Pulp Fiction directed Quentin Tarantino is a critics and my own favorite. The movie was made in 1994 and definitely has a vintage 90 appeal. The movie opens with two people having a conversation in a diner. Starting off I noticed Tarantino uses medium close up shots and use up shots throughout the whole thing. Even when the waitress came over she got a close up shot too. Over the shoulder shots were also used a lot, in almost every scene. Even in a few, two person conversations a lot of the time you couldn’t even see one of the peoples faces. It was quirkily mysterious.
Transitioning from scene to scene he used slides with titles. Usually that doesn’t happen in full length movies, however Tarantino’s movies are not typical movies. Each segment of scene had an individual little story that came completely together at the end. The best part about this movie was he wasn’t scared to take risks, and when he did take those elemental risks he did so quite well. For example when he was showing one of the characters shooting up heroine he went very close up to the action and used a very shallow depth of field. Everything had a slow motion aspect as well. I know it’s weird to say but it was actually very cool to watch.
Another one of Tarantino’s tricks was the over the shoulder shot. Time and time again this game to play in his scenes. Sometimes he even used a low angle over the shoulder shot. In another early scene Samuel Jackson points a gun at a man who is turned around. So the angle is both over the shoulder and low angle. You can really see the intensity in Jackson’s face. The greatest part was that even with the movie gratuitous violence, the way the movie was made, made it seems funny and extremely fun to watch.
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