Pulp Fiction Auteur signatures

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Tarantino auteur signature 

Repetitive tropes (visual things) - 

  • Cameo Appearances - who plays Jimmie Dimmick where he plays a small part in his films. 
  • Feet - dancing scene with John Travolta, the dialogue about foot massages and first meeting Mia Wallace scene of her walking we see her feet in Pulp Fiction.  
  • Violence - fight scene in Kill Bill when Uma Thurman's character fights the Crazy 88 and murder of Marsellus Wallace's business partner. 
  • Dialogue. - the foot massage conversation in Pulp Fiction and the skull conversation in Django unchained. Realism of the dialogue. Constant use of racial language and sexist remarks and racial slurs and more realist by the dark humour. 
  • Use of the same actors (Samuel L Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt).
  • Masculinity and gender - the representation of gender in Kill Bill is that the women fight and are almost made into males rather than females. In Pulp Fiction there is Honey Bunny who is represented as a crazy lady who needs to be controlled by a man(Pumpkin). Masculinity and gender representations of women in a derogatory way. The 1990's was had more equality with gender and also had strong female characters however there was still a sense of male domination through the their view of women as sex objects.
  • Bathrooms - likes to have real things that are part of life. Pulp Fiction Vincent is killed in a bathroom and also goes to the bathroom a lot which is shown. Reservoir dogs there is a conversation that happens in the bathroom between Mr Orange and some police officers and a police dog is present. 
  • Restaurants scenes - Pulp Fiction the diner robbery and in Reservoir Dogs the diner scene at the beginning.
  • Mexican standoffs (three way shootout with three people) - Pulp Fiction the diner robbery between Jules, Pumpkin and Honey Bunny. Reservoir Dogs the Mexican standoff with Mr White, Jo and Eddie. 
  • Story is not new it's rewriting stories that already exist and twisting them - Pulp Fiction the stories are Boxer who is paid to thrown the fight, two hitmen doing their jobs for their boss and diner robbery which all intermingle with each other and cross into each others stories making them more complicated with more elements to it. 

Postmodernism

  • Replacement of realism with artifice (mise-en-scene, character, story). Sense of violence is highlighted not promoted it is just made aware of the fact that people would not value life. the unrealism and artificiality is portrayed in Pulp Fiction through the larger than life characters through their names and appearance of how their importance of being e.g. a hitman is in contrast to their appearance which reflects the postmodernism style as it brings an unrealistic perception of them. Also another typical postmodernism style in Pulp Fiction is the distinction between reality and artifice which is blurred through the violence, as it is seen as cartoon-like and artificial in the way violence occurs in the film with a deliberation of over exaggeration.       
Stylistic devices
  • Worm eye shot out of car trunk.
Kill Bill Volume 2.






Reservoir Dogs.
Jackie Brown.



  • Realism of dialogue (use of racist and sexually charged language) - Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Django Unchained the N word is used a lot which is racial language that is not usually used in films. In Django Unchained the character Stephen who is racist against his own race and was shocked about Django being on a horse. 
  • Use of music - normally is contrapuntal sound where it doesn't fit with the scene that is happening.
  • Long takes - Pulp Fiction the shot when they get out of the lift and are talking in the hallway and getting ready to go in the apartment.
  • Corpse or injured POV shot -

Pulp Fiction - when Marcellus Wallace has been hit by the car by Butch.   
Kill Bill Volume 1 - the deadly vipers looking at the 'dead' bride.



Can link with Hitchcock's voyeurism when Mia is watching Vincent in the her house.

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