By: Camden Schrickel
Hey guys, welcome back to Talkin’ Tarantino and today we are going to talk about one of Quentin Tarantino’s Signature Directing Styles. The Style I'm going to go over is Non-Linear Formatting and Non-Chronological Order.
Non-linear formatting and Non-Chronological Order are styles that show a story broken into different chapters almost like a novel and moved around out of chronological order but then all connected together in the final chapter of the film. The most popular example of this in his films is Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction revolves around 4 different stories: Honey Bunny & Pumpkin, Jules & Vince, and Butch and Fabienne, and Marcellus and Mia. A funny story my dad always tells me about when he first saw Pulp Fiction in the theater is after the Honey Bunny and Pumpkin scene in the diner in the beginning my dad and his friend turned to each other in awe of what they just saw and when he went home to tell my mom about it she asks him “How many movies did you guys see.” Because to someone you didn't watch the movie it sounds like you saw like 4 different movies because of the way it was made.
Anyways the movie starts off showing Honey Bunny and Pumpkin in the diner and we see Pumpkin explaining why robbing a restaurant would be perfect because no one would expect it which then leads to them standing up and taking the place hostage. The next section follows Jules and Vince as they head to Brett's apartment and have that famous interaction. The next section then follows Butch when he is at the bar talking with Marcellus about tanking the fight. Marcellus’s wife Mia and Vince have an elongated interaction where they go to Jack Rabbit Slim’s and then go back to Mia’s house where she overdoses on Vince’s heroin and Vince has to take her to his drug dealer's house and use an adrenaline shot to save her life.
After seeing all four of the stories set up, we see them all connect somehow throughout the movie. We see Jules interact with Butch at the bar when they are there to meet Marcellus and Vince runs into Butch later when he’s waiting for him at his apartment and Butch shoots Vince when he comes out of the bathroom. Jules and Vince have a run in with Honey Bunny and Pumpkin when they are eating at the diner and Honey Bunny and Pumpkin attempt to rob it. All four of the stories somehow connect with each other and it makes for a such more fulfilling ending seeing everything intertwine in the end.
I believe he uses the non-linear formatting and keeps his narratives out of chronological order because it allows him to explore different points of view in the movies and to have the audience question how all these stories will play into each other.
Anyways that's all for the blog today thank you all for reading and I hope you'll tune in next time where I'll go over another one of his directing styles; Dialogue Driven Scenes.
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