Copying Tarantino

[PhantomScreenwriter]

As we know Reservoir Dogs played around with the normal structure of a movie. Pulp Fiction did this even more intricately. My question is this - would copying the structure of a Tarantino film be considered lazy, even though the majority of movies use the traditional structure and are essentially copying one another's structure anyway?

 

[mus]

It's not like those are the only movies without a traditional structure

 

[sfoster]

go for it

 

[directorik]

As we know Reservoir Dogs played around with the normal structure of a movie. Pulp Fiction did this even more intricately. My question is this - would copying the structure of a Tarantino film be considered lazy, even though the majority of movies use the traditional structure and are essentially copying one another's structure anyway?

He is not the first to tell a story from different points of view
in different time frames. He copied from other movies. He
wasn't considered lazy - he made is entire career out of it.
So much so that many people think he was the first writer
to play around with traditional structure.

 

[Aspiring Mogul]

A classic one is Rashoman by Akiro Kurosawa, and that approach has been used in (I think) the Odd Couple as well as Star Trek.

 

[Uranium City]

Check out Stanley Kubrick's The Killing for another example.

 

[trueindie]

Watch Amores Perros.

If it works for your film, use it. It's not a Tarantino style. It's just a style.