Violence In Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino has established himself as the quintessential neo-noir film maker since the passing of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s specialty was creating surrealist imagery through limited dialogue and scenes filmed in “real time”. Tarantino has transposed the film making ideologies of Kubrick by adding complex dialogue and grotesque violence. Both men captured the film making styles of their era’s with postmodern neo-noir visuals as well as dialogue that spoke to the culture of their audience. In Kubrick’s heyday violence was shocking; in Tarantino’s times, violence in film and television was so frequent, that only extremist, grotesque, and nonsensical violence was able to get through to a generally desensitized audience (with regards to violent imagery). In today’s world, where pop-culture reigns supreme, Tarantino uses his Neo-Noir filmmaking style to examine and explore the complex societal issue we face. And by doing so, he exposes the horrors of the society and world we live in with incredible accuracy and without prejudice;
The rivalry, stand-off, and manhunt between Butch and Marsellus reaches a boiling point precipice when Butch and Marsellus notice one another: Butch behind the wheel of a car and Marsellus crossing the street, right in front of Butch. Butch delivers a hit run, crashes his car, and then flees by foot as Marsellus gives chase. Eventually both men wind up in an assumed pawn shop/consignment store where Butch has gained the upper hand and is ready to pull the trigger on the gun Marsellus was firing at him. Just as Butch is ready to kill Marsellus, in broad daylight, in front of the store’s employee, the employee pulls a shot gun and points it at both men. After both men awake from an unconscious state they find themselves tied to chairs and gagged by BDSM