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Pulp Fiction and The Big Lebowski: Masculinity

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A short video essay on the theme of masculinity in the Big Lebowski and Pulp Fiction. WATCH UNTIL THE BIG LEBOWSKI. I wanted to do these films because I wanted to do a similar film with seemingly funny dialogue but some serious themes.  I made a few mistakes (such as calling it The "Great" Lebwoski) and broad statements during the documentary, but that's what I take from the film. 

Step Outline

1. Logline: Fights happen all the time, but not like this.

2. Genre Reference: Thriller

3. 2 Reference Films: The Outsiders, The Warriors

4. Step Outline:  Create a t-chart for Action/ Dramatic Intent

THEMES: -extra personal theme- A criticism of gang culture (wats the deal with the gangs fighting?)  -interpersonal theme-friendship? -intrapersonal theme: Freedom brings pain, the importance of the mentor parent but lack thereof -yearning for structure in life -violence is useless

Action	Intent
Films begins with the  fight between Mack and the baddies and short expositional narration	To be  expositional and set tone, but still be a simple story
2. Flashback - Does something that angers enemy gang, strengthens his friends Johnny (nice guy)  and Dallas (stern older mentor)	2.   Character Development, critical mistake that begins tragedy
3. Comes home late to find his older brother waiting (also stern older mentor), brother gets mad and hits him,	3.  Drama (but not action), tension at home? Incites freedom that brings death, reinforces themes, violence  has no gain
4.    The Stabbing - As Mack hangs out in the parking lot with his 2 friends, they are jumped by enemy gang, where Johnny is being drowned and back broken either Dallas or Mack stabs Bob the Baddie (flee scene)	4.   Action creates
5.   Running - Trying to get johnny to hospital on foot avoiding baddies	5.   Action
6.   Running - Johnny is dead, what do we do?	6.   Moral Question, tension
7.   The Last Stand - Mack watches Patrick rob a liquor store, and get shot as he pulls out as they pull up in car,	7.   Existentially ends the film with the narrator protag being disillusioned with society at large, but personal issues is resolved for the sake of classical narrative

Location as Character Project

This is the part where i talk.