Pulp Fiction is one of the most famous neo noirs because it literally is a noir but with colour. It is based in a new time, but it has the all the conventions. The femme fatale, the mixed up story line [Flashbacks in a sense] and the murders and the seedy happenings. It starts with two charecters in a diner talking. And then moves to different charecters story lines which all end up linking in some sense. The next charecters you meet are the two 'detectives' who work for the Marsellus. Vincent vega is constantly flirting with the Marsellus wife, mia wallace. He has to look after her while he is away, but knows if he does any more than Marsellus will kill him. So he has to restrain himself to stay out of trouble. The other narrative is Butch Coolidge who is a boxer and has to loose a fight purposly for the Marsellus. But he takes the money and tries to run away with his wife, in which Marsellus puts all his best men on to find and kill him. All in the all, the conventions of the dark places they go to, the cigarettes, the alcohol and the almost sadistic narrative. All racks up giving a perfect neo - noir film.
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