Well, do you have plans for this evening? If not, you should turn on the TV, you really can’t go wrong with that: Today we have Pulp Fiction and Fight Club Two absolute cult films in a row. Every film fan really has to know them, but everyone else really has to know them too.
That’s what Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino’s most famous film, is about
Pulp Fiction tells several stories that are directly sprung from a pulp novel They all come around the corner in their own dirty and snotty way and are of course more or less connected to each other. There is a washed-up boxer (Bruce Willis), two gangsters (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson) and a fatal accident, the bored woman (Uma Thurman) with a penchant for drugs and, above all, a very mysterious suitcase.
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In Pulp Fiction, a variety of problems must be solved.
This is the story of Fight Club with Edward Norton and Brad Pitt
Fight Club takes a different direction: The lost main character (Edward Norton) of this dark novel adaptation doesn’t really know what to do with himself until he meets the extremely charismatic Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). Together, the two start a illegal fight club, which quickly takes on threatening proportionsWhat was just a fun way to let off steam quickly becomes a kind of cult, a cross-city phenomenon in the fight against the state and capital.
Fight Club – Trailer (German)
That’s why Pulp Fiction and Fight Club have become cult
Anyone who sees Pulp Fiction will find it very difficult to escape the film’s sappy, sleazy fascination. Quentin Tarantino’s Oscar-winning work breaks genre boundaries, is full of quotations and quotable dialoguesdoesn’t take itself or anyone else seriously, shines with an incredibly enthusiastic cast and, above all, is just really, really fun.
For many, the fascination with Fight Club lies in a different way. Viewers get the feeling of an entire generation on a silver platter served. This is not just about self-hatred and social criticism, but also about the search for meaning, endless doubts and ultimately about man’s fight against himself, against his inner voices. And about the question of which of them he wants to listen to.
Both films have in common that they even more fun the second, third and fourth time watching Here you will experience not only the actors, but also the directors David Fincher and Quentin Tarantino in absolute top form. Both Fight Club and Pulp Fiction have more than earned their status as cult films.
TV or stream: When and where are Fight Club and Pulp Fiction shown?
Today, Wednesday, June 5, 2024, you can first watch Pulp Fiction and then Fight Club. The evening begins with the Tarantino masterpiece at 8:15 p.m. on Kabel eins. Fight Club follows at 11:25 p.m. Both films will be repeated again on the night of June 11th to 12th.
But you can also stream them. Fight Club, for example, is available on Netflix, Disney+ or Magenta TV by subscriptionPulp Fiction is only available in the streaming flat rate of Paramount+. Of course, the films can also be bought or rented on demand from Apple TV, Amazon, etc.
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