{"id":27465,"date":"2014-10-14T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T04:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=27465"},"modified":"2014-10-14T10:23:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T14:23:32","slug":"twenty-years-of-pulp-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/twenty-years-of-pulp-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years of Pulp Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was 20 years ago today that Pulp Fiction<\/em> was given a wide release<\/a>. Time flies when you’re a bad motherfucker!<\/p>\n

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The movie was the first independent film to gross more than $200 million. When it came out, critic Roger Ebert gave it four stars<\/a> and called the screenplay (which won an Oscar<\/a>) “so well-written.” More recently<\/a>, Vanity Fair summarized Mark Seal’s story on the making of Pulp Fiction<\/em> this way:<\/p>\n

“Pulp Fiction<\/em> was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood\u2019s heart, reviving John Travolta\u2019s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman, and turning Bob and Harvey Weinstein into giants.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “shot of adrenaline” is a reference to the scene that became notorious when it supposedly caused a man to faint during the movie’s screening at the New York Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n