Pulp Fiction
PULP (pulp) n.
1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
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Widely described as a cult hollywood movie of all time, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, explores novel ideas in film direction, editing and dialogue. The hallmark of the movie is the non-linear story telling, with three storied intertwined in each other leading to a great climax. Its a movie about gangsters, guns, drugs, thieves and all about talking. The characters played by actors like Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Thames, Christopher Walken and QT are too good. They do justice to the dialogues and the story.
My favorite lines this time :)
(Uma Turman and John Travolta in JackRabbit Slim's, the diner)
MIA: Don't you hate that?
VINCENT: What?
MIA: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
VINCENT: I don't know.
MIA: That's when you know you found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute, and comfortably share silence.
VINCENT: I don't think we're there yet. But don't feel bad, we just met each other.
(Sam, John n QT in QT's house)
JIMMIE:-- don't fuckin' Jimmie me, man, I can't be Jimmied.
See and hear it, to enjoy.
---Abhay---
1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass or matter.
2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.
American Heritage Dictionary
New College Edition
Widely described as a cult hollywood movie of all time, Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, explores novel ideas in film direction, editing and dialogue. The hallmark of the movie is the non-linear story telling, with three storied intertwined in each other leading to a great climax. Its a movie about gangsters, guns, drugs, thieves and all about talking. The characters played by actors like Samuel L Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Thames, Christopher Walken and QT are too good. They do justice to the dialogues and the story.
My favorite lines this time :)
(Uma Turman and John Travolta in JackRabbit Slim's, the diner)
MIA: Don't you hate that?
VINCENT: What?
MIA: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?
VINCENT: I don't know.
MIA: That's when you know you found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute, and comfortably share silence.
VINCENT: I don't think we're there yet. But don't feel bad, we just met each other.
(Sam, John n QT in QT's house)
JIMMIE:-- don't fuckin' Jimmie me, man, I can't be Jimmied.
See and hear it, to enjoy.
---Abhay---
2 Comments:
genre:
i have seen people confuse movies like pulp fiction, taxi driver, reservoir dogs, usual suspects etc as noir. a note to them: these movies are not noir. film noir (literally, black film) is a sub-genre of crime/gangster movies in hollywood of 1930's containing raw violence, showcasin the underbelly of society, deceit , beautiful but dangerous women and MURDER!! moral conflict is a throbbing theme of these movies as is a feeling of 'why me?' or Fate. many times the murderer (protagonist) goes unpunished in the usual sense of the term. and they are almost all b&w
the newer movies even if they deal with the same stuff cant be called noir, they are neonoir/tech-noir, simply because today if u made a movie with a charlie chaplin lookalike doing slapstick, it wont be a chaplin movie, it will be a imitation!
relation to simulacra:
its interesting to note that the original noir wave came out coz the soldiers had just returned from WWII and there was a impending stench of the horrors of war in the national american psyche. and this was reflected in the movies of taht time
but now the neo-noir wave is more a clinging to the FAKE stories/characters of the noir wave and not a reflection of real times... thats pretty much what simulacra is about..
is this comment longer than the blog itself? i have way too much free time man
-anish
sahi hain mamu, the longer the better :)
I guess its time to read the book:
"Simulacra and Simulation" by Jean Baudrillard.
Noir films is a term used to categorise movies made in the period 1941-1958, as u pointed out, the post WWII period. But movies based on same themes, where bad guys play leading roles in the movie (Underworld(1927),taxi driver(1976), reservoir dogs(1992),pulp fiction(1994) etc) were still being made (before and after) even without any prevailing socio-political conditions as post war. So they were conveniently termed as neo-noir films.
hmm, MIA rocks for sure! but cant help noticing, is it the movie borrowing from reality or u getting "inspired" by the character...a thin line.
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