"November 30. Before ""Pulp Fiction""s premiere, Tarantino convinced Avary to forfeit his agreed-on cowriting credit and accept a ""story by"" credit, so the line ""Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino"" could be used in advertising and onscreen. No film score was composed for ""Pulp Fiction""; Quentin Tarantino instead used an eclectic assortment of surf music, rock and roll, soul, and pop songs. Dick Dale's rendition of ""Misirlou"" plays during the opening credits. Tarantino chose surf music as the basic musical style for the film, but not, he insists, because of its association with surfing culture: ""To me it just sounds"
"Gump"", but is, rather, a more genuinely marginal form of sub-culture based around a lifestyle — surfing, 'hanging' — that is resolutely apolitical."" The soundtrack is central, she says, to the film's engagement with the ""younger, cinematically knowledgeable spectator"" it solicits. ""Pulp Fiction"" premiered in May 1994 at the Cannes Film Festival. The Weinsteins ""hit the beach like commandos"", bringing the picture's entire cast over. The film was unveiled at a midnight hour screening and caused a sensation. It won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, generating a further wave of publicity. The first U.S. review of the film"
"The film is also self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of ""pulp"". Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and casual conversations with eclectic dialogue revealing each character's perspectives on several subjects, and the film features an ironic combination of humor and strong violence. TriStar Pictures reportedly turned down the script as ""too demented"". Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein was enthralled, however, and the film became the first that Miramax fully financed. ""Pulp Fiction"" won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was a major critical and commercial success."
"Mia Wallace Mia Wallace is a fictional character in the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film ""Pulp Fiction"". Uma Thurman's performance as Wallace earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The character is considered by both fans and professionals as one of the most iconic female film roles from the 1990s. Miramax, the film studio, wanted a famous actress for the role of Mia. At the beginning, Miramax favored Holly Hunter and Meg Ryan for the part. Then Julia Roberts was considered for the part by Tarantino, but she required too high a salary. Tarantino also wanted"
"who team up for a jewelry heist. It proved to be Tarantino's breakthrough film and was named the ""Greatest Independent Film of all Time"" by ""Empire"". His screenplay for Tony Scott's ""True Romance"" (1993) was nominated for a Saturn Award. In 1994, Tarantino wrote and directed the neo-noir black comedy ""Pulp Fiction"", a major critical and commercial success. Cited in the media as a defining film of the modern Hollywood, the film earned Tarantino an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and a Best Director nomination. Also in 1994, he served as an executive producer for ""Killing Zoe"" and wrote"
"the fiction"", went one slogan. ""Pulp Fiction"" was the top-grossing film at the box office its first weekend, edging out a Sylvester Stallone vehicle, ""The Specialist"", which was in its second week and playing at more than twice as many theaters. Against its budget of $8.5 million and about $10 million in marketing costs, ""Pulp Fiction"" wound up grossing $107.93 million at the U.S. box office, making it the first ""indie"" film to surpass $100 million. Worldwide, it took in nearly $213 million. In terms of domestic grosses, it was the tenth biggest film of 1994, even though it played"
"1994 film ""Pulp Fiction;"" the film credits the story to ""Q & U"". Tarantino spent a year and a half writing the script while he was living in New York City. He spent time with Thurman and her newborn daughter, which influenced the Bride character; Tarantino did not come to the realization that the Bride's daughter could still be alive until five months into writing. He originally wrote Bill to be played by Warren Beatty, but as the character developed and the role required greater screen time and martial arts training, he rewrote it for David Carradine. An early draft"
"Plump Fiction Plump Fiction is a 1997 parody film, released by Rhino Entertainment. It's a spoof of mid-1990s films in general, and violent, convoluted films more specifically; the overall story is a send-up of 1994's ""Pulp Fiction"", complete with intertitles and an out-of-sequence storyline, with other movies such as ""Reservoir Dogs"" and ""Natural Born Killers"" also parodied. At the start of the movie, Don LaFontaine's voice talks about how Tarantino started a trend of extremely violent movies, and says that the time has come for much more wholesome, life-affirming movies — and he's cut off as someone shoots him. The"
"him in the front ranks of American film makers."" On October 14, 1994, ""Pulp Fiction"" went into general release in the United States. As Peter Biskind describes, ""It was not platformed, that is, it did not open in a handful of theaters and roll out slowly as word of mouth built, the traditional way of releasing an indie film; it went wide immediately, into 1,100 theaters."" In the eyes of some cultural critics, ""Reservoir Dogs"" had given Tarantino a reputation for glamorizing violence. Miramax played with the issue in its marketing campaign: ""You won't know the facts till you've seen"
"Line was a subsidiary of New Line, recently merged into the Time Warner empire—specifically, it was the old exploitation distributor's arthouse division. ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), directed by Quentin Tarantino on a budget, became a hugely influential hit by crossing multiple lines, as James Mottram describes: ""With its art house narrative structure, B-movie subject matter and Hollywood cast, the film is the axis for three distinct cinematic traditions to intersect."" By the turn of the millennium, the average production cost of an American feature had already spent three years above the mark. In 2005, the top ten movies at the U.S."
"to Tarantino physically assaulting Murphy in the AGO restaurant in West Hollywood, California in October 1997. Murphy subsequently filed a $5M lawsuit against Tarantino, which was eventually settled out of court. Tarantino was also an uncredited screenwriter on both ""Crimson Tide"" (1995) and ""The Rock"" (1996). Following the success of ""Reservoir Dogs"", Tarantino was approached by Hollywood and offered numerous projects, including ""Speed"" and ""Men in Black"", but he instead retreated to Amsterdam to work on his script for ""Pulp Fiction"". Tarantino wrote, directed, and acted in the black comedy crime film ""Pulp Fiction"" in 1994, maintaining the aestheticization of"
"U.S. reviewers. It holds a 94% score based on 79 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes with an average rating of 9.1/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""One of the most influential films of the 1990s, ""Pulp Fiction"" is a delirious post-modern mix of neo-noir thrills, pitch-black humor, and pop-culture touchstones"". It has an average score of 94/100 based on 24 reviews on Metacritic, signifying ""universal acclaim"". The response of major American film reviewers was widely favorable. Roger Ebert of the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" described it as ""so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it –"
"awards worldwide on the festival circuit, including the Grand Prize at Japan's Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1994 and the Italian Mystfest. Roger Avary & Quentin Tarantino collaborated on the 1994 film ""Pulp Fiction"" for which they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He wrote much of the outline for ""The Gold Watch"" segment in ""Pulp Fiction"". In 2002, Avary directed ""The Rules of Attraction"", an adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, which he also executive produced. As of 2009, the film ranked as the twenty-seventh highest grossing college comedy of all time. ""The Rules"
"Roger Avary Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on ""Pulp Fiction"", for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. Avary directed ""Killing Zoe"" and ""The Rules of Attraction"", and wrote the screenplays for ""Silent Hill"" and ""Beowulf"". Avary also wrote and directed the neo-noir thriller ""Killing Zoe"" (1994) which Quentin Tarantino executive produced. The film was honored with le Prix très spécial à Cannes 1994, the very same year that ""Pulp Fiction"" won the Palme d'Or. It continued to win"
"Palmieri, Andy Mornahan, Steve Lowe, Loren Hill, Darren Grant, Charles Whittenmier, Geoff McGann, Olivier Venturini, The 405 Guys, Craig Tanamoto. The company catapulted to fame with the 1994 release of Tarantino's ""Pulp Fiction"", which was considered by some critics to be the most influential American film of the decade. In the summer of 1995, the company added a division for commercials and later, for music video production, adding a third co-owner Michael Bodnarchek. Kristin Cruz (aka Kris Foster) and Heidi Santelli launched A Band Apart Music Videos as Directors' Rep and Executive Producer, respectively. Tarantino and Bender are no longer"
"was Jackson's thirtieth film, the role made him internationally recognized and he received praise from critics. In a review by ""Entertainment Weekly"", his role was commended: ""As superb as Travolta, Willis, and Keitel are, the actor who reigns over ""Pulp Fiction"" is Samuel L. Jackson. He just about lights fires with his gremlin eyes and he transforms his speeches into hypnotic bebop soliloquies."" For the Academy Awards, Miramax Films pushed for the Best Supporting Actor nomination for Jackson. For his performance, Jackson received a Best Supporting Actor nomination. In addition, he received a Golden Globe nomination and won the BAFTA"
"following ""Reservoir Dogs"" (1992) and ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994). Grier and Forster were both veteran actors but neither had performed a leading role in many years; this film revitalized both of their careers. The film garnered Forster a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award nominations for Jackson and Grier. In 1995 Jackie Brown, a middle-aged flight attendant for a small Mexican airline, makes ends meet smuggling money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie, a black-market gun runner living in the Los Angeles metropolitan area under the ATF's close watch, forcing him"
"and ""Amos & Andrew"". Jackson then worked with director Steven Spielberg, appearing in ""Jurassic Park"". After a turn as the criminal Big Don in the 1993 Quentin Tarantino-penned ""True Romance"" directed by Tony Scott, Tarantino contacted Jackson for the role of Jules Winnfield in ""Pulp Fiction"". Jackson was surprised to learn that the part had been specifically written for him: ""To know that somebody had written something like Jules for me. I was overwhelmed, thankful, arrogant – this whole combination of things that you could be, knowing that somebody's going to give you an opportunity like that."" Although ""Pulp Fiction"""
"the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, and Jackson won for Best Supporting Actor. The film was nominated for the Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. ""Pulp Fiction"" quickly came to be regarded as one of the most significant films of its era. In 1995, in a special edition of ""Siskel & Ebert"" devoted to Tarantino, Gene Siskel argued that the work posed a major challenge to the ""ossification of American movies with their brutal formulas"". In Siskel's view, the violent intensity of ""Pulp Fiction"" calls to mind other violent watershed films that were considered classics in their"
"the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with the release of ""Reservoir Dogs"" in 1992, which was funded by money from the sale of his script ""Natural Born Killers"" to Oliver Stone. ""Empire"" deemed the ""Reservoir Dogs"" the ""Greatest Independent Film of All Time"". Its popularity was boosted by his second film, ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), a black comedy crime film that was a major success both among critics and audiences. Judged the greatest film from 1983–2008 by ""Entertainment Weekly"", many critics and scholars have named it one of the most significant works of modern cinema. For"
"from a masterpiece: ""authoritative, influential, and meaningless"". Set ""in a world that could exist only in the movies"", it is ""a succulent guilty pleasure, beautifully made junk food for cinéastes"". O'Brien, dismissing attempts to associate the movie with film noir, argues that """"Pulp Fiction"" is more a guided tour of an infernal theme park decorated with cultural detritus, Buddy Holly and Mamie Van Doren, fragments of blaxploitation and Roger Corman and ""Shogun Assassin"", music out of a twenty-four-hour oldies station for which all the decades since the fifties exist simultaneously."" Catherine Constable takes the moment in which a needle filled"
"Duane Whitaker Duane Whitaker (born June 23, 1959) is an American actor. Whitaker was born in Abilene, Texas, the oldest child of Nathan Duane Whitaker Sr. (b. August 18, 1933 in Woodson, Texas) and Barbara Ella (née Hudson) (b. April 29, 1934 in Amarillo, Texas), a nurse. He has two younger sisters, Margaret Denise Whitaker (b. April 12, 1962) and Ramona Doyce Whitaker (b. March 24, 1963), both born in Lubbock, Texas. Duane Whitaker is probably best known for his role in Quentin Tarantino's popular 1994 film ""Pulp Fiction"" as Maynard, the sadistic pawn shop owner. He wrote and portrayed"
"recognition for her role as Alabama Whitman, a free-spirited, kind-hearted prostitute in Tony Scott's ""True Romance"" (1993). The film was a moderate box office success but became a cutural landmark because of Quentin Tarantino's screenplay, which preceded ""Pulp Fiction"", although some critics were deterred by the graphic violence. In one scene, Arquette puts up a fierce physical struggle in a fight with James Gandolfini (as a viciously sadistic killer) which her character ultimately wins. Arquette's performance received generally unanimous praise from critics. Janet Maslin of ""The New York Times"" premarked that Arquette played her role with ""surprising sweetness"", while Peter"
"he is identified as influencing. Willeford's characteristic juxtaposition of humor and violence was apparently one of director Quentin Tarantino's inspirations. Discussing ""Pulp Fiction"", Tarantino has said that the film ""is not noir. I don't do neo-noir. I see ""Pulp Fiction"" as closer to modern-day crime fiction, a little closer to Charles Willeford."" Writing in 2004, Jonathan Yardley of ""The Washington Post"" called him ""one of our most skilled, interesting, accomplished and productive writers of what the literary establishment insists on pigeonholing as 'genre' fiction."" Three of Willeford's books have been adapted for the screen: ""Cockfighter"" (1974; starring Warren Oates and"
"had a small part at the end of the Ron Mann directed film ""Tales of the Rat Fink"" (2006) about the life of Ed Roth. The Torquays The Torquays were a popular instrumental surf band from Orange County from 1994 to 2008. The band was originally formed in 1964 by Jerry Gordon in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. After Gordon moved to Southern California a few years later, the band went dormant until the film ""Pulp Fiction"" came out in 1994. Gordon then reformed the band to include: Duff Paulsen (drums), Don Parra (bass), Steve Soest (guitar) and Armin Brown (guitar) who"
"the final triumph of postmodernism, which is to empty the artwork of all content, thus avoiding its capacity to do anything except helplessly represent our agonies ... Only in this age could a writer as talented as Tarantino produce artworks so vacuous, so entirely stripped of any politics, metaphysics, or moral interest."" Around the turn of the year, ""Pulp Fiction"" was named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics, National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Society of Texas Film Critics, Southeastern Film Critics Association, and Kansas City Film Critics Circle."
"Oblivion (1994 film) Oblivion is a 1994 American western-science fiction dark comedy film directed by Sam Irvin and written by Peter David. It stars Richard Joseph Paul, Andrew Divoff, George Takei, Julie Newmar, Musetta Vander, Isaac Hayes and Meg Foster. It was followed by a sequel, """". It was written by noted comic writer Peter David The story has been described as a science fiction Western. Set in the year 3031 on a frontier planet light years away from Earth, a bizarre gang of futuristic desperadoes have their sight set on turning the tumbleweed town of Oblivion into their own"
"Stephen Hibbert Stephen Hibbert (born 14 June 1959) is an English actor and comedy writer. He played the role of the Gimp in the Quentin Tarantino film ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994). Hibbert began his career as a member of the Los Angeles-based improv group The Groundlings. It was where he met his first wife Julia Sweeney, marrying in 1989, then divorcing in 1994. Besides ""Pulp Fiction"", Hibbert has also appeared in the films """" (1999), ""The Cat in the Hat"" (2003) and """" (2007). As well as appearing in the television series ""Newhart"", ""Just Shoot Me"", ""Jericho"", ""Rodney"", ""Back to You"","
"Tarantino's ""Pulp Fiction"". The show is fast-moving and harkens back to the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. It also mixes spy-fi elements with the end of the millennium Zeitgeist of the late 1990s. Chandler Smythe (Clayton Rohner) is murdered on his 35th birthday. He is then recruited as an agent of the Corps and becomes a partner to Henry McNeil (Richard Brooks). Henry was killed in the 1970s and still dresses like Shaft. The Corps, best described as God's police force on Earth, has the mission of locating citizens who have made a Faustian-style bargain with the agents of evil."
"Maria de Medeiros Maria Esteves de Medeiros Victorino de Almeida, (born 19 August 1965), known as Maria de Medeiros (), is a Portuguese actress, director, and singer who has been involved in both European and American film productions. She is best known internationally for playing Fabienne in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film ""Pulp Fiction"". Maria de Medeiros was born in Lisbon, Portugal, the daughter of musician and composer António Victorino de Almeida. She played her first part on screen at the age of 15. At 18, she moved to France to pursue her acting studies and was a student at the"
"Pulse (1988 film) Pulse is a 1988 American science-fiction horror film written and directed by Paul Golding, drawing influence from previous works of science fiction and horror, and starring Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joseph Lawrence, and Matthew Lawrence. The film's title refers to a highly aggressive and intelligent pulse of electricity that terrorizes the occupants of a suburban house in Los Angeles, California. The film was produced through Columbia Pictures and the Aspen Film Society and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The titular Pulse and its accompanying elements were designed by Cinema Research. A highly aggressive, paranormal intelligence thriving within"
"some films appear to open (very briefly) with the ending, flashback movies almost immediately jump back to the very beginning of the story to proceed linearly from there, and usually proceed past the supposed ""ending"" shown at the beginning of the movie. Cinema can only provide the illusion through broken narrative, a famous example of this being the 1994 film ""Pulp Fiction"". The film is ostensibly three short stories, which, upon closer inspection, are actually three sections of one story with the chronology broken up; Quentin Tarantino constructs the narrative without resorting to classic ""flashback"" techniques. An even more ambitious"
"etc. Based on five reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 0% approval rating. The poster is a parody of the ""Pulp Fiction"" poster: ""Plump Fiction"" has been released on VHS videocassette and DVD. Plump Fiction Plump Fiction is a 1997 parody film, released by Rhino Entertainment. It's a spoof of mid-1990s films in general, and violent, convoluted films more specifically; the overall story is a send-up of 1994's ""Pulp Fiction"", complete with intertitles and an out-of-sequence storyline, with other movies such as ""Reservoir Dogs"" and ""Natural Born Killers"" also parodied. At the start of the movie, Don"