- At the opening of Pulp Fiction, a man in the audience fainted during one of the more visual scenes.
- It may have been due to his diabetic reactions to a needle, or it could have simply been a ploy to get attention
Quentin's Childhood, Adolesence, and life as a teenager:
- Son of Connie Tarantino (who was a young mother) and Tony Tarantino (5 years older than Connie, law student)
- Full name: Quentin Jerome Tarantino
- Raised by grandparents in Tennessee (at around age 10 or 11) while mother was in college. It was an unintended parallel to Connie's early life, when she lived with her grandparents
- Connie was always looking for an "escape" from her family, and heard of emancipation. She took it to mean that she would have to get married and so she married early and had Quentin.
- Tony had told Connie he could not have children, but unexpectedly, Quentin came into the picture.
- Was close with stepfather, musicially inclined Curt Zastoupil
- raised in a household with many family members, who were all quite young (even parents were relatively young) (it was "like Disneyland")
- Religion: Connie allowed Quentin to attend different churches and pick his own religion
- Had a salty tongue as a child
- Played with GI Joes and action figures with overtones that are prevelant in his movies (violence)
- At a young age, Quentin showed much interest in writing, and acting out screenplays
- The movie Deliverance, which Quentin watched as a child, had a profound effect on him and a certain vulgar scene was put into Pulp Fiction
- He watched many movies - including some inappropriate ones - when he was young
- Connie's 3rd husband, Jan, was also a movie freak. Took Quentin to many films
- Comes from an upper-middle class neighbourhood, but enjoys the idea of having hillbilly roots (also evident in movies)
- hated school, dropped out at age 16
- "basically grew up without a father" found a makeshift father in Howard Hawk's films
- Grandmother was an alcaholic, raised Quentin for a while
- constant battles with his mom about his education (after he dropped out)
- caught shoplifting a book called The Switch in K-mart, wasnt really officially shoplifting
- as punishment, Connie made Quentin read all summer, wasnt allowed to do anything else.
- Joined local community theatre group
- Was allowed to drop out of school, on the condition that he got a job
- worked at Pussycat lounge, porn theatre in torrance
- further sign of emancipation: changed surname back to Tarantino
- Didn't thank anyone when he received one of his oscars (first?)
