One thing that Quentin Tarantino includes in all his movies is characters carrying on long and complicated conversations about a variety of topics. Through many of his movies, his characters are talking pop culture. However, he also has his historical movies, including two westerns and a war movie.
Tarantino likes to make his characters look smart, and he uses these long scenes of dialogue to do so. However, as much as Tarantino likes to paint his characters in an intellectual light, there are several characters that are completely clueless and fail to match up with the best QT characters in movies.
9 Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - Cliff Booth
There aren't many highly intelligent characters in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The movie tells the story of a Hollywood actor and a stuntman who are friends and trying to make it, with varying levels of success. Leonard DiCaprio's actor isn't the brightest, and Cliff Booth is the smartest in the movie by default.
Cliff proved to be smart, as he realized there was something wrong with the old film lot he used to make movies at and set out to figure it out. He also realized that he was in danger in the end and had trained his dog to protect him, not only saving his own life but that of Sharon Tate.
8 Reservoir Dogs - Mr. White
The characters in Reservoir Dogs thought they were smart. Quentin Tarantino cast himself in the movie and tried to make his character seem intelligent, but he seemed more full of bluster than anything, trying to explain his thoughts on Madonna's "Like a Virgin."
By the end, the smartest person in the movie was Harvey Keitel's Mr. White, and he even left something to be desired. He was someone who survived the botched bank robbery, and while he was completely fooled by the undercover cop in their gang, he knew what to do and what not to do to attempt to stay alive, unlike the more impulsive Mr. Blonde.
7 Death Proof - Stuntman Mike
There isn't much in Death Proof in terms of intelligence, as Quentin Tarantino was making a grindhouse movie and it was all about the violence and spectacle. This was basically a slasher movie with Kurt Russell starring as Stuntman Mike, a serial killer who targeted young women.
He was the smartest in the movie, someone who created a car that he could wreck and come out injured. However, anyone in the car with him would die in the wrecks. He also targeted some drunk women in Texas, knowing he would get away with the murder since he was sober. His brains weren't enough to stop three women in Tennessee from beating him to death.
6 Kill Bill - The Bride
The Bride was a master assassin for a man named Bill. When she decided to leave that life behind and get married, Bill had the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad kill her entire wedding party and bury her alive. However, she survived and set out to kill those responsible.
The Bride never lost a step, as one of the deadliest characters in a Quentin Tarantino movie based on kill count. She was also extremely smart, knowing how and when to kill her targets, including using the perfect plan to finally take out Bill.
5 Pulp Fiction - Jules Winnfield
Quentin Tarantino enjoyed his breakout with the movie Pulp Fiction. There were several linked stories, including two hitmen on a hit, a boxer who refused to take a fall, and a night out for a mob boss's wife and his top hitman. Out of all the iconic characters in the movie, the smartest was Jules Winnfield.
Jules and his partner Vincent Vega were the standouts in Pulp Fiction, but Vincent Vega loses points because he died on the toilet. However, Jules was philosophical and proved his intelligence when he knew when to walk away from the life of a killer.
4 Jackie Brown - Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown wouldn't let anyone treat her like a damsel in distress who needed help. In Jackie Brown, she was a flight attendant arrested when her boyfriend used her to smuggle money. While the ATF tried to bully her into working with them, she had other plans.
The movie played out with different looks at the story as it happened. Through it all, Jackie Brown used her brains to play her boyfriend, a bail bondsman, and the ATF agents themselves to get revenge and escape any real danger to her freedom or life.
3 The Hateful Eight - Major Marquis Warren
The Hateful Eight was one of Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti westerns and saw eight despicable individuals stuck together at a lodge. These include two bounty hunters, one with a big prize in a murderer who ran her own gang. One of these was Civil War veteran Major Marquis Warren.
Warren showed his intelligence early on. He showed up as a respected Black man in the post-Civil War era because of a letter he received from President Abraham Lincoln. They learn at the lodge that he forged the letter to earn the trust of white men in the U.S. He was also one of the last to die and showed his intelligence in the end. executing the evil Daisy Domergue by hanging to honor the bounty hunter taking her in.
2 Inglourious Basterds - Hans Landa
Quentin Tarantino made a war movie that threw realism out the window with Inglourious Basterds. The movie took place during World War II and introduced a plan by the Allied forces to kill high-ranking German officials at a movie screening. Their biggest adversary was "The Jew Hunter" Hans Landa.
Landa was an SS officer who was not only ruthless but efficient in killing enemies of the Nazi party. He was also highly intelligent. In the beginning, he knew what he needed to say to learn where the Jewish refugees were hiding. He was one step ahead of his enemies the entire movie until the end when he finally ran across the Basterds while trying to escape.
1 Django Unchained - Dr. King Schultz
The smartest character in any Quentin Tarantino movie was the bounty hunter, Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained. This bounty hunter was smarter than every single person he faced in the movie, including the enslaved man he freed, Django.
Schultz was from a wealthy German family who was both highly intelligent and cultured. He was a former dentist who realized he could make a lot of money as a bounty hunter. From the start, where he outtalked the Speck Brothers to free Django and then made the wealthy Calvin Candie look like an idiot before helping Django find and free his wife.
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September 25, 2021 at 02:00AM
