[Synopsis of the movie]
The film "Pulp Fiction" consists of three stories: "Vincent and Martha's Wife", "Golden Watch", and "Bonnie's Situation", as well as the prologue and epilogue of the beginning and end of the film. It seems to be a few independent small stories, but there are interlocking characters and events.
Thieves "Little Pumpkin" and "Little Rabbit" are in big trouble when they rob the breakfast shop - H Society members Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent (John Travolta) eat in the store, which can be described as a sky outside the sky, and there are people outside. Will the two spare the two little thieves, "Little Pumpkin" and "Little Rabbit"?
Vincent is a subordinate of Martha Wallace (Ving Rhames), the eldest brother of H Society, and Martha orders him to spend the night with his wife, knowing that if there is danger, he will undoubtedly die, but what should Vincent do in the face of the temptation of Martha's wife's beauty.
Vincent's story is not over, and the appearance of boxer Butch (Bruce Willis) will change his life forever. Butch has an ancestral gold watch, and it is because of this gold watch that he and Marsha share a shameful secret.
The film returns to the beginning in a book-like structure. Jules reads the Bible in front of the little thieves, expressing his weariness and understanding of killing. What happened to make him so transformed? "Bonnie's situation" has the answer... The film unfolds slowly from this.
[Appreciation]
When Quentin Tarantino was young, he and his friend Roger Avari spent the day watching and discussing a variety of films on different subjects. Through extensive viewing and careful study, he gradually understood and mastered a wide range of film knowledge and techniques. As a ghost director, he has shot films of different themes. The 1994 American crime crime film Pulp Fiction is quentin Tarantino's second film directed and written. Filled with profanity, humor, and violence, the film presents itself in an ironic, non-linear narrative and partly references pop culture.
The film's imagery and composition have often been homaged or imitated in later works, leading most critics to consider the film to be one of the best examples of postmodern cinema. The film is often considered a "post-classic film noir" due to its large amount of black humor.
"Pulp fiction" refers to the kind of novels with simple content and simple binding. In 1935, Alain Lane of the United Kingdom created the "Penguin" edition of popular literature, which was often produced after various discarded newspapers and books were mixed into pulp. Quentin suggests in this name that his films are the result of fragments of many other films and literary works. He made all the serious stuff, violence, x, politics, national wars, as easy to swallow as fast food.
Several of the things that happened in "Pulp Fiction" are related to H society. But these few things are not related in themselves, and there is no connection between each story. Pulp Fiction thoroughly glorifies or stylizes violence. It makes the audience realize that at this moment, you are watching the movie is entertainment. Tarantino turned violence into jokes, X into jokes, politics into jokes, history into jokes. Through a scene in which John Cufta and Uma Thurman dance in a nightclub, Tarantino easily reviews the history of American film, music, and dance, coupled with the apathetic attitude toward violence and evil in film noir and tough guy novels, the character design and pattern of robber films, the intense action of Hong Kong movies; the confusion between the wonders of magic realism and reality, making the postmodern grand stitching of Pulp Fiction reach a carnival level. Tarantino himself said: "I copy every play from east to west, copy it back and forth and mix it up... I just copy everywhere, and great artists always have to copy. The same fancy and profound language, the same casual talk about trivial issues of the underworld, "Pulp Fiction" has more seemingly random collage, but is actually very skillful narrative structure, and the fate of those smoothly sliding plots.
Pulp Fiction's treatment of violence is one of the important reasons why the film can shine. Before Jules killed, he argued with people about which hamburger was delicious and read a passage of the Bible; Vincent and Jules were wiping the car and arguing about who should wash the brain pulp in the back seat of the car. Stylizing violence is not Tarantino's original, and Quentin Tarantino's difference from his predecessors is not his boldness and directness, he deeply understands the characteristics of the times in which he lives, and skillfully combines the fashion and popularity of society with the reality of crime. Tarantino never spoke of the postmodern, but he understood its essence. Quentin seems to want to tell us that life in the 20th century is rapidly evolving, fast and changeable and worthless, that there is no reason and justice in life or death, and that the film is nothing more than trivia and jokes, a "pulp novel."
In terms of narrative structure, Tarantino also followed his previous style, not using the usual chronological structure, but using a delicate structure of nested flashbacks and multiple lines in a loop to tell the whole story. In addition to the different stories that unfold in the film around the Los Angeles H Gang, boxers, mysterious suitcases, accidental firefights and hotel robberies, etc., they are told at the same time and intersect with each other as the film progresses, in addition to retaining some of the other factors of the stylization used in black humor films, such as the homage to the classics and other innuendos, references, etc. Another major feature of this film is the overall style of the character center, which is reflected in the film's extensive dialogue and monologue scenes. A large number of meaningful lines promote the development of the entire plot and characters, showing the inherent attributes of humor and philosophical speculation of the characters in the film, and also speaking for the director to a certain extent.
Pulp Fiction is "three stories about one story." The film is broken down into five separate divisions: the first part is the prologue; The second part is Vincent and Marcellus. Swaraz's wife; The third part is the story of the golden watch; the fourth part is Bonnie's situation; and the fifth part is the ending.
All three stories are inspired by a key event in which Vincent and Jules return from four lads. Marcellus. The Swaraz suitcase thing. Such an event becomes the axis of all three stories, each of which is constructed into a holistic and linear form. It starts at the beginning of the plot, goes to the middle, and then moves towards the end.
The prologue is opened by two characters, "Pumpkin" and "Sweet Rabbit": they are discussing various robberies in a café. When they finish their meals and pull out their guns to carry out the robbery on the spot, the film stops at this scene and gets to the subject matter. Then we cut into the middle of Jules's conversation with Vincent, who were driving along to a heated discussion about the pros and cons of a large McDonald's burger, both locally and abroad.
The first prologue builds up the entire film and tells everything we have to know. These West individuals were killers employed by Marcellus Wallace, and their job, their dramatic need, was to take over the suitcase of the country. This is also the real beginning of the story, according to this analysis, in the first part Jules and Vincent arrive at the scene and explain their intentions, kill three young men, and only entrust god's care to them to leave alive with Marvin, this event is the key event of the story. They went back to report to Marcellus, Wallace. After Vincent takes Mia out to dinner and after Mia accidentally overdoses HL, Vincent saves her life and agrees not to tell anyone what happened, and the two exchange words and leave. The second part is about Bruch and his gold watch, and what happens after he kills his opponent in the match and wins the boxing match one by one instead of losing the match as he promised Marcellus Wallace in the first part. The third part deals with how Marvin's bodyguard was handled, and the entire carriage was spattered with his blood - that is, the continuation of the first part. This is followed by a section at the end where Jules talks about his desire to change his lifestyle and God's concern for their fate at a crucial moment, followed by the robbery of "Pumpkin" and "Sweet Rabbit," the prologue at the beginning of the film.
The cut-and-turn that takes place in the script of Pulp Fiction is influenced by modern technology. A strong and solid sense of structure, all with a beginning, middle, and end, and the story revolves around a key event and is anchored by the storyline. The key events are the axis and engine of the story, which moves the story forward and reveals to us what the story is about. A good film has a powerful dramatic action line and structure, and structure is a tool for you to create a script with the highest dramatic value. Structure is all that is put together, i.e., the actions, characters, plots, events, episodes, and events that frame the script. Structure is a contextual framework. It appropriately "packs" together the stories it tells, and the framework is actually like a space in which things are stored. By the same token, the structure fits your story appropriately, whether it's linear or non-linear. The structure is always the backbone and spine of the story.
Each unit in the movie "Pulp Fiction" is a small story, and finally echoes the end of the whole play, and the film can achieve great success because it has a different structure and form, which has attracted people's love and attention.
Pulp Fiction had a deep impact on the public and the media, and was named the greatest film of the period 1983-2008 by Entertainment Weekly. Pulp Fiction is considered by critics to be one of the greatest films of all time. In 2013, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for inclusion in the National Film Register, which has an important place in the history of film culture and development.
"Pulp Fiction" integrates a variety of film genres such as film noir and H gang movies, and director Quentin Tarantino has combined popular culture such as his favorite characters, plots, dialogue, props, songs and other popular cultures according to his own preferences, concocting this strange movie full of various wonders. From this film, independent films began to gain full recognition from mainstream films, "Pulp Fiction" won the world's $200 million box office myth at a cost of $8 million, won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and won the unanimous praise of global film critics, Miramar was fully acquired by Disney by independent production companies, and officially entered the ranks of mainstream film production companies.
[Awards]
67th Academy Awards (1995)
Best Picture (Nominated) Lawrence Band
Best Director (nominated) Quentin Tarantino
Best Actor (Nominated) john Travolta
Best Supporting Actor (Nominated) Samuel L. Jackson
Best Supporting Actress (Nominated) Uma Thurman
Best Original Screenplay Roger Avrey/Quentin Tarantino
Best Editing (Nominated) by Sally Menck
47th Festival de Cannes (1994)
Main competition unit Palme d'Or Quentin Tarantino
48th British Academy Film Awards (1995)
Film Award for Best Picture (Nominated) by Lawrence Band
Film Award for Best Director (Nominated) Quentin Tarantino
Film Award for Best Actor (Nominated) by John Travolta
Film Award for Best Actress (Nominated) Uma Thurman
Film Award for Best Supporting Actor Samuel Jackson
Film Award for Best Original Screenplay Quentin Tarantino/Roger Avri
Film Award for Best Cinematography (Nominated) Andrea Sekoura
Film Award for Best Editing (Nominated) by Sally Menck
Film Award for Best Sound Effect (Nominated) Dean A. Zupansic/Stephen Hunter Flick/Ken King/Rick Ash
The 18th Japan Academy Film Awards (1995)
Best Foreign Language Film (Nominated)