Pulp Fiction is a film that is structured around three story-lines. Vincent Vega is the lead in the first story. In the second storyline, Butch Coolidge is the lead, and Jules Winnfield, is the lead of the third. Each storyline targets a different series of incidents but they connect and intersect in numerous 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. 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”(Tarantino). There are seven narrative sequences:
The plot segmentation of Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film, “Pulp Fiction,” reveals how the pieces in the nonlinear narrative structures are put together. In order for the audience to remind them when these events take place, the movie uses title cards to specify each segments’ main plot. Some of the characters would even reference events that have already occurred, such as when Mia, in the boxing match building, thanks Vincent for the dinner. The movie does not just allow the audience to really pay attention to how the story is being told, but also show how similar each of the main stories’ structures is, despite being in a nonlinear form. For example, all of them feature acts of “heroism” by resolving the issues when caught in very unexpected
Pulp Fiction is a show that is debated on its true meaning, though one of the most debated and accepted theories is that it is the journey of Marcellus Wallace’s soul. It is thought that he has sold his soul to the devil and has sent his men to retrieve it. As the movie jumps across the timeline with his wife, Mia, who becomes a main character. She is instinctual and anxious. Her emotions take over constantly and create bad situations.
Although written in the 1990s, Pulp Fiction continues to impact viewers through its use of iconic characters and their amoral behavior. The audience’s emotion is caused by its luring storyline and dialogue that engages the reader into the world of violence and heinous acts. Called to do a “job” by their boss, Marsellus Wallace, Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega need to retrieve a
The film received mostly positive reviews. Roger Ebert praised the film as "one of those stories with the quality of a nightmare, in which foolish young men try to out-macho one another until they get trapped in a violent situation which will forever alter their lives.”
Scene: a series of shots that together form a complete episode or unit of the narrative
Pulp Fiction, replete with ‘Indian’ ethos and mainly in vernacular, has a huge cult-following in India. There used to be a time when these eminently affordable tearjerkers and tales of ridiculously impossible adventures of super-spies and master-cops sold like hotcakes.
As a nostalgic reaction to pieces of a past culture may celebrate another time, but also offer personal comfort in the present, the past may be widely celebrated by connecting past pop culture with the present culture. This form of nostalgia uses memories of an era’s success and continues to attempt to uphold it in a permanent celebratory remembrance of cultural impact. In Pulp Fiction, the film plays homage to some of the great films of the past. The film is enhanced by use of pastiche, incorporating films that have brought joy and excitement to viewers for decades. In Pulp Fiction, the dark suits, skinny ties, the camera shots of the guns, and the slow, sinister apartment massacre is reminiscent of gangster films from the 1950s and 1960s. Honeybunny and “””” ‘s storylines are resented during the beginning and end of the film, their love story is intermingled with their lust for crime, specifically robbery, is a comedic twist to the Bonnie and Clyde. John Travolta gets to recollect on his own success in films “Grease” and “Saturday Night Live”, by re-creating a dance competition, in which he leaves victorious. Butch, a misunderstood boxer is placed in the most scenes mimicking great films from the past. As Butch takes a taxi from his big boxing match, is clearly a steal from the 1987 film, Taxi Driver. The style of the taxi along with the seating position of the “FARE” and the dark conversation is heavily
Pulp Fiction is a controversial film, written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, in 1994. It has almost everything you could wish for in a movie; drama, hilarity, intensity, action, thrills, fun, intelligence, romance, intimacy, over-the-top bravado, vulgarity, sweetness, humor, and soul-searching. The film is very raw and brutal, but has a unique sense of style that keeps the viewers entertained. It will build its way up gradually to an incredibly intense scene, before dropping down to a relatively calm, only to build back up again a few scenes later. This goes on throughout the entire course of the film, pummeling the viewer from one scenario to another.
The movie provides the audience with a storyline capable of capturing their full attention. The collection of
Great movies come and bad movies go. Some stay seeded in the mind while others sink back into a quiet existence, never to be heard from again. Even though according to Jamie Weinman from the Maclean’s, “The disappointing fifth-place box-office opening of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World means that Universal probably shouldn't have spent $60 million on a Michael Cera movie” (78), Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is not one of the movies that needs to slide back into the hole from which it came. In fact, the near two hours goes by quite quickly with all the action involved. Based on the visual effects, music, and conflict quality, Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World is a cinematic masterpiece that is sure to become a classic.
Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction screams multiple genres satire, black comedy, and action. However the picture ultimately boils down to a crime film. As crime is a broad genre I think that it is appropriate because all of the other occurring themes. Richard Maltby articulates that “Generic boundaries can never be rigidly defined, and all generic groupings are susceptible to extensive subdivision” which everyone can agree with. But the movie opens with crime, the overall theme is crime and ultimately ends with crime. Pulp Fiction features themes like drugs, alcohol, romance and some philosophy but the intertwining stories all come together over one incident involving Marcellus Wallace. There are several conventions of technique which are classically
“Three stories…about one story,” that is how Quentin Tarantino, the director of Pulp fiction, describes the movie. At first glance, it appears that the story uniting the three stories is the narrative of the movie, however upon further analysis it becomes evident that the true story uniting the three stories is the search for redemption. Tarantino highlights this by fragmenting the narrative so the movie ends with three characters, Butch, Jules and, Vega, having a chance at redemption.
While Quentin Tarantino is known for his provocative and diligently planned out films, he also is a man who enjoys presenting violence for the sake of violence. In many of his films, Tarantino depicts complicated plots and story lines that are often interrelated with other films he has created. One such example of this is the connection between Kill Bill Vol. 1 and a previous film of his, Pulp Fiction. The character Mia Wallace, played by Uma Thurman, discusses a television show she acted in, in which she was a member of a small assassin teamed comprised of attractive women, with Mia’s specialty being knives. In Kill Bill Vol. 1, the Bride, also played by Uma Thurman, is similarly a member of a small assassin team made up of attractive women.
Pulp Fiction is not a typical watch because it does not follow in chronological order. Instead, it skips around between and back and forth through the different stories and on top of this it has extensive dialogue, that while entertaining, adds to a lot of the confusion associated with watching this film. This can be incredibly frustrating to a first time viewer because the story never really comes together until the very end. However, this could also be one of the positive aspects of the movie because it makes the person watching want to come back and watch it over and over again to understand the dialogue and to unravel the multiple mysteries. Something else that is interesting and requires watching the film multiple times is when a viewer is trying to piece which stories go where and follow in chronological order. Even though the film is so lengthy, it keeps an audience never satisfied and it gets better every time it is