What films have influenced Tarantino in the making of “Pulp Fiction” ?
The dance competition is clearly influenced by Jean Luc Godards 1964 film “Bande a Part” which Tarantino has named his production company after (a band apart). The unknown contents of the briefcase are a homage to Robert Aldrichs film “Kiss Me Deadly”, made in 1955. When Butch stops at the lights and sees Marsellus crossing the road, we are reminded of Alfred Hitchcocks “Psycho” when Janet Leigh steps at a set of lights to see her boss crossing the road. The pawn shop rape is cleary reminiscent of “Deliverance”, made in 1972 by John Boorman, director of recent “The General”. “The Bonnie Situation” contains Jules and his friend Jimmy, clearly a reference to Franois Truffauts film, “Jules et Jim”. The character of “Wolf”(Harvey Keitel) in this story is taken from Jean Renos portrayal of a cleaner in Luc Bessons “La Femme Nikita”, a role reprised by Keitel himself in the John Badham remake “Assasin/Point Of No Return”. In addition, the films of John Woo, Sam Peckinpah, Brian de Palma and
The dance competition is clearly influenced by Jean-Luc Godard’s’s 1964 film ‘Bande A Parte’ which Tarantino has named his production company after. The unknown contents of the briefcase are a homage to Robert Aldrich’s’s film ‘Kiss Me Deadly’, made in 1955. When Butch stops at the lights and sees Marsellus crossing the road, we are reminded of Alfred Hitchcock’s’s film ‘Psycho’ when Janet Leigh stops at a set of lights to see her boss crossing the road. The pawn shop rape is clearly reminiscent of ‘Deliverance’, made in 1972 by John Boorman. ‘The Bonnie Situation’ contains Jules and his friend Jimmy, clearly a reference to Francois Truffaut’s film, ‘Jules et Jim’. The character of Wolf in this story is taken from Jean Reno’s portrayal of a ‘cleaner’ in Luc Besson’s La Femme Nikita, a role reprised by Keitel himself in the American remake Point of No Return. In addition, the films of John Woo, Sam Peckinpah, Brian DePalma and Don Siegel are all important.
