20 Facts About Pulp Fiction

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Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary.

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Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was a major critical and commercial success.

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3.

Pulp Fiction is widely regarded as Tarantino's masterpiece, with particular praise for its screenwriting.

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4.

In 2013, Pulp Fiction was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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5.

Pulp Fiction's suffers an overdose; Vincent rushes her to Lance's house, where they revive her with an injection of adrenaline into her heart.

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6.

Pulp Fiction recites the biblical passage, expresses ambivalence about his life of crime, and allows the robbers to take his cash and leave.

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7.

Pulp Fiction read for the roles of Jules Winnfield and Brett before being cast as Marvin.

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8.

Pulp Fiction was joined there by Avary, who contributed "Pandemonium Reigns" to the project and participated in its rewriting as well as the development of the new storylines that would link up with it.

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9.

Pulp Fiction cast the lead actress, Angela Jones, in Pulp Fiction and later backed the filmmakers' production of a feature-length version of Curdled.

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10.

Pulp Fiction characterizes the studio's position: 'This is the worst thing ever written.

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11.

Around the turn of the year, Pulp Fiction was named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics, National Board of Review, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Society of Texas Film Critics, Southeastern Film Critics Association, and Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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Pulp Fiction quickly came to be regarded as one of the most significant films of its era.

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13.

Violent intensity of Pulp Fiction calls to mind other violent watershed films that were considered classics in their time and still are.

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14.

Pulp Fiction was associated with his charges concerning gratuitous violence.

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15.

Paula Rabinowitz expresses the general film industry opinion that Pulp Fiction "simultaneously resurrected John Travolta and film noir".

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16.

Pulp Fiction now appears in several critical assessments of all-time great films.

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17.

Pulp Fiction suggests that Leonard's "rich dialogue" is reflected in Tarantino's "popular-culture-strewn jive"; he points to the acute, extremely dark sense of humor Leonard applies to the realm of violence as a source of inspiration.

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18.

Pulp Fiction characterizes its convoluted narrative technique as "postmodern tricksiness".

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19.

In November 2021, Miramax filed a lawsuit against Tarantino who released seven NFTs based on uncut and unseen scenes of Pulp Fiction and including the original handwritten script “revealing secrets about the film and its creator.

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20.

Pulp Fiction won eight major awards from a total of twenty-six nominations, including a Best Original Screenplay win at the 67th Academy Awards.

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