FILM · 1994 · USA
Pulp Fiction
- Directed by
- Quentin Tarantino
- Runtime
- 154 min
- Studio
- Miramax, A Band Apart, Jersey Films
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A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
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16 Facts From the Making of Pulp Fiction
- #001
Pulp Fiction traces its roots to the late 1980s, when Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary worked together at Video Archives, a video store in Southern California.
- #002
According to Roger Avary, the original concept behind Pulp Fiction was three short films by three different filmmakers: Avary, Quentin Tarantino and their friend Adam Rifkin.
- #003
Roger Avary wrote the first element of what became the Pulp Fiction screenplay in the fall of 1990, titled "Pandemonium Reigns", which grew into a feature-length screenplay.
- #004
The Tarantino–Avary project was provisionally titled "Black Mask", after the hardboiled crime fiction magazine, and drew initial inspiration from Mario Bava's three-part horror anthology Black Sabbath (1963).
- #005
Quentin Tarantino said he conceived Pulp Fiction as a trilogy-style film, telling three separate stories in which characters appear with different weights depending on the story.
- #006
Tarantino described the film's approach as drawing on the oldest crime-story chestnuts, citing the tale of a man who must take out the big man's wife without touching her as an example.
- #009
The crimeworld "cleaner" at the center of "The Bonnie Situation" was inspired by Curdled, a short Quentin Tarantino saw at a film festival. Tarantino cast its lead actress, Angela Jones, in Pulp Fiction and later backed the filmmakers' feature-length version of Curdled.
- #010
The Pulp Fiction script featured invented commercial brands that recurred in later Quentin Tarantino films: Big Kahuna burgers, whose soda cup appears in Reservoir Dogs, and Red Apple cigarettes. Tarantino completed the script in January 1993 while also accompanying Reservoir Dogs around European film festivals.
- #011
Quentin Tarantino and producer Lawrence Bender took the Pulp Fiction script to Jersey Films, which had tried to sign Tarantino for his next project before seeing Reservoir Dogs.
- #012
A development deal worth roughly $1 million gave A Band Apart, the production company formed by Bender and Tarantino, initial financing and office space, while Jersey Films received a share of the project and the right to shop the script to a studio.
- #013
Pulp Fiction was the first Miramax Films project to receive a green light after the studio's acquisition by Disney.
- #014
Pulp Fiction was budgeted at $8.5 million, and $500,000 was returned, leaving a final budget of $8 million.
- #015
According to executive producer Michael Shamberg, only Harvey Weinstein bid on Pulp Fiction, though Weinstein believed he was in a bidding war.
- #016
Pulp Fiction became the first movie that Miramax Films completely financed.
- #017
According to The New York Times, most of the actors received relatively small salaries along with a percentage of the profits.
- #025
Quentin Tarantino later incorporated Tim Roth's idea that Amanda Plummer's character should have a gun into the Pulp Fiction script.
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