Quentin Tarantino’s films are not only known for rapid dialogue and shocking violence; they are also well known for their amazing soundtracks. Tarantino often builds the opening and closing credits around songs he hand-picks. (1) He doesn’t pay any mind to whether the songs fit into the time period of the movie, like using hip hop in Django Unchained, which he considers part of the score. (2) Other songs are meant to compliment the scene.
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Pulp Fiction: Over the course of two days, a pair of gangsters, their boss, a washed out boxer, and a pair of inep
Jackie Brown: When a flight attendant smuggling drugs for a gun runner gets caught by the ATF and forced to be an informant, her life is in danger. What follows is an elaborate scheme concocted by Jackie Brown's drug runner boss to elude the agents that does not go as planned. Notable music moments: The long shot opening title sequence that perfectly sets up the movie with the song, "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack, and the use of the song "Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)" by the Delfonics throughout the film to show the budding romance between two characters.
Kill Bill, Vol 1: The Bride, heavily pregnant, is nearly murdered at her wedding by Bill, her boss and father of her child, and her fellow assassins. She wakes up from a four year coma with revenge on her mind. While she hones her skills, atrophied from the coma, she concocts a kill list of those who wronged her and sets out for revenge. Notable music moments: Nancy Sinatra's melancholic cover of the Cher song, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)," setting up the movie and O-Ren Ishii's arrival to The House of Blue Leaves to "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" by Tomoyasu Hotel.
Django Unchained: A soon-to-be-freed slave, Django, and a German bounty hunter join forces to hunt down
The Hateful Eight: Eight strangers, including a bounty hunter and his prisoner, seek shelter at a stagecoach stopover to ride out a blizzard, unaware that their fellow travelers may harbor villianous intent. This movie uses an original score throughout most of it, but an original song by The White Stripes was written for this film, "Apple Blossom," was performed in the movie by Jennifer Jason Leigh as her character, Daisy Domergue.
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Reservoir Dogs: Mr. Brown, White, Blonde, Blue, Orange, and Pink are diamond thieves escaping from a heist gone bad who realize there is a traitor among them. Notable music moment: Mr. Blonde torturing a police officer for information on the traitor to a song on the radio, "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Stealer's Wheel.
Inglourious Basterds: During World War II, an Allied officer assembles a team of Jewish soldiers to hunt down Nazis and scalp them, building up to a plot to kill Hitler during a theatrical viewing of Nazi propaganda. Notable music scenes: Shoshanna preparing for revenge to "Cat People" by David Bowie, and "What'd I Say" by Rare Earth playing as Donnie and Omar enter the theater ahead of their planned assassination of Hitler.