Pulp Fiction Tops Online Chart
1994 Film Named Best Of The Past 25 years.
The American magazine "Entertainment Weekly" has released it's list of "New Classics"- a section covering the best film, music, literature etc of the past quarter century. The film section, listed on the magazine’s website, has listed a top 100 films of the past 25 years, with the number one spot being taken by Quentin Tarantino’s signature movie, “Pulp Fiction”. The film beat the 2nd placed “Lord of The Rings” trilogy to take the accolade.
The Top 5 Films Since 1983.
James Cameron’s “Titanic” took third, with the dark drama “Blue Velvet” and family flick “Toy Story” completing the top 5. Other honourable mentions include “Casino Royale”, the only Bond movie on the list at 19, and Keanu Reeves’ “The Matrix” at number 12. “Wings of Desire” is the highest-placed non-English language film at 28, whilst Steve James’ “Hoop Dreams” is the leading documentary in 26th place (unless you count “This is Spinal Tap” at, of course, 11).
Big Films Missing From Top 100 List.
Like any ‘greatest’ or ‘best of’ list, there have been some contentious omissions. No place in the 100 for “Jurassic Park”, “The English Patient”, “The Shawshank Redemption”, “Braveheart”, “Blade Runner”, nor a single “Harry Potter” movie; and whilst “…Fiction” tops the list, there is no place for any of Tarantino’s other directorial works. Controversial 1998 animated movie “South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut” props up the list in 100th place.
Pulp Facts
Released in 1994, “Pulp Fiction” is considered by many as Quentin Tarantino’s finest hour. The film won the Palm D’Or, an Oscar for Tarantino’s script (plus six other nominations), two BAFTA awards and a Golden Globe. Success turned into legend, with many myths evolving around the undisclosed contents of the suitcase which featured frequently in the film. Two popular theories are that it is Butch’s (Bruce Willis) boxing belt, Elvis' (Val Kilmer) gold suit from the Tarantino-penned "True Romance", or Marcellus Wallis’ (Ving Rhames) soul. Tarantino admitted the contents are a mystery even to him- he wrote it as what Hitchcock would call a ‘MacGuffin’.
The film, and Tarantino, are often credited with reinvigorating the careers of both John Travolta and Bruce Willis, who were both struggling for hit movies before the film was released. It also made an icon of up-and-coming actress Uma Thurman, thanks to the film's famous poster of her on a bed smoking. Tarantino teamed up with Thurman again in 2003 with the Kung Fu revenge film "Kill Bill".
Source: The EW 1000
