Surely you love Quentin Tarantino’s filmography, and even more knowing that his 10th and last film is close to being released, but if you thought that the director’s first film was Reservoir Dogsyou’re wrong.
Both Tarantino himself and a multitude of critics and users continue to consider Reservoir Dogs as the director’s first film, the truth is that he had a previous one and that it lies shrouded in mystery.
And it is that the director’s first film is not well known, basically because the director himself Tarantino he has been putting it aside to consider Reservoir Dogs as his debut.
We talk specifically about My Best Friend’s Birthdaya film that he worked on Quentin Tarantino between 1984 to 1986, along with his friend from acting classes and co-writer Craig Hamann.
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The film had a budget of $5,000, and in it we already saw the characteristic style that we would see later in the rest of the director’s films, not lacking that black humor and great dialogues.
Mystery with the duration of the film
The length of the film was supposed to be 70 minutes, but was ultimately only 36 minutes, and legend has it that the rest of the tape was lost in a fire.
However, when Andrew J. Rausch’s book My Best Friend’s Birthday: The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film was published, the exact fate of the missing minutes on that film was clarified, stating that the missing footage was due to an error. since it was accidentally deleted.
Tarantino, for all these years, deliberately allowed the rumor of the fire to spread, to give this film a legendary touch.
