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  1. Pulp Fiction
    The third major element of Pulp Fiction (which ... came to pass in Reservoir Dogs) is Tarantino's lack of scoring. This fits in with the first element of working against expectations, but instead of hiring a composer QT uses eclectic bits of pop music as a score (mostly source, but sometime not). From the Spaghetti Western feel of Dick Dale and his Del Tone's "Misirlou" (and the use of surf music in general) to Urge Overkill's cover of "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon," everything feels right. And though Scorsese had done it before, the decade-bending music (which is a texture of the film itself) helps create a timeless zone that is both real and cinematic. The lack of score also helps keep the viewer on edge, as (much like the lack of "character building") it removes familiarity: One can imagine that, in any other director's hands, Butch's walk to his apartment would be ominously scored. Yet it's the lack of score that makes the sequence feel so tense.
  2. Pulp Fiction -- Quentin Tarantino
    [T]he real magic of Pulp Fiction is the characters these guys play. Bruce Willis plays a down and out boxer who's asked to take a dive in a match. Uma Thurman is a mob boss's wife. Tim Roth plays out the Clyde part of an insane armed robbery couple. Harvey Keitel is magnificent as 'The Wolf' and even Tarantino acts flawlessly as a minor character.
  3. Pulp Fiction -- Titles
    Pulp Fiction is a film primarily composed of conceits. The first one concerns its title. Before the film begins, in case the spectator misses the point, the director places on the screen a dictionary definition of pulp fiction which suggests that it is work of a low-brow, lurid character.
  4. Avenger (Pulp Fiction)
    The Avenger's wingspan was 54 feet. Its Wright Cyclone R-2600 engine developed 1,600 horsepower, giving the plane a top speed close to 300 miles per hour for 1,000 miles. The Avenger carried one standard torpedo or a 2,000-pound bomb. Armament included a .50-caliber machine gun under the forward cowl and another in a power-operated ball turret behind the cockpit. Each plane had a three-man crew--pilot, gunner and radioman.
  5. Uma Thurman -- Pulp Fiction
    Uma Thurman was already a teen model when she made her film debut in 1987's Kiss Daddy Goodnight. At first an ingenue in films like Dangerous Liasons (1988), she developed into a brainy, somewhat cynical leading lady whose wide-set eyes and sharp chin gave her an exotic beauty. She kept busy in the movies throughout the '90s, notably as a dangerous temptress in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994, with Ving Rhames and John Travolta) and as the villainess Poison Ivy in Batman and Robin (1997, with George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger). Sometimes a leading lady and sometimes a bit player, she ... appeared in Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown (1999, starring Sean Penn), the Tarantino action flicks Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, with Lucy Liu) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), the futuristic thriller Paycheck (2003, based on a story by Philip K. Dick), and the comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006).
  6. Detective Fiction -- Dashiell Hammett
    Ross Macdonald, pseudonym of Kenneth Millar, updated the form again with his detective Lew Archer, while still writing in what is considered the PI's Golden Age of Detective Fiction, begun by Hammett. Archer, like Hammett's fictional heroes, was a camera eye, with hardly any known past. "Turn Archer sideways, and he disappears," one reviewer wrote. Two of Macdonald's strengths were his use of psychology and his beautiful prose, which was full of imagery. Like other 'hardboiled' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation; this is illusory... and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated. The movie Harper starring Paul Newman was based on the Lew Archer character.
  7. Detective Fiction -- Crime
    Detective fiction or mysteries is a body of literature that engages the reader. One can hardly read passively when one is invited to pay close attention to the characters and the plot in order to try to solve the crime before the author solves it for the reader. A good mystery invites the reader into the action and provides a level of intellectual stimulation (even in the worst of crime novels). The reader is not lectured at or enveloped in the emotional travails of some lovelorn soul in pain.
  8. Science Fiction Movies -- Star Wars
    Science fiction movies and films have been around since the beginning of the motion picture. Many many classic films dealt with enlarged creatures such as Godzilla or giant animals. As special effects become more believable, science fiction movies capture the imaginations of more people. Star wars, Star Trek films, and others are among the most popular, but there are hundreds, maybe even thousands of other scifi flicks out there. Below are websites devoted to scifi films and musicals as well as movie reviews, movie releases, and info about science fiction films on DVD.
  9. Robert A. Heinlein -- Science Fiction Writers
    Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) was one of the most influential SF writers of any era (four of his 31 novels won Hugos, and he was the first to receive the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award). The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein gives newer SF readers and fans a less-known side of his work and opportunity to savor crisp sentences filled with telling detail, sardonic observations of character, and engrossing tales.
  10. Beowulf (Medieval) -- Stories
    The Beowulf poem does not find its way to screen unmolested. Several alterations have been made. Numerous characters and events have been deleted. But, what is, perhaps, most shocking is not what has been excluded, but what has been added. Screenwriters Roger Avery (Pulp Fiction) and graphic novelist Neil Gaiman (Stardust) examined the legend on a cellular level and decided to address the glaring inconsistencies, disjoined plot points and unreliable narration that have always plagued the work and earned the ire of certain academics. They have created a "unified field theory" that not only draws disparate stories together and elucidates plot holes, but actually contributes to the existing scholarship.
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