Rewind·Posted on Jul 19, 202237 Fun Facts And Easter Eggs That Make Quentin Tarantino Films Even More InterestingThis list is for all the film nerds out there.by Juliette PerksBuzzFeed ContributorLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Watch out for spoilers... 1. Chiaki Kuriyama accidentally hit Tarantino with the ball and chain in Kill Bill: Volume 1. View this video on YouTube A Band Apart / Via youtube.com No directors were harmed in the making of this film. Oh wait, in the epic and gnarly Kill Bill: Volume 1 fight scene between Chiaka Kuriyama’s character and Uma Thurman’s, it turns out that Tarantino got whacked by the swinging ball and chain. In James Egan’s book, 3,000 Facts About The Greatest Movies Ever, it was revealed that the scene didn’t go as smoothly or as safely as possible after Kuriyama accidentally hit Tarantino because he was standing too close to the camera. That had to hurt! 2. You can spot the crew in Reservoir Dogs. 3. Tarantino will never reveal why he purposely spelt the titular Inglourious Basterds wrong. 4. Nearly the entire soundtrack budget for Reservoir Dogs was spent on one song. View this video on YouTube Live America Inc. / Via youtube.com We all know that Tarantino’s style relies on music quite a bit to emphasize a particular scene, but did you know he spent nearly the entire Reservoir Dogs soundtrack budget on licensing Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck in the Middle with You”? According to the Scottish Sun, Tarantino admitting to paying £10,000 to use the track for Mr. Blonde’s iconic cop torture scene, even though his entire soundtrack budget was just $13,000! 5. Tarantino owns the Pussy Wagon from Kill Bill: Volume 1 and loans it out sometimes. 6. There’s Pulp Fiction easter eggs in Kill Bill: Volume 1. 7. Leonardo DiCaprio improvised this iconic scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 8. Kurt Russell destroyed an antique guitar for this The Hateful Eight scene. View this video on YouTube FilmColony / Via youtube.com In The Hateful Eight, John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) has had enough with Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) playing a tune on the guitar, and decides to snap the guitar out of her hands and smash it into a million tiny pieces. Turns out, Russell wasn’t supposed to smash the guitar, and instead of it being a replica prop, it was a genuine piece from the 1860s that was worth around $40,000. Ouch! 9. The swear word count for Pulp Fiction is 431. 10. Django Unchained serves up some Kill Bill easter eggs. 11. Reservoir Dogs' Mr. Blue was played by a real career criminal. 12. The title for Death Proof came to Tarantino whilst drinking with Sean Penn. 13. We are actually told the Bride’s name in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 Before the big reveal in Kill Bill: Vol. 2. 14. The cast endured horrible filming conditions for The Hateful Eight. 15. Only Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio were allowed to read the full script for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 16. Jamie Foxx’s sunglasses in Django Unchained were inspired by Charles Bronson. 17. Zoe Bell performed her own stunts in Death Proof after objecting to Tarantino’s wish to have another stunt-double film her most dangerous scenes. 18. Tarantino thinks of My Best Friend’s Birthday as his film school. 19. 450 gallons of blood were spilled throughout the Kill Bill series. 20. Everyone hated Lawrence Tierney on the set of Reservoir Dogs. 21. The Pulp Fiction needle scene was actually filmed backwards. 22. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood has an assembly cut of over four hours long. 23. Tarantino was on the verge of a bust up with one actor during Jackie Brown. 24. Brad Pitt got Tarantino to change the ending of the Bruce Lee fight in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 25. The red 1965 Chevy in Pulp Fiction was actually Tarantino’s. 26. Tarantino spent five years writing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as a novel. 27. In Kill Bill, Tarantino originally planned to play the martial arts trainer, Pai Mei. 28. Tarantino wrote Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega for Michael Madsen. 29. There’s a classic horror easter egg in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 30. Eli Roth directed the film-within-a-film in Inglourious Basterds. View this video on YouTube A Band Apart / Via youtube.com In Inglourious Basterds, the film saw Eli Roth take on the role of Sergeant Donny “The Bear Jew” Donowitz. Whilst the film credits state that Alois von Eichberg directed the Nazi propaganda film-within-a-film, this is actually a pseudonym which was used by the horror director, Roth. 31. Uma Thurman got in a bad car accident on the set of Kill Bill, which was also covered up for years. View this photo on Instagram 32. The famous dance scene in Reservoir Dogs was mostly improvised. 33. Leonardo DiCaprio actually sliced his hand open in this Django Unchained scene. 34. Kill Bill’s production took 155 days, with 8 weeks of this on one sequence. 35. Margot Robbie actually wore Sharon Tate’s jewelry in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. 36. Will Smith could have been Django. 37. The production team had their work cut out for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. What BTS fact or easter egg shocked you the most? Tell us in the comments! Why not share your favorite Tarantino film of all time while you're there!