Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

Some would argue that Pulp Fiction remains a racist film as it portrays African Americans as criminals and features a dialog containing racist language. The movie contains highly racist language, making frequent use of the word nigger. In “The Bonnie Situation” when Jimmy is talking to Jules and Vince about the dead body in the car in his driveway Tarantino’s character says the word four times. This scene is especially jarring because a Caucasian man is saying this racial slur to an African American. Furthermore, the profanity is also frequently used in dialogue between Marsellus and Jules.

In the film Juice, there were four black teenage boys named Que, Raheem, Steals, and Bishop. They lived in Harlem, New York, were poverty has been an issue the past few decades. In Harlem there was a lot of crime, gang activity, drug abuse, shooting, and homicides among the black community. Each of the young men were living in a single parent household in a worn down neighborhood where they faced conflict with other local gang members from different racial backgrounds. Que was a local disc jockey trying to become known in the music industry. He and his friends would frequently skip school and go to a local hang-out spot where criminal activity took place. All four young men were involved in some form of petty/property crime around Harlem. They so much as skipped class to steal music albums from a small record store in their neighborhood. Bishop is one of Que’s best friends; they were so close people knew them as brothers around the hood. Out of all the four men, Bishop was the only one with two parents in the household. Even with both parents, Bishop was mostly involved in crime. He did not have a very strong bond with his father which took a toll on his relationship with other people. Bishop used his time at the hang-out spot to sell drugs; he made sure to carry a weapon and was always fighting with other gang members, he had a hard time fitting into society. In the movie Bishop stated, “I’m tired of running from police, I’m tired running from Chris (which

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The only real way to truly understand a story is to understand all aspects of a story and their meanings. The same goes for movies, as they are all just stories being acted out. In Thomas Foster's book, “How to Read Literature Like a Professor”, Foster explains in detail the numerous ingredients of a story. He discusses almost everything that can be found in any given piece of literature. The devices discussed in Foster's book can be found in most movies as well, including in Quentin Tarantino’s cult classic, “Pulp Fiction”. This movie is a complicated tale that follows numerous characters involved in intertwining stories. Tarantino utilizes many devices to make “Pulp Fiction” into an excellent film. In this essay, I will demonstrate how

Spike Lee’s film, School Daze, demonstrated problematic scenery from the very beginning. With scenes ranging from the dehumanization of gender to prominent racial discrimination and the objectification women, School Daze gives a negative connotation to greek life in college.

Textual form has changed throughout time to reflect different ideals, values and notions of human ontology in a world seemingly void of meaning. Throughout the 20th centaury, post-modern artists have disrupted traditional paradigms of thinking that have governed our lives and forged out perceptions of selfhood and linear time. Emerging from the horror of world war II – as well as the emptiness that accompanied it, composers were forced to contemplate upon the very meaning of human existence. And although composers since this time have varied with context, perspective and purpose, the continued struggle to reason for humanities existence remains as an undercurrent in all texts. This search for meaning, which has been explored by several composers, has manifested into, and is representative of the directionless state of humanity, and struggle in identifying our own identities. Thus, texts of the postmodern era expose and question the unstable ontological grounds that humanity is founded upon. Jean-Luc Godard French New Wave Film, A Bout De Souffle (1960) questions whether our existence is validated by self, or recognition from others. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5 (1972) uses a non-linear plot to communicate how we are forever incarnated in the human figure to learn and to grow. Conversely, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994) represents the interconnectedness and solidarity humanity, while Barry Jenkin’s film, Moonlight (2016) raises existential questions about the

Pulp Fiction, a film where every 1950’s pop culture icon is on display from Zorro to Buddy Holly. Quentin Tarantino 's 1994, Pulp Fiction, went on to win an Oscar for best original screenplay, and gained a cult following. This report will examine the film 's relationship with Nihilist theory. The film is centered around Jules Winnfiel’s [Samuel L. Jackson] transformation, from someone with no sense of what to believe in, to someone who experiences ‘Divine intervention’ and rethinks his system of values, which is a prominent idea expressed in Nihilist doctrines. Jules is the vessel in which Tarantino uses to exhibit Nihilistic theory in the film. This report will be on how the film is centered around the struggle to find an sustainable objective framework , that can judge morals and beliefs, through Jules Winnfield. Which is a fundamental conjecture in regards to Nihilism .

Emrose Bhalesha Critical Summary Paper: Pulp Fiction Mark Conrad examines the movie, “Pulp fiction” written and directed by Quentin Tarantino by looking at the metaphysical quirks lurking within the film through the use of character transformation and comedic dialogue. Conrad argues that this film’s intention is to describe the loss of value and meaning in people’s lives, specifically American nihilism. He introduces the article by explaining nihilism to the reader and then explains the term in a biblical sense, he claims that once the “…moral code is lost and not replaced, we are faced with the abyss of nihilism: darkness closes in on us, and nothing is of any real value any more; there is no real meaning in our lives. ”(Conrad). He describes

Tarantino captures a great sense of the racial stereotyping in this time period. He has managed to push across the majority of stereotypes that we had read about in the “America on Film” textbook and also what we have heard in history lessons. Using Jamie Foxx as a “Black Buck” Tarantino shows the audience about the trouble of racial slurs that get thrown at him by white people and giving the position that he is in (as Django) he has to become the hyper masculine African American and quickly builds up confidence to fight back. For example, when Django and Schultz ride into a town on horseback the white people in the street begin to stare, some stop mid sentence is shock and others speak their mind by saying ‘that’s a nigger on a horse’. To get this point across to the viewers the camera has a few seconds of each face of the white folk to emphasize the shock.

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.

Next, Tarantino, in regards to Sarris’ second premise of auteur criteria: the directors “distinguishable personality”. Must prove (which he does) that he has sustained and developed his own unique and identifiable signature, or as Sarris’ states “distinguishable personality”, throughout his whole movie career as a director. By examining all of Tarantino’s major films that he has directed, one can most definitely and undoubtedly find similar stylistic tendencies and motifs that make his films recognisable as a “Tarantin-esque” type film. And it is these specific stylistic qualities that make the audience view a film and say: “This is definitely a Tarantino film, I can just see it.”. While there are many characteristics that suggest a certain film carries the mark of Tarantino’s

The film lastly would be the props that he uses, usually a weapon and normally a gun or sword. Tarantino always uses the same fundamental themes and techniques in order to print his signature on his work.

Pulp Fiction is an iconic early 1990s film directed by the unparalleled Quentin Tarantino. The title of the film pays homage to mid-20th century crime novels. In this way and others, the title is revealing of the content of the film. The film follows a very postmodern style that often distracts the plot to focus instead on developing the characters. The cinematography of Tarantino further highlights the characters, at times not allowing the viewer to focus on the context due to the intensity of the moment. Two elements that play key roles in the tone of the film are real violence and race. Real violence is used throughout the film both to create and release tension. The element of race is used through stereotypes that allow the characters and the way they interact to provide social commentary about racial perceptions in America at the time of its release in 1994. The elements of violence and race are used to entice the audience to remain invested in an incredibly complicated and interwoven story with no particular plot. It is these elements that allow the movie to have no single central plot and yet still captivate its audience as the artful masterpiece it is.

something that is ‘real’ as such. Another example can be observed in the blatant display of selfreflexivity when Mia makes eye contact with the camera and “draws” a square with her finger.

The love story between two different teenagers that come from completely different worlds is the most remarkable. The Notebook is about two young teenagers who fell head over heels with each other. They got separated by Allie’s upper-class parents who insist that Noah isn’t right for her. But that obstacle didn’t stop these two young lovers from being together even if it took years. This beautiful tale has a special meaning to an older gentleman who regularly reads the timeless love story to his aging wife to help her remember what they went through and that the story that he’s reading to her was their love story. The story he reads follows two young