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[innerSpaceman]

Really, Pulp Fiction?


Merely a blip, I'd say. I don't remember weeks of people lining up for hours, or constant talk about it, or pop culture after-effects galore.


Within 4 brief years, I lived through The Exorcist, Jaws and Star Wars. These were films that changed the world. Pulp Fiction may have influenced cinema .... but, to bring it back around to the original tangent of the topic at hand ... it's too bad so many of my friends didn't get to groove on the absolute MANIA of the 3 films I mentioned. Pulp Fiction had no such effect.

Not to cast aspersions on its quality as a film ... merely as a phenomena

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Merely a blip, I'd say. I don't remember weeks of people lining up for hours, or constant talk about it, or pop culture after-effects galore.

The first I'll grant, the other two (constant talk, pop culture after-effect) - you just didn't see it. It's all ANYONE I knew talked about for a year. I knew the entire soundtrack, including the bits of dialog that made it onto the album, before I'd even seen the movie. You couldn't turn a corner without seeing a "Bad Ass Motherfvcker" wallet hanging from a chain on someone's belt. And I don't think its affect on movie makers, and movie audiences, can be overstated. Memento doesn't get made if Pulp Fiction hadn't turned the general public on to time-out-of-joint movie telling (not that it was invented for Pulp Fiction, but PF's catapulted it from art-house device to common practice). Fight Club never gets made without Pulp Fiction paving the way for combining violence/comedy/philosophy.

Not that any of that was new at the time, but it wasn't mainstream, and Pulp Fiction, for people of my generation at least, completely altered expectations the audience had of film makers, and vice versa.

Lines and mania are not the only measure of a movie's influence.

By your definition, the Star Wars prequels have more cache than Pulp Fiction.