While Carter constantly sought to carve out its own identity, Pulp is content to be a much more general celebration of the genre. Its pulpy trappings (death, sex, violence etc.) were used as a springboard into a much deeper, weightier study of self-destructive violence, conspiracy and revenge. Carter was very much about the plight and malaise of the North-East, seeking to blow away the bright colours of the Swinging Sixties to reveal a grim and nasty underbelly. The problem with Pulp, however, lies in these broader roots, which distance it from both Carter's appeal and Hodges' sensibility. Pulp has its roots spread more broadly, drawing in the legacies of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, but both are essentially borne from sources which exploit contemporary attitudes towards violence, sex and criminality. Get Carter is based on Jack's Return Home, a novel by Ted Lewis which was inspired by the 'One-Armed Bandit murder' in Newcastle in the mid-1960s. Both Get Carter and Pulp, as the latter makes clear, have their roots in pulpy crime fiction. One of the most popular maxims for success is "stick to what you know", and on that basis, we appear to be in safe hands. The results fall well short of their first collaboration (as almost anything would), but it still retains a certain rough-edged charm. Retaining most of the crew from Carter, he and Caine attempted to repeat the recipe with Pulp the very next year. While Hodges cannot have foreseen the film's eventual reputation, its acclaim led to a clamour for more work in the same vein. #PULP MOVIES TV#In 1972 Mike Hodges was faced with a question: how do you follow Get Carter? Having cut his teeth on TV in the 1960s, his debut feature was iconic in its time and ours, bringing out a darker side of Michael Caine (in his finest performance) and helping to shift the goalposts of what British film was capable of doing. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1.The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Season 1 The BMF Documentary: Blowing Money Fast: Season 1 The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself: Season 1 The Mysterious Benedict Society: Season 2 Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: Season 1
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