Made on a modest budget of about $8.5 million, with another $10 million spent on marketing, Pulp Fiction's win of the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival flipped the pop culture and cinematic landscape forever. In this article, let’s go 30 years back and relive the glory of Pulp Fiction. Pulp Fiction’s Premiere and WinThe ‘90s were all about adrenaline-packed movies, but even then, Pulp Fiction was not a regular '90s movie. Set in Los Angeles and centered on four intertwined tales of crime, Tarantino wrote Pulp Fiction in 1992 and 1993 by incorporating scenes that he originally wrote for True Romance (1993). TriStar was the original distributor for the film, but they backed out, explaining that Travolta’s character being a heroin abuser was not for them. Miramax picked up Pulp Fiction. It was a Saturday on May 23, 1994, about a week into the 12-day-long Cannes Film Festival, where many films were trying to impress the 30,000 assembled producers, journalists, and distributors. The event and the jury were star-studded: Clint Eastwood was serving as the president of that year’s festival jury. But somehow, it felt like the 47th edition of the Cannes Film Festival was far from memorable. Finally, people sat down for a midnight screening. Two and a half hours later, the energy had shifted. The audience was polarized, and people could not stop talking. Pulp Fiction woke everyone up to show how films are done. Pulp Fiction hit the 10-member jury, including Catherine Deneuve and...
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