![]() ![]() Tarantino represents crime and criminals in a morally neutral and highly aestheticized fashion, emphasizing the combination of glamour, squalor, and banality that typifies their lives. It was also nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. Virtually every character in Pulp Fiction is implicated in some kind of criminal enterprise, whether as a perpetrator, an accomplice, or a witness. ![]() It revitalized the careers of John Travolta (who received an Academy Award nomination), Samuel L. ![]() Pulp Fiction won the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was a major critical and commercial success upon its U.S. The film is also self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of “pulp”.Ĭonsiderable 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 humor and strong violence. The film’s title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Its plot, as in many of Tarantino’s other works, is presented out of chronological order. Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American neo-noir black comedy crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, from a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Directed in a highly stylized manner, Pulp Fiction connects the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase.
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