The modern-day godfather of exquisite storytelling and stylish filmmaking, with a penchant for blood and guts, consistently churns out highly-entertaining films and some of the best performances from his actors and his flawless dialogue have earned more than a few gold trophies over the years.
This godfather goes by the name of Quentin Tarantino and he continues to push the bounds with his homages to genre classics and alternate reality motion pictures. In addition to the bloody carnage Tarantino conjures up on the screen, he also delivers some wonderfully dark humor into each of his films. Much like the humor in Fargo and Killer Joe, Tarantino's films perfectly blend serious dramatic beats with suspenseful thrills and violent chaotic action with big elements of comedy. Here are the 10 funniest moments in Tarantino movies, ranked.
10 Charlie Brown Serves The Yakuza
This small character in Kill Bill Vol. 1 was a wink to Tarantino's favorite comic strip growing up and is played by Sakichi Sato, who wrote Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer. His character name is unknown and is referred to as Charlie Brown, as he resembles the Peanuts character in his yellow robe with a black zig-zag.
He is always terrified when he has to serve O-Ren Ishii and her gang and is consistently made fun of. He allows it because he does not want to meet the same fate as Boss Tanaka, which comes across in a hilarious way during a very tense scene at the House of Blue Leaves.
9 Louis Kills Melanie In The Mall Parking Lot
Tarantino winked at blaxploitation films with his followup to Pulp Fiction titled Jackie Brown, which is considered one of his best films. In the movie, Robert De Niro plays the calm, quiet, and collected right-hand man to the flamboyant criminal Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), as the two are trying to sort out their money and guns business.
Ordell's main squeeze is a woman named Melanie (Bridget Fonda), who at one point becomes so agitating to the stoic Louis, that in a fit of rage, he pulls out his gun and shoots her dead in the light of day in the middle of a crowded mall parking lot, all for saying his name in an annoying way. It's quite funny in the sense that Louis is always the level headed character until this moment.
8 Hans Landa Smokes His Gigantic Pipe
There's nothing funny about an S.S. Officer of the Nazi regime, but Christoph Waltz and Tarantino made one hilarious in Inglourious Basterds as he had an extremely intense conversation with someone hiding Jewish families underneath the floorboards.
Hans Landa invites himself in, drinks a tall glass of cold fresh milk, and asks to smoke a pipe inside. The man pulls out his pipe to smoke while Landa brandishes a foot-long pipe the size of his shoe, loads some tobacco, and smokes it intently like he was in a Monty Python film.
7 Django Picks Out His Clothing
Jamie Foxx plays Django perfectly in Tarantino's first Western outing, Django Unchained. In the film, Django is freed by a wealthy bounty hunter, disguised as a dentist named Dr. King Schultz, and the two pair up as bounty hunters that leads them to rescue Django's wife from a plantation.
One of the funnier sequences is when Dr. King Shultz tells Django to pick out his own outfit as an upgrade from the raggedy clothes he's been wearing. The music cues up, Jamie Foxx gives a fantastic nod, and the movie cuts to Django in a bright blue and white velvet suit that looks presidential and kingly. It's a remarkable moment and conjures up a much-needed laugh.
6 O.B. Has The Worst Luck
One of the funniest jokes in The Hateful Eight is also a recurring one. The funny gag centers around a horse carriage driver and valet named O.B. This poor guy just can't catch a break during this film. To start, O.B. has the task of traveling across the country in a blizzard as he carries a psychotic killer and her hangman, John Ruth (Kurt Russell).
Along the way, O.B. crosses paths with Major Marcus Warren and Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), as they make their way to a haberdashery to seek shelter from the snowstorm. Once there, O.B. has to get the horses settled in, bring in the luggage, and draws the short straw to make a path to the outhouse, in which he almost dies from the bitter cold. To make matters worse, he ends up getting killed from poisonous coffee in a truly bloody funny sequence.
5 Brad Pitt Fights Bruce Lee
Tarantino shows his love for the 1969 Hollywood state of mind with Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, which follows a B-movie actor (Leo DiCaprio) and his friend/manager/driver/stuntman (Brad Pitt) as they try to succeed in in the movie business while intersecting with Charles Manson and his followers.
While showcasing the ins and outs of Hollywood meetings, movie sets, and luxurious parties, Tarantino shows a hilarious sequence where Bruce Lee is acting a fool on set, trying to intimidate every crewperson. Brad Pitt's character, Cliff Booth, puts him in his place in more than one way in this laugh out loud funny fight scene that has Bruce Lee's tail between his legs.
4 The Gold Watch
Christopher Walken cameos as Captain Koons in Tarantino's masterpiece Pulp Fiction as a USAF veteran of the Vietnam War, who delivers a gold watch to a young Butch (Bruce Willis) from his dead father.
His monologue includes a very descriptive story about the Viet Cong, being captured, the death of Butch's father, and how he smuggled the gold watch his father wanted him to have, which was up where the sun doesn't shine. While this scene was quite touching, Walken's dry and serious performance somehow made it funnier as he has a very grownup conversation with a seven-year-old kid.
3 Hans Landa Learns Italian Names
In this alternate history version of the holocaust, Tarantino has a small group of Jewish soldiers called the Inglorious Basterds, led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt), trek across Nazi-occupied Europe, killing and scalping Nazis. At one point, it's learned that Hitler himself, along with every high ranking official in the Nazi regime will be attending a movie premiere.
Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), is heading up security at the film premiere as three of the Basterds disguise themselves as Italian filmmakers with very Italian names, including Brad Pitt's Southern accent as he tries to convince Landa that his name is Enzo Gorlami. He says it slowly with a thick Southern drawl, multiple times, and it gets funnier every time.
2 Marvin Gets Shot
Jules and Vince are hitmen in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and they end up in an apartment looking for a briefcase for their boss. It's being held by three people and two of them don't make it out after an epic bible verse by Samuel L. Jackson. The one person they leave alive is a guy named Marvin, who they bring with them to talk to their boss, Marsellus.
On the way there, the three men are having a nonchalant, friendly conversation when the car hits a hole in the road and Vince's gun goes off, shooting Marvin in the head. It's a shockingly hilarious moment that catapults the two hitmen on a ton of obstacles that has them end up in a diner with guns drawn.
1 The Ku Klux Klan Tries On Headwear
Tarantino knocked it out of the park with this one, making a mockery out of the Ku Klux Klan in Django Unchained. Many filmmakers have tried to do this and have succeeded by showing just how ridiculous and harebrained this club is.
The Coen Brothers shed some funny light on it in O' Brother Where Art Thou, but Tarantino went down the slapstick road when the Klan tries out the white bags over their heads with the eye holes. Nobody can see out of them, rendering them completely useless as they ride around aimlessly and are killed. It's a Mel Brooks moment for sure that Tarantino nailed.
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June 21, 2020 at 05:30AM
