Pulp Fiction Conventions

The classical Hollywood narrative is one of simplicity, linear continuity, and comprehensive storytelling, something typical American audiences were used to for most of films history. Quentin Tarantino, however, is not one to abide by the rules of cinema. The arguably auteur director reconfigures this narrative style with his 1994 classic Pulp Fiction. This film not only presented itself as a completely new and innovative take on what a film could be, but also created a foundation for which many films since have built their narratives from.

Quentin Tarantino’s films are always controversial, and Pulp Fiction is no exception. The film depicts graphic violence and overt drug usage, while shying away from politically correct language. The film’s controversial topics such as racial stereotypes, has led some critics to hail the movie as racist; however, the movie denies many of these stereotypes, portraying character and character relationships as not exclusive to their stereotype. Furthermore, the movie mocks many of societies stereotypes, and it is not afraid to address, or not to address, uncomfortable racial topics. Thus, Pulp Fiction challenges racial barriers.

    In the 1984 version, the movie opens with the song “Footloose” and the first thing the viewers see is the shoes and feet of many different people dancing. One of the major things that you notice is the type and style of the shoes such as leg warmers and socks with heels which tells you what era the movie was made in. As the credits roll across the screen, the music continues to

Although most would relate bathrooms to places of grime and filth, the director of Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, portrays them as sacred symbols that relate to moral dilemmas held within both his movie’s characters and its audience. Featuring bathrooms in films has only recently become acceptable, with the first showing occurring in 1960 within the film Psycho. Critics argued that toilets are the last things audiences would like to see at the movie theatre, but this controversy inspired even more features of latrines in later cinematography. For instance, within one of Quentin Tarantino’s most popular and critically acclaimed films, Pulp Fiction, he not only includes the usage of the bathroom, but features the specific kind of room multiple times throughout the film. However, the frequent portrayal of these small, dirty rooms was no accident and instead served as a symbolic place of recollection of one’s morals and ethics.

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Pulp Fiction is a black comedy, and crime movie that was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The movie features graphic violence, drugs, and a mysterious briefcase. Pulp Fiction tells several stories in a nonlinear way, meaning that the narratives are not told in a chronological order and do not follow the rules of space and time. The usage of a nonlinear format in Pulp Fiction was quite compelling as it did not follow the typical cause-effect sequence in any scene, instead Tarantino chose to open the movie with a non-typical effect rather than a cause.

Pulp Fiction by Quinton Tarantino falls into the genre of a Gangster film but has elements of other genres as well like Film Noir and Black Comedy. Pulp Fiction has a balance of drama and comedy along with hard to watch scenes like rape, violence, gore and heavy drug use. Tarantino’s style of movie making help make Pulp Fiction the classic it is today. The mise-en-scene, cinematography and other elements of movie, including sound effects and round characters leave us intrigued as well as content with the story structure as well as its ending.

The Godfather is a quintessential Sicilian mob movie. Set in New York, the film covers the Corleone family history and “business” from 1945 to 1955. Music and lighting set the tone of most scenes. The music pulls you in with its dramatic moments and creates suspense. Through cues from non-diegetic sound we are made aware of nearing events. This use of trumpet sounds is what draws the most suspense in the movie.

Humberto Guitron Professor David Cowper English 201 24 April 2015 Pulp Fiction “Diner Scene” In the film “Pulp Fiction” by director Quentin Tarantino, audience members are immersed in a reality shown from a career criminal’s point of view. Only after watching the various behaviors of the main characters in both their work and social settings can viewers fully comprehend the complexity of Tarantino’s characters.

Here in this scene of Pulp Fiction, we see John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson as duo-ed hitmen with deep and philosophical conversations throughout the film. I think this scene after Travolta's character accidentally shoots a man, an intense scene, best displays Travolta and Jackson's contrasting styles as they clean up the bloody mess. Travolta, who studied method acting for years, always plays an easy-going and laid back type of character in his films ("Grease", anyone?). Samuel L. Jackson on the other hand, is famous for playing a very rumbustious character with colorful language in many of his films, and Pulp Fiction is no different. I feel that such differing styles, as both are playing main characters, works because it brings balance to

To gain better insight into “Pulp Fiction” the question of what is a noir film is, must be answered. The noir style of film making is marked by a mood of hopelessness, fatalism, and danger. The term was originally applied to this style of film making by French Critics; to American detective and thriller films made between the 1940’s and 50’s. Some of the most prominent noir film directors were Orson Welles, and John Huston. Now to understand if “Pulp Fiction” is a noir film, a basic understanding of the movie is needed. The main characters Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are hitmen with a habit for philosophical discussions at the most in appropriate of times. Their storyline is influenced by, gangster boss Marsellus Wallace; his actress wife, Mia; a struggling boxer named Butch Coolidge; and two unamed armed robbers. The story is told in a disjointed narrative and broken up into four sections. For sanity’s sake, here’s a brief summer of the movie; Vincent and Jules drive to a unspecified location where they

The investment an audience has to a story comes from the connection they form to the characters living it. In this case, the strength of a narrative depends very heavily on the quality of the individuals within it, rendering the overall success in the hands of whom the plot revolves around. Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino not only thoroughly understood this concept, but also embraced it whole-heartedly, making the dialogue and those delivering it the focal point of his 1994 cinematic masterpiece, Pulp Fiction. Long-standing barriers were annihilated as usually stereotypical, side characters were given dimension and granted stories that had yet to be explored by anyone else. But while some were given voices, others remained the secondary characters

I was a little late on the Kill Bill train and did not watch the movie until last year. As soon as the film started, I knew that it was going to be extremely intense. The same goes for Pulp Fiction. These two films directed by Quentin Tarantino were very different from all the other films that I’ve seen in my life. The mise en scene, dialogue, and music, were all different factors that intrigued me. I watched Pulp Fiction after watching Kill Bill and at first I thought that Pulp Fiction was an odd spin off to Kill Bill or that it took place in the same kind of universe because the worlds are so similar, the characters are just as intense, and the amount of violence was just as common. These are just a few things that make Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill similar. In this essay I will be discussing more similarities and slight differences between the two films.

In the film ‘A Time to Kill’, based on a novel written by John Grisham, was released in 1996 and directed by Joel Schumacher. This paper will explore how the viewers’ perception are swayed by filmmakers using both the visual and audio elements such as: wardrobe, make-up, color palette, casting, music, lighting, sound effects, dialogue, set design, locations, props, impact, symbolism, plant and payoff, camera angles, editing, pacing, and shot choices/framing. The film starts in a small rural town of Canton, Mississippi, which involves the violent rape of a ten year old African American girl named Tonya. Tonya is dump in a nearby river, left to die after a failed attempt to hang her, which her survival leads to the arrest of two

Robberies, murder, revenge… some of the most renowned films are centred on some of the vilest human acts. Our instinctive nature to crave unpredictability is often satisfied through crime films whether it is through fear, thrill, perplexity, mystification, disgust, horror, amazement, shock, or even offence. So what is it exactly that constitutes the quintessential crime film? People find themselves being transfixed by this popular medium, forming an addiction to the unfolding and prodigious plots, sharp protagonists and often the less anticipated outcome. As a crime film fanatic myself I can assure you that these elements are crucial in intensifying the overall impact it has on you as a viewer. I am aware that some claims have been made