Pulp Fiction

:For other uses see, Pulp Fiction (soundtrack) or Pulp magazine

Reception and influence

Pulp Fiction is perennially found on both critics' lists (such as the AFI's One Hundred Years, 100 Movies List) and in popular rankings, placing consistently in the top 20 on the IMDB Top 250 List. It won the 1994 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. It was named Best Picture by the L.A. Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics. Many critics, including Siskel and Ebert, have compared Tarantino's success with Pulp Fiction to that of Orson Welles after the release of his Citizen Kane.

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AFI's One Hundred Years, 100 Movies List - IMDB Top 250 List - Palme d'Or - Cannes Film Festival - Oscar - Best Original Screenplay - L.A. Film Critics Association - National Society of Film Critics - Siskel and Ebert - Orson Welles - Citizen Kane

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The movie was moderately controversial at the time of its release, partly due to the graphic (though largely off-screen) violence and partly due to its perceived racism, as Jackson and Travolta played moderately sympathetic characters who freely used the words "motherfucker" and "nigger" (along with variations of the word).

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Motherfucker - Nigger

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The success of Pulp Fiction spurred studios to release a slew of "copycat" films soon after that tried to duplicate the film's formula of witty and offbeat dialogue, an elliptical/non-chronological plot and unconventional storyline, and gritty subject matter. Most, if not all of these films, did not fare well at the box office and were dismissed by critics as inferior and derivative, though the raver film Go received some acclaim, and Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels was a successful transplant of the film's basic premise into the underworld of London.

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Raver - Go - Guy Ritchie - Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - London

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The unconventional attitude of the movie, in particular its lack of a standard chronological structure, has often lead the film to be cited as an example of a postmodernist film.

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Chronological - Postmodernist

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