Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds opens with a lengthy sequence entitled Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France ( though in specifics the scene bears more resemblance to Lee Van Cleef's entrance in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ), and his Kill Bill films feature snatches of Morricone's soundtrack.

Hotei is best known internationally for his song " Battle Without Honor or Humanity ", which has been used in numerous films, commercials, and video games, most notably Quentin Tarantino's feature film Kill Bill.

Hotei's best known song " Battle Without Honor or Humanity " was used in Quentin Tarantino's feature film Kill Bill, the PlayStation 2 version of Dance Dance Revolution SuperNOVA, and Michael Bay's feature film Transformers.

He has appeared in several feature films, including Who Loves the Sun ( 2006 ), Monster-in-Law ( 2005 ), The Aviator ( 2004 ), Torque ( 2004 ), High Crimes ( 2002 ), Star Trek: First Contact ( 1996 ), and The Lesser Evil ( 1998 ) he also had a small role in Quentin Tarantino's directorial debut Reservoir Dogs.

In Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse double feature, both the Planet Terror and Death Proof segments have references to missing reels, used as plot devices.

Other defining recordings include " Sugar Town ", the 1967 number one " Somethin ' Stupid " ( a duet with her father ), the title song from the James Bond film You Only Live Twice, several collaborations with Lee Hazlewood such as " Jackson ", and her cover of Cher's " Bang Bang ( My Baby Shot Me Down )", which features during the opening sequence of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds is the story of a group of guerrilla U. S. soldiers in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

It went on to become Tarantino's highest grossing film, both in the United States and worldwide.

The film stemmed from Tarantino's desire to produce a spaghetti western set in America's Deep South ; Tarantino has called the proposed style " a southern ", stating that he wanted " to do movies that deal with America's horrible past with slavery and stuff but do them like spaghetti westerns, not like big issue movies.

Actor Steve Buscemi has described Tarantino's different style of film making as " bursting with energy " and " focused ," a style that has earned him many accolades worldwide.

For example, before Quentin Tarantino's fourth film was released, his films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Jackie Brown were sometimes referred to as " the Quentin Tarantino trilogy ", although the stories of the three films hardly interconnected.

Wise's use and mention of time in this film would find echos in later noir films such as Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

Quentin Tarantino's smash hit film Pulp Fiction made heavy use of rock instrumentals on its soundtrack, spurring some interest in classic instrumentals, and revitalizing Dick Dale's career.

" Georgie's Theme " from Herrmann's score for the 1968 film Twisted Nerve is whistled by one-eyed nurse Elle Driver in the hospital corridor scene in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol.

Their songs have been used extensively in film soundtracks, the most notable being Quentin Tarantino's 1997 movie Jackie Brown, in which " La-La ( Means I Love You )" and " Didn't I Blow Your Mind " underscore the pivotal relationship between Pam Grier and Robert Forster.

* 1997: Seventies flim star Pam Grier plays a flight attendant in Quentin Tarantino's gangster film Jackie Brown.

In the climax of Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, soldiers trap, surround, and then assassinate both Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and his entire High Command ( the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht ) in a burning Paris, France movie theater in an alternate 1944, theoretically ending the war.

He worked as a cinematographer on Tarantino's unfinished first film, My Best Friend's Birthday.

On 8 March 1996, the film began a limited theatrical run in North America through Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder distribution company under Miramax.

Quentin Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds features a character named Lt. Aldo Raine aka " Aldo the Apache " played by Brad Pitt who wears the unit's crossed arrows collar insignia and red arrowhead shoulder patch.

Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction featured John Travolta and Uma Thurman dancing the Twist to Chuck Berry's " You Never Can Tell " as part of the Jack Rabbit Slim's Twist Contest.

In 1986, she played a robotics engineer, Nora Hunter, in the science fiction movie Eliminators, the leading role in the film Dolly Dearest in 1992, appeared in Stephen King's Pet Sematary and Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown.

According to Tarantino's audio commentary on the DVD release, he was happy with the way it turned out as, apart from changing the nonlinear narrative he wrote to a more conventional linear structure, it was largely faithful to his original screenplay and, although he initially opposed director Tony Scott's decision to change the ending ( which Scott maintained was of his own volition, not the studio's, saying " I just fell in love with these two characters and didn ’ t want to see them die ") he realized when seeing the completed film that Scott's happy ending was more appropriate to the film as he had directed it, whereas the originally scripted ending would have been more suited to Tarantino's directorial style.

Inroads into Hollywood have been made by the company in the form of visual homages from the highly successful sci-fi film directed by the Wachowski brothers, The Matrix, and by creating the animated sequence in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol.

* Quentin Tarantino's Thunderbolt, the fictitious " original title " of the Quentin Tarantino film Death Proof

Because of its irreverent and frequently off-topic dialogue, fast pace, rapidly changing point of view, and achronological format, the film is generally categorized as one of many movies of varying quality that attempted to capture the same style of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

In January 1992, Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs screened at the Sundance Film Festival and was an immediate hit.

Tarantino's screenplay True Romance was optioned and eventually released in 1993.

Released in theaters on April 6, 2007, Tarantino's contribution to the Grindhouse project was titled Death Proof.

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs ( 1992 ) was reworked from Lam's City on Fire ( 1987 ), and critics have indicated that there are shot-by-shot copies of certain action sequences.

Their first single, " Down in Mexico ," was an R & B hit in 1956 and appears ( in a re-recording from 1970 — still with Gardner singing the lead ) on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.

" Jungle Boogie " was featured on the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's well known cult classic Pulp Fiction.

Since Tarantino was busy prepping Reservoir Dogs, Avary was hired with Tarantino's consent by Tony Scott and Hadida to work as a script doctor on the material, a job which included bringing the length down, reforming the narrative to a linear fashion, and writing a more commercial ending where the Clarence character is not killed.

Their career was given another rejuvenating shot in the arm by Quentin Tarantino's use of The Lively Ones ' version of Nokie Edwards ' " Surf Rider " and several other classic surf songs in the soundtrack of the hit movie Pulp Fiction.

In 2008 he had a starring role as " The Gent " in Quentin Tarantino's " HELL RIDE " that was written & Directed by Larry Bishop.

In October 2011 it was announced that LaPaglia would join the cast of Quentin Tarantino's new film Django Unchained, in which he would portray an Australian character once again.

The trunk shot also reached the video game world and was used in the 2002 game GTA: Vice City, in a scene resembling the trunk shot scene of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.

In 1992, " Stuck In the Middle With You " was used in Quentin Tarantino's debut film Reservoir Dogs.

Lalo Schifrin's " Tiger Tank " was also used in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds for the tension building end scenes.

The 5. 6. 7. 8's version gained cult popularity when it was featured and performed by them in Quentin Tarantino's 2003 movie Kill Bill: Vol.

* Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown ( 1997 ) and Kill Bill ( 2003 )

Robert Forster ( born July 13, 1941 ) is an American actor, best known for his roles as John Cassellis in Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool, and as Max Cherry in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, the latter of which gained him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

The 1973 Bond film Live and Let Die uses blaxploitation themes, and Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown and Scott Sanders ' Black Dynamite are modern homages to this genre.

Her career was revitalized in 1997 after her appearance in Quentin Tarantino's film Jackie Brown.

She again appeared in 1997 with the title role in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, a film that partly paid homage to her ' 70s blaxploitation movies.