"The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd."

@edgarcardona228

9 күн бұрын

Gives me chills every time

Great job on this video. You get ten Royal with cheese.

I think Tarantino said the "out of sequence" style in the movie is a kin to reading a book. Books often have chapters that jump between timelines depending on particular story context, or when character motivations are being revealed. That's why there are chapter title cards when they show scenes that are non-sequential. He wanted to capture the feeling of reading a book, and project it onto the screen. This film is called "Pulp Fiction" after all. And in pulp fiction novels, they contain over-the-top scenarios, quirky dialogue, and rich character dynamics. In terms of the dialogue itself, and references to past films and culture, Tarantino argues that that's just how people talk in real life. Real people don't necessarily talk about "the plot" of the story they're in, but seemingly "random stuff" that has significant meaning to the characters. A good example of this is the movie _Scream_ (which came out 2 years later). The characters don't know they're in a horror film, but they reference other horror films because 1.) The killer uses them as a way to taunt his victims, and seemingly takes inspiration from them, 2.) The characters have a love/distain for the genre (just like in real life), 3.) Some (if not most) of the characters are movie buffs, which means the killer could be any one of them, and 4.) In real life, people would be analytical in situations that remind them of particular scenes in movies they'd watched. With that being said: Nowadays, having meta humor or references to other forms of media is seen as "tired", "overused", and an "overcompensation for a lack of story"; like a crutch. When done poorly, they're just references for references' sake (i.e. _Rick and Morty_ , _Family Guy_ , etc). But when done properly, it offers insight into the characters and why they mean so much to them.

@DWHistoryandCulture

11 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing these insights with us and our community!

Hard to believe pulp fiction is 30 years old already

@dornravlin

5 күн бұрын

I wish people would stop saying 30

George Lucas and Quentin Tarantino both specialized in the pastiche, Lucas with Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, Tarantino with almost every movie he ever directed... people love that kind of thing

I will forever hate Forrest Gump for coming out the same year as this generational masterpiece! Definitely deserved Best Picture 👀

@user-zh1th8sz2l

3 күн бұрын

Winning the Palme D'or is way more prestigious. He got the award that mattered. And Forrest Gump is a great movie too. A worthy Academy Award winner type film. So everybody got what they deserved.

The most lasting effect Pulp Fiction has had on me, back then a indie/punk rock kid, was that it made me want to approach other musical styles, especially Afro-American ones. Thanks, Quentin!

@Blackdiamondprod.

13 күн бұрын

What’s “Afro-American”? Like Elon Musk?

@DWHistoryandCulture

11 күн бұрын

Joke's a bit old, isn't it?

@Blackdiamondprod.

11 күн бұрын

@@DWHistoryandCulture I’m not joking. I’m using real life examples to point out why that’s a stupid thing to say. Black people never asked to not be called black.

Pulp Fiction, Burnt by the Sun and Three Colors Red……that has to be one of the strongest Cannes Film Festivals ever

The point about the use of violence starting around 14:25 was very apparent to me when I saw the show in 1994. The theater was a converted church, fallen on hard times, into a pub…with movies…thanks to McMensmins brothers. Food and drink were available during the show. My date and I were in an altered state. We were laughing uproariously at scene after violent scene. The other patrons were stone cold silent, giving us looks with knives as we would once again melt into laughter while a character on-screen would suffer. Over the subsequent decades, I don’t laugh when seeing the movie again (maybe a half dozen times by now). Why did we laugh so much in 1994? I suspect because we saw the essence of what Tarantino was trying to portray, which the altered state may have enabled. Our responses certainly were unconscious. I feel sorry for the other patrons who were there. They were getting a dose of the show on-screen…and near where they sat watching. That had to be uncomfortable.

Watched it in 1994 at the movie theater in Rijeka, Croatia.

ZED, the vehicle plate used by Jarmusch and Tarantino

Great work! 👋

Amazing video, first time seeing this DW channel and couldn't have a better introduction

@DWHistoryandCulture

4 күн бұрын

So glad you liked it! If you're interested in more cinema related content check out our video on Star Wars director George Lucas: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iKp9xtqnhLiyesY.htmlsi=hpT2reza4YdqoKbB or on Native Filmmakers: kzread.info/dash/bejne/no2sq7uqdpXIe7w.htmlsi=tLuwGfcPsllPEFFy! Don't forget to follow us for the latest upload and feel free to share ☺💓

I can't imagine a worst example of a supposedly post-post-modern post-Tarantino narrative renovation than the Daniels. Almost everything else is on point.

@figuerofilms4424

9 күн бұрын

can you speak more on that

Still one of my all-time favourite films.

I think terrantino get inspirations from Hong Kong Films, i think he reference it in an interview on Chong Chin Express? Wong kar Wei films were done mostly without a script, and IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE won the Cannes Film festival best actor for tony Leong. The 80's Hong Kong John Woo's action's films were actually very violent.

@DWHistoryandCulture

11 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing these insights with us!

Vincent and Mia's dinner is not happening simultaneously with Butch's boxing match. Both Mia and Vincent are in the boxing match, and Mia thanks Vincent for the dinner. So you're out of order too 😮.

Awesome video, thanks!

5:31 “self referential” is not postmodernism. Pulp fiction is indeed “self-reflexive postmodernism” but there is nothing self referential about postmodernism itself. He used self reflexivity to have an outside operator examine postmodernism as its staring at itself in a mirror, thereby subvertingthe postmodern tools that directors use. One example is by turning the anti heroes into heroes, but somehow still maintaining PM themes. This was done through someone being saved at the end of each non linear scene (butch saves Wallace, divine intervention saves Jules, Vincent saves Wallace’s gf, and so on). But if it remained linear, it would be a postmodern film without self reflexivity.

Is this narrated by the Pop Culture Detective?? They sound so alike

Awesome 🤩

Pulp Fiction and Tarantino himself owe a lot to Godard for cinematic styling as much as Leone. This should've been adressed too.

It was not the last job of the hitmen, you got that wrong.

Thanks for this video: I absolutely love the movie and I could never quite understand why? There's nothing in there, really and ... everything Now I have an idea what it is that I like so much

@DWHistoryandCulture

11 күн бұрын

Happy to help and glad you enjoyed it! :)

30 pulp fiction film. ....glad i'm back to SEE this DW historia... documental 👍👍👍👍

9:41 For some reason I remember the film in perfect order.

Tarantino 's best film ever. My all-time favourite ❤

It seemed amazing when it first came out, but now parts of it just seem goofy.

I've grown to really despise the term "cultural appropriation". This is America, our entire culture takes from every other culture and makes it our own, which is exactly what Tarantino does.

As much as I loved the way this documentary was put together and telling the story and explaining the characters I do have one criticism is that I always had the feeling that the butch character was more of a punched-up washed up has-been who had seen better days and more glory who had lost all he's money and would do anything for a quick buck

@davidlean1060

13 күн бұрын

True, but the thing that elevats Butch is he lives up to the story of The Gold Watch, quiet possibly for the first time in his adult life. The story of the watch is obviously about integrity and personal pride. He comes from a proud line of warriors, but he hasn't shown the same integrity as his forefathers when the movie starts. He may well be all the things you mention, a cheat, a grifter, a man out only for himself, but he performs a selfless task to save his enemy from a fate worse than death. Saving Wallace is above and beyond the call of duty, but it's what his ancestors would have done. There are huge hints that Butch's GF is pregnant, so we can presume Butch will get to pass on the Watch to his child knowing he lived up to the deeds of his forefathers.

Thanks a lot dw.

Macellas wallus looks like?

God tier Movies

Before seeing the film I got the soundtrack CD from my sister. It seemed as shocking to me as the soundtrack to the film A Clockwork Orange. The two films problematize urban violence, one treats the topic seriously, the other mocks ultra violence as if it were a comic book. The dramatic density of A Clockwork Orange is dissolved in Pulp Fiction, whose circus theatricality makes us laugh as if we were watching a freak show. I hate freak shows but paradoxically I liked this film.

@juanramonvmora

14 күн бұрын

Excellent point

Post Modernism appears to be just an extension of Andy Warhol's views of pop culture

@stevenhaas9622

13 күн бұрын

Warhol didn't invent it. Rather he embraced it and became famous for it.

bruce wills part still blows

I think that Boondocks Saints is fucking trash.

Movies are movies so you can show the bloody blood at least on the youtube, otherwise our eyes bleed.

14:09 considering the fact that Spike Lee is openly EXTREMELY racist and doesn’t apologize for it, who cares?

Thanks for describing in details how "Pulp fiction " inspired by the Past revolutionized movie making of Today !

I can dismiss the Weinstein of it all pretty easily. Just don’t read the credits.

I hate non linear movies

This is unbearable, like listening to Lenina Huxley talking about the XX century 😂

I find disrespectful how you've desaturated the colours of some of the scenes. If you're not willing to respect the artistic choices of the director, don't alter them.

70th comment

Shut up : Dw+PF+@P..love life(ve)✨👍

😂😂 This video is awful. I dont even know where to start. Its like he knows only of controversial headlines from people who hate Tarantino but doesnt actually know anything about him at all.

The movie was extremely boring

Another shallow analysis of QT focusing on the pop culture sheen and out-of-order narrative. The heart of his style is the influence from theater - long talky scenes where the dialogue is inherently entertaining on its own. Two generations of film students and critics are STILL learning the wrong lessons from this guy.

I strongly dislike Pulp Fiction. Likewise all of Tarantino’s films (at least the one’s I’ve seen). Gore is just not my thing, and pretending it’s “adult” is a bs justification for childishness and banality.

@Blackdiamondprod.

13 күн бұрын

Who the fuck asked you?

Unfortunately Tarantino shot his wad on Pulp Fiction and all of his other movies are completely forgettable.

@dopebro5593

5 күн бұрын

The cap is wild Lil bro 🤯

Thanks DW for featuring... Pulp Fiction is one of my favorite all time movies

stop yapping