Tarantino writes his characters as if he IS the character. He takes the role on for himself when he writes similar to how an actor would get into the role of a character in a film. Tarantino knows about the criminal life and from his past experiences, he is able to apply them to the characters. In Jackie Brown, he took on the role of Ordell and made Ordell say thing similar to what Tarantino would say ‘He becomes the character’ that is why it was so hard for Quentin to let that role go and to give it to Samuel L Jackson to play becuase in tarantino’s eyes, Tarantino was Ordell. Tarantino even said hiself had he not become a director he may have becoma a criminal.
Also that Big D thing was to do with how he came up with that Sicilian speech for True Romance, as Big D was like a father figure to Quentin who told him that Sicilians were ‘spawned’ by blacks, he then used this in his script.
