There are very few directors that are influence by Quentin Tarantino. Some has inspired by his works in films and screenplay. There is one directors has influence by his works and his art form in storytelling, that person is Sofia Coopola. She is a very talented young woman in her field of direct movie and telling a story. She had three of major project that can be trace to Quentin Tarantino work and art form.
Sofia Carmina Coopola was born in May 14, 1971 in New York City. She is also known as a film director, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the daughter of director Francis Ford Coppola, Who is most famous for directing The Godfather Trilogy as well as other films, such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula. He also received Oscars as a producer, director and writer. She is also a Cousin of Nicolas Cage, who Star of many films like National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets and Raising Arizona, and also got an Oscar for “Best Actor in a Leading Role”. She had three major films that she direct and written the screenplay for her movie.
One of her first major productions, which write and direct her movie, is called The Virgin Suicides. The movie is a story about five sisters and their mysterious existence, told in the words of the neighborhood boys who worshiped them and who come together twenty years later to try and solve the mystery of the Lisbon sisters. The movie had a non-linear approach to the telling of the story, like Tarantino work on Pulp Fiction. They don't actually show the death, similar to the torture in Tarantino’s first, Reservoir Dogs.
Here is the prime example of Coopola work on The Virgin Suicide, which can be cross references to Tarantino works. This scene show is how a non-linear approach of telling a story, and didn’t show the death, similar Tarantino works..
She also uses pop culture in music-Air, as well as many radio hits (Al Green, Styx and Heart). It also has strong male bonding-grouped around a table thought the whole movie.
This is a trailer of the movie it example of her using a pop culture in music.
The second production that Coopola work on is called Lost in Translation. Is a story about a movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected newlywed meet up as strangers in Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond. Like Tarantino work on Pulp Fiction that which he got a academy award for best screenplay, Coopola also got a Oscar for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. She also use a lot of pop culture-American culture through a Japanese lens. Including using genre in actor, like Trovtia and Willis in Pulp Fiction same as Murray in Lost in Translation. This also include using music-The score of the film was a cross selection of tastes, from Pop to Soul. Again, Air was a key component of the soundtrack.
In this scene where Charlotte is singing karaoke to an 80’s song, is can cross reference to the similar scene to Trovtia and Thurman dancing scene in Pulp Friction.
The third major production and recited one is called Marie Antoinette. “Coppola says she based her interpretation on Antonia Fraser's 2002 biography, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, which accounts for the film's revised perspective as a "story about teenagers in Versailles," set to a rock score.” Pop music is the most influence in this movie
In this scene is a great prime example of Cooploa work using pop music in this movie.
There are similarities between Coopola and Tarantino work. They both like to use pop culture in clothing styles, languages in slang. Music is the key roles because of both directors are known for their emphasis on using music to expand the stories. They both have reusing actors- Establishing a rapport with an actor then casting them over and over. They have a very unique way to telling a story in their movie.
In 2003 shortly after her divorce with Spike Jonze , Quentin and Sofia briefly dated each other, but it was short lived and lasted only for a few months ,but they still remain friends. They also work together in opening credit for Kill Bill vol. 2. Even Tarantino use some of the picture in Marie Antoinette for his 2007 Death Poof flms.
