They hide the car at the home of Jules' friend Jimmie, who demands they deal with the problem before his wife comes home. "[74] The film, he says, was shot "on 50 ASA film stock, which is the slowest stock they make. "[191] White asserts that "the katana he finally, and significantly, selects identifies him with ... honourable heroes. I wanted it to look like an epic. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did costars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman.Directed in a highly stylized manner, Pulp Fiction connects the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase. There is a total of seven narrative sequences; the three primary storylines are preceded by intertitles: If the seven sequences were ordered chronologically, they would run: 4a, 2, 6, 1, 7, 3, 4b, 5. [98] As MovieMaker puts it, "The movie was nothing less than a national cultural phenomenon. "Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fantastic", in, Tincknell, Estella (2006). Returning to his apartment to retrieve the watch, he notices a MAC-10 on the kitchen counter and hears the toilet flush. Todd McCarthy called Pulp Fiction a "spectacularly entertaining piece of pop culture ... a startling, massive success. And the next, the dude’s like sitting there making a revelation about who he is and where his place is in the world, and who he actually is. In the wake of Phil Coulson's death, Nick Fury spoke to the dejected superheroes and spoke about his vision for the Avengers Initiative. "[19] "There's a special kick that comes from watching something this thrillingly alive", wrote Peter Travers of Rolling Stone. "[200] Kolker might not disagree, arguing that "Pulp Fiction is a simulacrum of our daily exposure to television; its homophobes, thugs and perverts, sentimental boxers and pimp promoters move through a series of long-take tableaux: we watch, laugh, and remain with nothing to comprehend. Perched on the toilet with his book, Vincent is feminized by sitting instead of standing as well as by his trashy tastes; preoccupied by the anal, he is implicitly infantilized and homosexualized; and the seemingly inevitable result is being pulverized by Butch with a Czech M61 submachine gun. As Pumpkin's partner "Honey Bunny" begins to lose it, a tirade of screaming ensues, which is briefly broken up with Jules's quote in an attempt to calm her down and diffuse the situation. "[221] Fraiman finds it particularly significant that Vincent is reading Modesty Blaise in two of these instances. It's an epic in everything – in invention, in ambition, in length, in scope, in everything except the price tag. "[165] In particular, O'Brien finds a strong affinity between the intricate plot mechanics and twists of Brown's novels and the recursive, interweaving structure of Pulp Fiction. Willis writes that "when Captain Koons enters the living room, we see Walken in his function as an image retrieved from a repertoire of 1970s television and movie versions of ruined masculinity in search of rehabilitation ... [T]he gray light of the television presiding over the scene seems to inscribe the ghostly paternal gaze. But they quickly realized that nobody produces shorts, so the film became a trilogy, with one section by Tarantino, one by Avary, and one by a third director who never materialized. John Shaft is the smooth operating, hard-boiled, NYC detective who always says the right thing and always kicks the right ass. You Probably Wouldn’t Guess Which Actor Beat Samuel L. 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