On the anniversary of Pulp Fiction

This fall marks the 20th anniversary film "Pulp Fiction", which became one of the most popular films of all time. Can long extol the artistic merits of the film and the director's unique style, but all this is unnecessary - to understand what the charm of "Pulp Fiction", you should just watch it. Then reconsider. And once again to reconsider. And again ... And again - the creation of the category of those Tarantino film masterpieces that were never bored.

20 facts.





1. In South Korea, Japan and Slovakia, the film came out earlier than in the US.

Became a classic picture of Quentin Tarantino was first shown in May of 1994 at the Cannes Film Festival. Later, it saw the other guests at international festivals around the world - from Munich from Locarno, and only on Sept. 23 at the New York Film Festival were able to see her first American audience. Then the film was released in rent in South Korea, Japan and Slovakia, and the first show of the general American public was held on October 14, after which the film began its journey to theaters in other countries.



2. bunny was named after real-life rabbit.

The film's heroine, whose role is brilliantly performed Amanda Plummer, got its nickname in honor of the rabbit Linda Chen - pomoshnitsa Quentin Tarantino, reprint movie script written by the director of the hand. Instead of paying she asked Quentin to watch her pet rabbit named Sweet bunny (Eng. Honey Bunny), while she was busy with work, but the director did not heed her request and after a while the rabbit died. Tarantino took care of the pet in its own way - his name became a nickname girlfriend character, played by Tim Roth.



3. The events of the plot can be built in strict chronological order.

At first glance, the non-linear narrative is conducted in the movie is pretty messy and confusing, but in the film can distinguish seven main parts - the prologue, epilogue, and two coming three main stories, they are easily arranged in chronological order. Hint: the first in chronological order part - an episode with a gold watch Major Coolidge.



4. In the movie 265 times the word «f * ck».

And for Tarantino is not the limit, say, in his painting «Reservoir Dogs» (in Russian hire - "Reservoir Dogs") variations deviant sentences with the words sound 269 times. Nevertheless, in 1994, the year none of the film was not even close to "Pulp Fiction" by the number of expletives.



5. Vehicle Vincent Vega after the film was stolen.

The hero of John Travolta in the film travels to the chic convertible Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu 1964, which belonged to the director. Shortly after filming "Chevy" hijacked, and most recently, in 2013, the year in the course of the investigation of theft of another police car stopped in the vicinity of California Oakland Chervrolet cherry color, like two peas similar to a car's "Pulp Fiction." It later emerged that the same car that was stolen from Tarantino 19 years ago.



6. Budget "Pulp Fiction" was only $ 8, 5 million.

In this case $ 5 million went to pay the stellar cast member. Painting has paid off in the first week of hire in the United States - just over the weekend she raised $ 9, 3 million.

7. Among released in 1994. Film category «R» «Pulp Fiction" was the third at the box office in the United States.

In the United States rating «R» means that children under 17 years old are allowed to view the film only when accompanied by a parent or guardian. Creation of Quentin Tarantino gave way blockbuster "True Lies" (fees in the US were $ 146, 2 million) and the film "Speed" ($ 121, 2 million), while the "Pulp Fiction" was included in the top ten most-grossing films of 1994, the leader among them became the "Forrest Gump", with the result of $ 329, 6 million.

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