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6 unusual facts about pulp fiction


Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael

In it, she describes her affinity for the new works of directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Paul Thomas Anderson and David O. Russell, showing an appreciation for Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, the first half of Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and Three Kings.

Metrication in Chile

In the film Pulp Fiction it is true that because of the metric system in France, this sandwich was called Royale with cheese.

Phillip E. Hardy

Hardy has recently been performing with The Lively Ones of Pulp Fiction fame, in addition to New Blues Revolution who performed at the 2010 Los Angeles Music Awards.

Pulp fiction

Pulp magazines, short stories presented in a magazine format, printed on cheaply made wood-pulp paper

Story canon

Toy Story meets Pulp Fiction is an example of using a story canon to demonstrate the absurdity of an idea.

The Film Club

The films that David Gilmour watches with his son includes Citizen Kane, Showgirls, Pulp Fiction, Last Tango in Paris, The 400 Blows, Ran, Singin' in the Rain, The Exorcist and Basic Instinct.


Agnes Boulton

Agnes Boulton (September 19, 1893 – November 25, 1968) was a successful pulp fiction writer in the 1910s, later the wife of Eugene O'Neill.

Flowers on the Wall

The song was used in the soundtrack to the 1994 film Pulp Fiction and as the title theme of the 2001-2002 BBC Radio 4 sitcom Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting.

Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon

The song enjoyed a second life when it appeared on the 1994 Pulp Fiction soundtrack, performed by rock band Urge Overkill.

Heroin chic

In film, the heroin chic trend in fashion coincided with a string of movies in the mid‑1990s—such as The Basketball Diaries, Trainspotting, Kids, Permanent Midnight, and Pulp Fiction—that examined heroin use and drug culture.

James Georgopoulos

Famous cinematic guns in that series include those used by Al Pacino in Scarface, Lady Gaga in her music video "Born This Way", John Travolta in Pulp Fiction, Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, John Malkovich in RED and Angelina Jolie in Salt.

Joseph Pilato

He would later land minor roles in such films as Wishmaster, Pulp Fiction, Digimon: The Movie and Night of the Living Dead: Origins 3D.

La mala ordina

The concept of two hitmen teamed up, one black and one white, appears to have been a likely inspiration for the characters played by John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

Lightworks

Editors using Lightworks have produced numerous internationally renowned and Oscar and Emmy Award award-winning feature films and television programs, including The King's Speech, Martin Scorsese's Hugo and The Departed, Mission Impossible, Pulp Fiction, Braveheart and Batman.

Michael Gilden

Gilden performed or did stunt work in a variety of television series and films, including Charmed, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Family Law, Cybill, NCIS (TV series) and Pulp Fiction, and had a role as an Ewok in the film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Pageboy

In the film Pulp Fiction, the character of Mia Wallace (played by actress Uma Thurman) sports a pageboy, as does AnnaSophia Robb as Violet Beauregarde and Missi Pyle as Violet's mother Scarlett Beauregarde in Tim Burton's film version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Philo Gubb

The character of Philo Gubb was created by prolific pulp fiction writer Ellis Parker Butler and first appeared in the May 1913 issue of Redbook magazine.

Staniša Stošić

It's melody is very similar to the instrumental song Miserlou by Dick Dale featured in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, which was based on the old middle-eastern song, Misirlou, whose true origin is difficult to trace.

The Lively Ones

Their 1963 song "Surf Rider" (written by Nokie Edwards from The Ventures) was used in the final sequence (and end credits) of Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction.

The Split Program

Also, it can be noted that Track 6, the outro, is an audio clip taken from the 1994 Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction.

Vamp Nail Polish

The color was allegedly worn by Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, however it later transpired she wore Mavala Las Vegas.

Yolanda Be Cool

The name is a reference to the film Pulp Fiction, where the character Jules (played by Samuel L. Jackson) tells a female armed robber named Yolanda (played by Amanda Plummer) "Be cool!"


see also

Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur

He is known primarily for his scholarly work on Beowulf and his translation of Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda for The American-Scandinavian Foundation, but also as a writer of pulp fiction and for his left-wing politics.

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood is a 1942 American crime film, fourth of the fourteen Boston Blackie films of the 1940s Columbia's series of B pictures based on Jack Boyle's pulp-fiction character.

Gubb

Philo Gubb, a character created by prolific pulp fiction writer Ellis Parker Butler

Harold Davis

Harold A. Davis, pulp fiction author working under the pseudonym Kenneth Robeson, 1930s, 1940s

Heinz Werner Höber

Heinz Werner Höber (1931, Bärenstein - 15 May 1996) was a very prolific pulp fiction author who produced many novels about the fictitious FBI-agent Jerry Cotton and eventually sued his publisher because he felt he had been entitled to receive royalties.

Whole Wide World

The Whole Wide World, a film about pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard