Pulp Fiction: Class Notes March 2023

 Film: Pulp Fiction

Attendance: I give everyone 10% for this. Every hour you miss, I subtract 1%. If you miss nine hours, you fail. Pulp Fiction works similarly to TV or when people go to the movies to watch crap like Marvel. They want to rest and not think.

Pulp is the flesh of an orange. Fiction means not true.

Genre is dark humor or comedy. Funny, but evil.

Trivia: they say f%$k 255 times. John Travolta, perhaps the most famous actor of the 1970s, was washed up. That means not famous or good anymore. He couldn’t get roles in the 1980s. He made a comeback in this movie. Travolta in the

1970s. Opening credits.

1994: Tarantino wrote and directed it. He wrote it while

drinking coffee in the diner which is at the start of the movie.

This movie is not in chronological order. It opens at the end.

Your assignment is to write a sentence to describe each

scene. Then put the sentences in chronological order and

give me.

Vincent (Travolta) says he doesn’t watch TV, implying that it is too stupid for him. But he loves to read pulp fiction = contradiction.

What does 666 represent? It is the sign of the beast

(devil). Tarantino is also paying homage to Stanley

Kubrick. When you copy a famous scene from another

movie to show respect.

1. We have a myth or superstition. You can make a deal

with the devil. He will give you whatever you want,

but he gets his soul. If you want to make this deal,

go to the crossroads.

If we say you are “square” it means not a cool person.

SShe says she is going to powder her nose. 

A cameo is when a famous actor goes in a movie for just

a few minutes.