Pulp Fiction

Ok, well I part chose to watch this in order to reassess it and try to understand WTF everyone bangs on about this and why it's hailed as a classic piece of cinema. To be honest, I still don't get it but the main reason I chose it is because it deals somewhat with story telling from different perspectives. Sort of.

We have three stories:
- Vincent Vega & Marsellus Wallace's Wife
- The Gold Watch
- The Bonnie Situation

And the film flows like so:
1. The beginning of the end of The Bonnie Situation from Pumpkin & Honey Bunny's POV
2. The beginning of The Bonnie Situation
3. Vincent Vega & Marsellus Wallace's Wife
4. The Gold Watch
5. The middle of The Bonnie Situation linking to the scene with Pumpkin & Honey Bunny but this time from Vincent and Jules' POV

But if it was told in the correct timeline, it may have a different feel altogether, in fact, it might not even flow at all! Anyway, it'd go like this:
1. The Bonnie Situation
2. Vincent Vega & Marsellus Wallace's Wife
3. The Gold Watch

A bit shorter than the Theatrical version and thinking about it, i'm not sure if it'd work. I may edit it in that order and get Christine to watch it in order to see how she felt about the film, seeing as she's more than likely forgotten seeing it the first time. I'm not sure that I understand the purpose of altering the structure of The Bonnie Situation in that manner. I've seen it before, in fact, the whole 3 separate story telling method. Sin City told 3 separate stories that kind of linked all the characters together with the first story being split in to two and placed at the start and at the end of the film. Although with that, it acted as a passage of time as that story jumped a good 20 years or so. With Pulp Fiction, there was no reason to do this.

If I apply this style of editing for The Wardrobe, the film might run interestingly:

1. Parents eneter bedroom to discover Sam after the fight with the monsters
2. Mother takes Sam to bathroom to clean Sam up (Cut before Monster tooth reveal)
3. Sam sitting in the living room reading his book.
4. All the rest all the way back to where we cut at the start of film
5. Continue from start of film to show monster tooth reveal

That might not be a great way to show editing to change perspectives but might be a nice way to create my edit of the film that I have come to based on my research. So from watching this, my thinking for my portfolio hand in is:

- Director's Cut
- Editor's Cut
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- Sam's POV
- Parent's POV
- Joint POV (a.k.a. Parent's POV and then Sam's POV to Explain the Parents)

Now that seems like a lot of the same film to be honest and I think I see Maike's point of considering editing other films to add to the portfolio. As I said last time, Steve is a potential addition but also looking for other films to edit is a more appealing aspect. It's finding something that might cause a problem...

Anyway, will get round to watching other films over the next few days and analyse again :)