“Pulp Fiction” and the mythology of cool

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of “Pulp Fiction” premiering at the Cannes Film Festival, here’s a video essay about Quentin Tarantino’s cool characters, and how they mythologize themselves. I cowrote and edited this with my colleague Peter Labuza, a contributor to The Film Stage. The narrator is RogerEbert.com contributor Dave Bunting, Jr.