Quentin Tarantino - Auteur?

Quentin Tarantino is known for his expressive dialogue and his surreal depictions of his intricate story lines. Reservoir Dogs was his directorial debut which got favorable reviews. He has followed it up with hits like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2, Inglorious Basterds, etc. His films tend to depict very graphic scenes of violence. But his style is visually stunning. It is rare to find someone who can deliver such visuals and still have dialogue that challenges the mind.
One of my favorite scenes of his comes from Inglorious Basterds. It is the opening scene when Col. Landa visits the house. He begins to make comparisons of jews to rats and germans to hawks. He goes into a long monologue about the lengths someone is willing to go when they abandon all forms of humane behavior. All the while with a smug look on his face. The hatred you start to muster up for this character from the very beginning stays with you throughout the film. It no doubt sets the tone for what you are about to see. Dealing with binary pairs of good and evil, Col. Landa definitely represents evil and you don't feel sympathetic for him at all for what he receives in the end. But just that character alone, with his affinity for many different languages and use of an extensive vocabulary, you can see that Tarantino has a skill for writing. But to go back and reference a later part in that scene, there is a point where the girl who scampered out from underneath the floor board and ran out into the field. She was framed by a rich and colorful pasture that was contrasted against a dark wooden border of the walls inside the house. It was a beautifully set up shot that could only come from someone who had a great eye.
Pulp Fiction was one of his films that featured an in depth look at the underworld. It explored the fact that everyone has someone that they could be afraid of. Even a big time boss high up on the food chain that has scene his fair share of brutality. There always seems to be something more menacing lurking around every corner. And it wouldn't be a Tarantino film without the well crafted dialogue, but perhaps what seems to be his greatest accomplishment which cements his place as an auteur is his non-linear narrative style like in Kill Bill. He made people care about a mother on the path of revenge against the father of her child. From learning how to wield a sword and travel half way around the earth to "Kill Bill" and take back her daughter. He never seems to run out of material that isn't intriguing to check out.