The Three Stages Of Quentin Tarantino's Career

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For years, Quentin Tarantino has maintained his goal to retire from filmmaking after directing 10 movies. His most recent opus, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, was his ninth writer-director credit (if Kill Bill only counts as one movie), so his next film could be his last. Considering how consistently entertaining and successful his movies are, this decision has baffled some fans. But Tarantino wants to avoid the mistake that most popular directors make. Just because studios will keep financing movie after movie from them, it doesn’t mean they have anything left to say.

Most directors end their careers with a run of forgettable movies that tarnish their legacy. Tarantino can dodge that bullet if Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and whatever he cooks up next (assuming it’s a masterpiece) are the last movies he ever makes. 10 is a nice, round number to end on; the entire Q.T. oeuvre can be neatly packaged in a definitive Blu-ray boxset charting the filmmaker’s evolution from his game-changing debut to his upcoming swansong.

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Whenever he’s asked about it on a talk show or a podcast, Tarantino reiterates that he still plans to end his directorial career with his next film but admits that he has no idea what form the next movie will take (although Kill Bill: Volume 3 is on the table as a possibility). While it’s unclear how Tarantino will ring out his filmography, his legendary 30-year career can be distilled into three separate stages: hip ‘90s crime flicks, exploitation homages, and historical revisionism.

Tarantino first established his distinctive take on genre cinema with his groundbreaking debut feature, Reservoir Dogs. In the early ‘90s, Reservoir Dogs was