This Academy
Award-winning screenplay was done by Quentin Tarantino. The story is nonlinear,
the screenplay is rich, and the movie is full of stars. Tarantino’s dream of
making the movie look bigger than it actually is was achieved. Made with $8.5
million, the movie looks like it was made with more. The story arc, although it
revolves around three main and distinctive people with three main, distinct
stories, still manages to reel you in and keep you attentive without losing you
along the way.
Meant to be a
trilogy of three shorts rather than a full-length feature, it was first written
by Roger Avary in the fall of 1990. Tarantino worked on the script development
two years after, and the movie was later picked up for production by Columbia
TriStar. However, they dropped the movie, feeling it was too long, out of
place, and too low-budget before producer Bender shipped it off to Miramax.
The movie is
depicted in a nonlinear tale, and the narrative is presented out of sequence.
It’s about three main characters.
First, we have
mob hitman Vincent Vega (John Travolta), who was hired to kill Butch Coolidge
(Bruce Willis).
Then we have prizefighter Butch Coolidge, who double-crossed a mobster by
winning a bout he had taken money for throwing.
Lastly, there’s Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), Vincent’s partner, who
feels he has heard a calling from God to leave the hitman life after surviving
an assassination attempt when the shooter misses.
Each story is
interwoven and intersects at various points, and if well put together, the
movie creates one whole, complete picture.
Before this,
John Travolta was losing his edge in his movies, and Willis was struggling to
make a successful film after many big-budget flops. After this flick, they both
got their edge back. For financing, Miramax (the film's distributors) fully
financed the film and paid all the main actors the same weekly wage, regardless
of their status.
The movie was a
huge financial success, making over $200 million from its $8.5 million
production, and it was a great introduction to Tarantino’s film style of
nonlinear story arcs, which he used in later movies.
Pulp Fiction is a nice addition to any movie collection. It won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay for both Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary. It also earned Samuel L. Jackson a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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