Originally Posted by T.Bickle
you know what? .. you're completely right
no question about it... pulp fiction is a story created by taking three classic stories and scenes from different films
but by doing so, he created one masterpiece in which he discusses human nature, psychology and point in life
his dialogues are far greater than usual... they're genius
Tarantino LIKES creating by alluding other films... but he is not stealing, hes making reference and paying respect
his work is completely original.. no one else can make films like pulp fiction and reservoir dogs just by stealing from other films
I think that Pulp Fiction is more about redemption than the other points listed. All three allude to it at some point or another. I don't really see how psychology comes into play in the film in any strong form.
Think about
:
Butch/Marsellas Wallace storyline deals in redemption, with Butch finally redeeming himself with Marsellas after their ordeal with the hillbillies.
Sam Jackson spouts scripture at the beginning, only to realize he had been misinterpreting the passages all along, and finally decides to correct his evil ways at the end of the film, while also helping to redeem Honey Bunny with his speech at the end. Listen to the speech very carefully, it is quite important to the themes of the film.
As for the homage, almost every scene in the film uses it.
A couple more that haven't been listed:
When Marcellus goes to get coffee, and walks in fron tof Butch's car, the angles and actor's movements mirror those in a similar scene in Alfred Hitchcock's
Psycho.
The case is a tribute to the mysterious leather case in robert Aldrich's
Kiss Me Deadly (1955). tarantino said when asked about it's contents "It's whatever you want it to be." The glowing light from the case reminds us of
Repo-Man.
The kitchen scene with Jules and Jimmy is a direct homage to, yup you guessed it, Truffaut's
Jules et Jim.
Someone told me Butch is a lot like a character played by Robert Ryan in
The Set-up, but I haven't seen that one.
The rape of Wallace is
Deliverence-like in it's execution.
Keitel's Wolf seems a lot like Reno's cleaner in La Femme Nikita, a role Keitel actually played in the American remake,
Point of No Return.
One could also argue that Stanley Kubrick's
The Killing was an inspiration for the structure of the film.
The mexican stand-off in the restaurant may be homage to Quentin's own
Reservoir Dogs, which paid homage to another mexican stand-off I am sure.
Then there are the more... shall we say, creative theories about the film, and the briefcase especailly. There are hypothesis about th case all over the place with the most popular being that the case contains the following:
Marcellus Wallace's soul - The combo to the case is 666, and the band-aid would be where the soul was taken out. When Brett is killed there is a flash of gold light, like that in the case. I am not buying this theory at all.
The Diamonds from Reservoir Dogs - Another popular one, but diamonds don't glow gold last I checked.
An academy award - Quentin was projecting his Best-Picture award would taken by another film, and wanted to comment about it in the film itself.... huh?
Tinker Bell - Someone said that because Disney was involved with Mirimax, they instructed all directors to hide Disney stuff in their films (A hidden Mickey Mouse is already confirmed in Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs), but this explaination seems totally lame to me, and I am not buying this either...
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