PULP FICTION (Oct 1994) Director: Quentin Tarantino.
Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary.
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Angela Jones, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Phil LaMarr, Duane Whitaker, Peter Greene, Maria de Medeiros, Frank Whaley, Julia Sweeney.
Should any movie be allowed to be this diabolically entertaining?
If
RESERVOIR DOGS gave us a taste of Tarantino's stageplay staging and shotgun vignettes, if TRUE ROMANCE gave us an indication of his gunmetal dialog and rocket-fueled storylines, PULP FICTION is where it all comes together in an explosive mix of thuggery and honey-dripping dialog.
from the acting, writing, dialog, soundtrack, staging, lighting, there is
a work of true art, pulp art, life as fiction,
It's affect on pop culture is indescribable. PULP FICTION did not create, but popularized:
the adrenalien shot
"gettin' medieval on yo ass"
the gimp
the cleaner
non-chronological story
tasty monologs
and John Travolta.
Scene in the car Willis and Maria Lobos. Such an artful director - bg is a rear projection in b/w, of a street moving away, like an old Audrey Hepburn movie, while the fg is in color.
Tarantino is so brave in actually going through with the Eeny Meeny Miny Moe poem, -- as we've all forgotten, the second line of that poem is "catch a nigger by the toe" but no one EVER says it past the first line in movies any more!
"Let me tell you 'What now?' I'm-a call a coupla hard, pipe-hittin' niggers to go to work on the homes here with a pair of pliers and a blow-torch. You hear me talkin' hillbilly boy! I ain't through with you by a damn sight! I'm gonna get medievel on yo ass!"
Tarantino's characters nver seem to be adhering to that script rule of all the dialog moving the plot forward - there is so much extraneous syrup goodness - it's not like we even have to strain to hear the plotlines shine through, because it's ALL tasty in the mouth like honey.
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PULP FICTION (Oct 1994) Director: Quentin Tarantino.
Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary.
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Angela Jones, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Phil LaMarr, Duane Whitaker, Peter Greene, Maria de Medeiros, Frank Whaley, Julia Sweeney.
