The Complicated Legacy of Pulp Fiction

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• TZ

  @tzimaka · 1 year ago (edited)

  33 mins of Tarantino talk and no feet mention, is it a post-modern choice?<br><br>edit: Okay the &quot;ethics of a foot rub&quot; line goes hard.

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• LE

  @leonel87658 · 1 year ago

  &quot;Because it&apos;s so much fun Jan, get it!&quot; That has to be the quote that embodies the way Quentin Tarantino does movies

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• BB

  @bbyjirl · 1 year ago

  Getting the Mia Wallace bob is a rite of passage for any vaguely artsy alternative teen girl born in the 90s

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• MC

  @mcnooj82 · 1 year ago

  I haven’t gotten a sense of people recently turning on Pulp Fiction in my general bubble

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• NO

  @notoriousrrz · 1 year ago

  It&apos;s kind of shocking to me that so many people seem to be saying that the film is devoid of meaning when it feel like it wears the whole redemption thing on its sleeve, to the point where i feel like that very obviousness could be its own criticism of the movie. It&apos;s been more than a decade since I&apos;ve seen this movie, but coming back to Vincent after his death felt less like &quot;Oh, he&apos;s alive, it&apos;s fine&quot; and instead made Jules&apos;s redemption all the more powerful and poignant: Vincent has been given multiple chances to chose a different path, but he never did.

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• JO

  @josephcorridon9314 · 1 year ago

  As someone who only got around to watching Pulp Fiction in 2024, people were right to love it in 1994, it really is that good. I get the reasons why people would say it&apos;s aged poorly, but those are mostly academic discussions. Even though I&apos;d seen other Tarantino films, and probably a dozen more movies that were directly inspired by Pulp Fiction, nothing prepared me for how much fun I was having watching it, the whole things is just thrilling.

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• GU

  @gusandthetv · 1 year ago

  The character deaths aren&apos;t meaningless. Some are spiritually redeemed, while others face the consequences for their actions

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• LY

  @lynnpehrson8826 · 1 year ago

  I don&apos;t think people are turning on pulp fiction, I think people are turning on dudes with pulp fiction posters and tarantino as a person.

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• FA

  @fazepepper1481 · 9 months ago

  My friend once said “Tarantino is the kanye of filmmaking” and i cant help but agree with him

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• LS

  @lskdjf3000 · 1 year ago

  What Tarantino said about well-meaning parents depriving their kids of the popcultural social &quot;glue&quot; of their generation by not letting them watch tv is a really great observation that reveals a lot about Tarantino&apos;s overall artistic intention. Thank you for including that quote for those of us who would never voluntarily listen to JRE.

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• MA

  @maiyorha · 1 year ago

  every time i see uma thurman as mia wallace i just want to completely take over her look. what an absolutely iconic character. also maia, you look stunning too but jesus christ i hope your back is alright after filming in that position LOL

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• DA

  @daniellekoonce607 · 1 year ago

  I think critics look to all movies as &apos;film&apos; as to say art...high brow art, evoke something. &nbsp;But Tarantino grew up in the age of VHS, he can absorb film, binge it, be influenced by it and most importantly, &nbsp;entertained. He was able to say &quot;I love that, I want to do that&quot; and he did it better than most. He created art for entertainment&apos;s sake from the POV of a fan. We want to make movies with our favorite scenes, he did it.

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