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.
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 by you the viewer, the
movie creates one whole, complete picture.
Now the challenge is that, if well put together by you the viewer, as the movie puts style over cohesiveness in the way it narrates. Then the movie is a bit too long, filled with many dialogues that have nothing to do with the story arc. Even though the acting of the actors were amazing, when these dialogues go on and on, you just wish they will hurry up.
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, 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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