Saturday, July 3, 2010

Table of Contents to the Pulp Fiction analysis

CATEGORY: MOVIES; WARNING: THIS ANALYSIS CONTAINS SPOILERS!!







There is a button that links to this table of contents, at the bottom of each post in the analysis.

part 1 - The briefcase contents - each character sees in the case, that which he believes it contains: Vincent - drugs; Ringo - gold; Marsellus - cash; Jules - enlightenment (in the Buddhist sense)

part 2 - The relationship between Pulp Fiction and the movie Hostel, suggests that there is a certain kind of 'switching of places' in Pulp Fiction

part 3 - Jules is like Paul the Apostle on the road to Damascus, in that he becomes 'converted'

part 4 - There is an allegorical relationship between Pulp Fiction and the 1970's television series, Kung Fu

part 5 - Unlike Jules, Vincent is not converted by the experience in Brett's apartment

part 6 - The connection between Butch and Jules; the process of acquiring enlightenment consists of both study and meditation

part 7 - The relationship between Mia and Vincent: These two characters represent the complementarity of yin and yang

part 8 - Butch's process of acquiring enlightenment

part 9 - The meaning of our not being shown Jules handing the briefcase to Marsellus: Jules is a traitor to mankind in that he fails to save us

part 10 - Butch is a bodhisattva warrior; he saves mankind

part 11 - Exploration of the gold watch scene

part 12 - Yellow-orange coloring is used in the movie to represent enlightenment

part 13 - Butch as a 'self-less' person; exploration of the Diamond Sutra

part 14 - Further exploration of the gold watch scene

part 15 - The metaphorical meaning of 'The Bonnie Situation': The arrival of The Wolf represents help arriving from Asia, from the concepts of Hinduism, Buddhism, and/or Indian Buddhism

part 16 - The switching of control among the different characters in certain scenes (such as that which takes place in the diner scene) is examined

part 17 - The Pulp Fiction briefcase represents the black monolith from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey

part 18 - Pulp Fiction has a theme in common with 2001: A Space Odyssey

part 19 - Tarantino on Kubrick and violence in films: Kubrick was trying to show us how insensitive to violence we have become; Tarantino is doing the same

part 20 - Wrapping up the analysis: a chronological breakdown of the narrative structure of Pulp Fiction, accompanied by observations we have made during the analysis; new observations

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