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Every single character is SUCH A CHARACTER!

posted 6 years ago by Heisenberg (6730)
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This script is so overwhelmingly baroque it's like getting a blowjob from a girl while she's chewing peppermint bubblegum, and I don't mean it in a good way.

Every single character is oh so special! with its own backstory, so we have to endure a barefeet taxi driver with a love for gruesome details, a flock-of-seagulls-hairdo-wearing college-dropout-turned-drug-dealer, a whole circus show slew of impersonators as restaurant personnel, a sado maso sodomizer cop, etc.
And unfortunately they all suffer verbal-diarrhea like Tarantino.
His fascination with people is annoying, redundant, unnecessary. We get so many trivial details that it's like having a camera that focuses on everything from a mile away instead of showing us what matters.
The only two people in 2.5 hours of movie that had nothing special about them are:
the kid getting his head blown in the car and the coffee shop manager.

Anybody else who gets to be in the frame of the camera has to have something extraordinary about them, quickly turning the movie into a theme park without visitors, where EVERYBODY is a special character.
I lived in L.A. for 10 years and in that whole stretch of time I haven't met half as many interesting people as in this film.

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

"I lived in L.A. for 10 years and in that whole stretch of time I haven't met half as many interesting people as in this film."

Right, but it's supposed to be a Pulp novel/graphic novel come to life. It's right there in the title. This film isn't supposed to be realistic in that sense.

[–] Heisenberg (6730) 5 years ago

Wait, I'm pretty sure that that single element is THE one that is supposed to be realistic in it.
Like, the setting and the characters are supposed to be credible (and convincingly so, not "it's a movie so it shouldn't be like real life").

These realistic characters have pulp stories in this realistic world, that would be pulp fiction (and not a bunch of overwritten, verbal-diarrhea ridden, video-store-nerd-wet-dreamed, extraordinary weirdos), I.E.: hiding out after a shootout from a robbery gone wrong, a believable group of gangsters figure out one of them is an undercover cop, leading to a tragic finale.
Yeah that's right, that's better pulp fiction than Pulp Fiction.