I have just finished watching Quintin Tarentino's mind**** called "Pulp Fiction." For the first time, I might add. Somehow it's a movie that slipped far under my radar for such a long time.

From the perspective of an editor, and director for a filming company, I can view this movie as a complete and total perfection. Unlike Tarentino's later films, the movie doesn't rely on obscure and over elaborate angles to be original, but simple shots, with obvious attention to representation. The emotions of the mind can be captured by angles views of a face, and these rules constantly change depending on the person, or object, the lighting, the setting, and so many other factors that would take a degree to understand. Tarentino somehow manages to make the shot each and every time. For this fact alone, it is one of the greatest movies I've ever witnessed. I will be purchasing this rented movie if only to remind myself what I strive for each day I prep my camera crew.

As a creative writer, I can view this film as ridiculously overrated, yet somehow marvelous and ingenious. The dialogue is by far some of the greatest I've ever heard. I'm currently printing up the screenplay if only to read the dialogue and experience it whenever possible. On the other hand, a totally dialogue driven plot tends to become unbearable, as apparent with all of Tarentino’s films. He uses characterization to get across the ideas and themes he means to get across. Besides the fact that no one will ever know what these ideas and themes are, we’re too attracted to the style of storytelling to care much what the characters are saying, but more about how they’re saying it.

As movie watcher, I can enjoy this movie for simply kicking ***. Thank you Tarentino, your movies have inspired millions to think twice before sitting down to some character-dry, eye level full shot, emotion-forced Hollywood films.

JediKirby

I just watched the Incredibles.... never bothered to watch Tarentino, ever.

I have yet to see Pulp Fiction..perhaps one day..

Between Tarentino, Kevin Smith, and Uwe Boll*, the trifecta of awesome movies is complete.


*and by Uwe Boll I mean anyone but Uwe Boll

Pulp Fiction is perhaps my favorite movie. Tarantino is great.

Some things to notice are the numerous references to older movies and pop-culture, the importance of doors, both in scene transition and as the central part of a scene, etc.

Take a look around there's more than the obvious in every scene.

My mom has some vendetta against Tarentino, so I'll be lucky to see Pulp Fiction any time soon, even though I really want to. (I was lucky to see Kill Billl...)

Care to elaborate, BH4H?

every clock in the movie is stopped on 4:20

The doors are thought to symbolize choices, like the scene where Vincent and Jules go to get the briefcase. They pass by dozens of doors and finally choose one.
The scene where Butch goes back to his apartment also contains dozens of dooes, ending with him a\waling toward the light one, before sharply turning to his own dark one.

The briefcase is another background issue, the contents being so important, but never revealed.

If you listen to some background noise at one point, you find out that a trophy from Jackrabbit Slim's was stolen, which could mean that Vincent and Mrs. Wallace didn't win the dance competition, but stole the trophy
You can look up a lot of it online, and some of it is hinted at or expressly written in the screenplay.

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also popculture/movie references:
The Guns of Navarone
Flock of Seagulls
Vincent's numerous references to shows and movies (he also said he never watches tv, though)

There's also references to Other movies Tarantino has connections with like the Vega surname shared by Vic Vega from Resevoir Dogs. Big Kahuna Burger is mentioned in a few other movies like Natural Born Killers, etc.

it's always more fun to figure it out on your own though

The breefcase's contents were pretty obvious to me the first time it was opened: It was exactly what you wanted to see. I excused it from hereonout. I was right.

JediKirby

I just recently saw this movie, and I have this to say.

Pulp Fiction > You

Kthx

My father actually counted how many times they said the "f-word" in Pulp Fiction. His count was 239.

I love that movie and almost everything about it. When compared to other movies I've seen...there's just something so different about it that makes it stand out. It's interesting to hear everyone's take on the briefcase though. I thought QT said he had no idea what was in the briefcase and he just let people make up there minds.

It was a good movie.

duh, theres a lightbulb in the briefcase.

No, it's Marcellus Vallace (sp?) soul. That's why Jules and Vincent don't get hit by any bullets when the guy with the gun comes out of the bathroom. - They are the keepers of a soul and are therfore protected by divine powers.
You can also see that Marcellus has a plaster on his neck. That's, where his soul escaped.

Haven't seen it in a while, but the Whole.... what was it.... path of the riteous man thingy speech, you know jules biblical one is pretty cool.

The idea that it's his soul is stupid. Make up your own mind, because QT already said, it's whatever you make of it.

One cool thing about Jules' Biblical speach is that it's made up. The passage Ezekiel 25:17 is the final Line of Ezekiel chapter 25, and it is simillar to Jules' last line, but he clearly made the rest up, and pulled some psalms together into it.

It's impossible for me to have a favourite movie, some great movies are so different from other great movies that they are just impossible for me to compare.

But if some psychotic ******* put a gun to my head and demanded I tell them my favourite movie, I'd probably say Pulp Fiction.

Tutt tutt, Herr Kirby, then if "what he makes of it" is a soul, how can it be stupid?

I was wondering what that bandage was for...

Same here....

Supposedly he just had a cut there and it would have stood out with all those behind-the-head-shots so they bandaged it.
The thing is that that stood out even more, so you wonder regardless.

I thought somebody had died

Someone did die. He owned a chopper. And a sex-slave.