- I thought that scene with DiCaprio beating up the two mafia guys while Nobody But Me was playing was like Scorsese saying to QT “You did your thing, well watch this”. Definitely a big difference between QTs epic bloody battle and that little but brutal beatdown, but it was cool if it was in fact a little nod.
- That 1 2 3 cut in (with Bill the Butcher) goes back to Hitchcock. He used it in The Birds. Watch the scene where Jessica Tandy discovers the guy with his eyes pecked out.
- Another little thing I thought QT got from Scorsese was his use of red lighting in his bar scenes (Dogs, Pulp, Kill Bill). One of Scorsese’s big trademarks is his use of the color red in his films (the bars in Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, GoodFellas).
- The tracking shot in Kill Bill in the House of Blue Leaves def was QTs answer to Scorsese’s tracking shot with Henry Hill and Karen descending into the Copacabana in GoodFellas.
- The shot of Dov and Omar slowly backing up in the bar in Death Proof really reminded me of the scene of Harvey Keitel walking into the bar in Mean Streets.