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Tarantino's films mostly have an element in common: they are divided into chapters, like a novel. And this choice which makes the characteristic of his cinema owes nothing to chance.
Apart from being signed by Tarantino, what is the common point between Kill Bill 1, Kill Bill 2, Inglourious Basterds, the eight bastards, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction? They are all narratively built in chapters, like a novel. And this artistic choice was made for a good reason.
In the show The Director Fleshbroadcast for the first time in 2014, the director Robert Rodriguez received his accomplice Quentin Tarantino to evoke his career, and the question of this habit of the construction in chapters of the films gave an exciting answer of the interested party:
“It's intrinsically cinematographic”
“I always thought that if I was doing [un film] The way we make novels, it would be even more cinematographic. That it would be exciting, that if you could get there it would be fun and that transversality would be interesting. (…) Build a film like a novel, when [passe d’un personnage à l’autre d’un chapitre à l’autre]it would be intrinsically cinematographic. And that everything in chronological order would be intrinsically anti-cinematographic, dull. “
Rodriguez then revived his comrade director asking him if it was a specific novel that had given him this revelation. “No specific novel made me think about that”replies Tarantino, “It is rather than every time I read a novel built in a way [non chronologique]I was trying to make a film that way. And I know that it is not something that Paramount would authorize, especially when we came out of the 80s, which was a very oppressive period for cinema. (…) Everything was standardized. “
“A film gave me right”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPYZHZN4GNQ
“But a film was right for me: Fred Schepisi's Russia (1990), adapted from John Le Carré with Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer. I have never read the novel, but we guess that its structure was respected because it really alternated the temporalities until the middle of the film, and it was exciting! That's where I was right.”
And during his career, Tarantino will rarely deviate from this same construction, which has become one of his filmmaker's factory brands.
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