A good movie is a mirror. If you are shallow, it is also shallow, and if you are deep, it is also deep.
"Pulp Fiction" is a 1994 movie, and true movie lovers know that 1994 was a magical movie year, and good movies can't be counted in one breath. But "Pulp Fiction" actually broke out of the siege and won the Palme d'Or at the 47th Cannes Film Festival, and it still ranks among the top of IMDB. Palme d’Or represents professional aesthetics, and IMDB represents the taste of the general public, which fully demonstrates the characteristics of both elegance and popular appreciation of movies.
However, domestic audiences, especially young people who are just new to the film, should find it difficult to appreciate its excitement, so there are a lot of questions, and then there are a lot of nonsense, which seems to be a headache.
Let’s talk about what is so good about this movie today.
The first thing to know is that this is a plagiarism movie that contains a lot of "plagiarism". Note that "plagiarism" is quoted, which is generally called a tribute in the film field.
For movies, it is normal to pay tribute to one or two shots, but "Pulp Fiction" has more than 100 statistics on IMDB . It pays tribute to old movies and popular culture. The whole is "a big copy of the world's articles." .
The camera tribute we can find the picture to prove it, but the cultural and custom things are hard to say.
For example, Chinese people like to play mahjong. If you use mahjong terminology to make a movie, foreigners don't understand it.
Why is Zhang Mazi in "Let the Bullets Fly" the Big Brother Nine Tubes? When we play mahjong in the countryside, we call Jiutong "Lao Mazi". I guess many Chinese people don't know it. How do you think foreigners understand it?
When we say "no three no four", the Chinese all know what it means. Translate it to a foreigner [no three no four]. If he can understand it, I ate all 26 letters. This is the cultural difference.
"Pulp Fiction" has three stories, which are divided into five paragraphs. There is no cycle of time and space. It is just a simple flashback, with a clear structure.
In the past, viewers who were accustomed to watching a story might be a bit subversive. For the current audience, there will be no obstacles in the narrative structure. For example, American dramas such as "Game of Thrones" and "Western World" have a much better narrative structure. The movie is much more complicated.
And movies with several stories of this kind have already existed , such as "Black Sabbath" in 1963, also called "Three Times Scary", so it's absolutely impossible to pretend to pretend to "create a new narrative method". climax.
Perception
The title of "Pulp Fiction" refers to some vulgar newspapers and magazines sold on the roadside stalls, so if you want to see the connotation from the story, it is basically a deviation.
At first, the feeling of watching this movie was really “vulgar”. It subverted all the serious traditional movies. The lens focused on the details that traditional movies would not pay attention to. It was verbose, embarrassing and even a little disgusting, but I didn’t understand what’s good. At that time, Palme d’Or was something without a concept, at most I knew an Oscar.
But many scenes are impressive, mainly because they are disgusting. Until many years later, I watched more movies, and I often found that certain scenes seemed to have appeared in "Pulp Fiction", and then I would find out and watch it again. This situation was repeated countless times, and the movie became more and more beautiful.
For example, the most memorable twist dance segment may come from the movie "Eight and a half", and the actions and feelings are very similar.
Ma Sha and Butch are reasonable, and the shots are very similar to "Vietnam War Trauma" in 1989, and Ma Sha's actors are also the same person.
Butch killed his opponent, and the taxi that ran away was the same as the model in the movie "Taxi Driver", and the dialogue scenes in the car were also similar.
The little girlfriend flirted with Butch, saying that he likes the smell of sweat on his body. This is the same as the plot in "Angry Bull", and "Angry Bull" is also about a boxer's story.
Ma Sha was bursting with chrysanthemum, while Butch was tied to the side and waited in line. This segment is from the 1972 movie "Four Warriors of the Rapids", the picture is too embarrassing.
The scene of Vincent opening the box in a daze is the same as the scene of the noodle opening the gang box in "Once Upon a Time", and the dazzling yellow light may refer to the 1955 movie "Dead Kiss."
There are many shots that are right and not, which may or may not be a tribute. This is a feeling. Believe it or not. It doesn’t matter.
As mentioned earlier, popular culture is not easy to verify. If you are interested, search IMDB to verify it yourself.
So what is important?
The hodgepodge of a large number of tributes cannot explain the origin of the Palme d’Or. Cannes will not encourage a “plagiarized” fragmented movie for no reason.
The reason is that the narrative of the film is very complete, and the viewing effect is very cool. For professionals, the lens language is mature and sophisticated, and the form is novel and unique; for the general public, the more it looks, the better it looks.
The dialogue in the film is very dense, but most of the time it is not important information, that is, small talk and silly talk. It feels as casual as a life video. Even if you miss a few sentences, you can still catch it.
After reading a lot, I discovered that the skeleton of the story I mentioned earlier is not important. They only serve to maintain the narrative framework. What is really interesting is the unconventional bridge segments.
For example, Jouse ate someone else's hamburger before killing someone, and he had to read a Bible.
For example, Ma Sha is reasonable, the camera stays staring at Butch for a long time, completely abandoning the traditional scene explanation and dialogue pros and cons.
When Mi’er sucked the powder into a coma, the editing method was a bit abnormal, even with a few close-ups of Mi’er’s face, there was not a single shot of Vincent, only his narration, but you can completely think of him as a magical horse. .
Then there was the rescue scene. At the fan shop owner’s house, his wife was awake very upset, came out to fight, the camera didn’t need to be shot, she kept shaking on both sides, both nervous and real, and then she was sitting on the sofa next to him in a daze. Forced audience, very funny.
One thing is even stranger, is the title of the third story [Bonnie's situation].
Bonnie didn't make an official appearance in the film, only a back shot was still Jimmy's imagination. But it is precisely because of the existence of this Bonnie that the aftermath of the third story has a good reason.
Why is Jimmy not afraid of the police and his wife? What you see in the movie is actually an abnormal phenomenon. The mainstream of society is still a good citizen who works normally like Bonnie, so the shameful things need to be covered up.
The gangster movies we usually see are basically crazy hacks and slashes, or gun battles and drag racing. The common people are guilty of death, and the police always come out to wash the ground last. There is no need to deal with the aftermath.
"Pulp Fiction" is an unconventional movie, which ridicules the irrationality of many movies, and his own focus is on eating and drinking Lazarus and some unavoidable details of life.
For example, every time Vincent came out of the toilet, he would have a big deal, and eventually died in the toilet.
For example, many stories happen at breakfast time. What is the operation of robbing a fast food restaurant? After studying for a long time for the two second goods, they thought it was the safest to grab a fast-food restaurant. As a result, they met two killers and scared themselves to death.
The boss of the gangster who had blown up the sky was blasted by a small policeman. The gangster's sister-in-law, who is not paying for her life, is embarrassed because of excessive fan intake.
All kinds of boxers who die are frightened everywhere, and in the end they can escape with their cute girlfriends.
This is all due to the director’s grasp of the language of the film. He knew that people were tired of watching a serious movie, so they came up with nonsense, created a hodgepodge of high probability accidents, and paid tribute to more than one hundred old movies. In fact, many of them may also be ridicule.
The key is that he can live in HOLD. The overall impression is very smooth. If he is a person with a low smile, be careful to laugh out internal injuries.
I don’t find out. The prerequisite for enjoying this movie is that you have to watch a lot of movies. It is best to get tired of watching movies. It is a bit annoying to watch movies, and then suddenly seeing such a movie will be very special. Surprise.
This is a gift for true movie lovers.
For example, in the popular blockbuster movie "Number One Player" in 2018, the more games you have played and the more movies you have watched, the more enjoyable you will be.
It's a pity that our current audience is late, and "Pulp Fiction" has become a classic imitated by others.
First of all, from the perspective of the narrative structure, there are many films with such cross-narrative stories, and many of them have won awards.
For example, "Crash", "Tongtian Tower", "The Sun Also Rises" and so on, each has its own characteristics, but they are all excellent works.
From the perspective of the lens bridge, there are many.
For example, in "The Executioner" in 1999, two young killers like to read the Bible to kill people. One of them is the young "Bowman", handsome.
The two main protagonists of "Western World" once imitated the classic "Pulp Fiction" opening credits in a lip-synching way.
In the play, Mi'er said that a play she had filmed was actually made into a movie, which was "Kill Bill", which she performed herself.
So some people say, what should I do if I still don’t understand the classics?
Don't worry, who hasn't been young yet? Continue to increase the amount of movie watching, and watch at least three hundred and five hundred movies, so you are embarrassed to say that you are a movie lover.
Attention, those who watched the movie in a few minutes are not counted as you have seen it!
Then you go back and take a closer look at the classics, they are definitely different things.
If you just watch a movie for fun and don’t care about the pros and cons at all, why do other people want to make it so that you can understand it?
For example, "The Evil Does Not Suppress Righteousness" many people said they couldn't understand it, so they were selected for the Toronto Film Festival. Jiang Wen was also invited to give a master class. Whose problem do you think it is?
The last one is that according to Chinese people's habits, watching a movie must find out the central idea and educational significance, otherwise the noble sentiment will be nowhere to be seen. This is the merit of the nine-year compulsory education.
But movies like "Pulp Fiction" may really have no educational significance.
For example, the three stories are relatively independent and intertwined, depicting an astonishing big picture of society, dark, violent, absurd, and decadent. They ruthlessly expose the sinful city of Los Angeles and deeply criticize the evil capitalism.
It looks like that, but it is actually paranoia with its own standpoint, which is nonsense.
What should really be paid attention to is the lens language of the film and the arrangement of interesting sections. What is good and common appreciation? If you are a professional, there are many technical things in the film that are worth studying. If you are an ordinary audience, you can experience its laughter and visual impact.
A good movie is just a mirror. If you are shallow, it is also shallow, and if you are deep, it is also deep.
When you see this, just like it and go!
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