Tarantino directs ‘CSI’
CBS News | Quentin Tarantino Tackles ‘CSI’ | February 25, 2005�14:00:02
“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” is going to get the Quentin Tarantino touch. The “Kill Bill” and “Pulp Fiction” director, who occasionally drops in on television, will direct the hourlong season finale of the CBS crime drama, the network said.
This is what I like about Tarantino. He’s a big enough geek that he isn’t ashamed to go from Big Time Movie Director to TV guest star (ALIAS) or director (CSI now). Pretty cool.
28. February 2005 at 20:05
I’m giddy about anything Tarantino’s involved with. But CSI is such a formulaic show, I can’t really see Tarantino having a lot of room to really doing anything special with it.
1. March 2005 at 07:58
I can’t bloody wait.
4. March 2005 at 16:42
The real fun is seeing what the writers serve up for the occasion.
I remember the episode of ER that Q directed about ten years ago or so.
The writers were putting in tons of references to Q’s movies. Most predictably, a scene in homage to Pulp Fiction, where someone O.D.ing on Heroin has to get a shot of adrenaline into the heart. It wasn’t as dramatic as the P.F. scene at first… I mean… it WAS a hospital, so it’s a more appropriate setting for such an event. But they threw in an added twist at the end that thew matters into chaos.
If the CSI writers are worth anything, They’ll be bringing their A++ game to this episode.