies. Or identification with his characters. Technically subtext is there - but it doesn't work. No depth at all. Very artificial. His characters are caricatures, his movies strange mixtures of trash, great moments and a failed shot at comedy, of political correctness and bad taste.

He has an excellent music taste and is visually gifted, no doubt, and "Once Upon A Time" is a masterpiece (meta for once, but only during the first watch - if you are familiar with the backstory). I love this movie, he wrote something real for once. "Reservoir dogs" and "Hateful eight" are very good, but even there his weak writing shines through. His dialogues feel empty and aimless and you can see through what he's trying to do. And I haven't seen "Pulp Fiction" or "Jackie Brown" yet. But the rest of his movies are just trash, mixed with a few moments of greatness.

Yes, I'm mad that he stole (I don't know how many) hours of my life. Or that he fooled me to steal them from myself. However you want to see it. Nobody forced me to watch his movies, yet I regret watching them. I've just finished "Basterds" because I forgot how god awful it is.

They say that the voice of the writer carries over to his characters. Maybe that's why every single one of his characters is unsympathetic. He's like Stephen King: He could use a good editor, maybe then he'd be forced to rewrite and make use of his talent for once. But he makes money and is arrogant so it works.