Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is perhaps the most original film I've ever seen. I know I may sound like an overstatement, but when I watched this film for the first time I had never watched anything like it before. The characters, the nonlinear storyline, the dialogue, the costume design. I loved it instantly.
I don't care how many people call Tarantino a hack and Pulp Fiction overrated. I will always praise this movie because I truly believe that it's an amazing example of great film-making and very original writing.
What I love the most are the characters. Good characters can make up for a weak plot. Pulp Fiction doesn't really have much of a plot at all. As Tarantino said, it's the merging of very well known plots (gangster going out with the boss's wife, boxer supposed to throw the fight) but it's the way they're told what makes this movie so great.
Anyway, every single character is memorable. Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) being perhaps the most popular. Even though is Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) who's featured in the poster. My favorite is The Wolf, played masterfully by Harvey Keitel.
Which leads me to the acting. I think the actors did a terrific job playing these characters. For example, my favorite ever John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Harvey Keitel performances are from this movie. And I'm sure that in the case of Jackson, most people will agree.
The dialogue is superb, very quotable and fun to listen to. Every character has great interaction with all the other characters. Whether it's Vincent and Jules discussing miracles and Royales with Cheese, Marsellus (Ving Rhames) telling Butch (Bruce Willis) that in the fifth his ass goes down, or The Wolf explaining why he didn't say "please", Pulp Fiction has some of the best dialogue ever written.
Overall, a movie I love and one of the best movies of all time.
I don't care how many people call Tarantino a hack and Pulp Fiction overrated. I will always praise this movie because I truly believe that it's an amazing example of great film-making and very original writing.
What I love the most are the characters. Good characters can make up for a weak plot. Pulp Fiction doesn't really have much of a plot at all. As Tarantino said, it's the merging of very well known plots (gangster going out with the boss's wife, boxer supposed to throw the fight) but it's the way they're told what makes this movie so great.
Anyway, every single character is memorable. Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) being perhaps the most popular. Even though is Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) who's featured in the poster. My favorite is The Wolf, played masterfully by Harvey Keitel.
Which leads me to the acting. I think the actors did a terrific job playing these characters. For example, my favorite ever John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson and Harvey Keitel performances are from this movie. And I'm sure that in the case of Jackson, most people will agree.
The dialogue is superb, very quotable and fun to listen to. Every character has great interaction with all the other characters. Whether it's Vincent and Jules discussing miracles and Royales with Cheese, Marsellus (Ving Rhames) telling Butch (Bruce Willis) that in the fifth his ass goes down, or The Wolf explaining why he didn't say "please", Pulp Fiction has some of the best dialogue ever written.
Overall, a movie I love and one of the best movies of all time.