Mastework of storytelling dialogue characters & action
I’d seen True Romance which Quentin Tarantino had written and Reservoir Dogs, his first feature film which was a mind blower, but nothing prepared me for Pulp Fiction when I saw it in a theater. The movie was a ground breaker while borrowing from dozens of previous films. It is a true cinematic classic.<br /><br />The plot has four main stories which are intertwined and shown through a variety of flash backs and present scenes which play with the idea of what a narrative is supposed to be. The opening for example shows Pumpkin (Tim Roth) and his girlfriend Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer) talking about carrying out a robbery in a dinner before they jump up on the tables and chairs and tell everyone to put their hands up, they’re sticking the place up. Then there’s two gangster henchmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) who are given a job to retrieve a very important briefcase for their boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). In a separate story arch Vega also has the job to take his boss’s wife Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) out on a date. Finally, Butch (Bruce Willis) who was supposed to throw a fight for Wallace, but has a change of heart.<br /><br />Pulp Fiction builds on many techniques that Tarantino originally used in Reservoir Dogs. The flash backs and intermixing of stories for example was used in that film, and has its origins in Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon. For instance, the third major scene has Vega and Jules going to see Marsellus, which happened chronologically after the very last scene of the film. The love of dialogue is another. Tarantino originally had a way to tell stories that was almost completely original. Vega and Jules for example are talking on their drive to their job and discuss how hamburgers and friends are named differently in Europe because they have the metric system so they can’t be called “Quarter Pounders”, and they also use mayonnaise on their fries. Later they talk about the intimacies of foot messages. The best example however is when Jules gives a speech to one of the men he has to collect the briefcase from. The man is so flustered that all he can say is what and Jules grows angrier and angrier until eventually threatening him if he says what again. He then gives a quote from the Bible, Ezekiel 25:27, which was taken from a Japanese film called The Bodyguard/Karate Kiba featuring Sonny Chiba who would go on to be seen in Tarantino’s Kill Bill. Today, Tarantino has completely lost control of his dialogue such as in Death Proof, the Hateful Eight and Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, but this was when he was still fresh and exciting and it just adds to the story rather than detracts. Another thing similar between Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction was spates of extreme violence. It’s not just shooting people however, there’s a very crazy S&M-rape scene involving Butch and Marsellus that just blew people’s minds when they originally saw it. Finally, as should be obvious Tarantino is a movie lover and used all kinds of influences in all of his films. Besides the ones already mentioned another famous one is the dance scene between Vega and Mia Wallace where they do the Twist at a restaurant. That is liberally borrowed from 8 ½ by Federico Fellini.<br /><br />It’s these elements combined with a completely original story that make Pulp Fiction such an amazing movie to this day.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Tarantino weaves together several stories that juggle plot lines, time frames and characters that inhabit the seamy side of Los Angeles -- including Travolta and Jackson as hit-men with strong moral codes, Willis as a low-life boxer and, of course, The Gimp..