Pulp Fiction aim." Despite that, argues Fraiman, ""Pulp Fiction" demonstrates ... that even an open pulpophile like Tarantino may continue to feel anxious and emasculated by his preferences." "Pulp Fiction" won eight awards from a total of twenty-six nominations. Also, in the balloting by the National Society of Film Critics, Samuel L. Jackson was the runner-up in both the Best Actor and the Best Supporting Actor categories. American Film Institute Lists Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino; it is based on a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Starring John Travolta, Samuel
Star Wars (film) German fighters. Clips from both films were included in Lucas's temporary dogfight footage version of the sequence. The opening shot of "Star Wars", in which a detailed spaceship fills the screen overhead, is a reference to the scene introducing the interplanetary spacecraft "Discovery One" in Stanley Kubrick's seminal 1968 film "". The earlier big-budget science fiction film influenced the look of "Star Wars" in many other ways, including the use of EVA pods and hexagonal corridors. The Death Star has a docking bay reminiscent of the one on the orbiting space station in "2001". Although golden and male, C-3PO was