And I don’t remember losing the ability to spell, No, either.
I already did this once as a project in film studies in college (by taking the DVD chapters and playing them in 'chronilogical order). I still thought the movie was good. It’s not his best work, and I wouldn’t fawn all over QT as a ‘genius’ if I met him, but I definately consider him a good writer/filmaker. Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t necessarily make it bad, Degrance. I don’t like 19th century English novels, I don’t like pop-art, I don’t like ballet, and I don’t like movies about ‘challenged’ people. That doesn’t mean I should come in here and call everyone who does like those things Bullshiters because they happen to disagree with me and have valid reasons why.
Degrance, you need to apply yourself a little harder to your studies. Or change your major.
I’m not going to say that QT is a genius, or that Pulp Fiction is the best movie ever made. And I’m not a student of film. But coming at that story from a writing viewpoint, whether it was profound our not it was indeed a carefully, tightly and meticulously crafted plot. You might want to consider watching the movie while you’re not chemically altered, or when you’re not talking on the phone or learning to tap dance.
If you were actually paying the utmost attention, then I fear for your grades. And before you insist your grades are good and your teachers love you, please re-check the sign outside your classroom–the one that reads “Kindergarden.”
Actually, you can’t. I first saw Pulp Fiction in a Korean cinema (the Chongno Cinema near Pagoda Park in Seoul), where all the scenes that depicted drug-taking and violence were excised. This made the movie almost impossible to understand. Why did Mia pass out and why is she bleeding from the nose? Why are Jules and Vincent washing a bloody car? The film is so tightly woven that to cut any part of it renders the whole meaningless.
As for your criticisms of the film’s structure, I will allow Roger Ebert to retort:
I repeat, you do not have the faintest notion of film analysis, not because you dislike the film, but because your explanation shows that you don’t know what to look for in a film’s editing, direction, or writing.
referring to people defending the movie pulp fiction on its artistic merits, which is what I was referring to, when I said ‘call them BullShitters’ (or something similar).
