Quentin Tarantino’s 5 Best Action Scenes (& 5 Best Dialogue Scenes)

As a director, Quentin Tarantino is famous for two things: graphic violence and snappy dialogue. Both are on display in classics like Pulp Fiction.

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As a writer, Quentin Tarantino is most renowned for his unforgettable dialogue style. Unlike the rapid-fire repartee of Aaron Sorkin’s dialogue, Tarantino’s takes its time to bask in the music of conversation. Sometimes, Tarantino’s dialogue serves no purpose other than to make a contract killer more relatable because he’s talking about the food from McDonald’s. Some of his most memorable dialogue has nothing to do with the plot.

As a director, Tarantino has many strengths, but one of the most prevalent tools in his toolkit is the ability to direct breathtaking action sequences. In both action-packed thrillers like Kill Bill and non-action movies like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino has helmed some unforgettable action sequences.

10 Action: Butch Returns To Save Marsellus In Pulp Fiction

After escaping from his bondage and knocking out the Gimp, Butch Coolidge goes to leave the pawnshop and hears Marsellus Wallace being sexually assaulted in the basement. He has to choose between leaving Marsellus behind and going back to save him. His conscience forces him to do the latter and he goes through an arsenal of classic movie weapons on the shop floor before deciding on a samurai sword.

“Comanche” by the Revels is perfectly paired with Butch’s triumphant return. First, he slashes Maynard with the samurai sword. Then, he lets Marsellus take a shot at Zed with his own shotgun and he outlines the horrific torture he’s going to put him through.

9 Dialogue: Royale With Cheese In Pulp Fiction

When most Tarantino fans think of the writer-director’s distinctive style of dialogue, the phrase “Royale with Cheese” is bound to come to mind. After the opening credits of Pulp Fiction, two mob hitmen are introduced not on a stakeout or in the midst of a firefight, but rather discussing the differences between American and European McDonald’s menus.

Tarantino humanizes genre archetypes by having them talk about the things regular people talk about. Some of the pop culture references have aged, but the snappy dialogue is timeless.

8 Action: The Final Car Chase In Death Proof

From a storytelling standpoint, Death Proof is one of Tarantino’s weakest films — there are long, inconsequential dialogue scenes and there isn’t much of a plot to speak of — but it has some tremendously staged action sequences.

At a time when most car chases were being pieced together with bland coverage and dodgy CGI, the finale of Death Proof blew audiences away with a car chase that actually felt dangerous.

7 Dialogue: The Diner Scene In Reservoir Dogs

The opening diner scene wasn’t in the original script for Reservoir Dogs, although it sets the stage perfectly. The bickering dialogue about the etiquette of tipping and the meaning of “Like a Virgin” instantly established the tone of Tarantino’s “guys like us” gangsters.

The scene was added when Tarantino realized Edward Bunker’s character Mr. Blue didn’t have any lines. Ironically, Bunker didn’t like the scene, because he was a real-life career criminal before becoming an actor and didn’t think it was realistic that distinctively dressed gangsters would eat in a public place surrounded by witnesses before a job.

6 Action: The Candyland Shootout In Django Unchained

Django and Dr. Schultz come so close to liberating Broomhilda, but when Calvin Candie wants to shake Schultz’s hand to solidify the deal, the dentist-turned-bounty hunter can’t bring himself to do it and instead shoots Calvin with his Travis Bickle-style sleeve gun.

Schultz is instantly killed by a shotgun blast and Django suddenly finds himself surrounded by gun-toting slavers with an excuse to shoot him. Using a couple of human shields, Django paints the Candyland mansion with blood as he fends off gunmen from all angles.

5 Dialogue: The Tensest Dinner Of All Time In Django Unchained

Just before the Candyland shootout in Django Unchained, Calvin Candie subjects Django and Dr. Schultz to the tensest dinner of all time. They initially exchange pleasantries, but after noticing a look between Django and Broomhilda, Candie’s right-hand man Stephen deduces that they know each other.

Until this scene, Candie had been a sinister guy whose menace was hidden under a layer of camp. This is the scene that reveals the depths of his evil, and Leonardo DiCaprio plays it brilliantly.

4 Action: The Alternate Manson Family Massacre In Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Tarantino has said that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the only time he’s written a script backwards from the ending. The story of fading movie star Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth culminates on the night that the Manson Family broke into a pregnant Sharon Tate’s house and killed her and her friends. In the Tarantino-verse, Tate and her friends survived and these murderers faced brutal vigilante justice.

At the last minute, they decide to kill Rick instead. They break into his house and face Cliff and his pitbull Brandy, who dispatch most of them in gruesome fashion. Rick picks off the last one with the flamethrower from The 14 Fists of McCluskey.

3 Dialogue: The Sicilian Debate In True Romance

Tarantino didn’t direct True Romance, but he did write the script and Tony Scott was mostly faithful to his writing, save for linearizing the story and letting Clarence live at the end.

This movie contains one of Tarantino’s most incredible dialogue scenes. As Christopher Walken’s Sicilian mobster character is interrogating Dennis Hopper’s cop character, the cop uses the mobster’s racism to rile him up by explaining that his ancestors were African.

2 Action: The House Of Blue Leaves Fight In Kill Bill: Volume 1

There are a ton of memorable action scenes in Tarantino’s two-part martial arts epic Kill Bill, from the opening fight at Vernita Green’s house to the final eye-popping fight with Elle Driver, but easily the greatest set piece in the movie is the House of Blue Leaves massacre in Volume 1.

The Bride faces down the Crazy 88 in a limb-slicing, blood-squirting masterclass of action filmmaking. The bloodshed has an operatic flow, while the erratic editing keeps the audience on their toes with soundtrack changes and sudden switches between color and black-and-white.

1 Dialogue: The Opening Scene Of Inglourious Basterds

A masterclass in tension, the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds uses Hitchcock’s bomb-under-the-table technique to create suspense. Col. Landa and his goons arrive at a dairy farm, and Landa steps inside the house to question the farmer. Midway through their seemingly pleasant conversation, the camera pulls under the floorboards to reveal a bunch of Jewish refugees hiding in terror.

From this point on, the audience is on the edge of their seats. Contrary to Hitchcock, the bomb goes off — but one of the refugees escapes and Landa mysteriously lets her leave. “Au revoir, Shoshanna!”

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