{"id":1593,"date":"2025-08-01T03:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T07:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:56:12","slug":"pulp-fiction-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=1593","title":{"rendered":"Pulp Fiction-1994"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pulp Fiction-1994<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director Quentin Tarantino<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Top 250 Films #23<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Scott’s Review #242<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"880640\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Reviewed May 12, 2015<\/p>\n

Grade: A<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pulp Fiction (1994) is one of the most influential films of the 1990s and single-handedly kicked the film industry in the ass.<\/p>\n

It led an entire generation of filmmakers, who were starved for creative work after the largely dull decade of the 1980s.<\/p>\n

The success of the film, both creatively and critically, helped ensure that edgier and more meaningful artistic expression would continue.<\/p>\n

The leader of the charge, of course, was director Quentin Tarantino.<\/p>\n

With Pulp Fiction, a black-comedy crime film, Tarantino mixes violence, witty dialogue, and a 1970s cartoonish feel to achieve a filmmaking masterpiece.<\/p>\n

The plot is non-linear, and the story centers on three main focuses that intersect\u2014a new style of filmmaking that has become commonplace in modern cinema, but at the time was a novel approach.<\/p>\n

Set in Los Angeles, the film features Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta as hitmen named Jules and Vincent, who work for a powerful gangster, Marsellus Wallace, played by Ving Rhames.<\/p>\n

We get to know them as they interrogate four college-aged youths who double-crossed Marsellus, all the while discussing fast-food hamburgers and adventures in Europe.<\/p>\n

On another front, Butch (Bruce Willis) is hired by Marsellus to lose a fight to another boxer. Later, Marcellus instructs Vincent to take his wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), a former, unsuccessful television actress, out to dinner and a night on the town.<\/p>\n

Finally, we meet Pumpkin and Honey Bunny (Tim Roth and Amanda Plumber), two small-town robbers plotting a heist at a local diner. As the film develops, these plots relate to each other in unique ways.<\/p>\n

The film is quite stylistic, resembling a 1970s film production in the way it looks, and the use of 1970s style sets- the diner, in particular, looks very much of that time, and an automobile where a death occurs is a 1970s Chevy Nova.<\/p>\n

The film, however, is set in the present time.<\/p>\n

The dialogue throughout Pulp Fiction is immensely impressive to me. Long dialogues occur between characters, usually sitting over a meal, discussing the meaning of life, religion, fast-food burgers, and other wonderfully real conversations.<\/p>\n

I love the many food references- from Butch\u2019s girlfriend salivating over an impending meal of blueberry pancakes to the French version of the Big Mac being discussed, to the price of a shake, these make the conversations between the characters rich and unique and oh so creative.<\/p>\n

My favorite sequence is the one between Vincent and Mia, mostly set at a trendy 1950s-themed diner named Jack Rabbit Slim’s, where the staff dress in costumes impersonating their favorite stars of the day, such as Marilyn Monroe.<\/p>\n

After winning a dance contest (and a possible homage to Saturday Night Fever), the two go back to Mia’s place, where she accidentally overdoses on heroin, thought to be cocaine.<\/p>\n

The song “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” by Urge Overkill is both integral and haunting to the scene.<\/p>\n

An intense and shocking scene of male gay rape is extremely violent, and the hillbillies involved could be straight out of Deliverance from 1972, despite being in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

This scene is disturbing yet mesmerizing at the same time, and might I say even comedic in a dark way?<\/p>\n

Pulp Fiction is not a mainstream affair and has its share of detractors and plain old non-fans.<\/p>\n

But for film-goers seeking a fun, entertaining, cleverly delicious work of art that has influenced Hollywood and Independent filmmakers alike, Pulp Fiction (1994) is a film to watch over and over again and admire for its style and creativity.<\/p>\n

Oscar Nominations: 1 win-<\/strong>Best Picture, Best Director-Quentin Tarantino, Best Actor-John Travolta, Best Supporting Actor-Samuel L. Jackson, Best Supporting Actress-Uma Thurman, Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen (won)<\/strong>, Best Film Editing<\/p>\n

Independent Spirit Award Nominations: 4 wins-<\/strong>Best Feature (won)<\/strong>, Best Director-Quentin Tarantino (won)<\/strong>, Best Male Lead-Samuel L. Jackson (won)<\/strong>, Best Supporting Male-Eric Stoltz, Best Screenplay (won)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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