Pulp Fiction movie posters
Withdrawn Advance poster (One Sheet, 27″×40″), Miramax, 1994
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In an interview conducted by Juan Vinueza, James Verdesoto (Creative Director at Miramax Films, co-founder of Indika Entertainment Advertising) comments on the poster design:
If you googled Pulp Fiction before Pulp Fiction, you wouldn’t find anything that resembles that poster. Pulp fiction was about these cheap magazines where women were either femme fatales or sex slaves. Mia Wallace, Uma Thurman’s character, is neither. She’s too cool. She’s the modern world’s woman. So, we portrayed her in this pose that is based on pulp novels, but then, she uses a long dress and has this strong woman’s look. You cannot not be hooked up by her eyes. Typography, meanwhile, follows the poster’s aesthetics. It’s retro, but it’s kitsch as well. It’s very difficult to make adaptations in modern, retro-themed posters. You make a tribute to the past, yes, but you have to catch contemporary audiences with it.
One Sheet, 27″×40″, Miramax, 1994
SS Advance poster (One Sheet, 27″×41″), Miramax, 1994
German A1 poster (23.25″×33″), Scotia, 1994
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The pulp fiction paperback that Mia Wallace’s hand is resting on is Harlot In Her Heart by Norman Bligh (1950). In the second poster version, the lettering on its cover has been replaced by “Pulp Fiction” in shaded Reporter.
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