Pulp Fiction is a crime film released in 1994 and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film is known for its brilliant dialogues, ironic humor, violence, nonlinear storyline and pop culture references. Pulp Fiction was nominated for seven Oscars.
The film connects the interesting storylines of different crime related people of Los Angeles. Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and conversations between the characters that reveal their senses of humor and perspectives on life. The film’s title refers to the crime comics and novelty of early 20th century. All the events in the film relate to each other and they aren’t shown in chronological order, for example in the beginning of the film Vega and Winnfield walk into a bar wearing clothes they got from Winnfield’s friend Jimmie at the end of the film. Viewer has to be alert for the whole film or the storyline might seem a little strange. Pulp Fiction displays a lot of brutal violence and drug use and drug overdosing and a scene where mob boss Marcellus gets raped by two guys and Butch, who was also captured by the same guys, returns to save him by slicing the other guy open with a Katana-sword.
Main characters in this movie are hired hitmen Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) who work for the mob boss Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), Marcellus’ wife Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) and a boxer called Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis). Casting in this film is spot on, I would give special credit to Rhames and Jackson for their unbelievable performances. Tarantino has a few actors that he likes to use in his films who also feature in Pulp Fiction, for example Tim Roth, who also played in the Reservoir Dogs (1992), Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs), Uma Thurman, who played the leading role in the Kill Bill-movies. Tarantino usually has a small role in his own movies, in Pulp Fiction he played Jimmie, Jules’ innocent friend who helped The Wolf (Keitel), Vincent and Jules to clear mess caused by Vincent’s accidental shooting.
Like every Tarantino movie, Pulp Fiction has an amazing soundtrack. Dick Dale’s “Misirlou” plays during the opening credits. Tarantino chose surf music as the basic musical style for the film, but not for it’s association with surf culture as he has later said. The soundtrack album, “Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction”, was released along with the film in 1994. The album peaked on the Billboard 200-chart at number 21.
Pulp Fiction quickly became regarded as one of the most significant films of it’s era and has become a legend in pop culture ever since.

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