Chapter 818

Some people call "Pulp Fiction" the most important film in American cinema in the 1990s; some people think that "Pulp Fiction" has created a new form of screenplay writing; some people think that "Pulp Fiction" became independent after Movies have really entered the mainstream media's attention.

History has also proved that "Pulp Fiction" does have such a high level, that's why it has become one of the troikas in 1994 that are full of great films, along with "Forrest Gump" and "The Shawshank Redemption". That said, "Pulp Fiction" far surpasses the other two competitors in terms of the artistic value of film innovation.

The public opinion storm set off by "Pulp Fiction" started at the Cannes Film Festival. After the "Cinebook" and "Empire" wrote reviews successively, the famous Roger Ebert remained silent, even many American media began to rush After writing the film review, Roger still didn't do it.

It was not until the 21st, that is, four days after the release of "Pulp Fiction", that Roger's film review was long overdue!

"For four days we sat in the dark, scene by scene, trying to figure out the 'Pulp Fiction' work. We turned the DVD player upside down, paused and slowed forward, we had three hundred people, and Still very democratic: whoever discovers something, we stop and discuss. The goal is to study this labyrinthine movie.”

Just an opening chapter that explains everything, and the reason why Roger didn't write a review until four days later is because he's been watching it!

"Of course, there are people who don't like 'Pulp Fiction,' and it's probably the least popular of all American movies. I can hear a lot of viewers saying it's too violent, too superficial, too low-key. Flow, like piles of ****. They watched for twenty minutes, thirty minutes, or an hour, and then walked away.

For those who like the movie, however, Quentin Tarantino's film is one of the most fascinating in recent years. They discuss every detail of the movie with a level of enthusiasm that I'm afraid I've only seen when discussing 'A Space Odyssey 2001'.

From 'Citizen Kane' to 'The Silence of the Lambs', I've done this shot-by-shot analysis of many films. I've found that any question can be answered if you take a bunch of people who are serious about movies, sit in the dark, and give them a free voice. This time, for example, there was no doubt that the voice of an eleven-year-old was the voice of an eleven-year-old who spoke in the dark once.

Four days later, I adore the movie more and more. It's more subtle and complex than it looks. The questions that plagued first-timers of the film are actually answered in the script written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery. Of course, people who see it for the first time can't think of it.

The story of the film is intertwined rather than unfolding chronologically, so the beginning and end of the film are echoed, and the middle part of the film actually all happens after the ending part of the story. Why is the movie told in this way? There are probably three reasons.

One is that Quentin, as his fans say, is tired of the dragging linear storylines; the other is that it will make his script resemble text on a computer, such as when you click on a gold watch and you see Butch's story, click on the foot massage and you'll see Vincent's hapless date.

The last reason is that several of the movie's story lines end in some kind of redemption, the most important of which is Jules's fate, and the decision to wash his hands. Because, even though it doesn't happen at the end of the time at this point, it makes sense to put it at the end of the film.

The first time I saw this movie, I thought it was violent, but when I watched it for the second and third time, it was not as violent as I thought. But why does it seem violent? Because movies always use humorous language to adjust the atmosphere and delay the occurrence of violent events.

In fact, the movie can only count the deaths of seven people. Three punks in the apartment, one on the chair, one on the sofa, and one in the toilet, killed by Vincent and Jules; Marvin, Jules' insider, was accidentally killed by Vincent in the back seat of the car Killed; Vincent killed by Butch; Maynard and Thad killed in the thrift store; and two other deaths not directly manifested: the opponent Butch killed in the ring, and the thrift store basement sex in. slave.

In contrast, several people are rescued in the film.

Mia sucks. After being rescued from an overdose, Butch rescued Marsha in the basement, and Jules persuaded Rabbit and Pumpkin to save the restaurant guests during the visit. And Jules and Vincent were shot indiscriminately and survived. Jules thought it was a miracle, God's will, so he decided to wash his hands; Vincent didn't care, and eventually paid the price.

During our careful viewing of the film, we found that much of the violence in the film was kept off-screen. When the gangster in the apartment is killed, the camera is on Vincent and Jules; when saving Mia, the camera cuts to Mia sitting up at the last minute; the shooting in the back seat of the car is also not shown. Violent footage from the basement is visible, but also not to the extent of more than half the fight scenes in the movie.

The more you watch this movie, the more strongly you feel that there is something religious lurking beneath the storyline. A lot of it has to do with Martha's suitcase, the one Vincent and Jules snatched back in the apartment. What's in the box, we don't know, we just see what's glittering inside. There's been a lot of speculation about luggage, but we'll never know.

We notice that the code to open the box is "666" - Satan's mark. So some people speculate that the band-aid on the back of Masha's neck may be "666". Is he the devil? You know, Jules, who believed he was saved by God, survived, and Vincent, who defied God, eventually died.

Vincent was shot by Butch as he came out of the bathroom, one detail I didn't notice the first time I watched it was that Butch's gun was Marsha's - he went out to buy food and left it in on the kitchen counter, so Vincent went to the toilet unprepared, so Butch didn't meet Marsha until he left the house.

It's been said: Guys who write scripts are not lazy at all, they spend a lot of time on details that most people don't notice; Viewed by the audience as meaningless nonsense.

The movie also has a clue that many weapons are not used in the right places: the gun that didn't hit Vincent and Jules, the gun that killed Vincent, the gun that went off in the car, the gun that was meant to rob a restaurant, Guns from second-hand stores. Jules's own gun was even used to stop violence in restaurants after his ideological change.

In a less important place in the movie, we also discover some little secrets, the bar where Marsha gives Butch a task is called "Jack. Rabbit. Slim's", and when Butch sneaks through a window in his apartment, The "Jakc. Rabbit. Slim's" sign is visible through the open window.

There is also a very interesting detail, a neon sign can be seen in the thrift store, "Killian's. Red. Beer", but some letters are broken, the rest is "Kill. Ed", and later Butch rides Thad When the motorcycle escaped, he glanced at the keychain of the motorcycle, which had THAAD's initial "Z" on it, spelled this letter with the subtitles left by the neon sign, and got "Kiill. Zed", "Kill. Kill Thad," when in fact Butch had just killed Thad. There is a "Grace" on the fuel tank of the motorcycle, and isn't Butch's escape a gift from God?

There are two lenses that we discuss a lot. One is when Vincent and Jules go on a killing spree in the apartment, the screen is glittering, is that something to do with the suitcase? The other is when Marsha instructed Butch to fight fake punches, facing the camera of Bruce Willis. Bruce's face is half-light and half-dark, divided vertically. The demarcation is very clear, we even doubt whether it is Makeup was used to enhance the effect.

What is the meaning of these two shots, or is it interesting, we have not been able to reach a consensus so far.

The dialogue of the film is very humorous, and in some places it is obviously a tribute to some classic works, but the form is more modern and more obscene.

At the beginning of the film, Vincent and Jules discuss the difference in the way hamburgers are called in the Netherlands and the United States, reminiscent of the plot in 'Adventures. Of. Huckleberry. Finn'; Jules Always like to quote a passage from the book of Ezekiel in the Bible, but in fact only a small part is the same as the original text, and more is his own gibberish.

A basic strategy of the film is to push back the violence with character dialogue.

For example, when Mia was lying on the ground about to die, two men were studying how to use the syringe; for example, at the beginning of the movie, Vincent and Jules were walking in the corridor of the apartment while discussing the feet Massage, the camera at this time has been following them. When the two walked to the door of the room they were going to, they found that it was not yet time, so they continued to walk deep into the corridor and continued their discussion, but at this time the camera stopped and stayed at the door, It seems to tell us in the language of the lens: this is where the story is going to happen. But the two were still talking casually, and it seemed that even the camera was impatient, so the atmosphere became more and more tense.

Some people love 'Pulp Fiction', others hate it. But the reason is the same: because the production always seems to play with audience expectations and never plays by the rules. It organizes the material at will, in contrast to the current gangster, action movies in the United States that have fallen into a formulaic quagmire. Quentin Tarantino ditched the rules taught in Hollywood's screenwriting factory and created a new way of writing from scratch.

'Pulp Fiction' has the potential to be the most influential film of the next five years because it saves us from countless predictable formulaic plots.

So thank you Quentin Tarantino. "

Although Roger's film review was long overdue, it was brilliant, and in one fell swoop pushed "Pulp Fiction" from a masterpiece to a classic! Later historical development also proved Roger's vicious vision.