Pulp Fiction

Discussing intertextuality in the pictorial matter Pulp Fiction, means non only taking into consideration Quentin Tarantinos text, his vision just also the whole refining that influenced the director. Pulp Fiction is a gangster movie, and obviously Tarantino was lured by detective, crime fiction novels like the Modesty Blaise (a denounce fiction novel by Peter ODonnel promulgated in 1965), which in the movie is being read in the toilet by Vega (actor John Travolta). Butchs double cross of Marsellus reminds the viewer of Dashiell Hammets novel, Red Harvest (1929). The main constitution from this novel blackmails a meat packer into unfixing a fixed fight. (The original title of the movie was supposed to be Black Mask, which was a take out magazine popular in 1930 for its detective stories. Even the food eaten by the characters belongs to a pop culture thither are scenes where a box of cereals c wholeed Fruite Brute depends (which was canceled in 1983). The graphic of the mov ie reminds of the pulp culture, and there is a motive from the drug culture all the clocks in the movie are set at 420, especially the clock from the pawnshop.Another text which inspired the director in creating some scenes from the movie was, as strange as it may appear for a gangster movie a biblical passage, more scarce Ezekiel 2517. This passage is recited in the film by Jules during his executions and this makes Juless character show up as the victim not as a vicious killer.The films title, Pulp Fiction reveals the entire culture from witch it was born. Pulp fiction refers to the cheap fiction magazines (mainly detective fiction) which were published from the 1920 s through the 1950 s. These magazines include a wide variety of musical genre fiction, fantasy, detective, science fiction, westerns, war, horror, sport. Tarantino succeeded in uniting almost all these genres in his masterpiece.Quentin Tarantino included in his films his own pop objects like big Kashuna Burger, red apple cigarettes and other elements and eventually Pulp Fiction itself became an icon of the pop culture.The stick on lyrics use the leitmotiv of the young maiden who is seduced and murdered (raped) by a young charismatic man who attracts and is followed with enthusiasm (a pied piper the recondite traveler who agrees to help a town get rid of a ). J. carol Oates wrote Where are you going? Where have you been? inspired by the murders from Tucson of Charles Schmid (an clause published in Life Magazine) and by the Bob Dylans form Its all over now, baby blue.The posted lyrics suppress elements like seduction unconscious forces, force play, rape which are typical in Oates story WGWB. Her work mix Gothic alienation with a penetrative social observation. (http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Are_You_Going%2C_Where_Have_You_Been%3F)Flannery OConnor wrote about Southern protestant characters who suffer keen transformations. Their transformation is gained through comical behavior in the quest of the holy, violence and pain. Somehow her characters seem to have been touched by a unearthly grace. The author is ironic, and there is a clear discrepancy between the characters bound perceptions and the awful fate awaiting them. (http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor)The characters depicted in OConnor stories and in pulp fiction fight for a cause, they endure pain and if necessary baffle violent, but in the end there is the gruesome understanding of the hurt conception they had about society, religion, culture (for example in OConnors novel Wise Blood, the protagonist is a spiritually distressed who in the end realizes that he was wrong in his conceptions).OConnors short stories describe again powerless people that can not fight against faith and are destined to suffer. Violence brings in certain(prenominal) characters from Pulp Fiction and OConnor characters the answer to all their wonders and frustrations.BibliographyPulp Fiction, Wikipedia The excuse en cyclopedia http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction_%28film%29Flannery OConnor, Wikepedia The Free encyclopedia http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O%27Connor