Quentin Tarantino is known for his unpredictable violent films and first earned wide spread fame for ‘Pulp Fiction’ before going on to direct films such as Inglorious Basterds and Django Unchained. As Hollywood’s most commercially successful and media-savvy auteur, he’s utilized each of his films to reignite mainstream interest in everything from the French new wave with Pulp Fiction to 70’s Blaxploitation with Jackie Brown to Shaw Brothers Wuxia films with Kill Bill. As a young boy Tarantino worked
A Film Analysis of Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino directed and wrote the screenplay for Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction is easily one of the most viewed and debated films of our time. The film is shot in a discontinuous style that is very unique, but it can become difficult to understand the story if you're not paying attention. Pulp Fiction is multiple stories being told at once; it can be difficult to distinguish what the main story its. Quentin Tarantino uses cinematography and editing techniques in
American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer Quentin Tarantino uses cinematic language in a very unique, and a non-linear way to express his tingling stories and entertain his audience. During his career he has directed ten movies and most of them were nominated for different movie awards. As Canadian Press journalist Stephanie Ip mentions, “Quentin Tarantino...was named Best Global Director in Motion Pictures.” Most of his movies include a narration of multiple stories, and he only
and semiotics referring to the films of one of the famous directors. For this task I have chosen Quentin Tarantino, because he intrigues the audience by the style of his own, what makes his films recognizable and distinctively unique. Besides, he is my favorite director as he evokes this kind of emotion in me, where I am aware that I am watching film of his oeuvre. Quentin Tarantino has been labeled as an auteur director, because when it comes to making films he does not stick to the codes and
Twenty years ago, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction went into theaters exciting, confusing and shocking moviegoers of the 1990s. With three interwoven plots that are encapsulated with scenes consisting of sex, murder, thievery, rape, drug overdose and a famous dance number, Pulp Fiction is one of the oddest most mesmerizing movies ever made. Pulp fiction has a star-studded main cast consisting of Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis and has guest appearances by Christopher
appropriation in films or imitating an already existing scene into a new one allow directors like Quentin Tarantino to creatively combine and remix fragments of different movies and cultures; And thus provide audience with exposure to past genres and texts in a modernized format. If it is true that everything is a remix, what is the contribution of remix culture to our film industry? In this essay, I will use Quentin Tarantino as an example to analyze the influence of the borrowing culture in films and how
The use of food in film often provides a medium to define the stereotype of gender role. According to Epstein’s ‘Appetite for Destruction’, food in the movie ‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994) was used to “code masculinity” and “femininity and femaleness” (Epstein, 198-199) with consumption of beef and the use of pie to define female genitalia on different scenes. However, in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ (2009), food became medium to distant two characters of different gender of their position in
solo medium, they are usually a singular vision of an individual. An author can be of a collaborative medium, such as a film, a play, or the design of a building. It is more complex as there is not just the vision of one person, many people will have input into the final product. Directors have to follow the set story of a writer and they have to work with all the departments of a film. The director vision has other impute. Authorship is an idea that changes and it has developed over time. One idea
Pulp Fiction, one of director Quentin Tarantino’s several incredible, though very violent, masterpieces was released in 1994. With a stunning non-linear storyline that keeps audiences on the edge of the seats for the majority of the film, and the appearance of several big name actors of the time, how could it not be a hit? While those things are part of the reason this film was and is incredibly popular, one has to look deeper in order to truly understand what made it a great film. The way the scenes
Pulp Fiction Sociological Analysis A series of related, but separate individuals and events unfold in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, and there are also a number of social factors that are expressed during the span of this movie so that the audience has an idea of each characters’ personality and how they function in the world they are in. Pulp Fiction, can be seen as a Postmodernist type of film, according to Michel Foucault’s Postmodern Theory, because postmodernism is a world that is complex