They eat at Jack Rabbit Slim's, a 1950s-themed restaurant, and participate in a twist contest, then return home. He shoots up and drives to meet Marsellus's wife, Mia, having agreed to escort her while Marsellus is out of town.
The next day, Vincent purchases heroin from his drug dealer, Lance. They take the briefcase to Marsellus and wait while he bribes boxer Butch Coolidge to take a dive in his upcoming match. He declaims a passage from the Bible, and he and Vincent kill Brett for trying to double-cross Marsellus. After Vincent checks the contents of the briefcase, Jules shoots one of Brett's associates. Hitmen Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega arrive at an apartment to retrieve a briefcase for their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace, from a business partner, Brett. Other analysts describe the structure as a "circular narrative". According to Philip Parker, the structural form is "an episodic narrative with circular events adding a beginning and end and allowing references to elements of each separate episode to be made throughout the narrative". Sequences 1 and 7 partially overlap and are presented from different points of view, as do sequences 2 and 6. If the seven sequences were ordered chronologically, they would run: 4a, 2, 6, 1, 7, 3, 4b, 5.
It is often considered a cultural watershed, influencing films and other media that adopted elements of its style. The self-reflexivity, unconventional structure, and extensive homage and pastiche have led critics to describe it as a touchstone of postmodern film. Pulp Fiction is widely regarded as Tarantino's masterpiece, with particular praise for its screenwriting. Its development, marketing, distribution, and profitability had a sweeping effect on independent cinema. It was nominated for seven awards at the 67th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Original Screenplay it earned Travolta, Jackson, and Thurman Academy Award nominations and boosted their careers. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, and was a major critical and commercial success. Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein was enthralled, however, and the film became the first that Miramax fully financed.
TriStar Pictures reportedly turned down the script as "too demented". Considerable screen time is devoted to monologues and casual conversations with eclectic dialogue revealing each character's perspectives on several subjects, and the film features an ironic combination of humor and strong violence. The film is also self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of "pulp". Its plot occurs out of chronological order. Tarantino wrote Pulp Fiction in 19, incorporating scenes that Avary originally wrote for True Romance (1993). The title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of crime in Los Angeles. Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who conceived it with Roger Avary.
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