Unconventional filmmaker Quentin Tarantino made a splash and changed modern filmmaking with his fast-talking, ultra-violent 1992 debut "Reservoir Dogs," but it was 1994's "Pulp Fiction" that really put him on the pop-culture map. Featuring a who's-who of Hollywood, "Pulp Fiction" helped resurrect John Travolta's career and catapulted Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson onto the A-list while also showcasing actors like Bruce Willis and others in an ultra-hip, sometimes shocking, multi-layered crime thriller.

But what exactly does "Pulp Fiction" mean? Tarantino took his title from a mid-20 th century style of racy, sensationalized stories that appeared in low-quality fiction magazines, often called "pulps" because they used ragged-edged wood pulp paper instead of the standard high-quality, gl

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