It was not a secret for anyone that Quentin Tarantino was raised by a 16-year-old single mother, Connie Mchugh (now Connie Zastoupil), in the 1960s and 70s. His Italian-American biological father, Tony Tarantino, left the family before his son even arrived in 1963. Connie named Quentin, after the famous character, Quint asper, Reynolds played on the classic Western TV, “Gunsmoke”. This is the very role that launched the acting career of Reynolds and brought him glory and a wide range of opportunities to the cinema that he always wanted. Asper was half white and half-co-manche in history, which could be the reason why Connie chose her name, because she herself has the roots of Cherokee. However, it is more a coincidence that the filmmaker having the names of a Western character fell in love with horse operas at an early age rather than Kismet.
You see, if it was to his mother, Tarantino would never have become a storyteller. Speaking with the podcast moment in 2021, Tarantino recalled a living and rather painful memory of his childhood about his mother. He said: “In the middle of her little tirade, she said:” Oh, and by the way, this little “writer career” – with quotes from the finger and everything – this little “writer career” that you do? This S *** is F ****** Over “.”
Tarantino has always spoken of his mother with respect, but his lack of belief in him clearly left a mark on his young me. He said it out loud at the time, but internally, he thought: “When she did not say to me in this sarcastic way, I was in my head and I go:” OK, Madam, when I become a successful writer, you will never see a penny of my success. There will be no house for you.
For what it is worth, Tarantino has kept his word to date. At the same time, it is obvious that he has a great love for the woman who raised her, as well as her influence and the lifestyle that she led greatly contributed to the inspiration of Tarantino as a filmmaker.
Tarantino’s greatest influences came from his childhood because he was raised by a single mother
In his non -fiction book in 2022, “Cinema Speculation” – which is essentially a collection of many criticisms of films combined with personal tests – Tarantino talks about his youth and the first experiences that often implied going to the cinema with his mother and his different boyfriends. Apparently, once, Connie took him to see the vicious “deliverance” of John Boorman (the thriller which has a scene of male rape) at the age of seven, which, according to her, “did not hurt her at any time”. (By coincidence, “deliverance” Also Includes Burt Reynolds.)
She also worked as a nurse, often grinding double work quarters, which meant that Little Quentin spent a lot of time watching television or going to the theater with anyone who saw her mother at the time. As he remembers, many of these occasions were what initially provided and fed his eternal passion to make films and tell stories. Blaxploitation films with action comments with epic westerns, Tarantino has consumed more cinema than most children of their training years. This undeniably contributed to its transformation into a passionate and confident author who had an immense impact on the cinema since his first first feature film, “Reservoir Dogs”, struck the Silver Screen in the early 90s. Which he was appointed from a character from Burt Reynolds in a famous western is only a coincidence, and frankly, more a footsteps in an already fruitful career Still far from over.
