Any of you fucking pricks MOVE and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you! (cue music) I'm embarrassed to say that I've not seen Pulp Fiction since, well, it came out when I was in HS (such perfectly timed 90s and HS angst!), yet I can still spout off some key bits of dialogue and I still know the story and flow intimately well. Strange? Or just more proof that Tarantino is sort of iconic? Hmmm... With regard to the non-linear approach, other than the ones mentioned up top are there any other films in the similar vein worthy of watching? I watched Rendition (Jake Gyllenhaal, Reese Witherspoon) and it shocked the shit out of me and I liked it. (I won't ruin it if you haven't seen it) I'm working on a story that runs a similar non-linear gamut and it's the first time I've had to put the ol' 3x5s to use. At first I thought it was weird or perhaps cliche that I was running with this approach, but when you mentioned the diner scene wouldn't have made sense or held the necessary amount of weight in payoff, I'm sticking to my guns. (hey ooohhhh) Thanks again, Scott! and thanks for the video link. This is why I absolutely LOVE these script breakdowns.

Despina, perhaps the most audacious non-linear movie is Two For The Road. Haven't seen it in years, but I remember it being pretty amazing.

thanks! will check it out.

Despina, you may want to check out a film called "2 Days in the Valley" as well. When Pulp became the cultural phenomenon that it was, Hollywood obviously responded the only way it knows how...with endless copycats and imitators. The bulk of these were not very good (I'm lookin' at you Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead, City of Industry, and American Strays) but I thought this one had some fine chops to it. It's not non-linear, if I recall, but it is an ensemble cast and has a slightly skewed outlook about it. If anything it may be more Altman than Tarantino but I remember loving it quite a bit, from a writing standpoint. (Plus the GREAT Paul Mazursky, one of my favorite directors, is in it so I'm a little biased there.) Worth a look! (and a nice reminder to myself to revisit this one ASAP!)

I read somewhere that Tarantino wrote the movie in a linear fashion first and that the choice to splice the episodes up up came to them during post production. Unfortunately, I can't give any sources on that, because I forgot where I read it. Must have been a book on editing.