Pulp Fiction is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did co-stars Samuel L.
Jackson and Uma Thurman. I have chosen this film because quentin tarantino is my favourite director and Pulp Fiction is his masterpiece. The genres of the movie are basically Drama, Action and Crime, the Thriller is present in some parts of the movie but can’t be considered as a genre of it. The film was shot in Los Angeles, California. Some parts of it was filmed in studios and other parts on the streets and restaurants of L. A. It can only be Quentin Tarantino. The director’s cool and flashy homage to pop culture was naturally shot on the cot of it. Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in 1963, in USA.
He is film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose black comedy films used nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence. His most notable films include Resevoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill (2003–2004), Death Proof (2007) and Inglorious Basterds (2009). His films have earned him a variety of Academy Awards, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d’Or awards and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy awards. In 2007,Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time.
Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Japanese animation; and the fragmented story-telling structures of such experimental classics as Citizen Kane,Rashomon, and La jetee.
The Oscar-winning script by Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jacksonand John Travolta, in the role that single-handedly reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B-movie; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic.
John Travolta as Vincent Vega, nominated to Oscar as Best Actor with this role. Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield. Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace. Bruce Willis as Butch Coolidge. Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolf or simply “The Wolf”. Amanda Plummer as Yolanda or “Honey Bunny”. Maria de Medeiros as Fabienne. Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace. Eric Stoltz as Lance. Rosanna Arquette as Jody. Christopher Walken as Captain Koons. Vincent Vega is probably the most important character in Pulp Fiction, portrayed by John Travolta in an Academy Award-nominated performance.
He is the only character to appear in all story lines in the movie (aside from Marsellus Wallace and Mia Wallace). He is the brother of Vic Vega, a character from Reservoir Dogs. Jules Winnfield is a gangster who works for Marsellus Wallace and always openly recited was a version of the Biblical chapter Ezekiel 25:17 to his victims before he killed them. Mia Wallace is Marsellus Wallace wife, she’s addicted to cocaine and in the middle of the movie she have an overdose, this is the strongest and most famous scene of the movie.
The narrative is presented out of sequence to keep with writer-director Quentin Tarantino’s trademark of nonlinear storytelling. Pulp Fiction is structured around three distinct but interrelated storylines—in Tarantino’s conception, mob hitman Vincent Vega is the lead of the first story, prizefighter Butch Coolidge is the lead of the second, and Vincent’s fellow contract killer, Jules Winnfield, is the lead of the third. Although each storyline focuses on a different series of incidents, they connect and intersect in various 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, including mob kingpin Marsellus Wallace, his wife, Mia, and underworld problem-solver Winston Wolf. 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. There are a total of seven narrative sequences—the three primary storylines are preceded by identifying intertitles on a black screen: 1. Prologue—The Diner (i) 2. Prelude to “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife” 3. Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife” 4. Prelude to “The Gold Watch” (a—flashback, b—present) 5. “The Gold Watch” 6. “The Bonnie Situation” 7. Epilogue—The Diner (ii) If the seven sequences were ordered chronologically, they would run: 4a, 2, 6, 1, 7, 3, 4b, 5. Sequences 1 and 7 partially overlap and are presented from different points of view; the same is true of sequences 2 and 6. In Philip Parker’s description, the structural form is “an episodic narrative with circular events adding a beginning and end and allowing references to elements of each separate episode to be made throughout the narrative.
Other analysts describe the structure simply as a “circular narrative”. Film is generally a closed structure unless it is part of some kind of Virtual Reality. Even a unconventional film like Pulp Fiction, still relatively closed structures, exhibiting the particular timespace design that their creators have chosen. Its is very difficult to define this film as open or closed structured because the elements are all mixed up. This movie is so different that it have to be carachterised at least as half-open structured. Camera Angles: [pic]
This is an example of medium shot, it’s used because they want to put the both actors side by side when they are going to kill the hamburguer guy. [pic] This is an example of Medium close up, it’s used to enhance the sexuality of Mia Wallace and to make the dialog between her and Vincent. [pic] This is an example of Worm’s eye, it’s used to show how’s the guy feeling low and inferior, when jules it’s powerful and superior. [pic] This is an example of Long Shot, they are both dancing so the camera have to take all the scene in the same shot. This is the movie’s most famous scene.
This is an example of extreme close up, this is the overdose scene. The close-up is used to make the spectator fell horrified with the scene, by making it very realistic. Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film Pulp Fiction. No traditional film score was commissioned for Pulp Fiction. The film contains a mix of American rock and roll, surf music, pop and soul. The soundtrack is equally untraditional, consisting of nine songs from the movie, four tracks of dialogue snippets followed by a song, and three tracks of dialogue alone.
Six songs featured in the movie were not included in the 41-minute soundtrack. Job Titles: |Mike Stanwick |Color Timer | |Sally Menke |Editor | |Tatiana S. Riegel |1st Assistant Editor | |Gary M.
Zuckerbrod |Casting | |Dereck Alff |Set Production Assistant | |Kara Mazzola |Post-Production Coordinator | |Martin Kitrosser |Script Supervisor | |Paul Hellerman |Production Manager | |Haley Sweet |Location Assistant | |Don Asher |Clearance Supervisor | |Vicki Cherkas |Miramax Legal | |Wayne Toth |Make-Up Effects Crew | |Jacqueline Aronson |Costume Supervisor | |Audree Futterman |Key Hair Supervisor | |Iain Jones |Hair Designer | |Earl V. Thielen |Driver | 4)identify enigma code and action code. The best action code in the movie is in the overdose scene, when Vincent ave to give the adrenaline shot in mia Wallace. The camera give a close-up in the needle and then you just hear the noise of it hitting the girl’s chest, in the next second she’s up with the needle stuck on his chest. It advances the narrative and tells you what’s coming next by the sound of the hit. To think about Pulp Fiction we have to think that there is no genre and there are no limits. In my opinion, the scenes of Pulp Fiction, as well as the actors of the film fit the genre perfectly. We, as an audience, are able to relate to the characters and watch the film with a different perspective, without any prejudice by seeing the title or genre.
The conventions of these genres fit in with Quentin Tarantino’s style of films and personality in general. , the fact that most of his films don’t have a specific genre (which makes them hybrid’s), enables him to do pretty much whatever he wants without having to confine it to a specific genre. Besides of that he also leave a lots of questions in the air, it’s a movie to watch lots of times and still be able to discover new things that you didn’t realised before. For sure one of the best movies ever made. Bibliography http://www. imdb. com/title/tt0110912/ http://www. pulpfiction. com/ http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction_(film) http://www. rottentomatoes. com/m/pulp_fiction/
