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Film class this year has been a pretty fun class, to me. Seeing all the films that people have brought in has been a really .... I guess eye opening experience. I love what totally different projects everyone brings in after we are assigned the same thing. Christian's stop motion for example. SO so imaganitive. Kayla Cesari's short film that she made at film camp was sooo cute like I can't explain. It was a very simple story but she made some amazing choices and it turned out amazing. Not to mention Chase Anderson's stuff. It's always good. And seeing so many good works of short films has really inspired me to go farther and do everything I can and imagine with film. It's this perfect medium where anything I want can happen. I really look forward to the rest of the school year. I want to make a film that I myself can be very proud of and something that also impresses my class-mates.

Pulp Fiction Review by Carter Brown

Whenever someone has said anything about Pulp Fiction, I have only heard them say positive things. Nothing negative. The only drawback to it being that it is confusing. Well.... I had never seen this Tarantino film before, and I had always heard how good it was, so I decided to give it a watch for the first time and review it.

This is another kind of movie that you have to watch the full way through (of course all movies should be like that) in order to.. Fully understand the plot. At first, I thought all the characters separate stories weren't really in connection with each other, but towards the resolution of the film they all tie together. For me it was a very dark humor movie. Some of it could have been perceived as humorous while other parts could have been serious. It really depends on the viewer. The thing that drove me crazy was the pauses. Tarantino has a few pauses and drawn out segments that really instill a sense of urgency and really pushes you to the edge of your seat. And it works too. He did it purposefully, yet subtly and it doesn't ever seem too over the top to the point it gets silly. 

He frames a lot of his shots very differently. A lot of them were like... Establishing/action shots that help move the story along and give the movie some emotion and feeling to it. I found some of the sound choices interesting. Because this recently came up in class, I paid a lot of attention to when some parts of the movie audio were overdubbed and when some parts were simply raw shot. When characters become distant from each other (there's one scene where Samuel L. Jackson is in front of John Travolta and they're both speaking.) Jackson's audio is overdubbed while Travolta's audio is raw and has an echo to it to make him seem more... In the back. It's a little detail that gives the movie a better sense of realism. I am not sure whose decision that was (director's, sound designers, etc.) but I liked the decisions that were made. 

As anyone else could plainly tell you, Pulp Fiction is a masterpiece and highly recommend seeing it. It is enjoyable by both the causal movie watcher as well as the film junkie.