---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <turquoiseb@...> wrote :
From: salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote : Salyavin, I've not seen Pulp Fiction except for little bits and pieces. I'd say that in these very violent movies, the morality tale message can get lost pretty easily. Then the meta message takes over. Which can be quite different from the morality tale message! I didn't think Pulp Fiction was particularly violent actually, not by comparison to others, even then. What was shocking to a lot of people was the apparently a-moral nature of the characters with their casual drug use etc. That's just life really, it would have been a sorry tale of LA lowlifes if no one said MoFo even once! It isn't like it goes for gritty realism, it's rather cartoonish like the comics it's based on. The script is wonderful but people complained about that saying it was all just a bunch of blokes talking about cheeseburgers. Some people just can't appreciate art, PF is uncomfortable at times but the way instant Karma is dealt out to all concerned ought to have seen it hailed as some sort of spiritual revival! But no, all the usual professionally offended types decided it was championing gun crime. But if you can't get past the drugs, guns and swearing then I guess it just isn't for you! I always loved Tarantino's story of the real-life source of some of the dialogue. He got busted one night for some sort of public intoxication, and had to spend the night in the drunk tank of a jail with a bunch of primarily black guys. And he was so fascinated by how they talked that he started writing it all down. All he had on him was one letter-sized envelope and a tiny stub of a pencil, and he described writing the things he was hearing down on it in the tiniest letters possible, to try to fit as much of it as possible into his "writer's notes." I wouldn't go so far as to class it as one of the best movies ever, but it *was* extremely clever, and ground-breaking in many ways, not least of which was the non-linear narrative. This gets overdone so much nowadays and often for no reason. In PF it cleverly gives the two gangsters the appearance of a happy ending which was clever, my Mum hated it because she didn't know that some things had happened before others! It seems a bit dated now but I still love it. Riding on the relative success of the previous (and more violent) "Reservoir Dogs," he managed to fight the studio heads and insist on casting John Travolta, who they thought were washed up, but who he thought was perfect for the part. Jump-started his whole career again. And Bruce Willis too! I didn't like Reservoir Dogs at all though, apart from Mr Pink getting away with the loot, it was all a bit grim and humourless. Jackie Brown might be my favourite of his, I do like a nice love story! Kill Bill was amazingly artistic and had a really good ending that I wouldn't have thought of in a million years. Inglorious Basterds was half-good. Nail bitingly tense and then Brad Pitt and his gang would appear and ruin everything. Django Unchained? Hmmm, not sure about that one.... And from a spiritual perspective, what's not to like about casting the daughter of one of the foremost Buddhist scholars in the world, named after a goddess? :-) That I didn't know!
