One of the things I dig most about QT’s writing style is that… the dialogue of the characters is very organic to who they are and where they are at in the story of the movie…
So with that said one of the biggest influences you see in movies and media in general is the influence on dialogue. Can you count the number of times where you have watched a movie that attempted to have QT Pulp Fiction inspiried dialogue… but obviously just threw it into the movie in a nonorganic way… as if they just said ok lets have these characters in this scene speak like characters from a QT movie… so lets just throw in some references to pop culture of some kind. I pretty much cringe when I hear this in movies… as they obviously overlook the fact that QT writes organic to his characters and its not just him trying to throw out obscure pop culture refrences.
QT has really made movies and forms of entertainment carry much more pop culture sensibilities… movies and tv shows seem much more aware of pop culture (past and present) now than prior to Pulp Fiction. I see much more movies/tv shows now… that have scenes that reference other movies or something in pop culture in some way…
Another big influence is the soundtrack of the movie. Its almost impossible to escape a day on Earth without watching tv or seeing a movie where you don’t hear one of the songs from this movie in a commerical, trailer, tv show, sports game, movie, and on and on… its just amazing the effect the music has had… and how much to this day it is still used and heard… all because of its use in Pulp Fiction.
There has been countless movies that in someway contain some Pulp Fiction influence… be it just a camera shot… or otherwise… but none that really stand out as being a great Pulp Fiction-like movie.
Of late the most Pulp Fiction inspiried type movies I’ve seen have been by Japanese director Takashi Ishii. If you watch Black Angel… or any of his other movies you can’t help but feel like you are watching a movie from someone that has seen Pulp Fiction countless times.
The only good homage I’ve seen to Pulp Fiction (which QT himself is aware of) is in the Stephen Chow movie “Sixty Million Dollar Man”… although the movie itself is bad… there are 3 hilarious total knockoffs of scenes from Pulp Fiction in it (which pretty much make it the only reason to watch Sixty Million Dollar Man… other than it has some very hot women in).
