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    Quentin Tarantino’s many well known films. It was written, directed, and for the most part, composed, by Tarantino himself. He also made an on-screen appearance as Jimmy, the desperate husband in the interrelated story titled 6. The Bonnie Situation There was no official film score composed for Pulp Fiction, but the movie is rather an assortment of rock and roll, soul, pop, and surf music. Tarantino uses surf music as the typical style of, not because it is a movie related to surfing, but for the cool

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    film is Quentin Tarantino. His use of Ironic music can be seen in many of his films like True Romance, Reservoir Dogs, and Hateful Eight. His film Kill Bill Vol. 1 uses irony in a much different fashion. Roger Hickman wrote an article about exploring music in film over 100 years. He stated, “Realistic portrayals of violence continued to characterize films of the early twenty-first century,” (462). Tarantino’s screen writing ability revolves around this quote from Roger Hickman. Tarantino is notorious

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    Several years ago, “Inglourious Basterds” marked my first Quentin Tarantino movie. I knew little about Tarantino, other than that he was beloved by cinephiles and had a penchant for dialogue and violence. So it seemed like a WWII movie from such a director would be spectacular. I was disappointed, as I also was with the other Tarantino film I’ve seen, “Pulp Fiction.” I simply wasn’t expecting the conversation heavy, relatively action-free idiosyncratic movie that is “Inglourious Basterds” But as

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    Kill Bill 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

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    Pulp Strikes Back Essay

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    Pulp Strikes Back In modern Hollywood film making, the formula for a run-away box office hit is associated with star-studded actors, startling special effects, and a big price tag. The Quentin Tarantino masterpiece Pulp Fiction (1994) completely steps away from high production and focuses on the life and personality of the characters. A well-scripted screenplay, diverse cast of talented actors, and some interesting director decisions make Pulp Fiction a cult classic. Pulp Fiction refers

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    Kill Bill Thesis

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    After the success of Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino’s Kill Bill Volume 1 and 2 was another big hit, and this time with Kill Bill Quentin Tarantino has insert a lot of cash and effort in this film. A budget of 30 million USD has been taken to make the first volume of Kill Bill, and it took over a year making Kill Bill. When asked about “why write this movie” Quentin Tarantino’s response was “ I wrote a movie I wanted to see,” “I spent over a year making a movie I wanted to see” He also states that all

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    wife. Although this film is highly packed with quick action and racial slang, Django portrays a fresh, fictional narrative that uses theme, production design, and brief symbolism that allows the audience view slavery differently and understand how Tarantino developed the film to portray a deeper message of the most undermined character becoming

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    One very famous director which has earned the right to be titled an Auteur is Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino writes, directs and sometimes even acts in his own films and specialises in action as well as adventure. A majority of his films are all from the top of his head and they usually consist a lot of blood, gore and violence. He intends to use

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    Since 1994, the year of its release, Quentin Tarantino´s movie, “Pulp Fiction” has been hailed as a game changing and cinema redefining movie. The film’s release would revive or kick start the careers of several actors, including John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis (Seal). The movie would spawn dozens of knock offs and copycats all of them attempting to capture the films style of storytelling, clever dialogue or more importantly its box office returns (Labrecque). The

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    Pulp Fiction Surrealism

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    Pulp Fiction. It can loosely be defined as a magazine or a book that is printed on cheap paper that often deals with sensationalism. This is exactly what the director Quentin Tarantino had in mind when the movie was first conceptualised. Pulp Fiction is widely viewed and has gain much popularity in the modern culture. Unless you has living under a rock and live in “cultural” darkness from the window that film holds, then you have heard about this movie, whether you’ve watched it or not. Pulp Fiction

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