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Movie analysis of Pulp Fiction
The success of a work owes little to chance, on the contrary it depends essentially on its technical qualities.
Pulp Fiction has been a worldwide success since its release, which can be explained by a daring and refined direction, actors with convincing and fascinating acting, strong and brilliantly arranged stories, lively, raw, provocative and effective dialogues, and a sustained dramatic tension from the beginning to the end of a script exceptionally dense in figures, effects, tricks…
A cult film to be taken as a model
How did the scriptwriters manage to build a story as unstructured, catchy, funny, contrasted, surprising, original, iconic… as Pulp Fiction?
If you know, you are probably already a screenwriter.
If not, you can watch the masters at work, watch them build characters, arrange plots, confront themes, make situations evolve, play with the thousand tricks of the screenwriting art…
Technical details of the film
- Title: Pulp Fiction
- Release year: 1994
- Scriptwriters: Roger Avary et Quentin Tarantino
- Director: Quentin Tarantino
- Genre: gangsters, drama, tragedy, action movie, romance
- Plots: 10
- Characters having at least one actantial role: 17
- Total of actantial roles: 30
- Average of roles per character: 2
- Characters having most roles: 4 characters (Marsellus, Vincent, Jules, et Butch) play 15 roles over 30!
Media and genre
Cinema long-feature film lasting around 144 minutes (2h24), written by Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino, directed by Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction mixes different genres: story of gangsters, action movie, drama, romance…
The original script counts 126 pages.
Production and reception
Produced by Miramax, shot in Los Angeles from the 20th of September to the 30th of November 1993, Pulp Fiction was released on screens in October 1994.
The movie quickly became one of the greatest commercial and critical successes of all time: Palme d’or at the Festival de Cannes, 7 Oscars, 5 Golden Globes, 4 MTV Awards, 7 British Academy Awards, 1 Cesar…
Same success with the audience: over the website IMDB, the movie is ranked n°4 of all times with a mark of 8,9/10, over 623 588 votes…
Produced for 8 millions dollars, it earned more than 212 millions (statistics 2012)… a profitable investment!
Actors
John Travolta, Samuel Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, Amanda Plummer, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Maria de Medeiros…
The story and script of Pulp Fiction
Pulp Fiction tells several stories, all of them linked to various forms of violence, transgression and crime, and with characters that cross paths in an original non-linear narration style.
The 10 plots and the general outline of Pulp Fiction
As we saw it during the summary, Pulp Fiction has 10 plots in total:
- 1. Ringo and Yolanda rob the cafeteria (2 parts)
- 2. Vincent and Jules vs. the 4-5 guys (2 parts)
- 3. Story of Antwan Rockamora
- 4. Vincent vs. Mia (2 parts)
- 5. Marsellus corrupts Butch (2 parts)
- 6. Vincent saves Mia from overdose
- 7. Story of the gold watch
- 8. Butch vs. Marsellus
- 9. Butch & Marsellus vs. the 2 perverts
- 10. Wollf, Vincent and Jules clean the car
A quality script
Pulp Fiction stunned generations of cinephiles because of the originality and the quality of its story :
- Intriguing narrative architecture that brilliantly keeps us in suspense, that multiplies the internal and external links to other scenes and other artworks and genres, the parallels and the echoes;
- Strength of the plots and the themes, simultaneously fascinating and disturbing, directly connected with the major taboos of modern societies;
- Power and richness of the gallery of characters;
- Alertness and diversity of the dialogs and of the rhythm of the action, always between humor and exhilarating discharges of dramatic tension.
From a formal point of view, Pulp Fiction is exceptionally rich and brilliant, and thus deserves our attention as scriptwriters and storytellers.
Our scene by scene analysis of the movie shows its techniques in details: how are the characters organized, how do the plots influence each other, how narration plays with the audience…
Full story analysis of Pulp Fiction
Our analysis provides you:
- A detailed and commented summary of the movie, scene by scene, listing all the remarkable narrative and dramatic effects.
- A detailed commentary about the plots.
- A commentary about the characters and their actantial and thematic roles.
- A study of the story parameters: time, duration, timelines, places…
- A study of the themes related to the characters and storylines.
- A study of genres, registers and colours used.
- A study of focusing and views.
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Table of contents
Introduction
- Methods and tools
Summary
- Black screen + quote
- Sequence 1. Ringo and Yolanda rob the cafeteria 0:00/6:55
- Plot + Characters of Ringo and Yolanda rob the cafeteria
- Credits
- Sequence 2. Vincent and Jules vs. the “4-5 guys”. 6:55/20:27
- Plot + Characters of Vincent & Jules vs. the “4-5 guys”
- Plot + Characters of Story of Antwan Rockamora, punished by Marsellus
- Sequence 3. Marsellus and Butch. 20:20/23:25
- Plot + Characters of Marsellus corrupts Butch
- Plot + Characters of Vincent vs. Mia
- Sequence 4. Vincent and Mia. 23:25/61:00
- Plot + Characters of Vincent vs. Mia (updated)
- Plot + Characters of Vincent saves Mia from overdose
- Sequence 5. The Golden Watch. 61:00/107:10
- Plot + Characters of Marsellus corrupts Butch (last and final)
- Plot + Characters of Butch vs. Marsellus (continued)
- Plot + Characters of Butch & Marsellus vs. the 2 perverts
- Sequence 6. The “miracle” and the end of the cafeteria robbing. 107:10/143:50
- Plot + Characters of Vincent & Jules vs. the “4-5 guys” (last and final)
- Plot + Characters of Wollf, Vincent and Jules clean the car
- Plot + Characters of Ringo and Yolanda rob the cafeteria (last and final)
Synthesis
- Technique of a complex work
- The general outline
- Plot structures
- The characters
- Synthesis of the actantial roles
- Characters and actantial roles
- Characters and thematic roles
- Archetypes and stereotypes
- Genres
- Space and time
- Places
- Time, durations, chronology
- Real time and told time
General conclusion
Excerpts
The PDF looks like this:
- accurate descriptions of the action, with detailed commentary that highlights any notable narrative and dramatic effects
- summaries of the plots and character systems
- at the end, general summaries of the plots, characters, themes, genres in Pulp Fiction and the overall meaning of the film
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