I saw Pulp Fiction sitting in a packed medium-sized independent cinema beside my two very good, very clean-natured buddies who I'd befriended on Beach Mission earlier that year. They were kind hearted Christian folk, and I was their black sheep buddy. When Marvin got shot, I was the ONLY person in the cinema who laughed. I kinda knew I wasn't going to make it as a good Christian boy at that exact moment.
@@fondu-design I watched it as a Christian. Still am. I absolutely loved it. Still do. You don't have to be a good boy to make it...isn't that the whole point?
I think Tarantino said the "out of sequence" style in the movie is a kin to reading a book. Books often have chapters that jump between timelines depending on particular story context, or when character motivations are being revealed. That's why there are chapter title cards when they show scenes that are non-sequential. He wanted to capture the feeling of reading a book, and project it onto the screen. This film is called "Pulp Fiction" after all. And in pulp fiction novels, they contain over-the-top scenarios, quirky dialogue, and rich character dynamics. In terms of the dialogue itself, and references to past films and culture, Tarantino argues that that's just how people talk in real life. Real people don't necessarily talk about "the plot" of the story they're in, but seemingly "random stuff" that has significant meaning to the characters. A good example of this is the movie _Scream_ (which came out 2 years later). The characters don't know they're in a horror film, but they reference other horror films because 1.) The killer uses them as a way to taunt his victims, and seemingly takes inspiration from them, 2.) The characters have a love/distain for the genre (just like in real life), 3.) Some (if not most) of the characters are movie buffs, which means the killer could be any one of them, and 4.) In real life, people would be analytical in situations that remind them of particular scenes in movies they'd watched. With that being said: Nowadays, having meta humor or references to other forms of media is seen as "tired", "overused", and an "overcompensation for a lack of story"; like a crutch. When done poorly, they're just references for references' sake (i.e. _Rick and Morty_ , _Family Guy_ , etc). But when done properly, it offers insight into the characters and why they mean so much to them.
Yes, it's a terrible crutch. I think what people failing to imitate Tarantino lack is, basically, being Tarantino. Tarantino enjoys speaking, and he enjoys speaking both in a good sing songy rhythm and also succinctly when it comes to information being conveyed, but also, like, in fairly lengthy chunks. But on top of that, he has a veracious appetite for movie knowledge, It's a very odd and specific combination. Every character Tarantino ever wrote talks exactly like Tarantino, it must come effortless for him. Dissecting what he does specifically in terms of writing kind of misses a point, like yeah it would be nice to earn like Tarantino, but that's probably a bad way to go about it trying to deliberately make your writing more Tarantino. God knows it only half worked for people like Kevin Smith.
The most lasting effect Pulp Fiction has had on me, back then a indie/punk rock kid, was that it made me want to approach other musical styles, especially Afro-American ones. Thanks, Quentin!
@@DWHistoryandCulture I’m not joking. I’m using real life examples to point out why that’s a stupid thing to say. Black people never asked to not be called black.
I've grown to really despise the term "cultural appropriation". This is America, our entire culture takes from every other culture and makes it our own, which is exactly what Tarantino does.
@@phrogg--6 I don't think that's a fair assessment, especially when Hollywood creatives flat out say "yes, this is our agenda, yes this is our political view, yes this is the agenda we want to put in our stories". This is why people dunk on "Christian" movies like God's Not Dead or Saving Christmas, because those movies put their religious politics ahead of good storytelling and where their agenda on their sleeve. "Woke" is just the liberal left wing version of a God's Not Dead. Difference is that religious right wingers are not buying up established popular franchises and turning them into God's Not Dead.
Exactly. Cultural appropriation in the country of appropriation. The reason Pulp Fiction can’t be compared to the films it is compared to here, is that the other films, even the good films attempting to emulate Pulp Fiction are just not as FUN! The essential ingredient not just for film, which is important enough. But for any and all entertainment. Life even. But surely the preachy entertainment of recent years, always with a message, worthy and pious, is a reason for the misery of human existence. I have never felt that in ANY of Tarrantino’s work. Always fun. Always better than anything produced since 1994.
Winning the Palme D'or is way more prestigious. He got the award that mattered. And Forrest Gump is a great movie too. A worthy Academy Award winner type film. So everybody got what they deserved.
Saw this amazing film when I was a 15 year old dreaming of becoming a filmmaker and it absolutely blew my mind, I went back and watched it 3 more times that week
George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino both specialized in the pastiche, Lucas with Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tarantino with almost every movie he ever directed... people love that kind of thing
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Butch’s boxing match happens maybe a week after the Mia/Vincent date because they check in with each other at the boxing match. Marcellus is back from Florida by that point and Paul is the new Jules.
I can't imagine a worst example of a supposedly post-post-modern post-Tarantino narrative renovation than the Daniels. Almost everything else is on point.
The point about the use of violence starting around 14:25 was very apparent to me when I saw the show in 1994. The theater was a converted church, fallen on hard times, into a pub…with movies…thanks to McMensmins brothers. Food and drink were available during the show. My date and I were in an altered state. We were laughing uproariously at scene after violent scene. The other patrons were stone cold silent, giving us looks with knives as we would once again melt into laughter while a character on-screen would suffer. Over the subsequent decades, I don’t laugh when seeing the movie again (maybe a half dozen times by now). Why did we laugh so much in 1994? I suspect because we saw the essence of what Tarantino was trying to portray, which the altered state may have enabled. Our responses certainly were unconscious. I feel sorry for the other patrons who were there. They were getting a dose of the show on-screen…and near where they sat watching. That had to be uncomfortable.
Good video. I had a copy before it came out without the music. A neighbor was cutting the trailer. Saw Quinten at Barney's Beanery by himself right after it hit the theaters. And I said. My friends and myself love your new movie. His whole face turned into a smile...
Vincent had the worst gun discipline...Why did he even have his gun out in the car. Let alone pointing it at Marvin. It's like he was really stoned the whole time 😧
@@davemarr7743 the exact reason he went to the toilet without his gun. He has terrible discipline in general. Leaving things everywhere is why Mia OD in the first place.
movie director from Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1981 movie "Przypadek", and Polish director Stanislaw Bareja - they created such films, especially Bareja, much before Tarantino... In Kieślowski's work the violence was spiritual or systemic, oppressive by the authorities, while Bareja directly mocked the absurdities of communism
This is why Hollywood is a dying industry, soulless. Everything is viewed through a politically correct lens where we have to give trigger warnings and apologise for words that might offend. Seems like the woke are in a bit of a tricky spot, not able to appreciate art without a disclaimer and an apology. Hoping independent film can come to the rescue
No one cared at the use of the 'N' word in Pulp Fiction because back then people didn't throw a tantrum about everything. People could actually watch a movie, enter its story and enjoy it for what it is. Identity politics and political correctness help sabotage everything that was good about cinema and art in general. I miss the good old days of the pre-Internet world where having perspective on things, a moral spine and a sense of humour was expected out of everyone.
Well back then we had a word called context. Now that's not necessary with this autistic generation nit-picking at every word. Why enjoy a film when you're too busy for looking for things to be offended in it?
Hmm I do remember the evangelical conservatives who say “no one cared about the N word because everyone is soft now” bitching and crying about music! Especially rap and metal! The whole satanic panic BS with heavy metal in the 80s was all the work of conservatives today who want to complain about people being soft 😂 Literally no one cares if the N word is used in movies because it’s a damn movie! Make believe! That’s all. But conservatives want people reading the BS Bible That’s full of terrible and evil shit Especially the whole condoning slavery thing. Which the Bible is all make believe too But who’s using that book these days to legislative purposes?
I loved the film; I agree with most of what is said. I am a screenwriter myself and I have never used the N word in any of my stories. While I am not saying that it is wrong to do that in every circumstance. But one must weigh social harmony against dramatic impact. As artist we need to create art that makes the word a better place. Otherwise, we are just making toxic waste.
All I know is my girlfriend and I went and saw this movie when it came out and we walked out of the theater just stunned - we couldn't believe what we just saw.
@@southlondon86 They loved it! I think most of the audience knew what to expect . I especially remember the reaction to Butch's girlfriend when she started crying in the Zed's dead scene. They were all going,: Oh my God, just jump on the bike already!
Vincent and Mia's dinner is not happening simultaneously with Butch's boxing match. Both Mia and Vincent are in the boxing match, and Mia thanks Vincent for the dinner. So you're out of order too 😮.
That one is up there with "Butch keyed Vincent's car when they dropped off the case." Yeah I know Tarantino once laughed and said it was probably Butch but nobody ever stops to think that they were driving the Nova and took a cab from the junkyard. I suppose they COULD have gotten Vincent's car in between breakfast and meeting Marcellus, but at that point they probably just wanted to drop it off asap with no detours.
I think terrantino get inspirations from Hong Kong Films, i think he reference it in an interview on Chong Chin Express? Wong kar Wei films were done mostly without a script, and IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE won the Cannes Film festival best actor for tony Leong. The 80's Hong Kong John Woo's action's films were actually very violent.
Thank you for making this video, that I call a documentary... I've never liked the movie, still did watch it many times, with different friends, see if one of them will convince me it is a hit... but didn't work... It always seemed to me like a deja vue thing... and thanks to you, I see why now... thanks again for your hard work, and for sharing
Like all great original films, there are always many knock offs that mimic them, however, I think pulp fiction showed us that there is more than one way to tell a story, and it gave future film makers the courage and motivation to experiment with new ideas and dialogue.
Thanks for this video: I absolutely love the movie and I could never quite understand why? There's nothing in there, really and ... everything Now I have an idea what it is that I like so much
I still don’t understand why it was shown chronologically out of sequence. Sometimes in movies it’s fine for a reason, here it seemed to the idea “that might be cool”. I’m going to have to rewatch
My then girlfriend and I dressed as Butch and Marsellus for a Halloween party a few years ago. It was a good costume idea even if it was quite a bizarre feeling to wear a ballgag in public.
This movie is the biggest homage of his career. Being a post modern director, like his heroes Leone and Depalma that made movies about movies. A mix full of quotes and cinematography from Tarantino's favorite 35MM film shelf. Great artist steal and Quentin is a proper villian..
This movie was ahead of its time. That is why it lost Best Picture to Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump was a "safe" movie. Pulp Fiction is, in my opinion, a better and more entertaining movie.
Damn it was the best film of my life, my awakening, because I suddenly understood I am a post-modern person living in a post-modern world, and how damn rich it is.
"By themselves, none of these elements were new". Absurdly false. Nearly everything in PF was brand spanking new, it just tricked you, like Duchamp's urinal, into thinking you'd seen it before. How many movies before PF did a character use the bathroom? Find one film, you won't. With all the guns in Hollywood movies, how many times has a character been shot by accident? With all the drugs in Hollywood movies, how many times has a character accidentally overdosed on screen? Has there ever been a film which wasn't chronological with no excuses, like the framing story in Citizen Kane? There never was before PF, and even after, there's only Memento. The point of PF was that it took all those questions audience members ask themselves when they see Hollywood tropes, like "why does he never have to go to the bathroom" and it turned them into central plot points in the movie. Everything was new.
Listen, you lost me when you called one of the best edited, well written, most accurately stylised films of the 90’s, trashy. I feel like this is what happens after RUclips film commentary has had 10 years behind it, and now everyone knows everything about it all. ( and before people start raving, yes i saw the whole video and I know the speaker likes the film)
The whole QT uses the N-word too much, shows too much violence, copies everything etc etc tropes are so overused and tacky now they too have become part of pop-culture!! Now thats what u call a legacy - when criticism and analysis of ur work becomes pop culture in its own right. Here's to many more from Tarantino (pls dont stop at 10🙏)
Before seeing the film I got the soundtrack CD from my sister. It seemed as shocking to me as the soundtrack to the film A Clockwork Orange. The two films problematize urban violence, one treats the topic seriously, the other mocks ultra violence as if it were a comic book. The dramatic density of A Clockwork Orange is dissolved in Pulp Fiction, whose circus theatricality makes us laugh as if we were watching a freak show. I hate freak shows but paradoxically I liked this film.
As much as I loved the way this documentary was put together and telling the story and explaining the characters I do have one criticism is that I always had the feeling that the butch character was more of a punched-up washed up has-been who had seen better days and more glory who had lost all he's money and would do anything for a quick buck
True, but the thing that elevates Butch is he lives up to the story of The Gold Watch, quiet possibly for the first time in his adult life. The story of the watch is obviously about integrity and personal pride. He comes from a proud line of warriors, but he hasn't shown the same integrity as his forefathers when the movie starts. He may well be all the things you mention, a cheat, a grifter, a man out only for himself, but he performs a selfless task to save his enemy from a fate worse than death. Saving Wallace is above and beyond the call of duty, but it's what his ancestors would have done. There are huge hints that Butch's GF is pregnant, so we can presume Butch will get to pass on the Watch to his child knowing he lived up to the deeds of his forefathers.
5:31 “self referential” is not postmodernism. Pulp fiction is indeed “self-reflexive postmodernism” but there is nothing self referential about postmodernism itself. He used self reflexivity to have an outside operator examine postmodernism as its staring at itself in a mirror, thereby subvertingthe postmodern tools that directors use. One example is by turning the anti heroes into heroes, but somehow still maintaining PM themes. This was done through someone being saved at the end of each non linear scene (butch saves Wallace, divine intervention saves Jules, Vincent saves Wallace’s gf, and so on). But if it remained linear, it would be a postmodern film without self reflexivity.
It was their last job as a team, and it was Jules's last job alltogether. Vincent's last job, however, was taking out Butch after he had dishonered his agreement with Marsellus Wallace to throw the fight. And he failed miserably. In between those two hit man jobs he took good care of Mrs Mia Wallace. And failed spectacularly there, too.
There is a respected journalist in Australia whom has been known to say that television is a fundamentally superficial medium. Cinema screens, being two dimensional as well, can be said to be the same. I kinda feel sorry for movie makers nowadays, and by extension for us viewers. The so-called Golden Age of Cinema.. pretty much ending in the 1970s.. told the stories that playwrights and stage actors had been telling for centuries, millennia. William Shakespeare's works being recorded via the printing press. Even so, audience members could talk to actors, a directors, the playwright etc. after a performance. This connection still exists I suppose but it is a lot flimsier. Of the millions whom watched 'Pulp Fiction' (1994), how many get back to the actors and/or Quentin Tarantino and/or Harvey Weinstein and/or other producers and/or any of the crew? A tiny fraction, if any. That, too, is massively played out in the mass media. Something which has its own pressures and distortions. All this, to me, is what post-modernism is. It is no surprise then that I have drifted away from movies and the cinema. This RUclips video lol... as ironic as it may be this video is perhaps more informative/enlightening than 'Pulp Fiction' is, or was. I think that is the 'highest' note I can reach in this comment so may as well leave it here.
What is controversial is that you spoke of cultural appropriation. Actually, it's negative that even DW is giving importance to such an obscurantist ideology.
"The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd."
Gives me chills every time
The climax of the film!
"This scene remains hard-to-watch."
"The truth is you're the weak."
Hard to believe pulp fiction is 30 years old already
I wish people would stop saying 30
@@dornravlinI know!! Our youngest just turned 29… now I can’t joke about being 29, anymore. Time flies…
I saw Pulp Fiction sitting in a packed medium-sized independent cinema beside my two very good, very clean-natured buddies who I'd befriended on Beach Mission earlier that year. They were kind hearted Christian folk, and I was their black sheep buddy. When Marvin got shot, I was the ONLY person in the cinema who laughed. I kinda knew I wasn't going to make it as a good Christian boy at that exact moment.
@@fondu-design I watched it as a Christian. Still am. I absolutely loved it. Still do. You don't have to be a good boy to make it...isn't that the whole point?
I think Tarantino said the "out of sequence" style in the movie is a kin to reading a book. Books often have chapters that jump between timelines depending on particular story context, or when character motivations are being revealed. That's why there are chapter title cards when they show scenes that are non-sequential. He wanted to capture the feeling of reading a book, and project it onto the screen. This film is called "Pulp Fiction" after all. And in pulp fiction novels, they contain over-the-top scenarios, quirky dialogue, and rich character dynamics.
In terms of the dialogue itself, and references to past films and culture, Tarantino argues that that's just how people talk in real life. Real people don't necessarily talk about "the plot" of the story they're in, but seemingly "random stuff" that has significant meaning to the characters. A good example of this is the movie _Scream_ (which came out 2 years later). The characters don't know they're in a horror film, but they reference other horror films because 1.) The killer uses them as a way to taunt his victims, and seemingly takes inspiration from them, 2.) The characters have a love/distain for the genre (just like in real life), 3.) Some (if not most) of the characters are movie buffs, which means the killer could be any one of them, and 4.) In real life, people would be analytical in situations that remind them of particular scenes in movies they'd watched.
With that being said: Nowadays, having meta humor or references to other forms of media is seen as "tired", "overused", and an "overcompensation for a lack of story"; like a crutch. When done poorly, they're just references for references' sake (i.e. _Rick and Morty_ , _Family Guy_ , etc). But when done properly, it offers insight into the characters and why they mean so much to them.
Thanks for sharing these insights with us and our community!
Elmore Leonard's books has that approach. Not surprised that Tarantino chose to adapt one of Leonard's books after this.
Yes, it's a terrible crutch. I think what people failing to imitate Tarantino lack is, basically, being Tarantino. Tarantino enjoys speaking, and he enjoys speaking both in a good sing songy rhythm and also succinctly when it comes to information being conveyed, but also, like, in fairly lengthy chunks. But on top of that, he has a veracious appetite for movie knowledge, It's a very odd and specific combination. Every character Tarantino ever wrote talks exactly like Tarantino, it must come effortless for him. Dissecting what he does specifically in terms of writing kind of misses a point, like yeah it would be nice to earn like Tarantino, but that's probably a bad way to go about it trying to deliberately make your writing more Tarantino. God knows it only half worked for people like Kevin Smith.
The most lasting effect Pulp Fiction has had on me, back then a indie/punk rock kid, was that it made me want to approach other musical styles, especially Afro-American ones. Thanks, Quentin!
What’s “Afro-American”? Like Elon Musk?
Joke's a bit old, isn't it?
@@DWHistoryandCulture I’m not joking. I’m using real life examples to point out why that’s a stupid thing to say. Black people never asked to not be called black.
I've grown to really despise the term "cultural appropriation". This is America, our entire culture takes from every other culture and makes it our own, which is exactly what Tarantino does.
So so tired of the woke nonsense. I’ll be ecstatic when we grow out of this cringy phase where everything is viewed through the woke lens.
@@austinstyles6393 yall are the ones that view everything thorugh the "woke" lense. EVERYTHING IS WOKE.
@@phrogg--6 I don't think that's a fair assessment, especially when Hollywood creatives flat out say "yes, this is our agenda, yes this is our political view, yes this is the agenda we want to put in our stories".
This is why people dunk on "Christian" movies like God's Not Dead or Saving Christmas, because those movies put their religious politics ahead of good storytelling and where their agenda on their sleeve. "Woke" is just the liberal left wing version of a God's Not Dead.
Difference is that religious right wingers are not buying up established popular franchises and turning them into God's Not Dead.
@@austinstyles6393 Trying to use the term "woke" to dismiss something just reveals your own biases.
Exactly. Cultural appropriation in the country of appropriation. The reason Pulp Fiction can’t be compared to the films it is compared to here, is that the other films, even the good films attempting to emulate Pulp Fiction are just not as FUN! The essential ingredient not just for film, which is important enough. But for any and all entertainment. Life even. But surely the preachy entertainment of recent years, always with a message, worthy and pious, is a reason for the misery of human existence. I have never felt that in ANY of Tarrantino’s work. Always fun. Always better than anything produced since 1994.
I will forever hate Forrest Gump for coming out the same year as this generational masterpiece! Definitely deserved Best Picture 👀
Winning the Palme D'or is way more prestigious. He got the award that mattered. And Forrest Gump is a great movie too. A worthy Academy Award winner type film. So everybody got what they deserved.
Pulp Fiction >>>>> Forrest Gump
I love both. I love the Shawshank Redemption too. 1994 was an amazing year for movies.
Saw this amazing film when I was a 15 year old dreaming of becoming a filmmaker and it absolutely blew my mind, I went back and watched it 3 more times that week
I was 15 too, and it blew my mind
Great job on this video. You get ten Royal with cheese.
Perhaps he would prefer a Big Kahuna burger and a Sprite 😂
@@mrsmacca126 nice
George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino both specialized in the pastiche, Lucas with Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tarantino with almost every movie he ever directed... people love that kind of thing
This was a great presentation, extra cheese for the narrator for his crispy voice making the presentation very immersive . 😅
Learnt a lot about about the history of movie making , thank you DW team !
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Imagine making a video essay about pulp fiction and censoring all the swear words with a beep in every single clip. So silly
Brilliant analysis! Especially the PoMo explanation. One interesting thing about the dance scene is the reference to Travolta’s Saturday night fever
Tarantino 's best film ever. My all-time favourite ❤
Amazing video, first time seeing this DW channel and couldn't have a better introduction
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Thank you for this brilliant piece.
Butch’s boxing match happens maybe a week after the Mia/Vincent date because they check in with each other at the boxing match. Marcellus is back from Florida by that point and Paul is the new Jules.
Would've loved some credits for the different movies depicted in the video... But it's great!
I can't imagine a worst example of a supposedly post-post-modern post-Tarantino narrative renovation than the Daniels. Almost everything else is on point.
can you speak more on that
But EEAaO is a post-post-modern film…
Pulp Fiction, Burnt by the Sun and Three Colors Red……that has to be one of the strongest Cannes Film Festivals ever
You can’t be serious. How dare you put the trash that is burnt by the sun in any category that includes pulp fiction. It ain’t even the same ballpark
Those constant beeps are so annoying. Couldn’t you have played the clips uncensored?
Very well done!!! Great narration- such a rarity!!!!
Thank you! 😍
The point about the use of violence starting around 14:25 was very apparent to me when I saw the show in 1994. The theater was a converted church, fallen on hard times, into a pub…with movies…thanks to McMensmins brothers. Food and drink were available during the show.
My date and I were in an altered state. We were laughing uproariously at scene after violent scene. The other patrons were stone cold silent, giving us looks with knives as we would once again melt into laughter while a character on-screen would suffer.
Over the subsequent decades, I don’t laugh when seeing the movie again (maybe a half dozen times by now). Why did we laugh so much in 1994? I suspect because we saw the essence of what Tarantino was trying to portray, which the altered state may have enabled. Our responses certainly were unconscious.
I feel sorry for the other patrons who were there. They were getting a dose of the show on-screen…and near where they sat watching. That had to be uncomfortable.
Pulp Fiction was and still is
'Peak Fiction'
Good video.
I had a copy before it came out without the music. A neighbor was cutting the trailer. Saw Quinten at Barney's Beanery by himself right after it hit the theaters.
And I said.
My friends and myself love your new movie.
His whole face turned into a smile...
Very well done! Thank you for creating this video.
Vincent had the worst gun discipline...Why did he even have his gun out in the car. Let alone pointing it at Marvin. It's like he was really stoned the whole time 😧
@@davemarr7743 the exact reason he went to the toilet without his gun. He has terrible discipline in general. Leaving things everywhere is why Mia OD in the first place.
@@davemarr7743 well he was a junkie
@3:11 "The actors in Pulp Fiction act as if they were characters in a movie"
WTF were you expecting?
movie director from Poland, Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1981 movie "Przypadek", and Polish director Stanislaw Bareja - they created such films, especially Bareja, much before Tarantino... In Kieślowski's work the violence was spiritual or systemic, oppressive by the authorities, while Bareja directly mocked the absurdities of communism
This is why Hollywood is a dying industry, soulless. Everything is viewed through a politically correct lens where we have to give trigger warnings and apologise for words that might offend. Seems like the woke are in a bit of a tricky spot, not able to appreciate art without a disclaimer and an apology. Hoping independent film can come to the rescue
Dope, thanks for this
Great work! 👋
No one cared at the use of the 'N' word in Pulp Fiction because back then people didn't throw a tantrum about everything. People could actually watch a movie, enter its story and enjoy it for what it is. Identity politics and political correctness help sabotage everything that was good about cinema and art in general. I miss the good old days of the pre-Internet world where having perspective on things, a moral spine and a sense of humour was expected out of everyone.
Well back then we had a word called context. Now that's not necessary with this autistic generation nit-picking at every word. Why enjoy a film when you're too busy for looking for things to be offended in it?
Hmm I do remember the evangelical conservatives who say “no one cared about the N word because everyone is soft now” bitching and crying about music! Especially rap and metal!
The whole satanic panic BS with heavy metal in the 80s was all the work of conservatives today who want to complain about people being soft 😂
Literally no one cares if the N word is used in movies because it’s a damn movie! Make believe! That’s all.
But conservatives want people reading the BS Bible That’s full of terrible and evil shit
Especially the whole condoning slavery thing. Which the Bible is all make believe too
But who’s using that book these days to legislative purposes?
@@ericmassicotte378 critical theory and gender studies ruined everything
I'm sure that's how you remember it.
So fucking true. Our sanitized world needs an enema.
This is so well made
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I loved the film; I agree with most of what is said. I am a screenwriter myself and I have never used the N word in any of my stories. While I am not saying that it is wrong to do that in every circumstance. But one must weigh social harmony against dramatic impact. As artist we need to create art that makes the word a better place. Otherwise, we are just making toxic waste.
Pulp Fiction is one of those "Beatles of cinema" movies. Inspired everything after it and things weren't the same after it.
All I know is my girlfriend and I went and saw this movie when it came out and we walked out of the theater just stunned - we couldn't believe what we just saw.
There is film before Pulp Fiction and there is film after Pulp Fiction.
This video was far more enjoyable than the movie itself.
This comes unexpected 😅
But we accept the compliment, thank you! 😊
Watched it in 1994 at the movie theater in Rijeka, Croatia.
What was the audience reaction sir?
@@southlondon86
They loved it!
I think most of the audience knew what to expect .
I especially remember the reaction to Butch's girlfriend when she started crying in the Zed's dead scene.
They were all going,: Oh my God, just jump on the bike already!
Vincent and Mia's dinner is not happening simultaneously with Butch's boxing match. Both Mia and Vincent are in the boxing match, and Mia thanks Vincent for the dinner. So you're out of order too 😮.
That one is up there with "Butch keyed Vincent's car when they dropped off the case." Yeah I know Tarantino once laughed and said it was probably Butch but nobody ever stops to think that they were driving the Nova and took a cab from the junkyard. I suppose they COULD have gotten Vincent's car in between breakfast and meeting Marcellus, but at that point they probably just wanted to drop it off asap with no detours.
I think terrantino get inspirations from Hong Kong Films, i think he reference it in an interview on Chong Chin Express?
Wong kar Wei films were done mostly without a script, and IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE won the Cannes Film festival best actor for tony Leong. The 80's Hong Kong John Woo's action's films were actually very violent.
Thanks for sharing these insights with us!
Thanks a lot, it was interesting.
Thank you for making this video, that I call a documentary... I've never liked the movie, still did watch it many times, with different friends, see if one of them will convince me it is a hit... but didn't work... It always seemed to me like a deja vue thing... and thanks to you, I see why now... thanks again for your hard work, and for sharing
Thank you for this lovely feedback. This makes us really very happy
Still one of my all-time favourite films.
Like all great original films, there are always many knock offs that mimic them, however, I think pulp fiction showed us that there is more than one way to tell a story, and it gave future film makers the courage and motivation to experiment with new ideas and dialogue.
Could anyone please share the name of the background song when he begins explaining postmodernism?
Thanks for this video: I absolutely love the movie and I could never quite understand why? There's nothing in there, really and ... everything Now I have an idea what it is that I like so much
Happy to help and glad you enjoyed it! :)
I still don’t understand why it was shown chronologically out of sequence. Sometimes in movies it’s fine for a reason, here it seemed to the idea “that might be cool”. I’m going to have to rewatch
Pulp Fiction is - according to IMDB - one of the top-rated films of all time. It is certainly a touchstone of brilliance.
How a crappy movie can be so genius and influential, this vid is a great explanation
My then girlfriend and I dressed as Butch and Marsellus for a Halloween party a few years ago. It was a good costume idea even if it was quite a bizarre feeling to wear a ballgag in public.
Boondock saints was great!
This movie is the biggest homage of his career. Being a post modern director, like his heroes Leone and Depalma that made movies about movies. A mix full of quotes and cinematography from Tarantino's favorite 35MM film shelf. Great artist steal and Quentin is a proper villian..
I never ever could like PULP FICTION... But now after watching yur vdo.. am finding a new inspiration in me. 🤭
Lets see
And 30 years from it's premiere, who would remember which movie won the Oscar that year?
This movie was ahead of its time. That is why it lost Best Picture to Forrest Gump. Forrest Gump was a "safe" movie. Pulp Fiction is, in my opinion, a better and more entertaining movie.
9:41 For some reason I remember the film in perfect order.
QT scene 1 of my FAVz!
You have got to be kidding me censoring every "fuck" in pulp fiction with that annoying beep. I couldn't make it 2 minutes before stopping
14:09 considering the fact that Spike Lee is openly EXTREMELY racist and doesn’t apologize for it, who cares?
No one cares.
Pulp Fiction and Tarantino himself owe a lot to Godard for cinematic styling as much as Leone. This should've been adressed too.
30 pulp fiction film. ....glad i'm back to SEE this DW historia... documental 👍👍👍👍
Damn it was the best film of my life, my awakening, because I suddenly understood I am a post-modern person living in a post-modern world, and how damn rich it is.
Why did you beep-out words which were used in the movie? Are those words not allowed on YT?
probably monetization
The air square actually comes from Truffaut's Jules et Jim
ZED, the vehicle plate used by Jarmusch and Tarantino
QT: Ultimate 🥏 📽️ 🧠😊
"By themselves, none of these elements were new". Absurdly false. Nearly everything in PF was brand spanking new, it just tricked you, like Duchamp's urinal, into thinking you'd seen it before. How many movies before PF did a character use the bathroom? Find one film, you won't. With all the guns in Hollywood movies, how many times has a character been shot by accident? With all the drugs in Hollywood movies, how many times has a character accidentally overdosed on screen? Has there ever been a film which wasn't chronological with no excuses, like the framing story in Citizen Kane? There never was before PF, and even after, there's only Memento. The point of PF was that it took all those questions audience members ask themselves when they see Hollywood tropes, like "why does he never have to go to the bathroom" and it turned them into central plot points in the movie. Everything was new.
The usage of the n-word is appropriate in Django, but not Pulp Fiction. For me, its hard to hear in Pulp Fiction but not in Dango
Listen, you lost me when you called one of the best edited, well written, most accurately stylised films of the 90’s, trashy.
I feel like this is what happens after RUclips film commentary has had 10 years behind it, and now everyone knows everything about it all. ( and before people start raving, yes i saw the whole video and I know the speaker likes the film)
The whole QT uses the N-word too much, shows too much violence, copies everything etc etc tropes are so overused and tacky now they too have become part of pop-culture!!
Now thats what u call a legacy - when criticism and analysis of ur work becomes pop culture in its own right. Here's to many more from Tarantino (pls dont stop at 10🙏)
Aww, WHAT'S IN THE BOX?
It’s Gyneth Paltrows heaaadddd
30 years? That means my parents let me watch this at 9 years old? No wonder my generation is f-ing crazy.
dude u forgot John Woo shout outs ;)
Before seeing the film I got the soundtrack CD from my sister. It seemed as shocking to me as the soundtrack to the film A Clockwork Orange. The two films problematize urban violence, one treats the topic seriously, the other mocks ultra violence as if it were a comic book. The dramatic density of A Clockwork Orange is dissolved in Pulp Fiction, whose circus theatricality makes us laugh as if we were watching a freak show. I hate freak shows but paradoxically I liked this film.
Excellent point
Is this narrated by the Pop Culture Detective?? They sound so alike
One of my favorites and weirdest films
As much as I loved the way this documentary was put together and telling the story and explaining the characters I do have one criticism is that I always had the feeling that the butch character was more of a punched-up washed up has-been who had seen better days and more glory who had lost all he's money and would do anything for a quick buck
True, but the thing that elevates Butch is he lives up to the story of The Gold Watch, quiet possibly for the first time in his adult life. The story of the watch is obviously about integrity and personal pride. He comes from a proud line of warriors, but he hasn't shown the same integrity as his forefathers when the movie starts. He may well be all the things you mention, a cheat, a grifter, a man out only for himself, but he performs a selfless task to save his enemy from a fate worse than death. Saving Wallace is above and beyond the call of duty, but it's what his ancestors would have done. There are huge hints that Butch's GF is pregnant, so we can presume Butch will get to pass on the Watch to his child knowing he lived up to the deeds of his forefathers.
@@davidlean1060I love the way Vincent calls him “ palooka “ and “ Punchy”
Yo whats the background music
Seen it lot it’s fun especially last scene don’t tell it anybody
5:31 “self referential” is not postmodernism. Pulp fiction is indeed “self-reflexive postmodernism” but there is nothing self referential about postmodernism itself.
He used self reflexivity to have an outside operator examine postmodernism as its staring at itself in a mirror, thereby subvertingthe postmodern tools that directors use.
One example is by turning the anti heroes into heroes, but somehow still maintaining PM themes. This was done through someone being saved at the end of each non linear scene (butch saves Wallace, divine intervention saves Jules, Vincent saves Wallace’s gf, and so on). But if it remained linear, it would be a postmodern film without self reflexivity.
WRITE A BOOOOOOK
Choreography
Awesome video, thanks!
Brillia
It was not the last job of the hitmen, you got that wrong.
What was their last job?
It was their last job as a team, and it was Jules's last job alltogether. Vincent's last job, however, was taking out Butch after he had dishonered his agreement with Marsellus Wallace to throw the fight. And he failed miserably. In between those two hit man jobs he took good care of Mrs Mia Wallace. And failed spectacularly there, too.
There is a respected journalist in Australia whom has been known to say that television is a fundamentally superficial medium. Cinema screens, being two dimensional as well, can be said to be the same. I kinda feel sorry for movie makers nowadays, and by extension for us viewers. The so-called Golden Age of Cinema.. pretty much ending in the 1970s.. told the stories that playwrights and stage actors had been telling for centuries, millennia. William Shakespeare's works being recorded via the printing press. Even so, audience members could talk to actors, a directors, the playwright etc. after a performance.
This connection still exists I suppose but it is a lot flimsier. Of the millions whom watched 'Pulp Fiction' (1994), how many get back to the actors and/or Quentin Tarantino and/or Harvey Weinstein and/or other producers and/or any of the crew? A tiny fraction, if any. That, too, is massively played out in the mass media. Something which has its own pressures and distortions. All this, to me, is what post-modernism is. It is no surprise then that I have drifted away from movies and the cinema. This RUclips video lol... as ironic as it may be this video is perhaps more informative/enlightening than 'Pulp Fiction' is, or was. I think that is the 'highest' note I can reach in this comment so may as well leave it here.
Mmm no. Spike Lee is not nearly the cinematic genius that Tarantino is. Not at all close.
Reservoir Dogs 4 ever!!
Macellas wallus looks like?
Thanks for describing in details how "Pulp fiction " inspired by the Past revolutionized movie making of Today !
Awesome 🤩
What is controversial is that you spoke of cultural appropriation. Actually, it's negative that even DW is giving importance to such an obscurantist ideology.
Appreciate this video essay. I do. Do you? . . .How come?
I can dismiss the Weinstein of it all pretty easily. Just don’t read the credits.
Post Modernism appears to be just an extension of Andy Warhol's views of pop culture
Warhol didn't invent it. Rather he embraced it and became famous for it.
Thanks for the fucking beeps...
God tier Movies
Are you dogging Boondock Saints? Snobbery at its finest while discussing the movie industry's departure from it.
What was in the box 😢