5 thoughts on “Pulp Fiction and Typography”

1. So how might we connect this great video to the themes of this course? What might it be suggesting about how movies enter (or are appropriated), circulate, and resonate within popular consciousness?

2. I was totally expecting Jahn to have written this post– I’d love to hear his input too.

3. I saw this video in English 2850 at Baruch, and i thought it was super cool then. I love how the art of typography conveys emotions, especially fear, anxiety and paranoia, through the way the words are cut, twisted, and splattered across the screen. Genius.

4. When I found this video a year ago, I thought it was amazing and super creative. Now that I watch it again, I realize that it’s even better that I initially thought. It blows my mind how simple audio and text could allow me to relive the scene in the movie. The cherry on top would have been to have the whole scene done in typography (when Samuel L. Jackson recites Ezekiel and then the guns going off).

   To connect it to the things we’ve learned in class, it’s obvious Brett is in total fear. Not only do you hear it in his voice but also in the typography. There is a huge contrast in how his words look compared to Jules’ (Jackson). If you look closely, Brett’s words are like 20 times smaller than Jules’ and are trembling as he speaks, capturing his sense of fear. Jules’ font is very dominant and bold, just like how he is in this scene.

5. I agree with Daniel about the size of the words conveying power and rank. Also, I think the way the words on the screen rotate resembles Brett’s state of mind at that moment. He is probably panicking and his mind is racing. He probably does not know how to best answer Jules’ interrogation and is scrambling for an answer that doesn’t get himself hurt.

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