Jules: Now Yolanda, we're not gonna do anything stupid, are we?
Yolanda: You don't hurt him.
Jules: Nobody's gonna hurt anybody. We're gonna be like three little Fonzies here. And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda what's Fonzie like?

Cool. It’s no wonder Quentin Tarantino won the 1994 Palme d’Or (as well as the Oscar and 43 other awards) for Pulp Fiction. The basic plot goes like this: Two hitmen must retrieve a suitcase, which has been stolen from their mob boss. The boss’s wife goes dancing with one of the hitmen who has been assigned to look after her when the boss is away. There’s a boxer who was supposed to lose his fight, but decides at the last minute to win it. Now he owes the mob boss lots of money. Then there’s the couple that decide to rob a diner, in which the two hitmen, happen to be hanging out. All of these lives are entwined through QT’s famous non-narrative structure, which includes multiple-flash backs and time jumps.

Since Pulp Fiction, there have been many lesser, copycat directors that have delivered us epileptic fits disguised as movies; many of these wannabes lack QT’s genius for style and dialogue. When QT gave the world Pulp Fiction in 1994, he gave us back the word cool. He gave us classic John Travolta (with a twist), Samuel “Bad Mother F-cker” Jackson, and the cult goddess of Uma Thurman. His film inspired the fashionista's hunt for vintage skinny ties and black suits. Being bi-racial became all the rage (In Pulp Fiction, many of the characters are half-Black, Chinese, Japanese, or French). And like all ground-breaking movies, Pulp Fiction attracted its bit of controversy: the excessive, graphic violence and the repetitive use of the word n-gger, raised many high and low brows alike, including those of Director Spike Lee. And yet, where in G-d’s name would we be, would the 90’s have been, had not Pulp Fiction ever uttered a beautiful, bloody, badass word? We probably would be suffering through another prolonged decade of “Revenge of the Nerds.”

(Picture: PULP FICTION, Director Quentin Tarantino on-set, 1994)