Showing posts with label John Travolta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Travolta. Show all posts

3/22/2008

Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarentino's Pulp Fiction is for many (including myself) a terrific cult movie. Usually, I like movies that feature a normal, chronological structure, but this one is an exception. Indeed, Tarentino's editing makes it possible to take an uncommon approach on a storyline (a "postmodern nonlinear" one, as I read on Wikipedia), but it works pretty well. Besides, most of the lines are great, and so are the actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth and Christopher Walken. For the plot, I refer you to the Wikipedia summary.

This movie contains a lot of famous scenes, like that of the hamburger (the first video) and Samuel L. Jackson's biblical pronouncement:





"Royale with cheese. You know what they call it that?"
"Er… because of the metric system?"

"Oh, I'm sorry… Did I break your concentration?"

Later in the film, we see a good reason not to use guns:



A fucking short version is available, if you like, and someone made an attempt to summarize the movie to 30 minutes and edit it in order to make it chronological. You tell me if it's better or not.

10/01/2007

Alternate Endings: Back to the Future Trilogy

Alternate ending to Back to the Futue:



I think that the bit when we see the living room changing comes from a movie about time alteration called Frequency

Alternate ending to Back to the Future II:



Note that "Idiot" was translated by "Crétin" in the French version.

This one was a crossover between the said movie and the end of Die Hard I.

Alternate ending to Back to the Future III:



This was a crossover between BTTF III and Face-Off, with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.

I'm gonna post other alternate endings to famous movies in the next couple of days. Stay tunned!

PS. If you are worried about Marty McFly stuck in the DeLorean time machine, watch this, it'll show you the actual ending. (Well, it's not the very end of the movie, but still.)



I always wondered why Marty had to put his hat on. And also why he has to grab the steering wheel even though the car is on a railway… Mystery…

I admit I'm sad for that poor DeLorean who felt it was gonna die and decided to explode just before the train hits it. (Freeze at 00:58)

And why did the train never stop after the accident, by the way?

Bonus: there's something tricky about the locomotive's shadow as it approaches. Can you spot it?

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