Hero's Journey In Pulp Fiction

I did not always want to become a director. But I have always tried to be creative. Growing up in different countries formed my mind so that I tried to look at things from every perspective I could imagine. This imagination brought me to different ideas that I expressed in different ways when I was a kid. I used to be obsessed with stories. I remember my mother used to drop dozens of books in my bed and I would just stare into them, not knowing how to read yet, I would just imagine and invent the stories by myself. Stories are a unique way of people expressing their inner selves. My interest in film industry is to create stories. Stories of a very common, but specific and powerful category. Monomyth, or sometimes called Hero’s Journey is a …show more content…
In Pulp Fiction, this hero is Jules Winnfield. Jules is called to adventure when Marcellus Wallace instructs him and Vincent to collect his briefcase from Brett’s apartment. Interestingly enough, this occurs before the film even begins, as we are first introduced to Jules and Vincent in-media-res as they make their way to the apartment. Usually the next stage is supernatural aid, where the hero receives help with their journey by some otherworldly force, but Tarantino chooses to switch this stage places with the first threshold. The first threshold is when the hero faces a “threshold guardian, standing for the limits of the hero’s present sphere, or life horizon. Beyond them is darkness, the unknown, and danger.” The first threshold, in this case, is the door to Brett’s apartment. Beyond this door lies a series of events that will change Jules’ life dramatically. And, in dramatic fashion, Jules and Vincent hesitate for a long period of time before entering, which builds suspense. It is after they enter the apartment that Tarantino brings in supernatural aid. After they kill Brett, a previously hidden assailant emerges from the bathroom and fires multiple times upon Jules and Vincent at point-blank range, missing completely. Jules attributes this event to “divine intervention”. This near death experience causes him to rethink his entire way of life, to renounce his violent, gangster ways. This, of course, is the next stage, revelation. The revelation causes the hero to go through a transformation, and they return from the abyss to the real world, bringing wisdom with them to bestow upon others. As Ringo, after an unsuccessful attempt to rob the restaurant, sits across from Jules at gunpoint, Jules tells him that he is going “through a transitional period” and that he wants to help him since he is “trying real hard to be the shepherd”. Ringo and Yolanda