Pulp Fiction • Misirlou • Dick Dale [4K]

Released 30 years ago today at the Cannes Film Festival, here's a Bender Mohawk movie tribute/music video to Tarantino's pulpy, Palme d'Or-winning masterpiece and the biggest Dick to ever rock Eastern Mediterranean surf music.
#pulpfiction #misirlou #dickdale #tarantino #quentintarantino #johntravolta #travolta #samuelljackson #brucewillis #umathurman #surfrock
Pulp Fiction
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Story by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Produced by Lawrence Bender
Release dates:
May 21, 1994 (Cannes)
October 14, 1994 (United States)
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime thriller drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino.
John Travolta as Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield
Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace
Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolfe
Tim Roth as Ringo/"Pumpkin"
Amanda Plummer as Yolanda/"Honey Bunny"
Maria de Medeiros as Fabienne
Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace
Eric Stoltz as Lance
Rosanna Arquette as Jody
Christopher Walken as Captain Koons
Bruce Willis as Butch Coolidge
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"Misirlou"
Performed by Dick Dale
Written by Nick Roubanis, Fred Wise, Milton Leeds, Bob Russell
From the album Surfers' Choice
Released April 21, 1962
Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction
Released September 27, 1994
"Misirlou" (Greek: Μισιρλού Turkish: Mısırlı 'Egyptian' Arabic: مصر‎ Miṣr 'Egypt') is a folk song from the Eastern Mediterranean region, with origins in the Ottoman Empire. The original author of the song is not known, but Arabic, Greek and Jewish musicians were playing it by the 1920s. The earliest known recording of the song is a 1927 Greek rebetiko/tsifteteli composition influenced by Middle Eastern music. There are also Arabic belly dancing, Armenian, Persian, Indian and Turkish versions of the song. This song was popular from the 1920s onwards in the Arab American, Armenian American and Greek American communities who settled in the United States as part of the Ottoman diaspora.
The song was a hit in 1946 for Jan August, an American pianist and xylophonist nicknamed "the one-man piano duet". It gained worldwide popularity through Dick Dale's 1962 American surf rock version, originally titled "Miserlou", which popularized the song in Western popular culture; Dale's version was influenced by an earlier Arabic folk version played with an oud. Various versions have since been recorded, mostly based on Dale's version, including other surf and rock versions by bands such as the Beach Boys, the Ventures, Consider the Source, and the Trashmen, as well as international orchestral easy listening (exotica) versions by musicians such as Martin Denny and Arthur Lyman. Dale's surf rock version later gained renewed popularity when director Quentin Tarantino used it in his 1994 film Pulp Fiction.
Pulp Fiction
Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Story by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
Produced by Lawrence Bender
Release dates:
May 21, 1994 (Cannes)
October 14, 1994 (United States)
Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime thriller drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino; it is based on a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary.] Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, it tells several stories of criminal Los Angeles. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue.
John Travolta as Vincent Vega
Samuel L. Jackson as Jules Winnfield
Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace
Harvey Keitel as Winston Wolfe
Tim Roth as Ringo/"Pumpkin"
Amanda Plummer as Yolanda/"Honey Bunny"
Maria de Medeiros as Fabienne
Ving Rhames as Marsellus Wallace
Eric Stoltz as Lance
Rosanna Arquette as Jody
Christopher Walken as Captain Koons
Bruce Willis as Butch Coolidge
________
"Misirlou"
Performed by Dick Dale
Written by Nick Roubanis, Fred Wise, Milton Leeds, Bob Russell
From the album Surfers' Choice
Released April 21, 1962
Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction
Released September 27, 1994
"Misirlou" (Greek: Μισιρλού Turkish: Mısırlı 'Egyptian' Arabic: مصر‎ Miṣr 'Egypt') is a folk song from the Eastern Mediterranean region, with origins in the Ottoman Empire. The original author of the song is not known, but Arabic, Greek and Jewish musicians were playing it by the 1920s. This song was popular from the 1920s onwards in the Arab American, Armenian American and Greek American communities who settled in the United States as part of the Ottoman diaspora.
Dale's version was influenced by an earlier Arabic folk version played with an oud. Various versions have since been recorded, mostly based on Dale's version, including other surf and rock versions by bands such as the Beach Boys, the Ventures, Consider the Source, and the Trashmen, as well as international orchestral easy listening.. Dale's surf rock version later gained renewed popularity when director Quentin Tarantino used it in his 1994 film Pulp Fiction.

[@veravoldiner5687]

Looks oh so cool⭐️
Need to be rewatched

[@BenderMohawk]

Still holds up IMO!

[@cdwattie]

Love the fast pace of this tune

[@BenderMohawk]

QT sure picked a winner to get his Pulp Fiction moving!

[@hoilst265]

Didn't know Pulp Fiction was a soap opera.

[@BenderMohawk]

You and me both