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May 14, 2014 · Pulp Fiction became a huge commercial hit, especially for an independent film. It eventually grossed more than $200 million worldwide. All of this was exceedingly good news for John Travolta ...
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Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction. Two decades ago, Quentin Tarantino's ultra-violent comedy-thriller changed cinema. But was that for good or ill? Twenty years ago this month, Quentin Tarantino's ...
May 10, 2024 · Thirty years ago, the premiere of Pulp Fiction in Cannes turned cinema inside out. Director Tarantino combined trash with classic narrative tradition. And on top of that: violence, great actors ...
Feb 13, 2013 · The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and ...
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- Prelude to The Changing of The Guard
- The Race(ism) Situation
- The Changing of The Guard
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For many in Generation X, there is the time before Pulp Fiction (1994) and there is the time after Pulp Fiction. The shift in consciousness – personal, cultural, cinematic – was seismic. As the story goes, Gen X was the first self-consciously postmodern generation, hyper-aware of its place in history and obsessed with popular culture: the movies, t...
After premiering at Cannes in May of 1994, where it won the Palm d’Or, Pulp Fiction opened in the US in October of that year. The buzz had been building all summer but the shock of it was still visceral and immediate and the movie became a polarizing sensation. Along with the mostly stellar reviews – Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers called it “indispu...
Many remember Pulp Fiction as a massive comeback for John Travolta, and it was, launching him into huge commercial stardom in the second half of the 1990s in films that included the indelible Get Shorty (1995) (and the less delible Phenomenon (1996) and Michael [1996]). Travolta also became an action star of sorts (as did virtually all male leads i...
Save for a segment of the anthology Four Rooms (1995) and an episode of ER, Tarantino didn’t direct for three years after the release of Pulp Fiction. Instead, he became a celebrity presence, clearly relishing his new status as pop culture icon. Internet Movie Database lists the director as having made 175 (!) post-Pulp Fiction appearances as “hims...
Pulp Fiction was the apex of the indie film renaissance of the 1990s. It was also, in a sense, the movie that killed it – and not just because all the shallow rip-offs and self-conscious homages diluted its freshness. Pulp Fiction helped indie film go big business, with studios pumping more money into specialty divisions and marketing and everybody...
1. About 170 million in 2014 dollars. 2. The other three nominations went toQuiz Show,Four Weddings and a Funeral andThe Shawshank Redemption.
Jul 26, 2024 · Pulp Fiction was made for $8m, a very modest amount for a mainstream Hollywood studio picture. It went on to achieve an astonishing global box office haul of well over $200m.
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Sep 23, 2014 · Getting Travolta back on a dance floor to do the Twist with Thurman going on two decades after Saturday Night Fever was the clincher, and don't think QT didn't know it. In fact, one of Pulp ...
