Blog 8: Pulp Fiction

            I chose to watch the movie Pulp Fiction because it was the easiest to find. The movie opens to two people sitting in a booth at a restaurant. They begin to talk about how they should rob the restaurant because liquor stores are overdone and no one robs restaurants. So they decide to rob the restaurant, and it cuts off to Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) driving in a car talking about how different the world is compared to America, more specifically Amsterdam and France. Jules also brings up Marsellus’s overreaction to Antoine over his wife and he warns Vincent to be careful when he takes her out. They go to this apartment of Marcellus business associates who have been with-holding money. He starts off threatening them over their hamburger breakfast to shooting them. The movie titles this next section as Vincent Vega and Marcellus’s Wife. It flashes over to the bar where Butch and Marsellus are making a deal for Butch to throw the fight in the 5^th. It then flashes from Vincent meeting Marsellus to Vincent getting drugs from Lance. There is a montage of him shooting up and driving to meet Mia for dinner. When he gets there she is watching him through cameras, talking to him through the intercom, and snorting drugs before they go to dinner. They go to dinner at Jack Rabbit Slims, a 50s themed restaurant, and she makes him enter a twist contest because she wants the trophy. They go back to her home and while he is in the bathroom she finds his heroin and snorts it. She OD’s making him lose his mind and he takes her to Lance’s where they shoot her with Adrenaline and she is fine. They agree to keep this incident between them.

            The movie then flashes to a memory of Butch’s where he gets his father’s watch from a fellow POW, who was trapped with his father. He wakes from his memory and goes to fight. The section then changes to The Gold Watch. He is escaping from the window after winning the fight. He learns in the Taxi that he killed the man, so he makes his way to a hidden place to see his girlfriend and make an escape plan. Eventually he finds out that she forgot his watch and he decides to go back for it. He gets his watch back but Marsellus has found him. Butch is running while Marcellus is shooting at him, and Butch goes to hide in a pawn shop. He decides to beat up Marcellus and they are both captured by the owner. Who then proceeds to invite his friend to come over and the friend rapes Marsellus. Butch escapes but decides to come back for Marsellus. He kills the one and Marsellus the other, and in the end Marcellus tells him to leave and never come back.

            The next part is titled the Bonnie situation, they go back to Brett and take his friend Marvin back with them. Vincent accidentally kills Marvin and they go to Jules’s friend Jimmy’s home. They call Marsellus for help and he sends Mr. Wolf to help them take care of the situation before Jimmy’s wife Bonnie comes back from work. They get rid of the car at Monster Joe’s and decide to go to breakfast. They go to breakfast at the same place as the couple who decided to rob the restaurant. It turns out it is the same and they eventually try to get the money from Jules and he turns it back on them. He gives them money and everyone leaves.

            I think this movie gave a completely different texture and tone. It is because of the way they tell the story out of order. I think it fits with the content of the movie perfectly though. It gives the movie a serious comical tone if that makes any sense. If the move were more traditional it would be laid out completely differently. It would begin with Vincent and Jules going to the apartment and the scene would continue until they take Marvin. It would take them to accidentally killing Marvin, to Jimmy’s house to Mr. Wolf helping them. Then the original beginning would happen, cut off before the man calls the waiter garcon, and continue on until everyone leaves. It would go to the bar with Vincent and continue on normally, but Butch’s story would be the very ending of the movie. I am not sure if this would be better because this movie is odd.

            I would give this movie a B because despite the disjointed flow of the movie it did hold my interest. I think the movie would be more conjoined if it followed a different format. The movie felt like someone telling the story in a haze. They would continue telling their story and then go back because they missed a detail.