"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sidesīy the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.īlessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will People would have debated it for years anyway, and it would have been much more subtle."īefore he kills someone, Jules recites his version of Ezekiel 25:17: Suddenly what could have been anything became anything supernatural. Then somebody had the bright idea (which I think was a mistake) of putting an orange lightbulb in there. All you were supposed to know was that it was "so beautiful." No prop master can come up with something better than each individual's imagination. This way each audience member would fill in the blank with their own ultimate contents. So it was decided that the contents of the briefcase were never to be seen. But that just seemed too boring and predictable. "Originally the briefcase contained diamonds. In an interview with Roger Ebert's recurring column, Questions for the Movie Answer Man, Avary said the following: One of the most popular ones is that someone's soul is inside the briefcase-usually Marsellus Wallace's, and he's sending Vincent and Jules to get it back from him.īut the most straight-forward answer we'll probably ever get came from Roger Avary, who received a story credit on the film and also won the Oscar (along with Tarantino) for Best Original Screenplay for Pulp Fiction. But the glowing light has created some more fanciful theories. The real answer is "two batteries and a lightbulb," according to Samuel L. Here, in honor of Pulp Fiction's 25th anniversary this October, are some of the more interesting Easter eggs and references that you might have missed in the Tarantino classic. There's a lot to appreciate in Pulp Fiction, and thus, there's also a lot to miss. The tension of a hitman taking his boss's wife out to dinner would be undercut with a discussion about TV pilots and corny jokes. A casual discussion about McDonald's in France and foot massages would be interrupted by a murder. On top of that, Tarantino added layers and layers of clever, cool dialogue that he juxtaposed, with humorous effect, with violence, racism, and drug use. Pulp Fiction took these old, derided genres from the '70s and remixed them for a modern audience. But for a young Tarantino, they were formative films that defined his sensibilities. With the fall of those establishment gatekeepers, who defined mainstream 'good taste,' came the rise of multiple niche genres: blaxploitation, pornography, spaghetti westerns, kung fu flicks-these types of movies were often accorded little respect at the time. He grew up in the '70s, when the film industry was rife with experimental, independent filmmakers who rose to prominence when the studio system (and its controlling monopoly over talent and box office returns) died. Most prominent was Tarantino's love of grindhouse 'trash' cinema. But the way those themes were explored was wholly original, especially in 1994. Its overarching themes-of karma, honor among thieves, and redemption-are well-worn. When Pulp Fiction first debuted, it was a shot of adrenaline straight to people's hearts.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |