Another success is how the dialogue between characters seems very organic and does not always have to be about the storyline. The film takes a lot of its theming from its own name as it quotes the dictionary in how pulp fiction is “[a] soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter… A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper.” This description is a great example of what the film is like as many of the scenes are cluttered together and seemingly have not much of a connection between them. Roger Ebert says that “[Pulp Fiction] is constructed in such a nonlinear way that you could see it a dozen times and not be able to remember what comes next” (Ebert, 1994). When …show more content…
This film gets an extremely different feel than most other movies because of this. It is able to show regular people going through tasks that might not have been seen as ordinary if the dialogue had been done differently. To think that it would appear normal to watch hitmen transferring a package and shooting people sounds outrageous, but that is just what Tarantino accomplished. One of the first scenes in the film is when Vincent and Jules are in the car talking. They really do not try to have a conversation about what they are actually doing, which is going to kill a couple of people and take the package that they have, but instead they are talking about the Big Mac and what a quarter pounder is called in European countries. This would be no average conversation that people expect from two hitmen, but it does provide a profound contrast into how the lives of the two characters may not be as different as normal people working regular jobs. It also shows that they are extremely calm with the job that they are hired to do and have little amounts of stress from such a dark