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The paper examines the opinions of various critics to determine the secret of "Pulp Fiction"'s popularity and why it captured the attention and imagination of audiences throughout the world. The paper relates that this film was "different" and the writer suggests that it is because of the characters who looked and even acted normal and yet were the most hateful, insidious, murderous, amoral people in the world. The paper opines that in this way, "Pulp Fiction" played on the postmodern fears of its audiences.

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"What does the term "post modern" really mean when it comes to film? In the case of "Pulp Fiction" it refers to developing and popularizing a new genre, away from comedies or dramas or so-called "action flicks." In a sense Quentin Tarantino has confirmed Hannah Ahrendt's comments about Adolph Eichmann at his trial: "the banality of evil." Tarantino makes us laugh as often as we cringe in the ordinariness of the evil some of his characters perpetrate. Tarantino won an Academy Award for best screenplay for this movie. But, when one says that it is a "post modern" film, in a sense what is being discussed is not merely a new genre, but the fact that here was a director and screen writer who did not "pay his dues" working his way up the studio ladder. He only had one other film to his credit, the 1992 "Reservoir Dogs" which was the beginning of the amoral plots and characters more fully developed in "pulp Fiction.""

Sample of Sources Used:

• Murph Blog "Re: Postmodernism in Film (and Death Thereof)" May 24, 2005lifegoesoff.blogspot.com/2005/05/essay-title-re-postmodernism-in-film.html
• Rombes, Nicholas: "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Pos-punk Cinema" www.webdelsol.com/SolPix/sp-postpunk01.htm
• Schickel, Richard: "9 Great Movies From Nine Decades" TIME Magazine, May 30, 2005.
• Schramm, Michael: "Tarantino: His Films, the Politics of Representation, and Postmodernism" www.retardedjimmy.com/tarantino.html
• Ziesing, Fabian: "A Detailed Reading of: Pulp Fiction" home.nikocity.de/fabianweb/pulp.html -

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