Profiles: A Tarantino Supercut

“...profile shots generally give you the least amount of information about your characters because you cannot make "eye contact" with them and therefore are removed from a more direct form of evaluation.

However, there are certainly times when you want to keep your characters' intentions or emotions cloaked from your audience: interrogation scenes, standoffs, unreliable narrators and confused characters come to mind.”

-Jon Thorn, January 15th 2013, 12:45 PM, DVXuser Forum.

Edited by Rishi Kaneria (@rishikaneria)

Music: “Snare Liftoff” from Whiplash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Footage from:

Reservoir Dogs

Pulp Fiction

Jackie Brown

Kill Bill Volume 1

Kill Bill Volume 2

Death Proof

Inglourious Basterds

Django Unchained

*Note: Certain shots have been scaled, rotated or mirrored from their original format to create the effect seen in this video.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING FINE BLOGS FOR FEATURING THIS VIDEO:

ROPE OF SILICON:

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/watch-tarantino-profiles-to-the-beat-of-whiplash/

INDIEWIRE:

http://blogs.indiewire.com/pressplay/watch-an-exhilarating-supercut-of-quentin-tarantinos-profile-shots-20150330

THE CREATORS PROJECT:

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/tarantinos-profiles-the-supercut

THE CURIOUS BRAIN:

http://thecuriousbrain.com/?p=59891

THE LAUGHING SQUID:

http://laughingsquid.com/a-supercut-exploring-the-use-of-profile-shots-in-quentin-tarantino-films/

THE SHORT LIST:

http://www.shortlist.com/cool-stuff/virals/strangely-compelling-supercut-of-tarantino-profile-shots

FAST COMPANY CO-CREATE:

http://www.fastcocreate.com/3044499/watch-a-whiplash-tempo-supercut-showing-quentin-tarantinos-use-of-profiles

DEVOUR:

http://devour.com/video/profiles-a-tarantino-supercut/

LIVE FOR FILMS:

http://www.liveforfilms.com/2015/03/31/profiles-a-tarantino-supercut/

THE VERGE:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/4/1/8323965/quentin-tarantino-supercut-profile-watch

BLAME IT ON THE VOICES:

http://www.blameitonthevoices.com/2015/04/supercut-tarantino-profiles.html

PREMIERE.FR:

http://www.premiere.fr/Cinema/News-Cinema/Video/Supercut-les-visages-chez-Quentin-Tarantino-4158235

A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION:

http://ashadedviewonfashion.com/blog/profiles-tarantino-supercut

BFI:

https://twitter.com/BFI/status/585766791219130368

THE ACADEMY:

https://twitter.com/rishikaneria/status/586540548082794497

THE DENVER EGOTIST:

http://www.thedenveregotist.com/news/national/2015/april/2/tarantinos-profiles-supercut

THE MINNEAPOLIS EGOTIST:

http://www.themplsegotist.com/news/national/2015/april/3/tarantinos-profiles-supercut