"Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino; it is based on a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of criminal Los Angeles. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Tarantino wrote ""Pulp Fiction"" in 1992 and 1993, incorporating scenes that Avary originally wrote for ""True Romance"" (1993). Its plot occurs out of chronological order."
"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"
"John Travolta John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, dancer, and singer. Travolta first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series ""Welcome Back, Kotter"" (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes ""Saturday Night Fever"" (1977) and ""Grease"" (1978). His acting career declined through the 1980s, but enjoyed a resurgence in the 1990s with his role in ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), and he has since starred in films such as ""Get Shorty"", ""Broken Arrow"", ""Face/Off"", ""Swordfish"", ""Be Cool"", ""Wild Hogs"", ""Hairspray"", and ""The Taking of Pelham 123"". Travolta was nominated for"
"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"""
"half bottles of TCB Lite a day; I switched over to Afro Sheen, and I'm never dry!"" The character Jules Winnfield (played by Samuel L. Jackson) wore a Jheri-curl in Quentin Tarantino's ""Pulp Fiction"". In Samuel L. Jackson's opening monologue in the 1989 film ""Do the Right Thing"", his DJ character says that there is a ""Jheri Curl alert"" in effect for the day: ""If you have a Jheri Curl, stay in the house or you'll end up with a permanent plastic helmet on your head forever."" Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Billy Ray Bates was reported to be unpopular"
"In 2001, ""Variety"", noting the increasing number of actors switching back and forth between expensive studio films and low-budget independent or indie-style projects, suggested that the ""watershed moment for movie stars"" came with the decision by Willis – one of Hollywood's highest-paid performers – to appear in ""Pulp Fiction"". And its impact was even broader than that. It has been described as a ""major cultural event"", an ""international phenomenon"" that influenced television, music, literature, and advertising. Not long after its release, it was identified as a significant focus of attention within the growing community of Internet users. Adding ""Pulp Fiction"""
"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"
"as the best scene in the film and is the subject of four commentaries on the DVD. Walken has a supporting role in Tarantino's ""Pulp Fiction"" as a Vietnam veteran named Captain Koons. He gives his dead comrade's son the family's prized possession—a gold watch—while explaining in graphic detail how he had hidden it from the Vietcong by smuggling it in his rectum after the boy's father, in whose rectum the watch had previously been concealed, had died of dysentery. Later in 1994, Walken starred in ""A Business Affair"", a rare leading role for him in a romantic comedy. Walken"
"Award for Best Supporting Role. In the wake of ""Pulp Fiction"", Jackson received multiple scripts to play his next role: ""I could easily have made a career out of playing Jules over the years. Everybody's always sending me the script they think is the new ""Pulp Fiction""."" With a succession of poor-performing films such as ""Kiss of Death"", ""The Great White Hype"", and ""Losing Isaiah"", Jackson began to receive poor reviews from critics who had praised his performance in ""Pulp Fiction"". This ended with his involvement in the two successful box office films, ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"", starring alongside"
"Samuel L. Jackson Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor and film producer. He achieved prominence and critical acclaim in the early 1990s with films such as ""Goodfellas"" (1990), ""Jungle Fever"" (1991), ""Patriot Games"" (1992), ""Amos & Andrew"" (1993), ""True Romance"" (1993), ""Jurassic Park"" (1993) and his collaborations with director Quentin Tarantino including ""Pulp Fiction"" (1994), ""Jackie Brown"" (1997), ""Django Unchained"" (2012), and ""The Hateful Eight"" (2015). He is a highly prolific actor, having appeared in over 100 films, including ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" (1995), ""A Time to Kill"" (1996), ""The Long Kiss Goodnight"" (1996),"
"of GQ's 50 best dressed British men in 2015. Aaron Taylor-Johnson Aaron Taylor-Johnson (born Aaron Perry Johnson; 13 June 1990) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as the titular character in the ""Kick-Ass"" films, as well as Robbie from ""Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"" (2008). He has also played Quicksilver in """" (2015). Taylor-Johnson began performing at age six and has appeared in films such as ""Shanghai Knights"" (2003), playing a young Charlie Chaplin, ""The Illusionist"" (2006) and ""Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"" (2008). He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic ""Nowhere Boy"" (2009). He"
"critic Peter Stack wrote, ""Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble."" She won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review. In 1999, Jolie starred in the comedy-drama ""Pushing Tin"", alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. The film met with mixed reception from critics, and Jolie's character—Thornton's seductive wife—was particularly criticized; writing for ""The Washington Post"", Desson Howe dismissed her as ""a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of"
"anything to do with it"". Haig did not work in acting for five years, instead training and becoming a certified Hypnotherapist. During this time, he was offered the role of Marsellus Wallace (later to be played by Ving Rhames) in ""Pulp Fiction"", Quentin Tarantino's second film. At the time, Haig was concerned that low budget television had been ruining his career and, at seeing the shooting script and the short number of days dedicated for each locale, he passed on the project. He has said that he always regretted this decision. Then, in 1997, Tarantino wrote the part of the"
"Angela Jones Angela Jones (born December 23, 1968) is an American actress. She was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania then raised in Jeannette, Pennsylvania where she graduated in 1986. Both towns are located approximately 25 miles southeast of Pittsburgh. She is a graduate of Point Park College in Pittsburgh. While attending graduate school at the Oslo Conservatory of Performing Arts in Sarasota, Florida, Jones was cast in the short film ""Curdled"" (1991), directed by Reb Braddock. Quentin Tarantino was impressed with Jones' performance and created the role of Esmeralda Villalobos for her in ""Pulp Fiction"", inspired by her earlier role. Tarantino"
"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 –"
"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"
"named it the best film since 1983 and it has appeared on many critics' lists of the greatest films ever made. In 2013, ""Pulp Fiction"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". ""Pulp Fiction""'s narrative is told out of chronological order, and follows three main interrelated stories: Mob contract killer Vincent Vega is the protagonist of the first story, prizefighter Butch Coolidge is the protagonist of the second, and Vincent's partner Jules Winnfield is the protagonist of the third. The film begins with a diner"
"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"
"much less in Jules's revelation: ""[T]he spiritual awakening at the end of ""Pulp Fiction"", which Jackson performs beautifully, is a piece of jive avowedly inspired by kung-fu movies. It may make you feel good, but it certainly doesn't leave you any wiser."" Much of ""Pulp Fiction""s action revolves around characters who are either in the bathroom or need to use the toilet. To a lesser extent, Tarantino's other films also feature this narrative element. At Jack Rabbit Slim's, Mia goes to ""powder her nose"" – literally; she snorts coke in the restroom, surrounded by a bevy of women vainly primping."
"Aaron Taylor-Johnson Aaron Taylor-Johnson (born Aaron Perry Johnson; 13 June 1990) is an English actor and screenwriter, best known as the titular character in the ""Kick-Ass"" films, as well as Robbie from ""Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"" (2008). He has also played Quicksilver in """" (2015). Taylor-Johnson began performing at age six and has appeared in films such as ""Shanghai Knights"" (2003), playing a young Charlie Chaplin, ""The Illusionist"" (2006) and ""Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging"" (2008). He had his breakthrough performance in the John Lennon biopic ""Nowhere Boy"" (2009). He went on to portray Ben in the Oliver Stone-directed"
"great finesse... they don't add up to a taut, dread-ridden whole."" James Berardinelli thought that the explosions and fights were ""filmed with consummate skill, and were thrilling in their own right."" Samuel L. Jackson also received praise for his role in the film. Desson Howe of ""The Washington Post"" thought that ""the best thing about the movie was the relationship between McClane and Zeus,"" saying that Jackson was ""almost as good as he was in ""Pulp Fiction""."" The fourth film, ""Live Free or Die Hard"", received highly positive reviews. Mick LaSalle of the ""San Francisco Chronicle"" claimed that the film"
"Skeet Ulrich Skeet Ulrich (born Bryan Ray Trout; January 20, 1970) is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in popular 1990s films, as Billy Loomis in ""Scream"" and Chris Hooker in ""The Craft"". Since 2017, he stars as FP Jones on The CW's ""Riverdale"". Other television roles include Paul Callan in the short-lived ABC drama ""Miracles"", Johnston Jacob ""Jake"" Green, Jr. in the television series ""Jericho"", and L.A.P.D. Detective Rex Winters, a former Marine from the ""Law & Order"" franchise. Skeet Ulrich was born as Bryan Ray Trout on January 20, 1970, in Lynchburg, Virginia. His"
"his bachelor party. She later stated that she did not have an affair with Woods while he was married. Holly Sampson Holly Joy Sampson (born September 4, 1973), also known as Nicolette Foster, Andrea Michaels or Zoe is an American actress and model who has appeared in both mainstream and pornographic films over the course of her career. She is noted for her appearances on several television shows and her appearance in the 1990 comedy-drama feature film ""Pump Up The Volume"". She is also known for playing the title role in the ""Emmanuelle 2000"" series of films. Sampson was born"
"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."
"Phil Morris (actor) Phillip Morris (born April 4, 1959) is an American film, television and voice actor. He played Jackie Chiles in the NBC sitcom ""Seinfeld"", John Jones in The CW superhero drama ""Smallville"", Delroy Jones in ""Love That Girl!"" and voiced Doc Saturday in ""The Secret Saturdays"". Morris was born in Iowa City, Iowa, and is the son of actor Greg Morris. He is also the younger brother of actress Iona Morris. He is a practitioner of Wing Chun under Sifu Hawkins Cheung. Morris's first acting role was as a child when he appeared in the 1966 """" episode"
"Pulp (2012 film) Pulp is a British comedy film directed by Adam Hamdy and Shaun Magher, starring Jay Sutherland and John Thomson On March 2013 it was released exclusively on Xbox Live, becoming the first feature film to be distributed via a games console platform. ""Pulp"" tells the story of Tony Leary, the nice-guy owner of Junk Comics, who is gearing up for one last roll of the dice. He plans to launch his new superhero title, The Sodomizer, at the British International Comic Show, and nothing will stop Tony from making it a success. Nothing except a gang of"
"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"
"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"
"Pulse (2006 film) Pulse is a 2006 American horror film written by Wes Craven and Ray Wright, and directed by Jim Sonzero. It is a remake of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 Japanese horror film ""Kairo"". The film stars Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder and Christina Milian. The film spawned two straight-to-DVD sequels: """" and """". When Josh Ockmann (Jonathan Tucker) enters a dark university library intending to meet his friend Douglas Ziegler (Kel O'Neill), he is attacked by a humanoid spirit that sucks the life force out of him. Some days later, Josh's girlfriend, Mattie Webber (Kristen Bell), visits his apartment, seeing"
"American actress Uma Thurman dancing with John Travolta in an iconic scene of the film ""Pulp Fiction"". She gave permission for Fall Out Boy to use her name. The track incorporates ""jittery piano chords"" and ""clapping drums"", along with bursts of verbiage like ""I can move mountains, I can work a miracle"". Bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz has stated: This was a fun song to write. originally, when we came up with the idea, and there was this sample in it, which is a sample from ""The Munsters"" TV show, people kept saying ""oh cool, like Quentin Tarantino, cool"" when"
"above, more than one Arnold was used. In the 1994 film ""Pulp Fiction"", the character Jules (played by Samuel L. Jackson) refers to Arnold, saying a pig would have to be ""ten times more charming"" than Arnold for him to cease considering it a filthy animal. The 1995 theatrical film ""Gordy"" was originally conceived in the early 1970s by ""Green Acres"" creator Jay Sommers and writer Dick Chevillat as a vehicle for the Arnold Ziffel character. Both are given writing credit for the film, although Sommers had died some 10 years before the release of ""Gordy"". The band Anthrax dedicated"
"Theatre, Hartford Stage, Old Globe Theater, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Odyssey Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Lillian Theater and the Pasadena Playhouse. Joel Polis Joel Polis (born October 3, 1951) is an American television, film and stage actor. Polis has appeared in over one hundred television programs and films during his career. Polis' first film role was the character Fuchs in the 1982 science fiction film ""The Thing"". He appeared in numerous television series including ""Cheers"", ""Alien Nation"", ""Northern Exposure"", """", ""Roseanne"", ""Seinfeld"", ""Chicago Hope"", ""Boston Legal"" and ""CSI"". He appeared in a recurring role on the television series ""Cheers"""
"Peter Greene Peter Greene (born Peter Green; October 8, 1965) is an American character actor, generally known for playing villains. A native of Montclair, New Jersey, Greene did not pursue a career in acting until his mid 20s. He initially landed several roles in cinema and television in the early 1990s. Greene had roles in ""Pulp Fiction"", ""The Mask"", ""Clean, Shaven"", and ""The Usual Suspects"" in 1994 and 1995. In ""Pulp Fiction"", Greene appeared as Zed who rapes Marsellus Wallace. ""The Mask"" saw him play the villainous Dorian Tyrell opposite Jim Carrey and Cameron Diaz. Greene played the schizophrenic Peter"