Friday, December 02, 2005
Cinema poster for Pulp Fiction.
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 film directed by Quentin Tarantino and written by Tarantino and Roger Avary. It was released to critical and public acclaim and is regarded by many as a milestone in movie history, helping to establish an ascendant independent film movement in the United States. Its fragmented storyline, eclectic dialogue, irony and camp influences, unorthodox camerawork, and numerous pop culture references have since colored countless movies.
John Travolta (left) and Samuel L. Jackson as Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield, respectively.
The name of the film refers to the pulp magazines popular during the mid–20th century, known for their strongly graphic nature.
Uma Thurman plays Mia Wallace.
Half film noir and half black comedy, Pulp Fiction weaves through the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles gangsters, fringe characters, petty thieves and a mysterious attaché case. Following Quentin Tarantino's more traditional crime movie, Reservoir Dogs, the storyline is chopped up, rearranged and shown out of sequence, a technique borrowed from French nouvelle vague (New Wave) directors such as Jean Luc Godard (Bande à part) and François Truffaut and from low-budget American crime films such as Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956), Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958) and Don Siegel's The Killers (1964). The highly stylized and fluid action sequences and deadpan dialogue were inspired by Italian neo-realist director Sergio Leone's famed spaghetti western pictures of the 1960s.
Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) in the pawnshop, changing his mind after seeing the Tennessee licence plate.
There are four main storylines in Pulp Fiction: Vincent and Jules; Mia Wallace; Butch Coolidge; and Pumpkin and Honey Bunny. All four are intertwined, although Vincent is the only one of these six characters to meet all of the five others during the film.
Pumpkin (Tim Roth, right) and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer) hold up the diner.
It's a must watch movie and if any of you guys need it, you know where to find me for it. Haha.
*soundpunk jammed @ 6:22 AM
