Pulp Fiction: Pay Homage

 

Pulp Fiction II:

Last time, I talked about “paying homage to.” I showed the driving from A Clockwork Orange. I said “paying homage to” is when a director deliberately copies a scene from a famous movie to show respect to another director.

I think he uses the upcoming dance scene to pay homage to the directors of John Travolta’s 1970s dance movies Grease and Saturday Night Fever. Travolta became famous for dance movies

Remember he bought the heroin called madman? She thinks it is cocaine.

I heard that Tarantino when he wrote Pulp Fiction based the Eric Stoltz character on Kurt Cobain, and Cobain was going to play him in the movie.

But Cobain committed suicide.

Remember I said the movie was not in chronological / sequential order. First, then, next, after, finally. 1,2,3,4,5.

I want you to put the scenes into order. This is the first scene. It is called a “flashback.” Flashback is a memory in the movie. Something from a long time ago. You can tell it is the early seventies. Vietnam War (ended 1975).

I think the watch is important to Butch, the boxer, for two reasons.

1.    It is a family heirloom.

2.    Notice the movie is not in order. Why does the director do this? I think he trying to say life is a mess. Not everything is in order. Life is sometimes chaotic.

A watch keeps time, which is in order. So it represents the opposite of chaotic to the boxer / fighter.

3.    He never met his father. His father died in the war. The watch is his connection to his father.

The watch is on the kangaroo.

Tracking shot is when the camera follows the actor.

This is an old song about an old, children’s TV show called “Captain Kangaroo.”