Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American black comedy neonoir crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, from a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Directed in a. Information about the film from the Internet Movie Database IMDB, including castcredits, basic film outline and extra information. Pulp Fiction movie reviews Metacritic score Several interlocking stories of crime and intrigue form a temporal mosaic set in the Los Angeles underworld. Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesnt care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking. His new movie. Pulp Fiction Movie Review Film Summary 1. Quentin Tarantino is the Jerry Lee Lewis of cinema, a pounding performer who doesnt care if he tears up the piano, as long as everybody is rocking. His new movie Pulp Fiction is a comedy about blood, guts, violence, strange sex, drugs, fixed fights, dead body disposal, leather freaks, and a wristwatch that makes a dark journey down through the generations. Seeing this movie last May at the Cannes Film Festival, I knew it was either one of the years best films, or one of the worst. Watch The People I`Ve Slept With Online Forbes there. Tarantino is too gifted a filmmaker to make a boring movie, but he could possibly make a bad one Like Edward D. Wood Jr., proclaimed the Worst Director of All Time, hes in love with every shot intoxicated with the very act of making a movie. Its that very lack of caution and introspection that makes Pulp Fiction crackle like an ozone generator Heres a director whos been let loose inside the toy store, and wants to play all night. Advertisement. The screenplay, by Tarantino and Roger Avary, is so well written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it the noses of those zombie writers who take screenwriting classes that teach them the formulas for hit films. Like Citizen Kane, Pulp Fiction is constructed in such a nonlinear way that you could see it a dozen times and not be able to remember what comes next. It doubles back on itself, telling several interlocking stories about characters who inhabit a world of crime and intrigue, triple crosses and loud desperation. The title is perfect. Like those old pulp mags named Thrilling Wonder Stories and Official Detective, the movie 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 of doom. The movie resurrects not only an aging genre but also a few careers. John Travolta stars as Vincent Vega, a mid level hit man who carries out assignments for a mob boss. We see him first with his partner Jules Samuel L. Jackson theyre on their way to a violent showdown with some wayward Yuppie drug dealers, and are discussing such mysteries as why in Paris they have a French word for Quarter Pounders. Theyre as innocent in their way as Huck and Jim, floating down the Mississippi and speculating on how foreigners can possibly understand each other. Travoltas career is a series of assignments he cant quite handle. Not only does he kill people inadvertently The car hit a bump but he doesnt know how to clean up after himself. Good thing he knows people like Mr. Wolf Harvey Keitel, who specializes in messes, and has friends like the character played by Eric Stoltz, who owns a big medical encyclopedia, and can look up emergency situations. Travolta and Uma Thurman have a sequence thats funny and bizarre. Shes the wife of the mob boss Ving Rhames, who orders Travolta to take her out for the night. He turns up stoned, and addresses an intercom with such grave, stately courtesy Buster Keaton would have been envious. They go to Jack Rabbit Slims, a 1. Ed Sullivan is the emcee, Buddy Holly is the waiter, and they end up in a twist contest. Thats before she overdoses and Stoltz, waving a syringe filled with adrenaline, screams at Travolta, YOU brought her here, YOU stick in the needleWhen I bring an O. D.  to YOUR house, ILL stick in the needle Bruce Willis and Maria de Medeiros play another couple Hes a boxer named Butch Coolidge who is supposed to throw a fight, but doesnt. Shes his sweet, naive girlfriend, who doesnt understand why they have to get out of town right away. But first he needs to make a dangerous trip back to his apartment to pick up a priceless family heirloom a wristwatch. The history of this watch is described in a flashback, as Vietnam veteran Christopher Walken tells young Butch about how the watch was purchased by his great grandfather, Private Doughboy Orion Coolidge, and has come down through the generations and through a lot more than generations, for that matter. Walkens monologue builds to the movies biggest laugh. Advertisement. The method of the movie is to involve its characters in sticky situations, and then let them escape into stickier ones, which is how the boxer and the mob boss end up together as the captives of weird leather freaks in the basement of a gun shop. Or how the characters who open the movie, a couple of stick up artists played by Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer, get in way over their heads. Most of the action in the movie comes under the heading of crisis control. If the situations are inventive and original, so is the dialogue. A lot of movies these days use flat, functional speech The characters say only enough to advance the plot. Watch A Trip To The Moon Online A Trip To The Moon Full Movie Online. But the people in Pulp Fiction are in love with words for their own sake. Scaredy Cat Full Movie Part 1 on this page. The dialogue by Tarantino and Avary is off the wall sometimes, but thats the fun. It also means that the characters dont all sound the same Travolta is laconic, Jackson is exact, Plummer and Roth are dopey lovey doveys, Keitel uses the shorthand of the busy professional, Thurman learned how to be a moll by studying soap operas. It is part of the folklore that Tarantino used to work as a clerk in a video store, and the inspiration for Pulp Fiction is old movies, not real life. The movie is like an excursion through the lurid images that lie wound up and trapped inside all those boxes on the Blockbuster shelves. Tarantino once described the old pulp mags as cheap, disposable entertainment that you could take to work with you, and roll up and stick in your back pocket. Yeah, and not be able to wait until lunch, so you could start reading them again.