Jackson and Maria de Medeiros, and even a nicely troubled Bruce Willis, fight to flesh the movie out with warm-blooded gestures of feeling. But his actors are ahead of the game people like Samuel L. “Tarantino is an artist mad for affect, terrified that his audience may be bored or moved (the same thing, as far as he’s concerned). Pulp Fiction is ferocious fun without a trace of caution, complacency or political correctness to inhibit its 154 deliciously lurid minutes.” -Peter Travers, Rolling Stone Buoyed by Tarantino’s strafing wit, the action sizzles, and so does the sex. The acting is dynamite: John Travolta and Bruce Willis can consider their careers revived. It’s an anthology that blends three stories and 12 principal characters into a mesmerizing mosaic of the Los Angeles scuzz world. “The proudly disreputable Pulp Fiction (cost: a measly $8 million) is the new King Kong of crime movies. There’s not even an aftertaste.” -Howie Movshovitz, Denver Post (not archived online)
You see the picture, you leave and it’s over. So Pulp Fiction has only two-dimensional motion. Tarantino lives exclusively in a boy’s fantasy world, where women and any semblance of reality are only intruders. He certainly never acknowledges that a real world may exist, and his movie, for all its intricate and elegant dance, evokes nothing beyond itself. Tarantino doesn’t seem to know anything at all about real life, and maybe he has no interest in it either. The Gimp Unleashed: Pulp Fiction’s Creepy Bondage Slave Tells All
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Following up on his reputation-making debut, Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino makes some of the same moves here but on a much larger canvas, ingeniously constructing a series of episodes so that they ultimately knit together, and embedding the always surprising action in a context set by delicious dialogue and several superb performances.” -Todd McCarthy, Variety Related Stories “A spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture, Pulp Fiction is the American Graffiti of violent crime pictures. You don’t merely enter a theater to see Pulp Fiction: you go down a rabbit hole.” -Janet Maslin, the New York Times Nothing is predictable or familiar within this irresistibly bizarre world. Tarantino’s ripe imagination, a landscape of danger, shock, hilarity and vibrant local color. “ triumphant, cleverly disorienting journey through a demimonde that springs entirely from Mr. We’ve taken a trip to the archives to round up a few takes on Tarantino’s classic. Others, like Howie Movshovitz and Stanley Kauffmann, seemed to bristle at what they perceived to be Tarantino’s disconnectedness from reality, which some argued was rooted in the writer-director’s version of film school: working at a video-rental store. Some swooned at Fiction and Tarantino ( The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane, though not entirely taken with the film as a whole, went as far as saying Tarantino had invented his very own kind of plot). Critics were transfixed - for better or for worse - by the film and its director’s obsession with obscenity, violence, and unconventional narrative structure. Travolta's hitman had just returned from twisting brilliantly during a dance competition with his charge for the evening, his crime-boss' girlfriend.Twenty years ago, Quentin Tarantino sucker-punched moviegoers with Pulp Fiction, a sprawling, pop-culture-filled romp that secured him as one of the most enticing, up-and-coming filmmakers of the ‘90s. The scene's power was enhanced by casting Hollywood stars to play the complicated but impossible not to love characters. It packs one hell of a punch and was so unprecedented," says film historian Leonard Maltin of the game-changing crime drama released 25 years ago Monday. " 'Pulp Fiction' is an extraordinary film that has so many memorable scenes, but that scene is one reason it's unforgettable.' " "Once you see that scene, you can never unsee it.
Vincent plunges a hypodermic needle of adrenaline into Mia's heart and jolts her screaming violently back to life. One scene stands alone in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction" for pure heart-stopping shock – when Uma Thurman's dying Mia is revived from a heroin overdose by her bodyguard chaperone Vincent ( John Travolta) and drug-dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz).
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