Pulp Fiction

Apes! Sex fiends! Gangsters! Mad scientists! Tentacles! Yes, this MEGAPACK has them all, no less than 25 lurid tales ripped from the pages of pulp fiction magazines. For The Pulp Fiction Megapack, we selected stories with great pulp titles. (Where else are you going to find stories like "Blood for the Vampire Dead," "Mistress of Snarling Death," or "When Super-Apes Plot"?) Of course, these stories were all written in a different time, with different standards of what was acceptable. They are decidedly NOT politically correct by modern standards.

The first comprehensive account of how the rise of postwar youth culture was depicted in mass-market pulp fiction. As the young created new styles in music, fashion, and culture, pulp fiction shadowed their every move, hyping and exploiting their behavior, dress, and language for mass consumption and cheap thrills.

"Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) and "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer) are having breakfast in a diner. They decide to rob it after realizing they could make money off the customers as well as the business, as they did during their previous heist. Moments after they initiate the hold-up, the scene breaks off and the title credits roll….

Jules Winnfield and Vincent Vega are two hitmen who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of bizarre incidents.

Un sassofono e una cinepresa; una nota e un primo piano; uno spartito e una sceneggiatura. Cosa avranno mai in comune John Zorn e Quentin Tarantino, due maestri nei rispettivi campi, un musicista/compositore a trecentosessanta gradi e un regista leggendario? Molto più di quanto si possa pensare: le latenti ma vigorose affinità che intercorrono tra questi due geni contemporanei possono essere estrapolate, portate alla luce grazie a un'approfondita analisi delle loro opere cardine, Pulp Fiction e naked city.

Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence of cartoons, video games, and Japanese animation; and the fragmented story-telling structures of such experimental classics as Citizen Kane, Rashomon, and La jetée. The Oscar-winning script by Tarantino and Roger Avary intertwines three stories, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta, in the role that single-handedly reignited his career, as hit men who have philosophical interchanges on such topics as the French names for American fast food products; Bruce Willis as a boxer out of a 1940s B-movie; and such other stalwarts as Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman, whose dance sequence with Travolta proved an instant classic.

Un sassofono e una cinepresa; una nota e un primo piano; uno spartito e una sceneggiatura. Cosa avranno mai in comune John Zorn e Quentin Tarantino, due maestri nei rispettivi campi, un musicista/compositore a trecentosessanta gradi e un regista leggendario? Molto più di quanto si possa pensare: le latenti ma vigorose affinità che intercorrono tra questi due geni contemporanei possono essere estrapolate, portate alla luce grazie a un'approfondita analisi delle loro opere cardine, Pulp Fiction e naked city.