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dialogue is off the wall at times and some things seem to be said at peculiar

moments where the "normal" movie viewer might not make complete sense

of it, but that?s the fun. The movie is like an excursion through the lurid

images that lie wound up and trapped inside all those boxes on the Blockbuster

shelves. Tarantino once described the old pulp magazines as cheap, disposable

entertainment that you could take to work with you rolled up and stuck in your

back pocket. Yeah, and not be able to wait for lunch so that you could start

reading them again. Quentin Tarantino, the creator of the lethal thrillers,

"True Romance" and "Reservoir Dogs" returns with his most

thrilling piece yet: a pure adrenaline rush guaranteed to leave you gasping.

Boasting a stellar cast including John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman,

Harvey Keitel, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis, his

"Best Picture" winner at the Cannes Film Festival and Academy Award

Winner for "Best Original Screenplay" is one exhilarating ride from

start to finish. We dare you to step aboard. Video Blurb, Pulp Fiction, 1994.

The title is perfect. Like those old pulp magazines named "Thrilling Wonder

Stories" and "Official Detective", the film creates a world where

there are no normal people and no ordinary days; where breathless prose clatters

down fire escapes and leaps into the dumpster. Or at least there are no ordinary

days for those who don?t consider tactless and accidental murder to be part of

their everyday agenda and occupation. The characters in this film separate

societal normality from personal normality. For example, Jackson and Travolta

are magnetic as a pair of hit-men who have philosophical debates on a regular

basis. These characters continue to think that they?re "just doing their

job" and that there jobs are for the same purpose as any body else?s job

- to get paid and then to, in return, pay the bills. Societal norms push the

audience to believe that these characters along with Ving Rhames, (Marsellus

Wallace), are misfits and should be "taken care of". Tarantino starts

us off with a dual definition of "pulp" one being "a soft, moist,

shapeless, mass of matter" and two being "a book containing lurid

subject matter, and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished

paper". This introduces the audience to the presentation of the film.

It?s segmented structure is Tarantino?s way of playing with the audience?s

perceptions. The entertainment throughout Pulp Fiction is scintillating, it

captures the audience and forces them to piece the segments together in order to

form one complete story. Hence the title containing the word "pulp"

and the product being "rough" and somewhat "unfinished" to

the viewer. This voluble, violent, pumped-up movie isn?t for every taste, not

for the squeamish, but it?s got more vitality than almost any other film of

1994. The screenplay by Tarantino and Avary is so well written in a psoriatic

yet potent way that you?ll want to rub noses in it – the noses of all those

zombie writers who take "screenwriting classes that teach them the formulas

for writing "hit films". Pulp Fiction is constructed in such a

nonlinear way that you could see it a dozen times and not be able to remember

what comes next. It doubles back on itself telling several interlocking stories

about characters who inhabit a world of crime and intrigue, triple-crosses and

desperation. Vincent Vega (Travolta) and partner Jules Winnfield (Jackson) are a

couple of mid-level hit-men who carry out assignments for a mob boss. We see

them first on their way to a violent showdown discussing such mysteries as why

in Paris they have a French word for Quarter Pounders. They?re as innocent in

their way as Huck and Jim, floating down the Mississippi and speculating on how

foreigners can possibly understand each other. Vince?s and Jule?s careers

are a series of assignments that they can?t quite handle. Especially

Travolta?s character, not only does he kill people inadvertently ("The

car hit a bump") but he doesn?t know how to clean up after himself. Good

thing the two of them know people like Mr. Wolf (Harvey Keitel) who specializes

in messes; and has friends like Lance (Eric Stoltz) who owns a "big medical

encyclopedia" for emergency situations. Uma Thurman can tell you about

those medical procedures. Bruce Willis is compelling as a crooked boxer whose

plan to take it on the lam hits a few detours. Butch Coolidge (Willis) is

supposed to throw a fight but bails and looses Marsellus (Rhames) a lot of loot.

Butch and his girly are to ditch town ASAP but first he needs to make a

dangerous trip back to his apartment for a valuable family heirloom. The history

of this heirloom is described through a flashback dream narrated by Christopher

Walken, a Vietnam veteran. Walken?s dialogue build to the movie?s biggest

laugh. The method of the movie is to involve its characters in sticky

situations, and then let them escape into sticker ones, which is how the boxer

and mob boss end up together as the captives of weird leather freaks in the

basement of a pawn shop. Or how the characters who open the movie, a couple of

stick-up artists (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) get in way over their heads. Most

of the action in the movie comes under the

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