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Unspooled

Pulp Fiction

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.55K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Paul and Amy boogie through 1994's Quentin Tarantino indie breakout Pulp Fiction! They revisit the moment Pulp Fiction won at Cannes, ask what this film did right that so many imitators did wrong, and try to figure out what's in the briefcase. Plus: Some of the couples you thought should star in a modern "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?"   What do you think Bringing Up Baby is about, if you haven't seen it? Call the Unspooled voicemail line at 747-666-5824 with your answer! Follow us on Twitter @Unspooled, get more info at unspooledpod.com and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Photo credit: Kim Troxall   This episode is brought to you by Sonos (www.sonos.com). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The year is 1994 and suddenly everybody wants a job as a video store clerk.

0:05.2

The movie, full fiction.

0:07.2

Hey everybody and welcome to Unspooled.

0:28.2

I'm Amy Nicholson and Paul Scher will be joining us in just a second because we are

0:32.3

going to be talking about pulp fiction.

0:33.8

But as you know this is the show where we go through every film on the AFI top 100 list

0:38.5

to talk about how it holds up today, what we make of it, how it was made, go through

0:42.4

the whole spiel with you so we can talk about the films that make our culture.

0:47.7

Last week Paul and I got into the movie who's afraid of Virginia Woolf's trying Elizabeth

0:52.0

Taylor and Richard Burton as a couple that drinks a lot, yells a lot and makes a movie

0:57.7

that seems somewhat polarizing to the listeners.

1:01.6

A lot of people loved it, a lot of people were like, mommy and daddy are fighting, I cannot

1:04.8

take this, make it stop, make it stop, make it stop, make it stop.

1:08.0

It was really interesting reading everybody's thoughts on the movie including the people

1:11.7

who have actually staged their own productions of who's afraid of Virginia Woolf because

1:15.5

there's a lot in here to break apart and think about and analyze, including you know to

1:19.7

me the thing that I had the biggest problem with which is just the twist at the end that

1:24.3

Elizabeth Taylor cannot have children and some people had theories on that that are

1:27.9

actually really really appreciated to try to wrap it in and take it to the next level

1:32.1

of metaphor and I was kind of sold.

1:35.0

Thank you for that.

1:36.0

We also threw out the question if we remade who's afraid of Virginia Woolf today which

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