Thirty years ago, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction premiered at Cannes and forever changed the cinema landscape. The film inspired everyone, from Christopher Nolan through to Guy Ritchie, Breaking Bad and the Marvel films. Tarantino created an ingenious mix of genre and arthouse cinema. Pulp Fiction set new standards.
Key scenes from the film have been copied countless times becoming part of our collective pop culture memory. It pays homage to the cheaply-produced genre cinema that was long ignored by the cultural elite, which deemed it to be “pulp” or trash. Tarantino charged it with intellectual coolness and humor. The smooth and trashy genre-arthouse blockbuster may have inspired dozens of terrible imitations but also generations of filmmakers and audiences. The influence of Pulp Fiction is visible in pop culture up to this day.
00:51 What Pulp Fiction did Differently
05:39 Pulp Fiction: Post-Modern Masterpiece
08:20 Pulp Fiction's Plot: In and Out of Order
10:38 The Dance: Remixing Pop Culture
12:39 Pulp Fiction Controversies
15:53 How Pulp Fiction Changed the Movie Business
19:02 Pulp Fiction's Children: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
21:34 From Post-Modern to Meta-Modern
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