PULP FICTION
Plot Vincent Vega (Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) head this star-studded movie that has gone where no commercial movie has gone before. In four segments, the movie revolves around the two hoodlums, low-rent gangsters who work for Marsellus Wallace (forgot his name, in a wonderfully underplayed role). They encounter a boxer (Willis), Marsellus' wife Mia (Thurman), a crack salesman (Stoltz) and a mysterious spin doctor, the Wolf (Keitel). Even Christopher Walken is in the act, spinning a one-liner that's about a whole script page to a young Willis. Awesome. Impressions Quentin Tarantino introduces his brand of movie making and writing to the mainstream industry. Most of the time, movies like these end up in discount bins on sale for a buck fifty. However, Tarantino, through lucked-out casting, an incredible script, and at times, pure chemistry between characters, has saved the day and pulled out a miracle from a ridiculous plot and that retro feel that's prevalent throughout the movie. |
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Still, there a parts where the story and chemistry break down a little (most obvious: when Tarantino himself goes in front of the lens) and it is here that we are reminded that it is only a movie. Other times, we swallow hook, line and sinker that Samuel L. Jackson (in a big comeback role) is tough talking gangster Jules and Travolta is the crack-addict Vincent -- this despite the fact that Travolta was in recent memory the easy, funny taxi driver in Look Who's Talking.
Chalk it up to the script which has fans up in stitches even before the lines are spoken, and first time viewers wondering what the heck is going on through all that profanity. The action scenes are few and far in-between, but when they arrive, they do so with stunning effectiveness. When Uma Thurman was O.D.ing; when Bruce Willis enters his apartment looking for his watch; when Marsellus and Butch are caught and... held against their will.... these scenes actually make up a large part of the action. Yet, we are riveted throughout the movie. Held in place by words, and the incredible actors who perform them.
Unforgettable
The hypodermic injection scene.
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Trivia ... Quentin Tarantino had a choice of which character he could play. Lance the drug salesman, or Jimmy the friend who houses the dead body. He eventually decided he would be Jimmy, because he wanted to be behind the camera for the injection scene. ... in the opening and final sequence there are background movements that try to show the continuity between the story. Travolta is clearly seen walking to the toilet in the background of the opening scene, and we can hear the two robbers shouting in the background when Jules and Vincent are talking in the final part. |
... the word "f***" is used 257 times in the film
Sites
Miramax Cafe. The official site of Pulp Fiction
http://www.miramax.com:8888/mm_front/owa/mp.entryPoint?action=2&midStr=405
Gwarv's Pulp Fiction Page. Holy sweetness! It's a Pulp Fiction fan's dream!! Everything you wanted to know about the movie, its director, the itty-bitty details....
http://gwarv.pvv.org/pulp/main.htm
Ultimate Pulp Fiction Homepage. Now's that's a bold statement, but you don't have to walk the Earth to find out great pics and sounds to the movie because, it's all here!
http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-28097/index.htm
Overall rating: Great movie! (4/5)
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