![]() ![]() This is the poster we all remember seeing when we watched this incredible movie! The replacement poster went with a stronger font, changed the cigarette brand and the book (on the revised poster it is actually titled Pulp Fiction) and also flipped the pistol. Now known by collectors as 'The Lucky Strike' poster, nearly thirty years later, this is a hard to find and expensive poster! As a result all 1,100 movie theatres were instructed to return their posters. Miramax did not have permission to use either and the owners of the Lucky Strike brand (the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company) threatened to sue. She is also reading Norman Bligh's Harlot In Her Heart. Look closely and you will see that Uma is smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes. Tarantino, a mostly self-taught, mostly untested talent who spent his formative creative years working in a video store, has come up with a work of such depth, wit and blazing originality that it places him in the front ranks of American film makers."īucking the trend for a slow roll-out, Pulp Fiction opened on 14th October 1994 at 1,100 movie theatres across the U.S., with the campaign underpinned by the iconic image of Uma Thurman.īut, there was a problem. "Pulp Fiction" is the work of a film maker whose avid embrace of pop culture manifests itself in fresh, amazing ways. In September it opened the New York Film Festival, leading Janet Maslin of the New York Times to write. Premiering at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1994 - and winning the coveted Palme d'Or - the movie would spend the next six months building momentum on the film festival circuit. Having taken an option on the script, TriStar apparently backed out of production stating "It's too long, violent, and unfilmable." Miramax disagreed and it would become the first film they fully financed. No, they got the metric system there, they wouldn't know what the f**k a Quarter Pounder is.Īlso incorporating scenes written by ex-video-store buddy Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction weaves a trilogy of independent but interrelated stories told in seven out-of-sequence shorts. They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese? "… you know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris? Premiering in January 1992 at the Sundance Film Festival before being picked up by Miramax Films, Empire magazine would go on to crown Reservoir Dogs "The Greatest Independent Film" ever made.įlush with the $50,000 earned from Dogs, Tarantino flew to Europe and penned large portions of his next movie, the ever quotable Pulp Fiction. Signing on as co-producer he helped raise $1.5M to fund professional filming and production and to recruit a now characteristic ensemble cast to deliver the quick-fire, octane fuelled script. Production plans changed when the script found its way to actor Harvey Keitel. His first film Reservoir Dogs was originally envisaged as a budget black and white movie shot on 16mm film. That deep knowledge of an eclectic range of films underpins all of the movies of, perhaps, the most influential film-maker of his generation. He had so much knowledge of films, that he would try to get people to watch really cool movies." was a fantastic video store clerk because he was such a movie buff. In 2012 former customer, actor Danny Strong, told IGN that Tarantino. A tiny store in a small shopping mall, it was renowned for its stock of rare titles, film-buff staff and cool movie geek customers. ![]() His five years at the avant-garde Manhattan Beach video rental store ' Video Archives' get the most air time. ![]() ![]() Quentin Tarantino held down several jobs (including the uncharacteristic role of recruiter for the Aerospace Industry) before he made his movie breakthrough. ![]()
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