He was young and enthusiastic, rattling off multiple influences, from Jean-Luc Godard and John Woo to Wyatt Earp. At Cannes, for my upcoming Entertainment Weekly feature, I whipped out my Sony tape recorder as we stretched our legs on adjoining chaise lounges on the Carlton Beach and talked about how he made his movie.
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It’s hard to remember that these roles boosted all their careers, and it’s hard to quantify the impact this violent hardboiled comedy had on hosts of imitators to come.īut the career that truly exploded was high-school dropout Tarantino, whose film school was clerking at an L.A. Jackson as wordsmith hitmen to Ving Rhames and Uma Thurman as a gangster and his moll to Bruce Willis as Butch the boxer. I was knocked out like everyone else by this bravado exercise in cinema style, from the casting of John Travolta and Samuel L. That was not really in fashion at that time either.After taking Sundance by storm with his uber-violent debut feature “Reservoir Dogs” in 1992, two years later the 31-year-old Quentin Tarantino hit the Cannes Film Festival in May with his tour-de-force neo-noir “ Pulp Fiction,” which was entered in Competition. She had a bandeau that we see when they tear open her blouse, with that sort of hanky print that goes back to John’s cowboy bolo tie. We made that shirt for her, although many people have claimed credit for it. I don’t think we were dressing at all like contemporary fashion. So because we had this 50s diner theme, I said ‘Let’s just cut them off!” She said, “That’s great, let’s do it!” There were no cropped pants at that time, but they came back after that. “We had very little budget and I couldn’t really find pants that were long enough for Uma. Harvey Weinstein had believed in Pulp Fiction from the get-go, supporting it all the way, including keeping it out in theaters with heavy promotion until it hit the 100 million dollar mark, something more commercial films did frequently (though it was a first for Miramax). So I said to Quentin, ‘I think she’s a female Reservoir Dog’” – Betsy Heimann “I thought: alright, Mia’s a really cool girl, kind of a bad girl, in a marriage with a big time gangster who totally isolates her and protects her from all the fun. And on John as Vincent, I wanted a linen, rumpled suit because he’s a mess with the long hair and the earrings and I wanted him to have the same outfit that he’s been sleeping in, been living in. I think one of the reasons that the look from Reservoir Dogs was so popular is because it’s so hard to imitate, each one of those guys has a different silhouette that was for their character and their body-type.” I wanted a really short collared, very tight-fitted suit on Sam Jackson because Jules is like a preacher. I said to Quentin, I think Vincent and Jules are Reservoir Dogs too.
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“He was so gracious, he was like, ‘I can’t believe this! I’m so thrilled to meet you! Let’s do it! I love your work!’ His enthusiasm was contagious.” To mark Pulp’s 21st birthday, Heimann talks us through how she created some of the most recognisable costumes in movie history. While Quentin Tarantino’s sophomore effort Pulp Fiction didn’t get booed immediately after it premiered at the 47th Cannes Film Festival in 1994, it did receive a tidal wave of jeers when it.
“I had quite a few films under my belt at that time,” she recalls. When they met, Heimann was already established – unlike the young director. The woman behind their looks was costume designer Betsy Heimann, who worked on both Almost Famous and director Quentin Tarantino’s first feature – 1992’s Reservoir Dogs. Jackson), they have become truly iconic – for proof, just wait until Halloween. From bored mob wife with a glint in her eye, Mia Wallace ( Uma Thurman), to Bible-quoting, suited assassin, Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Divisive on its first release – “I knew it was either one of the year's best films, or one of the worst” wrote legendary critic Roger Ebert, before giving it 4/4 – a big part of the film’s allure was its utterly unique characters. After bursting onto UK screens on this day back in 1994 in a shocking, hilarious baptism of blood, crime and Burger King skits (and with a soundtrack that’s probably been stuck in your head for the last two decades), Pulp Fictionis officially all grown up. It packs one hell of a punch and was so unprecedented,' says film historian Leonard Maltin of the game-changing crime drama released 25 years ago Monday.
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