Genre Research - Pulp Fiction

The second film of our research was Pulp Fiction (1994) by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary: in this movie drugs appear as a subset of crime (together with other aspects such as robberies and illegal bets) and does not have primary importance but the film was nevertheless full of hints that could have been useful for the opening we were working on.

Plot: The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. (quote: imdb.com)

Just like in Requiem for a Dream, the element of the syringe is shown with an extreme close-up: the accurate details of this kind of camera shot help making the scene more real and credible.

Before being consumed, cocaine in movies is reproduced as a white powder in a mall transparent bag and, when the trade happens in a "safe" situation (inside a house instead of hidden in an open space like a park) there is often a negotiation (picture above).

Again, the trade drugs (just like every other illegal transaction) in movies can only take place where the main topic of the scene is money.