“We have to stop, it’s too risky, it’s over, I’m shutting down.”
Sitting in a Los Angeles diner, two young robbers discuss where they will carry out their next attack. The woman seems ready to take action at all costs, but the man looks suspicious. With the waiter returning regularly to refill the coffee cups, the conversation continues and after discussing various options, the two characters finally stop at the restaurant they are currently in.
They take out guns, kiss each other and start robbing customers while screaming. The picture freezes. It sounds like an electric guitar. The credits begin to play. The Pulp Fiction experience has begun.
Countless legendary scenes
Awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1994, with an impressive average of 4,497 stars out of 5 by AlloCiné viewers and therefore considered Quentin Tarantino’s best film, Pulp Fiction is like no other.
Three decades later, we continue to analyze it from all angles and especially by rediscovering many of its legendary scenes. Filled with legendary sequences like John Travolta and Uma Thurman dancing, Christopher Walken or Mr. Wolf at the end of Pocket Watch, Pulp Fiction starts with a bang, with an opening that should register immediately. In Annals of the Seventh Art.
An opening that sends a heavy
Typical of Tarantino’s cinema (who likes to stage long animated discussions) and very representative of what the rest of the film will be like, it surprises, amuses, shivers and delights its audience all at once.
Loaded with the talents of its two performers, Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer, it’s all the more remarkable, as we find out at the end of the film, when Vincent Vega and Jules Winfield meet in the same restaurant and the plot twists a bit. Tarantino’s irony is actually perfectly packaged.
A truly iconic film in the director’s career, Pulp Fiction’s opening clearly owes much to the credits music that precedes it: a revised and dynamited version of a Greek romantic song. Misirlow. It is enough to bring us into Tarantino’s world in very good conditions.
(re)discover the trailer for the film…
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