Fused Friday Classic: Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction
It seems like an appropriate pick since the man who made it releases his next pick on-screen suaree in the vision of Inglorious Basterds. Tarantino’s first or rather biggest success had an ensemble cast that would rival films today like Ocean’s 11 or something like that. Starring John Travolta, Tim Roth, Samuel L. Jackson, Ving Rhames, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette and Christopher Walken.
The film was this nioristic piece of crime fiction with this rich, eclectic dialogue, and this ironic humor, nonlinear storyline and a crazy bunch of pop culture references. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did costars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman. Featuring mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase this movie showed LA in a new light not to mention it has these monologues and conversations that reveal these types of characters and their lives.
The film currently has a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The narrative is presented out of sequence and Pulp Fiction is structured around three distinct storylines. in Mob hitman Vincent Vega is the lead of the first story, prizefighter Butch Coolidge is the lead of the second, and Vincent’s fellow contract killer, Jules Winnfield, is the lead of the third. Although each storyline focuses on a different series of incidents, they connect and intersect in various ways.
The film starts out with a diner hold-up staged by “Pumpkin” and “Honey Bunny”, then picks up the stories of Vincent, Jules, Butch, and several other important characters, including mob kingpin Marsellus Wallace, his wife, Mia, and underworld problem-solver Winston Wolf. It finally returns to where it began, in the diner: Vincent and Jules, who have stopped in for a bite, find themselves embroiled in the hold-up.
There are a total of seven narrative sequences-the three primary storylines are preceded by identifying intertitles on a black screen:
- Prologue-The Diner (i)
- Prelude to “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife”
- “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife”
- Prelude to “The Gold Watch” (a-flashback, b-present)
- “The Gold Watch”
- “The Bonnie Situation”
- Epilogue-The Diner (ii)
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