People often say that you can make
a movie out of a pulp fiction better than a movie out of a classic and I think there is some reason for that because there's something more you can play with.
Not exact matches
They put
Pulp Fiction on air, in the full knowledge that the director
of the
movie — who is white — gives currency and legitimation,
out of his own mouth, to a term that they forbid to their own presenters, even accidentally and off the air.
The mother and the 7 homeschooled children, 6 boys and 1 girl, are essential prisoners in their own home, where the boys» only relief and only window to an outside world lies in the access they are granted to recorded
movies, which they constantly watch and then elaborately reconstruct, acting
out scenes from the likes
of Reservoir Dogs,
Pulp Fiction, and Goodfellas.
Writer - director Shane Black knows detective
movies and
pulp fiction inside
out, and in this film he takes elements and scenes that have become staples
of those genres and changes them slightly, often to hilarious effect.
However, Darkman lacks the delicious satire
of RoboCop and the technical brilliance
of Batman, which makes it strictly for those who enjoy
pulp b -
movie horror, which Raimi made a career
out of up to that point.
A John Travolta comparison seems appropriate here, where a star is born (Welcome Back, Kotter), gets incredibly hot (Saturday Night Fever), suffers career burnout (too many flops to pick one), revives himself to a second period
of superhot stardom (
Pulp Fiction) and then, inevitably, the flame's
out again (too many
movies in recent years).
When you take the Shadow
out of Walter Gibson's
pulp paper playground and hurl him into comics or
movies, the major question that creators have to face head on, like the Shadow's blazing.45 automatics, is how they visualize the cloaked, two - gun, mockingly laughing night stalker.