Pulp Fiction
- This article is about the movie. For the literature, see Pulp magazine.
Pulp Fiction is a movie directed by Quentin Tarantino. It was released in 1994. The stories were written by Tarantino and Roger Avary.
The cast includes:
Half film noir and half black comedy, Pulp Fiction weaves through the intersecting storylines of gangsters, general low-lifes, and a mysterious briefcase. Following Quentin Tarantino's more traditional crime movie, Reservoir Dogs, the storyline is chopped up and shown out of sequence, a technique borrowed from French new wave and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing.
Originally titled Black Mask, the film won the 1994 Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival. Tarantino and Avary also won Oscars for the Screenplay in the same year.
Storylines
There are four main storylines in Pulp Fiction:
- Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield head to an apartment to deal some justice to three apartment residents who stole a briefcase from their business partner, and Vincent and Jules's boss, Marsellus Wallace.
- Vincent Vega is requested by Marsellus to show his wife a good time while he is out of town. They head to an obscure (possibly non-existent) restaurant called Jackrabbit Slims, a restaurant with 60s and 70s pop culture icons as waiters and waitresses (such as Buddy Holly and Marilyn Monroe), an option for patrons to eat at a booth or a replica of a classic car, and a milkshake that costs five dollars.
- Butch Coolidge, a prize fighter, agrees with Marsellus that he will purposefully lose in the fifth round for a reason not explained. It possibly has something to do with the aluminum object given to Butch by Marsellus.
- A crime couple discuss how easy it is to rob a restaurant while in a coffee shop. Following a mistranslation of the word "
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