pulp FictionQuentin Tarantino's super cult, celebrates 30 years. Presented in world premiere at Cannes Film Festivalwas awarded the prestigious Palme d'Or. Oscar for best original screenplayshared with the friend Roger Avary, the second film by the Knoxville filmmaker will become the biggest independent success ever, establishing Tarantino on the mainstream scene. In pulp Fiction, the lives of two mafia hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's girlfriend and a pair of diner thugs intertwine in four crazy stories of violence and redemption. Interpreted by John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma ThurmanTim Roth and Bruce Willis, the feature film relaunched the star's career Saturday night fever in the mythological twist danced with Thurman, muse of the Italian-American director.
Ferocious, rich in quotations and self-referential, pulp Fiction it's constructed so nonlinearly that we could watch it a dozen times and not be able to remember what happens next. Tarantino wrote his masterpiece, incorporating scenes amputated from A life to the fullest (1993). He admitted that he was inspired by great masters such as Hitchcock, but also by prominent directors of noir cinema such as Don Siegel or Jean-Luc Godard. We celebrate the 30th anniversary of the pulp-hard boiled manifesto in 10 curiosities.
Uma Thurman didn't want to dance with Travolta
One of the most cult moments in the history of cinema, the one in which Vincent Vega and Mia Wallace participate in the Jack Rabbit Slim dancing competition, risked never being filmed. «You won't expect me to dance with John f*cking Travolta?!” This is the answer that Thurman, in fact, gave to Tarantino. The actress was terrified of dancing with the icon Saturday night fever and of Grease. But luckily, the director managed to change her mind.
The twist scene was improvised
The legendary dancing moment recalls a scene from Jean-Luc Godard's detective film Bands A Part (1964). Travolta admitted to having improvised the twist: «There were other fun dances from that era! The Spin, The Batman, The Hitchhiker».
Historic collaborator Roger Avary
A former colleague of Tarantino's from the Manhattan Beach video store days, Roger Avary is one of the forgotten collaborators who had a huge impact on the genesis of pulp Fiction. It was Avary who invented the whole boxer plot (played by Bruce Willis) but Tarantino paid him 25 thousand dollars to remove him from the credits, threatening legal action.
Inspiration in Amsterdam
With the 50 thousand dollars earned thanks to the debut with HyenasTarantino flew to the capital of the Netherlands for a three-month vacation: inspiration came there and he wrote the screenplay of pulp Fiction.
The word “fuck”
Throughout the film, the swear word is uttered 265 times.
Who was Mia Wallace?
We know very little about the gangster babe, played by Uma Thurman, except that she starred in the pilot of a series called, Fox Force Five, about the exploits of a team of lethal female top secret agents. Does it remind you of anything? If the answer is yes, it's because Tarantino was organizing ideas for the screenplay of Kill Billstarting with the Deadly Vipers Assassination Squad.
The overdose scene
Mia Wallace's controversial overdose scene was filmed in reverse. In reality, therefore, Travolta does not stab his co-star in the chest with adrenaline but vehemently pulls out the needle so as not to risk seriously impaling Thurman. The scene was then reversed at a later time.
Ezekiel 25:17
The biblical monologue pronounced by Jules (Samuel L. Jackson), in reality, is not a quote from the sacred text. Tarantino had extrapolated it from the martial arts film Karate Kiba.
Jules' “Bad Motherfucker” wallet
The coolest wallet in the history of cinema belonged to Tarantino himself.
What was in the briefcase?
The mysterious briefcase in the film, the contents of which are never revealed, is based on a number of cult films included A kiss and a gun And Repo Man – The recoverer. However, Tarantino never explained what was inside it.
Source: Vanity Fair
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