Pulp Fiction

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Pulp Fiction

Introducing
a film such as Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction takes much patience and
significant artistry with words. Tarantino’s work is an audacious, outrageous
look at honor among lowlifes, told in a somewhat radical style overlapping a
handful of separate stories. "Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of
cinema, a pounding performer who doesn’t care if he tears up the piano, as
long as everybody is rocking" (R.Ebert). Introducing a film such as Quentin
Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction takes much patience and significant artistry with
words. Tarantino’s work is an audacious, outrageous look at honor among
lowlifes, told in a somewhat radical style overlapping a handful of separate
stories. "Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding
performer who doesn’t care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is
rocking" (R.Ebert). 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 view...

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