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CyborgSage00x0 posted...

His first directorial debut, Reservoir Dogs, put him and his style on the map.

Pulp Fiction was really the film that moved him up from someone that only film nerds (ie, people like Tarantino himself at the time) would talk about with each other to being someone that everyone knew. I always sort of think of Pulp Fiction as his "first" film, and then Reservoir Dogs is the "prequel" you go back and watch afterwards (even though that's not the order they were released in). It's definitely the order I recommend to people who are starting to watch Tarantino for the first time.

That being said, I've always sort of questioned whether the strong mainstream appeal of Pulp Fiction was the work of Roger Avary more than Tarantino. At the time a lot of people talked up his contributions and influence on the film as well as Tarantino's (at least until the narrative later minimized him so they could lift Tarantino up as a cinematic genius anyway), but then you look at the stuff he worked on afterward and... hmm.

It's hard to see anything even remotely "avant-garde" to his work apart from Killing Zoe and Rules of Attraction.