@@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch Oh yes, I clearly remember watching the introduction and the film right afterwards at a VERY young age and loving it. Guess you could say I come from a very openminded family!
Thanks for the upload. Pulp Fiction is still an hilariously amoral film that has been much-imitated. However, impressionable, too-cool-for-school readers of Empire magazine voted it the best film ever made, shortly after its release (which made a change from them endlessly foaming about Star Wars). Pulp Fiction is still a great film, it's just very much of that ironic 1990s period.
I don't see how a novel or a film can be interpreted as immoral or amoral; the point of neither is to deliver a "message". All great art - as Wilde and Blake claimed - is immoral
I remember watching this back in '97. Thanks for uploading it. Cousins... Pulp Fiction isn't homophobic FFS! The rape scene illustrates that sexual violence is rooted in the dynamic of power: something that neither Zed or Maynard hold much of in society, hence Zed's racist assertion of power over Marsellus.
I first saw this intro I thought "Homophobic? When was there a....oh right the pawnshop scene." I've thought about that after I saw the movie years agoI don't consider those guys as "gay" just as I don't consider the hillbillies in Deliverence "gay". They're evil rapists. As Red in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION says about the "Sisters" when Andy says he's not homosexual: "Neither are they, you have to be human first."
People don’t like Mark Cousins’s voice. There is an intense lilt even by Ulster standards that is remarkable, (i am Irish). He can be quite pretentious. I often wonder how he would sound if you stopped and asked him directions to the post office. Doubtless that would be a tour de force in cultural gravitas. Would you find out where the post office was? Probably not. Moviedrome, however, was one of the best things about 1990s television. The 90s were a cultural wasteland. Oasis, All Saints, Boyzone and Chumbawumba being drilled repetitively into everyone’s heads. Replica football jerseys. The Tories. Thug hedonism in Ibiza being advertised as a way of life. If it wasn’t for Mark Cousins I wouldn’t have realised that there used to be a thing called art and culture that was on your radio and tv or in the cinema before the spivs shut it all down. Thank you Mark Cousins.
? How is it homophobic? If it touches a nerve thats a personal view of course, but hardly a universal judgement. Gratification, power and greed come in all forms. The boxing fraternity might be up in arms, proclaiming their sport is unfairly branded as result-fixed. Where does it all end? These kind of views are limiting and dont pay homage to the excellence of the whole
Good movie, not his best. Looking at it now after many years, I think Mark is right. The film is quite empty, and it isn’t saying very much. Never the less, it’s a dazzling watch, and very funny.
Tarantino is so passé now. A quick shot of sheer brilliance in the 90’s. And now boring, repetitive-overlong and having lost any conception of continuity.
@@PaulLamens I'm talking about the time period post Jackie Brown to his most recent film. i haven't missed, in my opinion, his last few movies. they have become incrementally worse since Jackie Brown. his understanding of continuity has gone completely. his overlong self indulgence. scenes drag on and on with long boring speeches that kill any tension that may have been. i noticed this first with Inglorious Basterds. the previous films, kill Bill and Death Proof were so appalling i skipped them. i think The Hateful Eight is where i understood what i suspected. i watched that tripe 3 times just to confirm my thoughts. and i always came to the same conclusion. boring. overlong. self indulgent. i will remember him for True Romance, (script. brilliant film. in my top 10.) Pulp Fiction. fabulous. and Jackie Brown. so cool and fuked up. everyone in that was exceptional. the rest, in my opinion, self indulgent overlong boring. all these films post Jackie Brown will be remembered as completely flawed, bloated. the ones i admire are classics - as for Reservoir, i can take it or leave it. Tim Roth's awful American accent began killing it for me. but the conversation between Walken's psycho mobster and Hopper's loving father in True Romance is just incredibly touching, sometimes funny, and so incredibly well done...as hopper counts down the minutes to his own death with a cigarette and his egg plant speech - movie magic.
Well that is like your opinion man, and that is fine. Personally, I consider Once Upon A Time In Hollywood to be his best film in decades and one of the best of 2019 full stop. This is a viewpoint reflected in many reviews and the Academy nominations it received, so while you might no longer like him, he can't really be perceived as passé.
@@npe9483 ' he can't really be perceived as passé.' he can if i feel he is, which i do. these latter films will age badly, his earlier ones will remain strong. because a majority deem something wonderful doesn't mean i have to.
DoctorMeatDic your opinion.. and a dim one at that.. the music in this film was not prominent at all. it was scene specific and much of the music fill was written for the film.. and.. "Hateful Eight" was extremely entertaining.. came out last year.. you should try and get out for more than Sunday mass.
People hate his voice? I adore it lol
I distinctly remember watching this introduction when I was 6 years old. The film blew my fucking mind.
You may have watched this introduction aged 6, but not the film itself surely?!
@@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch Oh yes, I clearly remember watching the introduction and the film right afterwards at a VERY young age and loving it. Guess you could say I come from a very openminded family!
@@loluk867 Or a very lax one.
@@MaryBrownIsTheBlairWitch Okay, you're blocked, Mr Moralist.
It's been years since I saw this film. I should see it again, maybe I might appreciate it more through more adult eyes
Thanks for the upload.
Pulp Fiction is still an hilariously amoral film that has been much-imitated. However, impressionable, too-cool-for-school readers of Empire magazine voted it the best film ever made, shortly after its release (which made a change from them endlessly foaming about Star Wars).
Pulp Fiction is still a great film, it's just very much of that ironic 1990s period.
I don't see how a novel or a film can be interpreted as immoral or amoral; the point of neither is to deliver a "message". All great art - as Wilde and Blake claimed - is immoral
I remember watching this back in '97. Thanks for uploading it. Cousins... Pulp Fiction isn't homophobic FFS! The rape scene illustrates that sexual violence is rooted in the dynamic of power: something that neither Zed or Maynard hold much of in society, hence Zed's racist assertion of power over Marsellus.
I watched this back in 1997. lol
I first saw this intro I thought "Homophobic? When was there a....oh right the pawnshop scene." I've thought about that after I saw the movie years agoI don't consider those guys as "gay" just as I don't consider the hillbillies in Deliverence "gay". They're evil rapists. As Red in THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION says about the "Sisters" when Andy says he's not homosexual: "Neither are they, you have to be human first."
Watching this at 0.25 speed is profoundly disconcerting.
Quite a stylistic achievement combining the European art house style with American pulp fiction. Deffo his magnum opus.
People don’t like Mark Cousins’s voice. There is an intense lilt even by Ulster standards that is remarkable, (i am Irish). He can be quite pretentious. I often wonder how he would sound if you stopped and asked him directions to the post office. Doubtless that would be a tour de force in cultural gravitas. Would you find out where the post office was? Probably not. Moviedrome, however, was one of the best things about 1990s television. The 90s were a cultural wasteland. Oasis, All Saints, Boyzone and Chumbawumba being drilled repetitively into everyone’s heads. Replica football jerseys. The Tories. Thug hedonism in Ibiza being advertised as a way of life. If it wasn’t for Mark Cousins I wouldn’t have realised that there used to be a thing called art and culture that was on your radio and tv or in the cinema before the spivs shut it all down. Thank you Mark Cousins.
Absolutely. Very well said.
I still can't fucking stand his voice.
This is great asmr
This guy should've been a poet.
9:50 I take it this diner didn't have CCTV 😂
he just called danny devito a “wee actor” lmao
Mark Cousins introduces an interview with Quentin Tarantino, and you can spend 12 minutes deciding who is the most pretentious.
I miss Alex Cox.
Feel free to post your own less pretentious introductory analysis of Pulp Fiction.
Quentin Tarantino's best film...and his sexiest namely because of Uma Thurman's all-too short role in it and Maria Medeiros.
It's funny how they keep referring to the shocking language, violence and drug abuse
It's fairly tame by today's standards
? How is it homophobic? If it touches a nerve thats a personal view of course, but hardly a universal judgement. Gratification, power and greed come in all forms. The boxing fraternity might be up in arms, proclaiming their sport is unfairly branded as result-fixed. Where does it all end? These kind of views are limiting and dont pay homage to the excellence of the whole
Good movie, not his best. Looking at it now after many years, I think Mark is right. The film is quite empty, and it isn’t saying very much. Never the less, it’s a dazzling watch, and very funny.
ENGLISH! DO YOU SPEAK IT!?
This film is unsuitable for 6-year-olds; tis a lax parent that allows a child of that age to watch it 😬
Tarantino is so passé now. A quick shot of sheer brilliance in the 90’s. And now boring, repetitive-overlong and having lost any conception of continuity.
You seem to have missed his last few movies. Incidentally this introduction by Mark Cousins was about his second movie that was released in 1994.
@@PaulLamens I'm talking about the time period post Jackie Brown to his most recent film. i haven't missed, in my opinion, his last few movies. they have become incrementally worse since Jackie Brown. his understanding of continuity has gone completely. his overlong self indulgence. scenes drag on and on with long boring speeches that kill any tension that may have been. i noticed this first with Inglorious Basterds. the previous films, kill Bill and Death Proof were so appalling i skipped them. i think The Hateful Eight is where i understood what i suspected. i watched that tripe 3 times just to confirm my thoughts. and i always came to the same conclusion. boring. overlong. self indulgent. i will remember him for True Romance, (script. brilliant film. in my top 10.) Pulp Fiction. fabulous. and Jackie Brown. so cool and fuked up. everyone in that was exceptional. the rest, in my opinion, self indulgent overlong boring. all these films post Jackie Brown will be remembered as completely flawed, bloated. the ones i admire are classics - as for Reservoir, i can take it or leave it. Tim Roth's awful American accent began killing it for me. but the conversation between Walken's psycho mobster and Hopper's loving father in True Romance is just incredibly touching, sometimes funny, and so incredibly well done...as hopper counts down the minutes to his own death with a cigarette and his egg plant speech - movie magic.
Well that is like your opinion man, and that is fine. Personally, I consider Once Upon A Time In Hollywood to be his best film in decades and one of the best of 2019 full stop. This is a viewpoint reflected in many reviews and the Academy nominations it received, so while you might no longer like him, he can't really be perceived as passé.
@@npe9483 ' he can't really be perceived as passé.' he can if i feel he is, which i do. these latter films will age badly, his earlier ones will remain strong. because a majority deem something wonderful doesn't mean i have to.
Shit film, all style over substance. Playing cool music over your films does not make you Alfred Hitchcock. No wonder his career is dying a death.
LOL @DoctorMeatDic! Your comment is duly noted. Next time I'll rent a VHS of one of the masterpieces you directed.
DoctorMeatDic
your opinion.. and a dim one at that.. the music in this film was not prominent at all. it was scene specific and much of the music fill was written for the film.. and..
"Hateful Eight" was extremely entertaining.. came out last year.. you should try and get out for more than Sunday mass.