Jackie Brown Deaky" or "Killshot" and have another director make "Rum Punch", but changed his mind after re-reading "Rum Punch", stating that he "fell in love" with the novel all over again. "Killshot" was later adapted into a film, produced by "Jackie Brown" producer Lawrence Bender. While adapting "Rum Punch" into a screenplay, Tarantino changed the ethnicity of the main character from white to black, as well as renaming her from Burke to Brown, titling the screenplay "Jackie Brown". Tarantino hesitated to discuss the changes with Leonard, finally speaking with Leonard as the film was about to start shooting. Leonard loved the
Quentin Tarantino and action as a "color" within cinema, and rebuked for allegedly using human suffering as a punchline. His film "Reservoir Dogs" was even initially denied United Kingdom certification because of his use of torture as entertainment. Actor Steve Buscemi has described Tarantino's novel style of filmmaking as "bursting with energy" and "focused", a style that has earned him many accolades worldwide. According to Tarantino, a hallmark of all his movies is that there is a different sense of humor in each one, which gets the audience to laugh at things that are not funny. However, he insists that his films