100 Fun Facts About Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino grew up near Los Angeles, but in which Southern city was he born?

Knoxville, Tennessee was home for only a few years: his mother moved with him to California when he was a small child, and he grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs.

Tarantino was named in part after Quint Asper, a character played by Burt Reynolds in which TV Western?

Gunsmoke's Quint Asper supplied only half the name: his mother also had in mind Quentin, a character in William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury.

Tarantino spent five years working at the Video Archives store in which California city?

Video Archives was a rental shop in Manhattan Beach, California, where Tarantino clerked for about five years in the 1980s; he liked to say that instead of film school, 'I went to films'.

As a teenager, Tarantino was caught shoplifting a novel by which author from a Kmart?

Elmore Leonard stayed with him: nearly two decades after that trip to Kmart, Tarantino adapted another Leonard crime novel for the screen as Jackie Brown.

In 1988 Tarantino played an Elvis impersonator on an episode of which sitcom?

The Golden Girls was all his acting ambitions had to show for dozens of auditions: one 1988 episode, as one of a troupe of Elvis impersonators at Sophia's wedding.

Tarantino's first Hollywood job was as a production assistant on an exercise video fronted by which action star?

Dolph Lundgren's workout video Maximum Potential took on Tarantino and a fellow clerk from his video store as production assistants, years before either had a script filmed.

What was the title of the low-budget 1987 film Tarantino co-wrote and directed before Reservoir Dogs?

My Best Friend's Birthday, co-written with Craig Hamann and shot in black and white, was never finished; about half an hour survives, and he recycled parts of it in a script he later sold.

Which Tarantino script was directed by Tony Scott and released in 1993, a year after Reservoir Dogs?

True Romance recycled the opening and some dialogue of his unfinished amateur film; written in 1987, the script went unsold for about four years before Tony Scott took it on.

Which director's rewrite of Natural Born Killers left Tarantino with only a story credit?

Oliver Stone directed Natural Born Killers (1994) after heavily rewriting Tarantino's script; Tarantino disowned the film and took only a 'story by' credit.

Reservoir Dogs' title reportedly came from a video-store customer mangling the name of which French film?

Au revoir les enfants, Louis Malle's 1987 drama, is said to have come out as 'reservoir dogs' at the Video Archives counter; Tarantino said he liked how it sounded like an Alain Delon film for Jean-Pierre Melville.

Which colour-coded crook does Tarantino himself play in Reservoir Dogs?

Mr. Brown delivers the opening 'Like a Virgin' monologue; the film stayed a script until Harvey Keitel signed on as star and co-producer, which gave it the standing to raise $1.5 million.

Which 1970s song plays as Mr. Blonde tortures the captured cop in Reservoir Dogs?

Stealers Wheel's 1973 hit 'Stuck in the Middle with You' plays from K-Billy's Super Sounds of the Seventies as Mr. Blonde dances around and slices off the cop's ear.

Reservoir Dogs was accused of borrowing heavily from City on Fire, a 1987 heist film made where?

City on Fire is a 1987 Hong Kong crime thriller directed by Ringo Lam; its undercover-cop plot and climactic Mexican standoff prefigure Reservoir Dogs, and Tarantino has acknowledged the influence.

At which festival did Reservoir Dogs premiere in January 1992?

Reservoir Dogs premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January 1992, after Tarantino had workshopped scenes at the Sundance Institute's directors' lab the previous summer.

Which prize did Pulp Fiction win at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival?

Palme d'Or: Clint Eastwood's jury gave Pulp Fiction the festival's top prize, a choice that surprised the hall; one woman screamed at Tarantino as he began his speech, and he answered her with a raised finger.

With whom did Tarantino share the Best Original Screenplay Oscar for Pulp Fiction?

Roger Avary shared the 1995 Best Original Screenplay Oscar with Tarantino; the two had met working the counter at Video Archives, and the Butch storyline grew out of an Avary script.

Which character does Tarantino play in Pulp Fiction?

Tarantino plays Jimmie, the friend whose house Jules and Vincent use in 'The Bonnie Situation' to hide the car and get rid of Marvin's body before Jimmie's wife, Bonnie, comes home.

Which 1981 Brian De Palma thriller starring John Travolta does Tarantino count among his favourite films?

Blow Out stars Travolta as a sound man who records a political assassination; Tarantino has named it one of his three desert-island films, and he later cast its star as Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction.

Jackie Brown is an adaptation of which 1992 crime novel?

Rum Punch, a 1992 crime novel, gave Tarantino the plot of Jackie Brown (1997); he renamed heroine Jackie Burke, made her Black rather than white, and moved the story from South Florida to Los Angeles.

Jackie Brown pays homage to Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which starred which actress?

Pam Grier, the star of Coffy (1973) and Foxy Brown (1974), plays Jackie; her opening walk through the airport to Bobby Womack's 'Across 110th Street' is another blaxploitation borrowing.

Which Jackie Brown actor earned an Academy Award nomination for playing bail bondsman Max Cherry?

Robert Forster's turn as bail bondsman Max Cherry earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 1998 Oscars; the part revived a career that had drifted into B-movies since the 1970s.

How much was Tarantino paid for From Dusk till Dawn, his first paid writing assignment?

$1,500 was what effects artist Robert Kurtzman and his partner scraped together around 1990 to have Tarantino script Kurtzman's vampire treatment; Robert Rodriguez finally filmed it in 1996.

In From Dusk till Dawn, Tarantino plays the deranged brother of a bank robber played by whom?

George Clooney plays Seth Gecko, with Tarantino as his deranged brother Richie; the pair end up trapped in a Mexican border strip club that turns out to be full of vampires.

Tarantino directed the final segment of which 1995 anthology film with Rodriguez, Anders and Rockwell?

Four Rooms follows bellhop Ted (Tim Roth) through a hotel on New Year's Eve; Tarantino's closing segment restages a Hitchcock TV episode in which a man bets his little finger that his lighter will light ten times running.

Roughly how long was the Kill Bill cut that persuaded the studio to split it into two volumes?

Over four hours long in its first assembly, Kill Bill was split into two volumes at Miramax's suggestion, announced in July 2003; Volume 1 arrived that October and Volume 2 in April 2004.

For which actor did Tarantino originally write Bill in Kill Bill, before David Carradine?

Warren Beatty was the Bill Tarantino first had in mind, but as he wrote, the part drifted toward Kung Fu star David Carradine; Beatty has said he also didn't want to leave his family for a shoot in China.

In Kill Bill, the Bride travels to Okinawa to obtain a sword from which legendary swordsmith?

Hattori Hanzō, played by Sonny Chiba, is the retired Okinawa swordsmith who forges the Bride's blade; the name nods to the real 16th-century samurai and to Chiba's role in the 1980s Japanese series Shadow Warriors.

Why does the Crazy 88 fight in Kill Bill: Volume 1 switch to black and white?

To avoid an NC-17 rating, Tarantino put the bloodiest stretch of the House of Blue Leaves battle in black and white; the cut released in Japan kept the whole sequence in colour.

Which move finally kills Bill in Kill Bill: Volume 2?

The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, which Pai Mei refuses to teach his students, lets its victim take only five steps before dying; Bill is surprised she learned it, then walks his five.

What is the Bride's real name, finally revealed in Kill Bill: Volume 2?

Beatrix Kiddo is kept from the audience through Volume 1; in Volume 2 Elle Driver says the name aloud on the phone to Bill, and the Bride's Deadly Viper codename was Black Mamba.

The Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill later made a cameo in the music video for which 2010 song?

'Telephone', Lady Gaga's 2010 duet with Beyoncé, features the yellow Pussy Wagon in its Jonas Åkerlund-directed video; Tarantino, who kept the truck after the shoot, lent it for the clip.

On which 2005 Robert Rodriguez film was Tarantino credited as 'Special Guest Director' for a car scene?

Sin City credits Tarantino as 'Special Guest Director' for the car scene between Clive Owen and Benicio del Toro; he reportedly took a $1 fee, returning the favour after Rodriguez scored Kill Bill for the same sum.

The 2007 Grindhouse double feature paired Tarantino's slasher with which Robert Rodriguez zombie film?

Planet Terror, Rodriguez's half of Grindhouse, has Rose McGowan's go-go dancer Cherry Darling swap her lost leg for an assault rifle; the double feature flopped in the US in April 2007, and abroad the two films were released separately.

Who plays Stuntman Mike, the killer with rigged stunt cars, in Tarantino's half of Grindhouse?

Kurt Russell plays Stuntman Mike, who murders young women with his reinforced stunt cars; Tarantino said he cast him because 'for people of my generation, he's a true hero'.

Which stuntwoman, the Bride's double on Kill Bill, plays herself in the climax of Tarantino's Death Proof?

Zoë Bell, the New Zealand stuntwoman who doubled the Bride throughout Kill Bill, plays herself riding the hood of a white 1970 Dodge Challenger in the climactic 'ship's mast' car chase.

Which of his own films did Tarantino say in 2012 has 'got to be the worst movie I ever make'?

Death Proof 'has got to be the worst movie I ever make', Tarantino told a 2012 directors' roundtable, adding that if that was the worst he ever got, he was fine with it.

Inglourious Basterds is a misspelled nod to a 1978 war film by which Italian director?

Enzo G. Castellari directed The Inglorious Bastards (1978), the Italian war film whose title Tarantino borrowed; he called the misspelling 'a Basquiat-esque touch', and Castellari cameos as a German general at the premiere scene.

Which comedian was Tarantino's first choice for Donny 'The Bear Jew' Donowitz in Inglourious Basterds?

Adam Sandler was Tarantino's first choice for the bat-wielding 'Bear Jew', but he was committed to Judd Apatow's Funny People; Eli Roth took the part instead.

Which Inglourious Basterds character won Christoph Waltz prizes at Cannes and the Oscars?

Hans Landa, the SS colonel nicknamed 'the Jew Hunter', seemed unplayable to Tarantino, who was days from calling off the film when Christoph Waltz auditioned; the role won Waltz Best Actor at Cannes and an Oscar.

How many Best Supporting Actor Oscars has Christoph Waltz won for Tarantino films?

He is the only actor to win two Oscars under Tarantino, for Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained.

What does original Django Franco Nero ask Jamie Foxx's Django to do?

Spell his name: Franco Nero, star of Sergio Corbucci's 1966 Django, has Jamie Foxx's Django spell it out, hears that the D is silent and replies 'I know'.

What was Christoph Waltz's Dr. King Schultz before becoming a bounty hunter in Django Unchained?

A dentist by trade, Dr. King Schultz has given up teeth for bounties, but he travels in a wagon with a giant molar bobbing on a spring above it.

Which of these was considered for the title role in Django Unchained before Jamie Foxx was cast?

Will Smith was Tarantino's first choice for Django and met with him about it, but passed, later saying the part wasn't the film's true lead; Idris Elba was also mentioned before Jamie Foxx was cast.

Who plays Django's wife Broomhilda von Shaft in Django Unchained?

Kerry Washington plays Broomhilda von Shaft, whose German lets Schultz pose as a charmed countryman and offer to buy her from Calvin Candie; Washington had earlier played Jamie Foxx's wife in Ray (2004).

Leonardo DiCaprio really cut his hand while filming which Django Unchained scene?

The phrenology dinner speech, in which Calvin Candie brandishes a skull, is where DiCaprio slammed his hand onto a glass; he carried on in character, bleeding, and the take was used.

Why did Tarantino nearly abandon The Hateful Eight in January 2014?

The script leaked online in January 2014 after Tarantino had shared it with only a few actors; he vowed to shelve it, staged a live reading that April, then relented and shot it in Colorado.

The Hateful Eight was released in a roadshow version on which extra-wide film format?

Ultra Panavision 70, last used on Khartoum in 1966, came back by accident: cinematographer Robert Richardson spotted the old lenses on a shelf at Panavision during a test, and the company refitted them for the film.

Which composer won his only competitive Oscar for scoring The Hateful Eight?

Ennio Morricone, then 87, won Best Original Score after five nominations without a win; alongside his new music, the film reuses pieces he wrote in 1982 for John Carpenter's The Thing.

Most of The Hateful Eight takes place in a snowbound stagecoach stopover called what?

Minnie's Haberdashery is where the travellers shelter from the blizzard, only to find Minnie gone and a stranger named Bob claiming to mind the place; Warren works out that Bob is lying and shoots him.

In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, what is the name of DiCaprio's fading TV-Western star?

Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, once starred as bounty hunter Jake Cahill in the TV Western Bounty Law; by 1969 he is reduced to guest-villain parts in shows like Lancer.

What is the name of Cliff Booth's pit bull in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

Brandy, Cliff Booth's pit bull, mauls two of the Manson family intruders in the finale; the dog's performance won the Palm Dog award at Cannes in 2019.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was the first Tarantino film made without which producers?

Bob and Harvey Weinstein, through Miramax and then The Weinstein Company, had released every Tarantino feature from Reservoir Dogs to The Hateful Eight; after the 2017 abuse allegations against Harvey, Tarantino took the film to Sony.

Which actor's last film role was Lancer star Wayne Maunder in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

Luke Perry died of a stroke in March 2019, aged 52, months before the film opened; he plays Wayne Maunder, a real star of the series Lancer, in the Western scenes with Leonardo DiCaprio.

Which open question does Tarantino's 2021 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood novel settle?

Cliff Booth really killed his wife: the novel's chapter on her death opens with him shooting Billie with a shark gun on their boat, and he gets away with it; it also fills in his war record.

What is the title of Tarantino's 2022 non-fiction book about the films of the New Hollywood era?

Cinema Speculation is built around American films of the 1970s that Tarantino first saw as a young moviegoer, among them Dirty Harry, Deliverance and Taxi Driver, with memoir chapters at either end.

Which script, announced as Tarantino's tenth and final film, did he abandon in April 2024?

The Movie Critic, set in 1977 and announced as his tenth and final film, was dropped by Tarantino in April 2024 after more than a year of development; he had long said he would retire after ten features.

Which Los Angeles cinema did Tarantino buy in 2007, promising it would always show 35 mm?

The New Beverly, a revival house on Beverly Boulevard, was bought by Tarantino in 2007 after owner Sherman Torgan died; he took over its programming in 2014 and added a second film-only theatre, the Vista, in 2021.

Tarantino co-wrote and directed 'Grave Danger', the 2005 season finale of which TV series?

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation's two-part season-five finale 'Grave Danger' (2005), in which Nick Stokes is buried alive, earned Tarantino a Primetime Emmy nomination for directing.

Which editor, Tarantino's 'number one collaborator', cut all his films until her death in 2010?

Sally Menke edited every Tarantino film from Reservoir Dogs to Inglourious Basterds and was Oscar-nominated for Pulp Fiction and Basterds; she died while hiking in Los Angeles in 2010, and Fred Raskin took over from Django Unchained onward.

Which actress has Tarantino described as his 'muse', having featured her in three of his films?

Uma Thurman, whom Tarantino has called his muse, starred in Pulp Fiction and both Kill Bill volumes; the two conceived the Bride together during the Pulp Fiction shoot, and she shares the 'Q&U' character credit on Kill Bill.

Which fictional brand of cigarettes recurs across Tarantino's films in place of real product placement?

Red Apple cigarettes turn up from Pulp Fiction to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, whose end credits show DiCaprio's actor filming a Red Apple commercial and promising 'Better drag, more flavour, less throat burn'.

In 1998 Tarantino made his Broadway debut in a revival of which 1966 thriller?

Wait Until Dark, Frederick Knott's thriller about a blind woman terrorised in her flat, cast Tarantino as the villain Harry Roat opposite Marisa Tomei; reviewers panned him, Variety calling him 'the big disappointment'.

Which director publicly criticised Tarantino in 1997 for his frequent use of racial slurs in Jackie Brown?

Spike Lee complained in 1997 that Jackie Brown used the slur dozens of times, asking what Tarantino's fascination with the word was; the two directors' feud flared again over Django Unchained in 2012.

Which Chuck Berry song do Vincent and Mia twist to at Jack Rabbit Slim's in Pulp Fiction?

'You Never Can Tell', which Chuck Berry wrote in the early 1960s while serving a federal prison sentence, plays as Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace twist in the Jack Rabbit Slim's dance contest.

In 1995 Tarantino formed Rolling Thunder Pictures with Miramax to do what?

Rolling Thunder Pictures was set up to release and re-release independent and foreign films Tarantino championed, such as Chungking Express and Sonatine; Miramax later closed it, citing a lack of interest in the releases.

Which 1977 Burt Reynolds film inspired the screenplay Tarantino wrote at 14, Captain Peachfuzz?

Smokey and the Bandit (1977) inspired 'Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit', the script Tarantino wrote at 14; his mother mocked his 'little writing career', and he later vowed never to share his future wealth with her.

Which two studio projects did Tarantino turn down after Reservoir Dogs to write Pulp Fiction instead?

Speed and Men in Black were both offered to Tarantino once Reservoir Dogs had made his name; he turned them down and retreated to Amsterdam to write Pulp Fiction.

From 2002 to 2004 Tarantino played the villain McKenas Cole in which spy series?

Alias cast Tarantino as McKenas Cole, a former SD-6 agent who storms his old headquarters in the 2002 two-parter 'The Box', and brought him back in 2004, the year he chaired the Cannes jury.

Tarantino helped produce Freedom's Fury, about a bloody 1956 Olympic match between Hungary and the USSR in which sport?

Water polo's 'Blood in the Water' semi-final came weeks after Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising, and a punch left Hungary's Ervin Zádor bleeding as his team won 4–0; Tarantino and Lucy Liu were executive producers.

Which actor has appeared in five films directed by Tarantino, plus a sixth that he wrote?

Samuel L. Jackson acted in Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight, plus an early Tarantino script filmed by another director; he won Jules in Pulp Fiction only at a second audition.

In Pulp Fiction, hitman Jules Winnfield recites a passage he credits to which book of the Bible?

Ezekiel 25:17 is the verse Jules names, but the wording comes almost unchanged from the opening of a 1976 Sonny Chiba karate film.

The Bride's yellow tracksuit in Kill Bill: Volume 1 copies the one worn by which martial arts star?

Bruce Lee wore the yellow suit in a 1970s martial arts film, and the Bride's helmet and motorcycle are modelled on the ones he used in it too.

Which wartime leader is shot dead at a Paris film premiere at the climax of Inglourious Basterds?

Adolf Hitler is shot in his opera box alongside Joseph Goebbels while the locked auditorium burns, the boldest of the film's breaks with real history.

In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which weapon does Leonardo DiCaprio's actor turn on an intruder?

A flamethrower, a working prop kept in his shed from a war film in which his character torches Nazis, incinerates the last of the attackers.

Which Tom Hanks film beat Pulp Fiction to Best Picture at the 67th Academy Awards?

Forrest Gump won six Oscars that night, Best Picture among them, while Pulp Fiction went home with a single award, for its screenplay.

After lying about his age, the teenage Quentin Tarantino worked as an usher at what kind of venue?

An adult movie theater in Torrance, the Pussycat, took on the under-age usher; his other early jobs included a spell as a recruiter in the aerospace industry.

What does Aldo Raine carve into the foreheads of the Nazis he lets live in Inglourious Basterds?

A swastika, cut with his knife, means the survivors cannot simply take off the uniform and hide what they were once the war is over.

Which real-life 1960s actress does Margot Robbie play in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

Sharon Tate also appears as herself: in one scene Robbie's version slips into a matinee of The Wrecking Crew, and the clips on screen show the real actress.

Which drug is injected into Mia Wallace's chest to revive her after an overdose in Pulp Fiction?

Adrenaline brings Mia round after she snorts heroin she mistook for cocaine, a scene inspired by a story told in a Scorsese documentary about a Taxi Driver actor.

Which antique instrument, loaned by a museum, was smashed for real while filming The Hateful Eight?

A Martin guitar from the 1870s was meant to be swapped for a copy before the take, but nobody told the actor, and his co-star's horrified reaction is genuine.

Which actor plays undercover cop Mr. Orange in Reservoir Dogs and robber Pumpkin in Pulp Fiction?

Tim Roth chose the Reservoir Dogs part because he liked the idea of an English actor pretending to be an American, playing a cop pretending to be a robber.

Which Reservoir Dogs actor turned down Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction to appear in Wyatt Earp?

Michael Madsen later said he regretted the decision, which is how the role went to John Travolta, whose career was reinvigorated by the film's success.

Which actor delivers the gold watch monologue to young Butch as Captain Koons in Pulp Fiction?

Christopher Walken plays an Air Force veteran bringing the boy an heirloom from his father, who died in a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam.

What is Jackie Brown's day job when she is caught smuggling cash for gun runner Ordell Robbie?

Flight attendant Jackie brings his money in from Mexico on her regular route, and then an ATF agent and a detective stop her with the cash and a bag of cocaine she knew nothing about.

What is the name of the Mississippi plantation where Broomhilda is enslaved in Django Unchained?

Candyland belongs to the charming but brutal Calvin Candie, who forces enslaved men there into fatal wrestling matches for his amusement.

In The Hateful Eight, a bounty hunter carries a prized personal letter from which US president?

Abraham Lincoln did not write it: a fellow traveller works out that the letter is a fake, yet it is read aloud admiringly in the final scene.

Which Dick Dale surf-rock instrumental plays over the opening credits of Pulp Fiction?

Misirlou began as a folk song from the eastern Mediterranean, and Dale's 1962 rock rearrangement drew on an Arabic version played on the oud.

Whose 1966 cover of Cher's hit Bang Bang plays over the opening credits of Kill Bill: Volume 1?

Nancy Sinatra recorded it for a 1966 album in a haunting arrangement, and the film brought her version a new wave of popularity.

Which actor won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar as a stunt double in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

Brad Pitt's win was one of only two Oscars the film took from its ten nominations; the other was for production design.

In Pulp Fiction, which weapon does Butch Coolidge finally pick in the pawnshop to rescue Marsellus?

A katana wins out after he weighs up a hammer, a baseball bat and a chainsaw, each one a nod to the weapons of earlier screen violence.

Which Italian actor, star of the original 1966 Django, makes a cameo in Django Unchained?

Franco Nero had been rumoured for the part of the villainous plantation owner, but was instead given a cameo as a minor character.

Tarantino named his production company A Band Apart after a film by which French New Wave director?

Jean-Luc Godard's Bande à part was his favourite of the director's films, though the company's logo came from his own debut: a stylised image of the robbers from Reservoir Dogs.

Which fake Grindhouse trailer did Robert Rodriguez expand into a 2010 feature starring Danny Trejo?

Machete had been written in 1993 as a full feature for Trejo; it only reached the screen after the spoof trailer, and a sequel followed in 2013.

Which actor played Mr. White in Reservoir Dogs and signed on as co-producer to help fund it?

Harvey Keitel was passed the script by the wife of the producer's acting teacher, liked it, and even paid for casting sessions in New York.

In The Hateful Eight, the travellers are bound for the town of Red Rock in which snowy territory?

Wyoming is where the story is set, but the blizzard was filmed elsewhere: shooting began in January 2015 near Telluride, in the mountains of Colorado.

Which former Western film set is home to the Manson Family in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?

Spahn Ranch really was the group's base: its elderly owner, who was going blind, let them move in rent-free in exchange for their labour.

Tarantino added pop-culture banter, uncredited, to which 1995 Tony Scott submarine thriller?

Crimson Tide owes much of its pop-culture chatter to his polish; one of its stars objected to some of the added lines on set and apologised to him years later.

As Cannes jury president in 2004, Tarantino saw the top prize go to which political documentary?

Fahrenheit 9/11 became the first documentary to win the festival's main award since The Silent World in 1956.

As Venice jury president in 2010, Tarantino gave the top prize to a film by which ex-girlfriend?

Sofia Coppola, who dated him from 2003 to 2005, won for Somewhere; an Italian reviewer accused him of favouritism, which he denied.

Which soul singer recorded Across 110th Street, the blaxploitation-era theme heard in Jackie Brown?

Bobby Womack's song scores an opening sequence that restages The Graduate, swapping its sombre Simon and Garfunkel track for soaring soul.