Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino’s film is violent yet comical, modish and filled with thrilling different plot twists making it hyper-real as Henry A Giroux has stated. The elements of hyper-reality helps the audience distinguish reality from imitation making us question and think on how to perceive the film. At the beginning of the film Pulp Fiction defines pulp giving the audience two definitions but the second one is clearly the more relevant one. Pulp is defined as “A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper,” which may be telling the audiences to not take this film as serious as it can be an item of pulp fiction. This film is mixture of neo-noir with post-modernism
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Pulp Fiction is a post-modern film because of the unusual narrative structure, intertexuality, dialogue, and the incorporation of pastiche. First, Pulp Fiction’s narrative is extremely disorienting of time. As the audience we started at point A then intertwined in different story lines till the end the audience is back in point A. Tarantino’s way of storytelling challenges the audience memory and makes us connect the causes and effects throughout the movie. This film represents different genres like boxing, musical, gangsters, redemption and even romance. Also, it references to other movies like Tarantino’s first movie Reservoir Dogs or The Assassin. The dialogue makes this film post-modern because usually in other films the discussions will drive forward the plot or storyline but in Pulp Fiction they will say unordinary things to take away some of the seriousness of the violence. For instance, Vincent and Jules in the elevator going up to their victim’s apartment talking about foot massages or after, when Jules talks about hamburgers on how tasty they are before killing the victims which definitely brought up the tension. The bible is as well quoted a couple times in what I think unsuitable moments. Not only is the storyline disorienting but tone is too by clashing different opposite feelings like when Vincent is shot and killed by Butch on the toilet reading a magazine of pulp fiction. Tarantino once said, “I always hope that if one million people see my movie, they saw a million different movies”. I think he was right, this film integrates pastiche as he was inspired by many movies like the baseball bat it can remind one of Walking Tall with Joe Don Baker or when Butch is at the traffic light an Marcellus Walks to the front of it that resembles a little bit of Psycho when the boss crosses in front of Marion’s car. There are numerous quotes and references from and to famous films or mass media culture. In
Pulp Fiction is a post-modern film because of the unusual narrative structure, intertexuality, dialogue, and the incorporation of pastiche. First, Pulp Fiction’s narrative is extremely disorienting of time. As the audience we started at point A then intertwined in different story lines till the end the audience is back in point A. Tarantino’s way of storytelling challenges the audience memory and makes us connect the causes and effects throughout the movie. This film represents different genres like boxing, musical, gangsters, redemption and even romance. Also, it references to other movies like Tarantino’s first movie Reservoir Dogs or The Assassin. The dialogue makes this film post-modern because usually in other films the discussions will drive forward the plot or storyline but in Pulp Fiction they will say unordinary things to take away some of the seriousness of the violence. For instance, Vincent and Jules in the elevator going up to their victim’s apartment talking about foot massages or after, when Jules talks about hamburgers on how tasty they are before killing the victims which definitely brought up the tension. The bible is as well quoted a couple times in what I think unsuitable moments. Not only is the storyline disorienting but tone is too by clashing different opposite feelings like when Vincent is shot and killed by Butch on the toilet reading a magazine of pulp fiction. Tarantino once said, “I always hope that if one million people see my movie, they saw a million different movies”. I think he was right, this film integrates pastiche as he was inspired by many movies like the baseball bat it can remind one of Walking Tall with Joe Don Baker or when Butch is at the traffic light an Marcellus Walks to the front of it that resembles a little bit of Psycho when the boss crosses in front of Marion’s car. There are numerous quotes and references from and to famous films or mass media culture. In