The movie "Pulp Fiction" was release in 1994. This is the same time that the infamous OJ Simpson trial was taking place in California. The extent to which people were interested in this criminal investigation and trial can be judged from the following quote,
"Although the 1995 criminal trial of O. J. Simpson for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman has been called "a great trash novel come to life," no one can deny the pull it had on the American public. If the early reports of the murder of the wife of the ex-football-star-turned-sports-announcer hadn't caught people's full attention, Simpson's surreal Bronco ride on the day of his arrest certainly did--ninety-five million television viewers witnessed the slow police chase live. The 133 days of televised courtroom testimony turned countless viewers into Simpson trial junkies. Even foreign leaders such as Margaret Thatcher and Boris Yeltsin eagerly gossiped about the trial. When Yeltsin stepped off his plane to meet President Clinton, the first question he asked was, "Do you think O. J. did it?" When, at 10 a.m. PST on October 3, Judge Ito's clerk read the jury's verdict of "Not Guilty," 91% of all persons viewing television were glued to the unfolding scene in the Los Angeles courtroom."
The movie pulp fiction also deals with crime like the Boss who supposedly killed a guy who massage his wife (Uma Thurman's) feet. But I think the other debate that raged because of the OJ Simpson trial was about race. There are claims that the trial had been tainted by race. If we look closely in the case of Pulp Fiction, we see there are racial overtones that Tarantino has carefully built into the movie. One scene in particular happened when the boss and the boxer (bruce willis) end up in a store in a sequence. The door has the confederate flag on it. But the thing to note in there is the store owner (and his police buddy) sexually assault the boss (a black) but leave alone the character of Bruce Willis. I think what Tarantino might be trying to accomplish by this is to show us that there still are racial barriers that exist between different groups even after all these years.
The author of the website is Douglas O. Linder from the Univ of Missouri - Kansas School of Law.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
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The movie "Pulp Fiction" was release[d] in 1994. This is the same time that the infamous OJ Simpson trial was taking place in California. The extent to which people were interested in this criminal investigation and trial can be judged from the following quote,
The movie pulp fiction also deals with crime like the Boss who supposedly killed a guy who massage[d] his wife['s] (Uma Thurman's) feet. But I think the other debate that raged because of the OJ Simpson trial was about race. There [were] claims that the trial had been tainted by race. If we look closely in the case of Pulp Fiction, we see there are racial overtones that Tarantino has carefully built into the movie. One scene in particular happened when the boss and the boxer (bruce willis) end[s] up in a store in a sequence. The door has the confederate flag on it.
[Ackward sentence]But the thing to note in there is the store owner (and his police buddy) sexually assault the boss (a black) but leave alone the character of Bruce Willis.
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