A.N.Smith (ansmith@netdoor.com)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 17:35:28 -0000
> > 1) how much right do you think Quentin
Tarrantino has to use the title
Pulp
> > Fiction for his movie
> A definition of the term "pulp fiction" is displayed
at the beginning
> of the movie, as if to say "This movie is a piece of
pulp fiction (so it
> probably shouldn't be taken too seriously)." Not
homage to anything,
> just 'nineties self-referential irony.
My thought is that pulp fiction changed quite a bit between
the actual pulp days and the 50's paperback days, and
continually changes. Pulp Fiction was not thoughtless gore
and mayhem. There was a brain behind it, and I think there
was homage to blaxploitation films, Elmore Leonard's
dialogue, and that 50s attitude--Jim Thompson, Chester Himes,
etc. The irony is new, but that's what made it a product of
its time.
neil smith plots with guns (http://www2.netdoor.com/~ansmith)
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