The Tarantinoverse
Quentin Tarantino’s work boasts not one, but two cinematic universes. There’s the actual world of his films where Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs is brothers with John Travolta in Pulp Fiction and everyone eats Big Kahuna Burger. But there’s also, as Tarantino puts it, “this special ‘movie’ universe… So basically when the characters of Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction, when they go to the movies … Kill Bill is what they go see.” These “movie movies” tend to be Tarantino at his most stylish and unhinged, which makes sense given that they are “not real”. Confused yet?