The films written and directed by Quentin Tarantino are a huge influence on my style of writing, most notably the way I present my characters in their spoken dialogue. What I love most about the way Tarantino writes dialogue is just how real the characters feel when they speak. Some of the conversations and comments I heard in his films are things I could definitely hear myself or some of my friends talking about. A prime example is the scene from Tarantino's Pulp Fiction toward the end when we see the two hitmen, Jules and Vincent, at a diner:
Vincent: Want some bacon?
Jules: No man, I don't eat pork.
Vincent: Are you Jewish?
Jules: Nah, I ain't Jewish, I just don't dig on swine, that's all.
Vincent: Why not?
Jules: Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals.
Vincent: Bacon tastes gooood. Pork chops taste gooood.
Jules: Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got sense enough to disregard its own feces.
Vincent: How about a dog? Dogs eats its own feces.
Jules: I don't eat dog either.
Vincent: Yeah, but do you consider a dog to be a filthy animal?
Jules: I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy but they're definitely dirty. But, a dog's got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Vincent: Ah, so by that rationale, if a pig had a better personality, he would cease to be a filthy animal. Is that true?
Jules: Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charming motherfuckin' pig. I mean he'd have to be ten times more charmin' than that Arnold on Green Acres, you know what I'm sayin'?
Pulp Fiction
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110912/
Reservoir Dogs
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236/
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