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Sunday, May 23, 2004
Don't massage her feet.
I saw Pulp Fiction for the first time a couple of days ago. It's kind of funny, because I vividly remember when it was released...but I never really had any desire to see it. I'm not a fan of gang/gangster movies.
I've seen it once, and seen a few scenes a couple of times over (because my sister wanted to watch it too, so I watched a bit with her).
It was kind of interesting to see the scene where Vincent takes Mia to dinner, if only because that whole scene (especially the twist competition) is so famous by now. So to actually see what surrounded some of those famous scenes was really cool.
As for the movie itself? I liked it, and I think I liked it more upon seeing various scenes a couple of times. My favourite parts of the movie are the ones involving Uma Thurman, for sure. Although just about all of the conversations in the entire movie are awesome, the one between her and John Travolta over drinks is particularly cool.
It's also interesting to look back on a movie like Pulp Fiction, and think about the fact that each decade has something that really defines it. For the most part, the 90's seem a bit hard to define because in some ways those years weren't as distinctive as previous decades.
But when I watched Pulp Fiction, I had a very distinct feeling that it was a movie that belongs in the 90's and wouldn't fit anywhere else. Does that make sense? I'm not sure if anyone else had that feeling. Even though I had never seen it, it kind of gave me a sense of nostalgia. Hard to explain.
In any case, I think it's worthy of the praise that it receives. I did find some parts of it quite slow and dull, but generally my interest was held purely through the wonderful dialogue. It's all gold, pure and simple. Even though most of the characters are swearing constantly, what they are actually saying is often pretty significant.
Even the Seinfeld-like discussion between Mia and Vincent is still something that you rarely see in movies. Movies are designed never to have awkward silences, you know? To see it happen kind of makes the characters more real, in a way.
I could probably continue writing about that forever, but I won't.
Before I go, I wanted to ask everyone something.
I have an idea for Kill Adam, which I've mentioned to a couple of people so far to gauge reaction.
Basically, a long time ago (well before the first RPG began), I wrote an opening post to it. I think I've shown this post to Mimmi. It's quite different from what I ended up submitting as the first post. It even involves a character that never made it into the story (though he may for Volume 2, who knows).
And I wondered if other participants had this type of stuff laying around. I say this because I'd like to make a thread after Volume 2 concludes, titled "Kill Adam: Deleted Scenes".
It's pretty self explanatory. It would be a single thread where people submit pieces that never made it, for whatever reason. Even if they're very early notes and thoughts...it doesn't matter. I'd like to see everything go in there. It would be very cool.
It would also lend itself to some discussion about what happened with the ideas (what was removed, retained, etc) and how things developed.
I think it would be an interesting approach and a nice complement to the RPG itself. Do you think that it's an idea worth pursuing? And if you're a KA participant...maybe you can let me know if you have stuff any "Deleted Scenes" to include. I will be encouraging people to keep their deleted scenes from Volume 2 as well, for this purpose.
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