Tarantino was born in Knoxville, the son of Connie Zastoupil ( McHugh), a health care executive and nurse, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician born in Queens, New York . Tarantino's father is part Italian and his mother is of Irish and Cherokee Native American ancestry. Dropping out of Narbonne High School in Harbor City, California at the age of 15, he went on to learn acting at the James Best Theatre Company. At the age of 22, he landed a job at the Manhattan Beach Video Archives, a now defunct video rental store in Manhattan Beach, California where he and fellow movie buffs like Roger Avary spent all day discussing and recommending films to customers such as actor Danny Strong.
Tarantino often uses unconventional storytelling device in his films, such as retrospective (Reservoir Dogs), non-linear (Pulp Fiction), novelistic, "chapter" format dramaturgy (Kill Bill, Four Rooms), or time-twisting (Jackie Brown in the sequence showing what all the main characters did at the money drop in the mall or in Death Proof when he shows the car accident one time for every character involved). He guest directed a scene in Sin City which used a similar layout.
He was thanked in the liner notes of Nirvana's final studio album In Utero although the spelling of his name is incorrect. Tarantino returned the favor by thanking Nirvana on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack, along with the message "RIP Kurt". It is known that Cobain and his wife Courtney Love turned down an offer to act in Pulp Fiction as Lance & Jody.
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