Pulp Fiction Themes

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Bruce Willis and Maria de Medeiros. All of them have essentially done something which has terribly gone wrong like 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'True Romance.'
While talking about the themes and the plot it looks like Tarantino changed this theme in 'Jackie Brown.' It operates in the way more individual level than his previous ensemble films. 'Kill Bill' was another massive turn in Quentin Tarantinos film career. From 'Kill Bill' he concentrated on the theme of revenge which resonates until 'Django Unchained.' In 'Hateful Eight' he goes back to the theme he used in 'Reservoir Dogs.'
Tarantino likes to approach a screenplay like a Novel. He usually develops different characters in the story on the individual basis. Every character has his or her story. This is very unlikely approach while writing a screenplay. Let's take the example of 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction'. In 'Reservoir Dogs' he uses flashbacks to show the back stories of individual characters. To show these back stories he starts every chapter with the character names. …show more content…

We see character development of John Travolta in the second story with Samuel L Jackson but in Bruce Willis story John Travolta is not important. He dies unimportantly. First story is of Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer but we don't see Samuel Jackson and John Travolta in the first scene though they are present in the restaurant; because the first story is not their story. It's only when John Travolta and Samuel Jackson's story starts again and we come in the restaurant with their point of view at the end of the film and we see rest of the scene through John Travolta's and Samuel Jacksons point of view. Same thing is with 'Inglorious Bastards' where Tarantino keeps developing three separate narratives of Bastards, Christopher Waltz's and Melanie Laurent and brings all of them together at the

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