Ah, so many quotes. Back in the 90s I attended an uni class on American movies and wrote a paper about the coolness of violence in same. One of my points was that ever since the basement rape scene in "Pulp Fiction", we affectionally refered to each other as "pipe-hittin' niggers" among my brothers and friends (that would be "durchgeknallte Cracknigger" in the German dub), adding "a quarter century of education towards tolerance and respect and political correctness - and along came Quentin Tarantino."
Then just recently at our Easter family barbecue, one quasi-sister-in-law jokingly told my almost-16-year-old niece that the way she showed her appreciation of the smell was a mark of reaching adulthood. Me and my brothers spontaneously broke out into singing "Girl, you'll be a woman soon". Probably not really appropriate either given the sexual undertones of the song, ably visualized by Tanantino with Uma Thurman getting penetrated by a needle to the heart as a result of events once she turns it on; but as I sarcastically concluded in that uni paper, "Anyone still thinking violence on film won't desensitize?"
ETA: Hot damn, I just looked, and I still have that paper on my PC almost 26 years later, too. Memory slightly off - it was a class on violence and mass communication, not the one on American movies. The latter was run by an assistant to the lecturer who invited me after reading it.This message has been edited. Last edited by: BansheeOne,
I saw Pulp Fiction with my brother and two close friends (one of whom has since died) the day it opened. We knew we were watching something special and talked about as soon as we left the theater.
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I saw a discussion on Reddit on how the scene where Butch sneaks back to his apartment for his watch, how that entire scene of him cautiously cutting through back lots and yards all the way up to when he finds the MAC-10 sitting there and aerates Vincent; that was shot in one continuous take! Go watch it and you’ll see.
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Originally posted by PASig: I saw a discussion on Reddit on how the scene where Butch sneaks back to his apartment for his watch, how that entire scene of him cautiously cutting through back lots and yards all the way up to when he finds the MAC-10 sitting there and aerates Vincent; that was shot in one continuous take! Go watch it and you’ll see.
I seem to remember some extreme close ups of the watch on the kangaroo as well as some jostling of the door knob, but I did not go back and look before posting.
I'll keep an eye out for this scene next time I watch it.
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Tarantino was born in TN, moved out early but has a fondness for the state, so he typically works in a line that has something to do with TN.
In Pulp Fiction it's where Butch calls his buddy about the bet and payoff, the line is: "All right, Scotty, next time I see you, it'll be on Tennessee time"
And in the scene above where Walken presents his dads watch he tells young Butch that his dad purchased it from a general store in Knoxville.
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