Tarantino Directs `CSI` Season Finale
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES -- Unlike criminal investigator Nick Stokes, who`s buried alive in the "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" season finale, Quentin Tarantino didn`t feel at all trapped by working within the confines of network television.
"It wasn`t a challenge in that regard because ... I like the show," says Tarantino, who conceived and directed the episode. "I just wanted to do my episode of it. So the format was all the stuff I embrace. I just wanted it to be bigger, to feel in someway like a `CSI` movie."
TV`s top-rated program concludes its fifth season Thursday (8 p.m. Eastern) with Tarantino`s two-hour "Grave Danger," subtitled Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 in homage to his most recent feature project, "Kill Bill," released in two parts.
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Tarantino, who guest-directed a scene for the lurid feature "Sin City," says he had few problems staying within the bounds of CBS` censors. "I wasn`t trying to have them (the cast) cuss," he laughs, "and the show`s pretty far out there anyway."
But as graphic as regular "CSI" episodes can be, Tarantino — who directed an episode of NBC`s "ER" in 1995 — says he created one scene "so gory I think we are going to have to show it in black and white. But it`s a hallucination sequence, so it will work kind of well like that."