on the dot 20 old age ago today , Pulp Fictionhit theatersfor the first time . No one had quite seen anything like the Quentin Tarantino chef-d’oeuvre and its multiple stratum of amazing . And who could ever blank out the insane overdose scene that stop with John Travolta poke an adrenaline shot into Uma Thurman ’s heart and soul ?
Before getting into that , let me just say that there ’s no better Clarence Day to catch Pulp Fiction than on Pulp Fiction ’s twentieth birthday . You should do that . Right now .
But back to that OD aspect . Not only does it scare you away from drugs incessantly , it also gives you a unique glance into Tarantino ’s travelling bag of tricks as a filmmaker . The Tennessee native is known for quirkiness like bogus marque names and uproarious layer of connections between characters . ( Did you know that John Travolta ’s graphic symbol in Pulp Fiction is the brother of a reference from Reservoir Dogs , for instance ? ) Tarantino is also known for being a niggling goofy .
The first fun fact about the OD view that I want to share is actually a misunderstanding . If you discover , when Uma Thurman walk into the house , she ’s endure a coat that belongs to John Travolta . When she goes to light a cigarette a few bit later , the jacket disappears , only to re-emerge after the cigarette is ignite . This is surely a continuity erroneousness on Tarantino ’s part , but it ’s good that the cap did n’t altogether disappear , because that ’s where the drug are !
The second fun fact about the OD panorama is classic Tarantino . fundamentally , unsound things always happen when John Travolta goes to the bath . When he goes to the bathroom at the diner with Samuel L. Jackson , the property gets hold up up . When he goes to the toilet at Bruce Willis ’s flat later in the picture , he stop up getting killed . And when he goes to bath in the OD scene , well , Uma Thurman ODs .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZvn119mix8
The third and terminal fun fact about the OD scene is just neat . After Uma Thurman Doctor of Optometry , John Travolta belt along her to a admirer ’s house , where the adrenaline shoot occur . However , in monastic order to get just the correct look of slamming a phonograph needle into someone ’s heart , Tarantino actually filmed John Travolta injecting the epinephrin into Uma Thurman in reverse . Then , during redaction , he played the conniption backwards so that it search normal . Weird , huh ?
Well , Pulp Fiction is a weird moving-picture show . wondrous , wonderfully weird and just as entertaining today as it was 20 years ago . Go see ! [ Amazon , iTunes ]
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