Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to Reservoir Dogs is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hit men, restaurant-robbing lovers, and a boxer out to scam the mob on his last professional bout. This is the film that put Travolta back on the map as a major box-office draw in the 90's and officially established Samuel L. Jackson as a superstar. It also inspired a seemingly endless slew of dreadful imitators.

The plot jumps around a fair bit, moving between past and present. The movie begins with a pair of small-time hoods who call each other Honey Bunny

and Pumpkin (Amanda Plummer, Tim Roth) and they are eating in a diner they are about to rob. Next come the two hit men, Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) who work for

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Quentin Tarantino gained major recognition with this masterpiece of modern fiction. Pulp Fiction is an undeniable classic. They try to rob Jackson who has ended up in the restaurant where the film began. After chasing each other on foot and collapsing in a pawn shop, they find themselves about to be tortured by the owner, Zed, until Butch escapes, frees Marsellus and thereby acquits himself of his double-crossing. They stop off at a friend's house, and with the help of Winston Wolf (Harvey Keitel) they clean the car before going off for breakfast where they almost lose the briefcase during a hold up.

We then see the story unfolding of how Vincent was asked to entertain Marsellus' wife Mia (Uma Thurman)- a job that he was not looking forward to given that her last entertainer was thrown out of a window because Marsellus got jealous. Instead, in the spirit of justice and honor that prevails among the low-lifes in this film, Jackson does the right thing. He stares the amateur criminals down, letting them take his own money but not the mysterious briefcase that he is dutifully returning to the crime boss.

The final twist in the story concerns boxer Butch (Bruce Willis) who is persuaded to fix a boxing match by Marsellus, but who turns the tables on him by killing his opponent with a fatal blow. Butch finds Vincent using his toilet and shoots him, but then has the misfortune of driving his car into Marsellus as he makes his escape.

The British couple in the beginning are also saved.

We believe that the strung-out British couple are capable of a killing rampage in the restaurant -- Amanda Plummer is a remarkable sight standing on a restaurant table screaming obscenities and waving a Saturday-night special. The theme of redemption is present in each of the three stories. With diverse and unforgettable characters and some of the most interesting dialogue ever written, Pulp Fiction’s success can be traced to the dethroning of straight forward movies used in most of Hollywood’s movies.

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