Chapter 819 819 Personal Style
Roger Ebert's admiration for "Pulp Fiction" was unexpected by many. He attended the premiere of the film, but waited until four days later to write a review. People thought it was him. There is no sign of interest in the film, but the fact is surprising.
It turns out that in the past four days, Roger has gathered nearly 40 film-makers friends, more than 30 reporters, and more than 200 ordinary viewers, constantly watching "Pulp Fiction" repeatedly. After in-depth analysis, this professional and this investment is absolutely unimaginable.
After much deliberation, Roger gave "Pulp Fiction" crazy praise and gave it a high score of 3.7, directly labelling the film "Classic".
But unfortunately, Roger's comment was not able to be published in the official Cannes Film Festival magazine, because "too many spoilers", after coordination, Roger finally published the last paragraph of the film review, and the full version of Critics waited until after "Pulp Fiction" was released in North America before it resurfaced in the "Chicago Sun".
Even so, Roger's precise reviews and super-high ratings clearly spelled out his attitude toward "pulp fiction." Not only that, after professional magazines such as "Film Manual" and "Empire", there are also a large number of professional films rated as "Pulp Fiction".
"Film Review", which came to Cannes on behalf of the United States, also expressed its opinion at the first time. Although the score of 3.1 does not seem high, it is also the highest score of "Film Review" at this year's Cannes Film Festival. The "movie review" is more focused on Quentin Tarantino.
"Quentin is known as a movie urchin. Before he became a film director, he used to run a video rental business and was a die-hard movie fan. However, some films he did not watch in theaters, but through video tapes, which is exactly what An important reason for the rapid emergence of postmodern movies. Ordinary movie audiences have seen more movies from different countries and regions through video tapes and movie channels, and their amazing movies are far from the old-fashioned theater audiences before cheap video tape rentals. can be compared.
Quentin's films developed on the basis of videotape and American popular culture, and he was very interested in China. National fragrance. Hong Kong's films have inseparable feelings, and Italian films are also his favorites. Classic works such as 'Exhausted (A.Bout.de.Souffle)', 'Taxi Driver', and 'Heroes' have all become Quentin's favorites , so in Quentin's films, you can see countless bridges that pay tribute to or borrow from the classics of the Golden Age. The emergence of 'Pulp Fiction' officially announced that postmodern films finally formed a trend after entering the 1990s, and Quentin's greatest contribution was to make 'shallow' postmodern films into 'epic'.
'Pulp Fiction' is a difficult work to define, because it has too many connections with American culture, history and world cinema, and the dialogues of the characters also have a lot of unofficial street slang and swear words, which also makes the audience's understanding of the film. Added a lot of difficulty.
Pulp fiction refers to the kind of novels with vulgar content and simple binding. This kind of novel is often made of recycled paper, which is produced by mixing discarded newspapers and books into pulp. Quentin named the film that name to imply that his own film is a jumble of fragments of many other films and literary works, and he takes all the tough stuff—violence, sex, politics, wars of nations—too much. Becomes easy to swallow like pulp or even ketchup.
There are many filmmakers who put a lot of effort into interpreting the true meaning of postmodernity, but Quentin has made himself a postmodern movie hero by relying only on a "pulp fiction".
The four stories of 'Pulp Fiction' all revolve around underworld gangs, but these stories are not related and have no direct connection, but the characters appearing in the stories will appear in other stories, Vincent is Became the core character of the series, although he is not necessarily the most important in some stories.
If only a few stories are told in segments, there is nothing new. But Quentin split the restaurant robbery at the beginning of the film into two parts, one at the beginning and the other at the end; not only that, but Quentin also split several other stories, so that the characters who died earlier appeared at the end of the film. Still the absurd scenes that continue to appear. This makes it clear to the audience that this is a fake movie, a pulp fiction with the beginning, the end, and even some parts in the middle accidentally torn off.
"Pulp Fiction" glorifies or stylizes violence, which continues Quentin's attempt in "Reservoir Dogs", but it is more entertaining. Quentin jokes about violence and sex. Joking, joking about politics, joking about history, with a Hugo Lancaster and Uma Thurman twirling scene, Quentin looks back at American film history, music history and dance history with ease , plus the indifference to violence and evil in film noir and tough-guy novels, the character design and layout of robber films, incense. The intense action of Hong Kong movies and the confusion between the miracles of magical realism and reality make the postmodernity of this movie reach the level of carnival.
Vincent to rescue sucks. The plot of marking the injection on Mia's chest when she overdose comes from the great 'Cien. Anos. De. Soledad' Colonel Riorellano, before committing suicide, instructed the doctor to find a soothing agent on his chest. He died a happy and accurate mark.
Quentin himself said in an interview, 'My work is copying, arguing and mixing them up. I just copy everywhere, and great artists always copy. ’
Pulp Fiction's handling of violence is one of the reasons the film shines. Jules argues with the other party about which burger is the best, and reads a Bible; Vincent and Jules are arguing over who should clean the brains in the back seat of the car while cleaning the car; the taxi driver asks Butch to tell the story The feeling of killing...
To glorify or stylize violence, which is not original to Quentin. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock created the most ritualized killing method in film history in 'Psycho', the murderer gradually approached the heroine who was in the shower with the change of the editing rhythm; 1967 , Arthur. Penn's 'Male and Female Thieves', handsome men and women affirm each other's love in a bank robbery on the run; 1976, Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver', 1990's ' My Heart is Wild (Wild. At. Heart)', 'Wild. At. Heart' in 1991, 'Silence of the Lambs' in 1992, the protagonist's self-awareness and understanding of the meaning of life are all violent.
What differentiates Quentin from the former is not his daring and directness, but that he lives in the 1990s: an era more stylized and fashionable than any other period due to music videos and sneaker commercials, an era driven by street violence and Bosnia and Herzegovina. War makes human life cheaper than ever. Quentin's ingenious combination of social pop and criminal reality makes his violence shine brighter than visual color.
Quentin doesn't directly link 'Pulp Fiction' with postmodernity, he seems to be telling everyone that after entering the 1990s, the development of society is rapid, changeable, and worthless, and no one is immune Li, whether life or death is unreasonable and fair, the film is about nothing more than trivia and jokes, and it is a pulp novel. "
The review angle of "Film Review" is very characteristic. It mainly discusses Quentin's personal style as a starting point, and gives the most direct affirmation to Quentin's postmodern style, which also makes their film reviews popular among the critics. Appears to be unique.
Although "Pulp Fiction" is only Quentin's second work, it has established him as a "master" in one fell swoop. This is also a situation that many people did not expect, but the fact is also true, almost all film critics Focusing on Quentin, I analyze the strong style of "Pulp Fiction" from all angles.
According to the previous "New York Times" prediction, this situation is obviously expected: Quentin's personal style overshadows the style of the entire film, and the actors are completely drowned in the director's light. But in fact, along with the rave reviews of "Pulp Fiction", the performances of the three main actors, Samuel L. Jackson, Hugo Lancaster, and Uma Thurman, were also praised to varying degrees. Among them, Hugo is the most.
The "Los Angeles Times" went to Cannes across the ocean and commented on the film for the first time.
"From an actor's point of view, 'Pulp Fiction' is a typical group portrait movie, but this work is different from the situation of ordinary group portrait movies, these group portraits never appear in a 'time and space' at the same time, but they are closely all the time. Linked together, each story has its own protagonist, and the protagonist in this story will be a supporting role in another story. While developing the plot for other stories, it also leaves a foreshadowing of his own story in advance.
Uma Thurman's performance can be said to be very good, natural and coquettish, lazy and casual, with a touch of red lips, a pair of bare feet, and black hair, which has become a bright spot among the countless male characters in the film; Samuel -Jackson's performance is nothing short of brilliant, his control of the lines is wonderful, but unfortunately, it lacks a little subtlety and explosion, whether compared to his own previous performances or to other actors in this work , are slightly inferior, but he still completed his task well; relatively speaking, Bruce Willis has no breakthrough and is still the image of a lone hero.
The really amazing is Hugo Lancaster, this time Hugo once again got rid of the shackles of self-image, showing a completely different 'Hugo' - Vincent, in the whole movie , Hugo's tepid, unhurried, confused and charming temperament, with a little chic in the sloppy, perfectly combined with the role of Vincent. When Vincent was arguing with people, he slightly put his index finger in front of his lips, and the charming gesture of confused eyes became the most shining picture on the entire screen.
Hugo's eyes are full of thousands of words, and between the frowning eyebrows, the complexity and delicacy of the character are fully interpreted, which makes people stunned. "