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The year 1994 saw many great events occur. Whether we are observing the Rwandan genocide that left over eight hundred thousand people dead or the Russian invasion of Chechnya, the year 1994 was an eventful year to say the least. However, later that year, one of the greatest films of all time, and more importantly my favorite film, Pulp Fiction was released to critical acclaim on October 14, 1994. Hence, this essay seeks to provide a holistic historical overview and importance of the film, Pulp Fiction. This essay will be divided into three distinct sections. First, I will begin by elucidating upon the origin of the film. This is to say, I will explain the development of the film in the writing stage, and the background of the directors and …show more content…
Pulp Fiction initially premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1994. At the film festival, the film was acquired for distribution by the Weinstein company. It is reported that Harvey Weinstein was so excited about the distribution of the film that he “hit the beach like commandos”. (Charyn 2006). In purchasing the distribution rights, Harvey Weinstein, decided to allow his company Miramax films to unveil the film during the month of October in late 1994. The film began its opening run in over 1,100 theaters. In its first weekend on the box office, Pulp Fiction beat out expectations and became the top-grossing film at the box office in its first weekend, where it ultimately edged out other well funded and well distributed films. In context, this accomplishment is even more important when we take into account that film had a measly production budget of just only eight and a half million dollars and a marketing budget of only ten million dollars, but grossed nearly one-hundred eight million dollars at the U.S. box office alone. Moreover, when looking worldwide, the film was even more so of a success where it grossed over two-hundred thirteen million dollars during its run in theaters. In total, the film is considered one of the highest grossing films of all time where it grossed nearly three hundred thirteen million …show more content…
As far as society is concerned, Pulp Fiction primarily brought into light various aspects of pop culture that had previously died. In particular, we see this when referencing intrinsic combination of humor and violence, which had not been witnessed before in mainstream film and more importantly society, and more importantly the glorification of violence that was displayed within the film. In fact, many viewers were turned off by the explicit visualization of very egregious acts like execution style shooting of various individuals within the movie as well as the rape of Marsellus Wallace by a man in a gag costume. In film, Pulp Fiction changed the way in which filmmakers in particular dealt with the topic of violence and gore. This is to say that many filmmakers thought that violence was something that out to be avoided, that it was taboo in nature. However, after the the creation and success of Pulp Fiction, filmmakers began to embrace the idea of violence as being the main theme of a movie. Moreover, Pulp Fiction further the established the viability of independent film making. For Tarantino to have such a small production budget, premiere the movie on the festival circuit, and achieve the success that he had accomplished was nothing less than a Cinderella story. In this, Tarantino in a way shifted the film industry to focus on the notion that not
The only real way to truly understand a story is to understand all aspects of a story and their meanings. The same goes for movies, as they are all just stories being acted out. In Thomas Foster's book, “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, Foster explains in detail the numerous ingredients of a story. He discusses almost everything that can be found in any given piece of literature. The devices discussed in Foster's book can be found in most movies as well, including in Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic, “Pulp Fiction”. This movie is a complicated tale that follows numerous characters involved in intertwining stories. Tarantino utilizes many devices to make “Pulp Fiction” into an excellent film. In this essay, I will demonstrate how several literary devices described in Foster's book are put to use in Tarantino’s film, “Pulp Fiction”, including quests, archetypes, food, and violence.
1. Sobchack’s argument pertaining to on -screen violence that she wrote thirty years ago was that any violent acts portrayed in movies back then was to emphasize the importance of an element in a story, an emphatic way of engaging the viewers and forcing them to feel what the movie was about. It gave them a sense of the substance of the plot which would allow them to feel for the characters and yearn for good to overcome evil. In other words, the effort made to engage audiences through depictions of violence created violence that was artistic and well done, or as Sobchack writes, violence was “aestheticized.” Violence was incorporated into film in a stylistic way, and even though violence in all forms is offending, twenty five years ago when it was seen in film, it had a greater impact on audiences because it had meaning (Sobchack 429).
In this essay I intend to tell you more about the director Dennis Dungan. Firstly, I will tell you about his childhood. Who Dennis was brought up by. Where he grew up. What kind of Education he had and where he went. Second, I intend to speak about his personal life, whom he married if he had children. Also I will describe his work and what success he had in his career. Thirdly share what I learned about who influenced him. The award he received during his careers in the movies he directed.
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In this paper I will offer a structural analysis of the films of Simpson and Bruckheimer. In addition to their spectacle and typically well-crafted action sequences, Simpson/Bruckheimer pictures seem to possess an unconscious understanding of the zeitgeist and other cultural trends. It is this almost innate ability to select scripts that tap into some traditional American values (patriotism, individualism, and the obsession with the “new”) that helps to make their movies blockbusters.
In recent times, such stereotyped categorizations of films are becoming inapplicable. ‘Blockbusters’ with celebrity-studded casts may have plots in which characters explore the depths of the human psyche, or avant-garde film techniques. Titles like ‘American Beauty’ (1999), ‘Fight Club’ (1999) and ‘Kill Bill 2’ (2004) come readily into mind. Hollywood perhaps could be gradually losing its stigma as a money-hungry machine churning out predictable, unintelligent flicks for mass consumption. While whether this image of Hollywood is justified remains open to debate, earlier films in the 60’s and 70’s like ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ (1967) and ‘Taxi Driver’ (1976) already revealed signs of depth and avant-garde film techniques. These films were successful as not only did they appeal to the mass audience, but they managed to communicate alternate messages to select groups who understood subtleties within them.
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Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.
In the “Pstmorbid Condition” by Vivian Sobchack she states that films use to use violence for a purpose to provide meaning and depth but today they grotesquely use violence without meaning. She states that 25 years ago in 1975 that films were using violence, but it was being used artistically to show great meaning in what was truly happening. It was through this kind of intelligent filming that allowed the violence to keep the people interested in trying to interpret what the director was trying to show. It is 25 years later that Sobchack states that films are now over using violence. The films such as Pulp Fiction that have an over use of violence are taking away the meaning that use to be in the violence. They no longer put in the aesthetics
There are movies that make you laugh, that make you cry, that blow you away with jaw-dropping, ever-so-satisfying action sequences. And there is Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece, an homage to the old Pulp Magazines and crime novels popular in the 1950s. Known for their incredibly dense and complex dialogue and excessive violence, Tarantino adds his trademark nonlinear chronology and thorough character development to create a movie that celebrates the fact that chance governs all of our lives. The film consists of multiple stories that tell of the criminals, gangsters and outliers of Los Angeles, the underbelly of society. It follows Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield as they embark on their mission to recovering a briefcase that
The film Pulp Fiction was an immediate box office success when it was released in 1994 and it was also well received by the critics, and celebrated for the way it appeared to capture exactly a certain pre-millennial angst and dislocation in Western capitalist societies. The term post-modernist, often used to refer to art and architecture, was applied to this film. The pulp fiction refers to popular novels which are bought in large numbers by less well educated people and enjoyed for their entertainment value. The implication is that the film concerns topics of interest to this low culture, but as this essay will show, in fact, the title is ironic and the film is a very intellectual presentation of issues at the heart of contemporary western culture and philosophy.
He starts his essay by complaining “The language of criticism dealing with the film adaptation of novels has often been profoundly moralistic, awash in terms such as infidelity, betrayal, deformation, violation, vulgarization, and desecration, each accusation carrying its specific charge of outraged negativity” (54). He claims that a more effective criticism will be based in “contextual and intertextual history” (75), and less concerned with vague ideas of fidelity. He believes that absolute fidelity is impossible due to (1) the difference in medium between novel and film, (2) the lack of a single absolutely correct reading of a novel, and (3) the intertextuality of all novels and films. He claims that: “Each medium has its own specificity deriving from its respective materials of expression” (59), and explains that the written word is the novels only component of expression, while the film has more components such as “moving photographic image, phonetic sound, music, noises, and written materials” (59). Therefore, certain changes are inevitable.
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
Classic narrative cinema is what Bordwell, Staiger and Thompson (The classic Hollywood Cinema, Columbia University press 1985) 1, calls “an excessively obvious cinema”1 in which cinematic style serves to explain and not to obscure the narrative. In this way it is made up of motivated events that lead the spectator to its inevitable conclusion. It causes the spectator to have an emotional investment in this conclusion coming to pass which in turn makes the predictable the most desirable outcome. The films are structured to create an atmosphere of verisimilitude, which is to give a perception of reality. On closer inspection it they are often far from realistic in a social sense but possibly portray a realism desired by the patriarchal and family value orientated society of the time. I feel that it is often the black and white representation of good and evil that creates such an atmosphere of predic...
An intriguing book that proves to be a useful tool for filmmakers, the book More Than A Movie by F. Miguel Valenti does a splendid job exploring the ethics and morals of what we do. The book talks about the “nine hot buttons” which are staples in films that may be present within Hollywood blockbusters or even indie projects. The nine hot buttons are the choice of the perpetrator, the choice of victim, presence/consequences, rewards/punishments, reason for violence, presence of weapons, realism, usage of humor, and prolonged exposure of violence. V for Vendetta directed by James McTeigue is a perfect example of a movie which encompasses the nine hot buttons.