Name: Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction's Influence
Uploaded: 2021-06-29T17:18:26.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction's Influence' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Quentin Tarantino on Pulp Fiction's Influence' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-29. Transcript available.

How I got introduced to you, I'd heard about Reservoir Dogs, but the first film
I saw was Pulp Fiction.
And I saw Pulp Fiction with this girl that I was dating when I first moved to
Los Angeles.
And I remember being in Man's Chinese Theater watching this.
And for me, it was like this crazy change in my life.
That was in the first few weeks of it opening, yeah, because that's where it
opened.
Yeah, crazy change in my life, moving to Los Angeles and then seeing this film.
And then I remember very clearly, like at the end of the film, like even in the
middle of the film,
going, this is the craziest fucking movie I've ever seen in my life.
And this scene, it symbolized to me, like the world was changing, like
everything was changing.
It was so wild and so crazy.
It was a film not, it was unlike anything I'd ever seen before.
All the different timelines, how you interwove everything together.
But the violence and the chaos and the humor of all of it, like people walked
out of that movie theater,
fucked up.
Yeah.
And I remember thinking like, wow, like the world is different.
Like sometimes you'll see a work of art or something and you'll say that thing
just changed everything.
It just, it was so wild that it influenced so many other films afterwards.
They tried to be like a Pulp Fiction movie or they tried to be wild.
Well, people would ask me about that and they'd go, hey, did that really bug
you when there was a period of, it seemed like five years in the 90s where like
every crime film kind of had this like ironic bit.
And they talked about TV shows and they talked about TV shows and played music
in a weird way.
Yeah.
And everybody was a smart ass.
And they asked me like, well, does that, did that bother you?
And I go, well, no, it doesn't bother me.
One, I don't think any of them are as good as mine.
So it just makes mine look better and better.
And my dialogue looked better and better.
But, you know, one of my favorite directors is Sergio Leone.
And I always considered I was doing to traditional gangster films like, you
know, Scorsese kind of Goodfellow kind of movies, what he was doing to
traditional Westerns when he did his spaghetti Westerns.
So then the fact that mine hit and now the fact that I've not, it wasn't that
they were just trying to do Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs.
They were trying to exist in the same subgenre of crime film that I had created,
which is what all the other spaghetti Westerns that came after Leone's had done.
So the fact that it wasn't they were doing just Reservoir Dogs or Pulp Fiction
ripoffs, I created a subgenre in gangster films that did not exist before.
And they were trying to fill that subgenre.
And that was fucking awesome.
That's got to be a wild feeling.
It was great.
You created a subgenre.
I had affected gangster films.
I mean, by that point, to do kind of a Scorsese kind of thing was like almost
passe.
Yeah.
Well, you brought back John Travolta.
Yeah.
Which is pretty wild, too.
Well, I remember even asking somebody, I go, okay, when people say Tarantino-esque,
what do they mean?
And there was a guy I knew, he was like a film analyst, his name is Dave Scow.
And he goes, well, okay, just to give you an idea, it's like, okay, so in Bad
Boys, or yeah, I think maybe, no, it's like Bad Boys.
Well, like in Bad Boys, okay, you have a couple of henchmen working for the bad
guy, and they're sitting in their car.
And all of a sudden, they have a conversation about an I Love Lucy episode.
Okay, that wouldn't have happened without you.
Yeah.
It's true.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, what is that from?
I mean, where have you had this flair for references and this way of layering?
Well, that just comes from being Gen X, man.
I mean, that was the whole thing about that generation is the idea that, okay,
the generation before us that lived through the 60s,
they had the 60s.
They had the accoutrement in the 60s.
They had all that 60s music.
And they looked down on the generation that grew up in the 60s, in the 70s.
Like, you didn't have any of that shit.
You didn't have the music that we had.
Well, maybe we didn't have the music you had.
We had our music.
But what we did have is we had television.
We had the Saturday morning cartoons that we dug.
We had Schoolhouse Rock.
We had all the TV shows we liked.
We had Speed Racer.
We had all these kind of things.
And they meant something to us.
And, you know, kids back then who, if their parents didn't let them watch TV at
a certain point,
well, the parents might have actually had, like, the best intentions.
But they were actually robbing their children of the pop cultural glue that's
going to tie them to their generation when they get older.
And so, you know, we had the ABC Movies of the Week.
I mean, we just, you know, we had all that stuff.
And we had fucking great movies if you were going out and seeing the movies of
New Hollywood.
We had all that.
And so, when we got older, it was about talking about that stuff.
That was what was worth talking about.
And then to actually have characters in a movie talk about that, that was
making them sound realistic.
And to be specific about it.
Remember that old sitcom?
No, no, no.
Talk about, no.
You mean Alice, okay?
Talk about Mel and Alice.
Catch new episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience for free, only on Spotify.
Watch back catalog JRE videos on Spotify, including clips.
Easily, seamlessly switch between video and audio experience.
On Spotify, you can listen to the JRE in the background while using other apps
and can download episodes to save on data costs all for free.
Spotify is absolutely free.
You don't have to have a premium account to watch new JRE episodes.
You just need to search for the JRE on your Spotify app.
Go to Spotify now to get this full episode of the Joe Rogan Experience.