Well done. That's like a masterclass. It's one thing to experience a film, but quite another to understand the devices at work and be able to present them in such a clear and digestible format.

@ScriptSleuth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and commenting, Seth!

I always thought the payoff with Jodie was that eager look when she’s about to witness her favorite thing: a piercing. It’s probably my favorite shot of the movie.

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

That's an interesting take! I never connected the syringe with a piercing.

@Gaverny

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, never caught that before... Noice!

You missed what is probably the most important set up for the over dose scence... Lance, the drug dealer, tells vincent he's out of balones and asks him if "A baggie is ok?" This is highly segnificant as heroin is usually stored in balloons, because it's hard to differ good quality H from cocain, which is uaually stored in baggies. Hance, Mia confuses the bag for coke and overdoses.

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Great insight. That is something I have no experience with.

@versetripn6631

2 жыл бұрын

Even more people miss that Lance is a perfect Mirror of Spicoli's bud in Fast Times... Recall their phone chat while Stoltz at an apple on the toilet. Thunk, thunk... "What was that?" "That was my skull! I'm SO wasted!!"

@versetripn6631

2 жыл бұрын

The brunette stoner with the accent who learns about the piercing life, is the voice of T. Stark's 'Friday'...software? 😂

This script is so complex though, you need a part 2. You don't mention the payoff of how shaking Mia's hand is clearly a harbinger of death, and how each vignette is about saving someone, but when Julius leaves Vincent, he breaks the spell and is unable to save his partner.

@ddbogey2

2 жыл бұрын

I second this emotion! Thoroughly enjoyed this fascinating take on one of my all-time favorite movies. More please.

:O I never noticed before that CU of Vincent and Mia shaking hands (only), and how that calls back to her saying the only thing Antoine touched of hers, again her hand, when he shook it at her wedding. Great stuff, subscribed!

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly! It's a very subtle moment, but it clicks in our minds as the "climax" of all that tension.

Criminally underrated channel. Thanks for the video. What do you use to rip clips?

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry, Fotis. I thought I had responded to this! I use Camtasia.

great stuff man. Thoroughly enjoyed

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

Another great video !! PLease make longer videos on a single topic !!

Well constructed analysis 👍🏾.

this insight is really great. thank you!

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Ariel!

Absolute brilliant breakdown

@ScriptSleuth

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Ken!

Brilliant. I'm watching all your videos now

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Let me know what films you would like to see me cover someday.

Awesome!!!! Channel! This is a gem!

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Francisco!

Nice video! Keep up the good work.

@ScriptSleuth

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Fantastic video. Thank you. :)

@ScriptSleuth

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great stuff!

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Stephen!

This was great!

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I'd love for you to do comedy scripts that don't get enough credit. Like Clue, Soapdish, and also, I think Back to the Future is one of the greatest scripts, especially as far as exposition.

@ScriptSleuth

2 жыл бұрын

Great suggestions! Thank you.

@littleladyinlalaland1749

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScriptSleuth I always think that Back to the Future is one of the best examples of exposition because all the solutions and surprises that get him back are in the first 10 minutes and yet when you first watch it, none of it looks like exposition.

@littleladyinlalaland1749

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, Groundhog Day and Royal Tenanbaums.

@littleladyinlalaland1749

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScriptSleuth 9 to 5! There are so many comedies from the 80s that are fantastic... oh, and John Hughes movies... even Home Alone are quite good. I think he wrote one of them really quick, maybe Ferris Bueller.

Awesome. Love this stuff.

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

great work

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Jason!

great video!!! so very underrated

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Fares!

Awesome :D

Great editing man

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@wiseauserious8750

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScriptSleuth I'm currently writing my first novel and your video has me furiously taking notes lol Edit: furious that I'm learning all this stuff just now

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

@@wiseauserious8750 That's terrific! 👏 The learning process never ends. We have to always keep getting better.

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This is a good video.

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the nice comment!

Please tell/recommend about the books,videos,etc that really hepled you learn about screenplay writing and about these devices so that we too could break down any script on our own and learn from them as obviously you cannot make video on every films...btw these videos are extremely helpful.

@ScriptSleuth

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment, Akash. Honestly, the process of learning the craft of screenwriting is never-ending. I've read every book I could get my hands on, even those on directing and acting to see what is important in a screenplay for other cast members. And most importantly, read every script you can find. Every single one will teach you something.

@akashbhattacharjee4433

4 жыл бұрын

@@ScriptSleuth Thanks and all the best for your future endeavours.

@HurricaneLaughter

3 жыл бұрын

@@ScriptSleuth and which books have you gotten your hands on, you have the names of them? Would be helpful, thanks

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

@@HurricaneLaughter I'm not kidding: all of them. Every one has something valuable to learn.

I really appreciate your youtube channel. Great educational resource! I was wondering if there are a couple books that cover all of the techniques mentioned in your videos that you would recommend I purchase and read. And I am going to subscribe to your patreon for sure.

@ScriptSleuth

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Dimitri! Thanks so much for the nice comment! As far as books are concerned, try to read as many as you can get your hands on. They ALL bring something unique to the table, despite there being some overlap between a few of them. Want to start with a GREAT one? Write Screenplays That Sell by Hal Ackerman. The title sounds a little cheesy, but the book is absolutely essential in my opinion.

@OhDearBabajan

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScriptSleuth thank you for your recommendation. I was actually just curious if the concepts you cover in your videos are from books or concepts you sorta made yourself. I.e universal concepts known by all screenwriters or did you change up the concept names to digest them easily?

@ScriptSleuth

2 жыл бұрын

@@OhDearBabajan Oh, no - I'm definitely not that smart! 😆

thanks

Pulp Fiction is one long commercial. 👍

Hey guys, please do me a huge favor and hit the LIKE button (above). That's all I ask - it helps out the channel a lot!

Another brilliant example of brilliant setup and payoff concept that you didn't talk about this video essay is the famous Jules' Ezekiel 25:17 monologue. Setup: When we hear this monologue for the first time, we like Jules also think that this is something about God's wrath on bad guys. Payoff: But when we hear this monologue for second time....We realize the line between the good and bad is not always clear and can vary with different perspectives like the Jules' different interpretations of Ezekiel 25:17.

@MKAWI18

3 жыл бұрын

It’s more of character journey or development than setup -payoff

@amiygupta1880

3 жыл бұрын

@@MKAWI18 Yeah, maybe combination of both.

Pulp Fiction brilliance is that, chronologically, the final scene is when the "hero", Butch, leaves with his girlfriend on the motorcycle. This is how any other screenwriter would've ended this movie. Instead, the end is when our losers "anti-heroes" are resolving the conflict and potentially saving a lot of people in the restaurant. Therefore we realize the "American hero" is actually a killer and a psychopath; while the "bad gangsters" were simply following orders and aren't inherently bad people, they're just dumb. Butch, on the other hand, is a brilliantly calculating sociopath who feel no remorse for killing. By not getting the scenes in the chronological order, Quentin breaks not only his chronological order, but the one of all clichés American movies; therefore leaving us questioning our perceptions of good and bad in American entertainment as a whole.

@ScriptSleuth

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent insight! 😎

@littleladyinlalaland1749

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I love this movie and I never thought of it that way. I wonder if Tarantino thought of it that way, that it is in fact, that hero as antihero, and the antiheroes are the heroes...

@ddbogey2

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the storyline between Butch and Marcellus Wallace was also quite interesting. Where Marcellus went from wanting to kill him to owing his life to Butch. They both alleviated each other's planned demise and Butch gave Marcellus a chance of exacting revenge by going "Medieval" on his rapist.

Didn't realise how Pulp Fiction had so many of those "bomb under the tables"

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What other films would you like to see me cover? Let me know in a comment below!

@JonathanRichardsonUK

4 жыл бұрын

1917, I thought it was very well crafted with some good setups and pay offs

@ScriptSleuth

4 жыл бұрын

@@JonathanRichardsonUK I thoroughly enjoyed seeing that in the theater.

@sreekarkarakala2378

3 жыл бұрын

the social network please..its one hell of a work too..

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

@@sreekarkarakala2378 That one I will definitely get to!

@Angelfish-wr1pp

3 жыл бұрын

Memento, please or any movie you like that tells the story in reverse / in real time

Anyone who likes "Pulp Fiction" should also see "Go" (1999). It's a less psychotic version of "Pulp Fiction."

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

That's a good one. John August is a terrific screenwriter.

great video, dude. but you can’t make a video about pulp fiction and remove the swear words

@ScriptSleuth

3 жыл бұрын

I know... It was when I was first starting with the channel and was kind of green. I definitely want to redo this analysis and make it even better!

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