The film “Pulp Fiction” has earned more than 40 prestigious film awards and is among the top ten IMDb site ratings. Such a resounding success is associated with a high level of professionalism of the creative team working on the creation of the picture. First of all, what has been said concerns the director of Pulp Fiction. He not only breathed new life into the cinematic techniques invented once by Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Stanley Kubrick, but also assembled a great acting team.
A few words about the film "Pulp Fiction"
The director and actors of the film made up a close-knit team, especially since many of those who entered the team of its creators met on the set earlier.
The budget for Pulp Fiction was initially quite small, but then grew slightly, amounting to $ 8 million. At the same time, box office revenues reached 214 million.
Few people know that initially Tarantino was going to invite Kurt Cobain, the founder and lead singer of the group Nirvana, into his picture. However, the latter refused. So did his wife, Courtney Love. Then, for the roles intended for this couple, Tarantino approved Eric Stolz and Rosanna Arquette.
In 2013, the picture was entered on the National Register of Films of the United States, as experts considered it to have great historical, cultural and aesthetic significance.
Quentin Tarantino
Who is the director of Pulp Fiction? The answer to this question is known to everyone who is interested in American cinema. This is Quentin Jerome Tarantino - the director, who is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the direction of "Postmodernism" in the field of cinema. The distinctive features of his work include nonlinearity of narration, aesthetization of violence, as well as a rethinking of the modern cultural and historical process.
At the age of 15, the future director of the film “Pulp Fiction” left school with the permission of his mother and began selling tickets at the cinema. In the evenings, Tarantino attended acting classes, and then for several years he was a sales assistant at a video cassette rental point. In parallel, Quentin wrote scripts, which, however, at first, not a single studio agreed to purchase.
The first success came to Tarantino in 1992, when his debut film "Reservoir Dogs" was released. A little later, the viewer saw two scenes taken from the script of the future director of Pulp Fiction: “True Love” and “Natural Born Killers”. The cult gang story itself, which lifted Tarantino to the Hollywood Olympus, was released in 1994. Thanks to this film, a number of actors have become known who are today the stars of American cinema.
Uma Thurman
This actress and model debuted at a fairly young age in the film "Dangerous Communications". Then her beautiful game adorned the picture of Philip Kaufman "Henry and June." Tarantino was overwhelmed by Uma's sexuality, but she was in no hurry to accept the invitation of the director of Pulp Fiction. According to the actor’s tale, which the actress does not deny, Quentin read her the script of the film on the phone, and she could not resist.
The role in Pulp Fiction brought Uma nominations for the prestigious film awards Oscar, BAFTA and Golden Globe. In addition, she also assigned the actress the title of American sex symbol.
John Travolta
The director of "Pulp Fiction" Quentin Tarantino was originally going to remove Michael Madsen in the role of Vincent Vega. In other words, this character was supposed to "migrate" to the picture from "Mad Dogs", providing a link between the two films. However, Madsen refused, due to workload, so the director began to look for another performer for the role of Vincent. His choice fell on Travolta. After all, in fact, the gangster Vega was a parody of the actor, as the Americans knew him in the late 1970s. John himself later said that he initially considered the film an art house in the style of "Mad Dogs", and did not expect him to become a cult.
In Pulp Fiction, Travolta flashed not only with his acting skills, but also showed the talent of a musical dancer. His three-minute duet with Uma Thurman was filmed for 13 hours. However, it was worth it. The dance, staged by Tarantino, entered the history of world cinema and is considered one of the best.
Samuel Leroy Jackson
In Pulp Fiction, the actor got the role of a gangster and partner Vincent Vega Jules Wynnfield, which was written specifically by Quentin Tarantino for him.
The audience remembered how he seriously put forward a version of the origin of the French name "Big Mac", and rants about the symbolic meaning of the foot massage. In addition, it was Winnfield who misrepresented the words of the prophet Ezekiel and found a religious foundation in the confusion of events.
For his role in the film Pulp Fiction, Samuel Leroy Jackson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe. In addition, he won the BAFTA Award.
Bruce willis
When the director of Pulp Fiction was just about to film his world famous movie masterpiece, he found himself in a difficult situation. Tarantino wanted to invite the stars, however, the budget of the picture was so small that this was out of the question. However, Tarantino had a plan, and he asked his friend Harvey Kaitel to persuade Bruce Willis to take part in a low-budget project.
Not surprisingly, the super-popular "Die Hard" at that time agreed, although $ 800,000 was a ridiculous fee for him. True, initially Willis wanted to play the role of Vincent Vega, which went to John Travolta. However, the director of Pulp Fiction (1994) invited him to appear before the audience as a Butch boxer. For the sake of this, I even had to rewrite the script, since in the original version the hero of Willis was an inexperienced young man - a novice athlete, while Bruce was already under 40 at the time of filming.
Having played a boxer with Quentin Tarantino, he not only received good dividends in the form of a couple of millions of dollars for participating in Pulp Fiction, as an agreed share in box office receipts, but also a great reputation.
Tim Roth
At the time when the shooting of the film “Pulp Fiction” was supposed to begin, the director Quentin Tarantino shot this actor in “Mad Dogs”. However, Rota's cinematic career began long before that in 1982. Then Tim made his television debut in the movie “Made in Britain”, playing a cynical and brainless skinhead.
In the 1990s, the actor starred in the famous directors Robert Altman and Tom Stoppard, "Vincent and Theo" and "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead." The role of van Gogh made an indelible impression on Quentin Tarantino, and he invited Roth to the role of Mr. Orange in the picture "Reservoir Dogs". This work opened Tim's way to the Hollywood Olympus, and made him one of the most successful British in American cinema.
Amanda Plummer
The actress is the daughter of a famous Hollywood couple - Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer. The girl adopted the talent of her parents and began acting in the early 80s and, at the same time, achieved significant success in the modeling business. At the time of the invitation to the film “Pulp Fiction”, Plummer, who made her debut in the film “The World According to Garp”, had already starred in the Oscar-winning film “The King Fisherman”. The girl really liked Tarantino, and he did not think long about whether she should be invited to his project.
By the way, an interesting story is connected with the character of Amanda Plummer . In the film Tarantino, the actress plays the girlfriend of the hero, who was played by Tim Roth, nicknamed Honey Bunny (Sweet Bunny). It turns out that it did not appear by chance. Assistant Quentin Tarantino had a Honey Bunny rabbit. The girl agreed to reprint the script of the picture for free, provided that at that time the director would keep an eye on her pet while she was busy. As one would expect, Quentin remembered his promise only when the poor rabbit “made ends.” Tarantino was sincerely upset and perpetuated the memory of the poor animal, making his nickname the nickname of the character of his painting.
Harvey Keitel
As already mentioned, in the film “Pulp Fiction”, the director Tarantino invited many actors from his previous film “Reservoir Dogs”. One of them was Harvey Keitel. By 1994, he was already quite famous and had a nomination for an Oscar for his role in the film Bugsy.
Harvey Keitel not only played Mr. White (Larry Dimmick) in Mad Dogs, but was also the producer of this film.
In “Pulp Fiction” (as the director’s name is already known to you), he got the role of Winston “Cleaner” Wolfe. Tarantino worked with him later. In particular, he invited Harvey Keitel to the painting "From Dusk Till Dawn."
Christopher Walken
In the film “Pulp Fiction”, the actor plays a character who tells one of the most fascinating stories of the film about the journey of a gold watch belonging to an American soldier who fought in Vietnam. Moreover, the whole role of Walken - this is one single monologue, which is filled with deep philosophical meaning. By the way, if you arrange the parts of the picture in chronological order, then the monologue of the hero Walken will be the very first.
Now you know what the name of the director of Pulp Fiction is and what actors played in it. Although more than 23 years have passed since the premiere of the picture, it continues to be one of the most famous in the genre of gangster thrillers.