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Typography in Film
I have always been fascinated with the visual, and being a graphic artist, typography often captures me a little more than the average person who just sees words.
How a font lends to the meaning of a word, its feeling, its intentions. This is art people. You so carelessly overlook the deep hidden meaning behind a typeface because you are supposed to. But it impacts you. It hits you deep down. It has meaning deeper than just an assembled set of letters.
This is why I choose to share this little video with you today. This is Samuel Jackson’s rant in Pulp Fiction so be warned THERE IS FOUL LANGUAGE!! It is from a collection of vids online via Always Watching and is a sampling of memorable rants, speeches and statements made famous in film and TV but presented only in audio and typography. I couldn’t watch a whole movie like this, but these work as well as the visual we recall in our heads. Maybe even better.
More videos like this one are shared at Always Watching and I encourage you to go take a look.
Interesting. And such a great scene.
Agreed, great scene indeed.
Slightly off topic…
In that scene, Sam Jackson’s character quotes from a biblical verse, does anyone know what the meaning behind the biblical verse is all about? At least I thought it was a biblical verse.
It’s not an actual Bible verse. Part of it is in fact taken from Ezekiel (can’t remember which part exactly), but most of it was made up by Sam Jackson and Tarantino.
Ezekiel 25:17 is where is it comes from and is something i cant explain but it seems to be one of though things you understand or you don’t.
Pulp Fiction is the Greatest Dialogue movie of all time and that is what people should think of when they think of Tarentino not violence.
seen it long time ago, good stuff. i think they should do one on Glengarry Glen Ross, that’d be great.
Other great uses of Typography in recent film is the Opening Credits of Vacancy (really slick, and similar to that Pulp Fiction bit — which has been around for a while…). Love the opening titles of Funny Games US (same as Funny Games 1997).
Also, I thought there was also an interesting use of text in the title sequence of Chris Gorak’s RIGHT AT YOUR DOOR.
Lastly there is that documentary on the typeset, HELVETICA.
Cheers.
My favorite is the fight club typography
Should also point out that the Coen Brothers films (particularly The Hudsucker Proxy) is big on typeface.
Brilliant clip! Love it!!!