"Fandango is one of the best directorial debuts in the history of cinema. I saw Fandango five times at the movie theater and it only played for a f'n week, all right?" -direct quote from Empire magazine.
At least he has SOME sense!
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Tarantino Influenced by Fandango?
Quentin has listed Fandango in his top ten favorite films. We all know how he nicks (sorry, 'homages') the best bits from other films, right? Well, have you noticed that Fandango starts with the film title, followed by a dictionary definition - as does Pulp Fiction?
http://www.ultimatefandango.com/info/trivia.htm
Yup ! I can see also how he was probably blown away by the use of popular music as background music to some key scenes (''Born to be wild'', ''Saturday", Pat Metheny's ''It's for you'' during the wedding), something which of course he himself does very often and quite well ...
(PLUS during the opening credits with the wild car ride, notice at one point how one of the guys is standing on top of the roof while strapped to it a la DEATHPROOF ;)
QT was on Howard Stern in the nineties and they were talking about movies that just came out, and WATERWORLD was out and getting bad press, and QT said something like, "But Costner's a great actor. Have you seen FANDANGO?"
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