After taking Sundance by storm with his uber-violent debut feature “Reservoir Dogs” in 1992, two years later the 31-year-old Quentin Tarantino hit the Cannes Film Festival in May with his tour-de-force neo-noir “Pulp Fiction,” which was entered in Competition.I was knocked out like everyone else by this bravado exercise in cinema style, from the casting of John Travolta and Samuel L.
Jackson as wordsmith hitmen to Ving Rhames and Uma Thurman as a gangster and his moll to Bruce Willis as Butch the boxer.
It’s hard to remember that these roles boosted all their careers, and it’s hard to quantify the impact this violent hardboiled comedy had on hosts of imitators to come.But the career that truly exploded was high-school dropout Tarantino, whose film school was clerking at an L.A.
video store.
At Cannes, for my upcoming Entertainment Weekly feature, I whipped out my Sony tape
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