Tarantino Auteur Signature

Repetitive tropes
Feet
Violence
Dialogue
Use of actors (Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt)
Masculinity and gender
Bathrooms
Restaurant scenes
Mexican standoffs

Postmodernism 
Replacement of realism with artifice (mise-en-scene, character, story)

Postmodern addition
Advertising is a key element of postmodernist society because advertising is by definition "artificial"
Tarantino further adds to the postmodernist identify of the film in four places where advertising speech is used in everyday conversation:

• Big Kahuna burger
• $5 Milkshake 
• Gourmet coffee 
• Oak furniture 

Each time, the advertising speak ends with swearing- Tarantino's criticism of advertising?

Style
Worm's eye two shot out of a car trunk
Realism in dialogue (use of racist and sexually charged language)
Use of music
Long takes
Corpse or injured POV shot

Pulp Fiction

• Outline the key features in Pulp Fiction which demonstrate Tarantino's auteur signature

There are many features that Tarantino uses in Pulp Fiction to demonstrate an auteur signature e.g. Violence, Dialogue, Use of same actors and Restaurant scenes these features show the different techniques that he uses to make him an unique director.

Tarantino is known as a post modern director because of his unique style in each of his films and the way that he has been important and the focus point on the movement of film and the way that film has changed over years and the moment that we are in now is based on Tarantino work.

In the film Pulp Fiction which is about the criminal ongoing within america and how different people deal with problems, the director Tarantino uses violence in a controversial way by making it look cool and killing to be something that makes people look better then they are. This is seen in the scene where Vincent and Jules are in the apartment to kill Brat for treating his boss wrong (Marsellus Wallace). The use of violence from Tarantino is something that he is known well for and is seen in his other films like Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Django: Unchained and Reservoir dogs where the violence that is used is aggressive violence where there is no holdback from the director and he try's to make something seem real while making it controversial at the same time.  

Tarantino uses Dialogue well in his films and makes the dialogue contrast the things seen on screen for example when the film Pulp Fiction starts Vincent and Jules are on their way to kill someone instead of being nervous they are talking about what a quarter pounder with cheese is called in France. This is just amazing dialogue in the way that Tarantino makes the focus come away from the violence at times and focus on the dialogue and the way that it contradicts the things on screen. The dialogue is also racist but also engaging dialogue because of the way that he makes the dialogue about something that doesn't link to what they are doing or the film. His use of dialogue is very real within all his films and he uses very offensive and aggressive language in the film and this is shown most through the actor Samuel L Jackson which he is known for using him in a lot of his films. The fact that the dialogue is so real and unique and balances with the unreal and artificial elements within the films like for example when we see Butch come home from the boxing match in a taxi and also when we see Vincent driving to meet Mia when he is a little high.

Also the director Tarantino uses certain spaces in scenes like bathrooms and restaurants in several of his films like Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill where we see many restaurant and bathroom scenes. He uses these spaces because it is a realistic place and are recognisable for the spectators watching the film, he uses these because this is something that filmmakers don't often do and this was his style and how Tarantino has changed film by the way he uses different techniques that others don't which makes him unique to his own style and type of filmmaking. The character that we see go to the bathroom a lot in the film Pulp Fiction is Vincent where he is seen reflecting when he goes like when he reads the newspaper and talks to himself in the mirror suggest he is reflecting while going to the bathroom. When he always leaves the bathroom he is faced with a life and death situation when he leaves the dinner bathroom he is faced with a hold up, when he leaves the bathroom in Mia house he is faced with Mia having an overdose and when he leaves the Bathroom in Butches house he is faced with Butch aiming a gun at him and killing him. Tarantino doesn't do this by coincidence he does this as part of his style and makes one of the most unimportant rooms in the house (bathroom) and elevates it to make it important in his films and he does it more and more in his films because this is something that filmmakers don't do a lot. He uses a lot of the same throughout his work like Samuel L Jackson who is in Pulp Fiction, Hateful Eight, Jackie Brown, Django: Unchained and Kill Bill Vol 1&2 which allows Tarantino to showcase his skills of filmmaking more because the actors know his style and way he likes to make films. There are other actors that he uses like Uma Thurman who is in the both volumes of Kill Bill and Pulp Fiction also the actor Tim Roth who is in Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, using the same actors adds to the auteur signature of Tarantino and they are known well for working with Tarantino and makes them more recognisable because they are working with a well stablished director.