Comment by socalgal2
14 hours ago
Pulp Fiction, like many Tarantino movies, also gets much of its effect from using existing songs rather than using an all new soundtrack
14 hours ago
Pulp Fiction, like many Tarantino movies, also gets much of its effect from using existing songs rather than using an all new soundtrack
Songs he likely hand picked and for reasons that even you and I don't know about, instead of songs suggested by an AI with no personal taste.
More to your original point, Tarantino is actually well known for his deliberate uses of rare lenses. He doesn't grind them himself, but he did resurrect a dead lens format for The Hateful Eight:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_Panavision_70