MYST Post #3: "Pulp Fiction"

MYST Post #3: "Pulp Fiction" 

For my third Movies in Your Spare time post, i decided to watch Pulp Fiction, a Quentin Tarantino film. I know that a lot of people have seen this movie, but a select few have not, so i will give a quick summary of what the movie is about. The movie follows four tales of violence in which all connect at the end of the movie.  We first have the two mob hit men, Vincent and Jules (Travolta, and Jackson), then we move to a story about a boxer named Butch, a gangster's wife, and then a pair if diner bandits that rob this restaurant. The movie is neat in its own way because of the way it is structured.  We bounce sometimes from story to story making the movie hard to follow and confusing at times though.

The famous director and film writer, Quentin Tarantino, did a fabulous job at putting this movie together.  I like the styles/techniques he used to set up the movie.  The first thing he did was he made the movie into 7 different parts, some including "The Gold Watch", and "The Bonnie Situation". I have never seen a movie structured like this before, so I noticed the difference right away.  The movie is also following 4 different tales all at once which i liked a lot.  It made the movie seem like it was four-in-one. I thought Tarantino also did a fabulous job with the costumes of the characters.  In one of the first scenes we follow Travolta and Jackson driving in a car.  When this scene popped up, i could not stop laughing because this is the first time that we see Vincent Vega (John Travolta).  He is wearing a black long haired wig, with a gold earring in his right ear. The costume fits him perfectly, and makes him my favorite character of the movie. 

The best scene in the movie definitely took place during the tale about Butch, the boxer. I would say about during the middle of this tale, Butch catches up with some colored man who is trying to beat him up. They start fighting at a stand still until Butch takes off running into a shotgun store where the colored man follows him into. There at the store, the clerk pulls out a shotgun on both Butch and the colored man unexpectedly. The clerk then proceeds to take them both hostage into the basement of his store where he plans to rape both of them. Butch is tied up first, while the black man is taken in the back.  At this point, instead of rutting only for Butch or the colored man, we are rutting for both of them against this clerk. Butch ends up untying himself from this chair and proceeds to leave the store, until he makes the decision to help the black man. Butch goes upstairs and finds a ninja machete sword and goes to the basement where he then takes his revenge on the store clerk and leaves the colored man to do what ever he wants to the man.  I know this scene does not sound as suspenseful as it really is, but it is hard to put it onto paper.

This movie differs from a lot of other movies because it does not focus on only one person. There is about four main characters i would say throughout the whole movie. The only thing i was confused about was how the Butch tale connected with the two mob hit men's tale (Travolta and Jackson). The only connection between the two was when Butch went to go look for his gold watch at his old apartment and he finds Vincent there and shoots him. We then flicker back to Vincent and Jules riding in the car. Overall I would rate this movie a 4.5 our of 5 stars.  The way the movie ended and started was very different from any other way i have seen.  I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes Tarantino films because this is where we see his styles and techniques displayed the most.