Pulp FCI
Quentin Tarantino’s purpose for this film can be interpreted in many different ways. It seems that he tries to incorporate each character with an element or trait of an everyday human being, but yet the complexities of each character bring forth a new conflict every time a new scene comes to light. He seems to try to make the point that however complex the characters seem, they all want what is so much strived for in life. He also displays the fact that in order for there to be light there must first be darkness. This characteristic is portrayed the most in Jules, the dark evil man but yet the “shepherd.” Jules is definitely the character that should be focused upon the most. Although the characters are very different from each other, they all want to be powerful in there own way. This is another point that Tarantino makes about Americans having the need to express power over the weak. In the closing seen of the movie, Jules displays this rhetoric when he approaches the man that is robbing the cafe. He simply says, ”You’re the weak, and I’m the tyranny of evil men, but I’m trying real hard to be the shepherd.” Jules’ tone in this rhetoric is calm and relaxed, which is the only time in the movie that h
Pulp Fiction also proposed the question about taste, and how far could the envelope be pushed on what is bad taste. The theory says that reason explains the nature of that pleasure. So, taste seems to be in the eye of the beholder. Or, what is necessary at the time is what makes it tasteful or not. Pulp fiction and the British/Continental Theory seem to be linked quite well with each other. The theory represents what Quentin Tarantino did when he wrote Pulp Fiction. New rhetoric was presented with this theory as well as the text that I have chosen. The movie represents the past opening the way for style of rhetoric. The rhetoric in some cases could be the characters as well as the author or writer. The first so-called rhetoric I’d like to discuss is Jules. When talking about Jules I feel the need to discuss the most interesting and important rhetoric in the movie. This would be the passage from the bible, Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger, those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.” This is a very powerful piece of rhetoric when used. Jules uses it in the same context every time he says it until the end of the movie when his tone and persona change. Jules’ purpose is to show whomever the line is directed towards that he is more powerful than they are and they are dying for it. He says in the movie that he never really gave the line much thought, and that he just thought it was some “righteous shit” to say to someone before he killed them. However, he later thinks otherwise. The storyline lets the viewer interpret many different styles and types of rhetoric. Also, all of the characters are unique and different in their own way, which opens up all sorts of speech.
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