Mise-En-Scene In Pulp Fiction

Style is a key element for any movie to be successful, and a movie that is no exception to this is Pulp Fiction. The amount of style in the movie could become a college dissertation, but I will try to give the best examples of style. This ranges from the use of doorways as a frame for the shot, to the use of 70's music as the background for this film. Overall, in my opinion, the style of Pulp Fiction is one of the main reasons the movie has been so popular for this amount of time. Mise-en-scene in Pulp Fiction is seen throughout the movie, but what fits its definition the best is the use of the briefcase. The briefcase seems to the normal filmgoer as a very important prop that helps develop the story, but most people know it as a red herring or a prop that misleads the audience. Even thought the briefcase is an irrelevant prop, its own mythology has sprung up over the internet. Even though Quentin Tarantino, the director, will never mention what the contents are, many people have come up with their own theory. Some range from the ordinary, (bars of gold), to Tarantino's past films, (the diamonds from Reservoir Dogs, and the Gold Elvis suit from True Romance).
Also he is know to edit a movie mere hours before the premier of one of his movies. This is to insure that it is his vision and it fits his view almost exactly. One can see by his work that even though he has only directed a few movies, those movie have gone on and won acclaim all over the world. The most interesting use of editing in the movie is the use of a long take when Butch leaves his car and walk through the neighborhood to his house. By using a Stedicam to follow Bruce Willis the viewer can see all the trouble Butch is going through just to not be see by Wallace and his men. Editing can be the make or break point in the production, but as we see in Pulp Fiction it was not a problem and it helped in the success of the