Pulp Fiction | 1994 | UK Misc

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 neo-noir crime comedy film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino with Roger Avary helping with the story and produced by Lawrence Bender. It features an all-star cast of John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Maria de Medeiros, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken and Bruce Willis.

The storyline follows Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega, two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.

Quentin Tarantino wrote Pulp Fiction in 1992 and 1993, incorporating scenes that Roger Avary had originally written for True Romance in 1993. The plot of Pulp Fiction delibrately plays out of chronological order and is often self-referential. From its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of “pulp”. Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and casual conversations with eclectic dialogue revealing each character’s perspectives on several subjects, and the film features an ironic combination of humour and strong violence.

When Pulp Fiction was released it received positive reviews from the critics and audiences alike with many widely regarding it as a masterpiece by director Quentin Tarantino in only his second feature film with particular praise for its screenwriting. On Rotten Tomatoes it currently holds a rating of 91% with the general consensus being, “One of the most influential films of the 1990s, Pulp Fiction is a delirious post-modern mix of neo-noir thrills, pitch-black humor, and pop-culture touchstones”. Roger Ebert had huge praise for the film, awarded full marks (four out of four stars) and described it as “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'”.

Pulp Fiction is often considered a cultural watershed which has influenced other films and media with many adopting elements from its style. It has appeared on many critics’ greatest films ever made list and in 2013, Pulp Fiction was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary winning Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalised the career of its stars, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did co-stars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman.

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