He agreed to throw the fight, then secretly bet heavily on himself, and won. Jackson and John Travolta. In a lesser movie, the dialogue in this scene would have been entirely plot-driven; Butch would have explained to Fabienne what he, she and we already knew. Instead, Tarantino uses an apparently irrelevant conversation to quickly establish her personality and their relationship.
His dialogue is always load-bearing. It is Tarantino's strategy in all of his films to have the characters speak at right angles to the action, or depart on flights of fancy. Remember the famous opening conversation between Jules and Vincent, who are on their way to a violent reprisal against some college kids who have offended Wallace and appropriated his famous briefcase.
They talk about the drug laws in Amsterdam, what Quarter Pounders are called in Paris, and the degree of sexual intimacy implied by a foot massage. Finally Jules says "let's get in character,'' and they enter an apartment. Tarantino's dialogue is not simply whimsical. There is a method behind it. The discussion of why Quarter Pounders are called "Royales'' in Paris is reprised, a few minutes later, in a tense exchange between Jules and one of the kids Frank Whaley.
And the story of how Marsellus had a man thrown out of a fourth-floor window for giving his wife a foot massage turns out to be a set-up: Tarantino is preparing the dramatic ground for a scene in which Vincent takes Mia Wallace Uma Thurman out on a date, on his bosses' orders. When Mia accidentally overdoses, Vincent races her to his drug dealer Lance Eric Stoltz , who brings her back to life with a shot of adrenaline into the heart.
And that scene also begins with dialogue that seems like fun, while it's also laying more groundwork. We meet Lance's girlfriend Jody Rosanna Arquette , who is pierced in every possible place and talks about her piercing fetish. Tarantino is setting up his payoff. When the needle goes into the heart, you'd expect that to be one of the most gruesome moments in the movie, but audiences, curiously, always laugh. In a shot-by-shot analysis at the University of Virginia, we found out why.
QT never actually shows the needle entering the chest. He cuts away to a reaction shot in which everyone hovering over the victim springs back simultaneously as Mia leaps back to life. And then Jody says it was "trippy'' and we understand that, as a piercer, she has seen the ultimate piercing.
The body language and the punchline take a grotesque scene and turn it into dark but genuine comedy. It's all in the dialogue and the editing. Also, of course, in the underlying desperation, set up by thoughts of what Marsellus might do to Vincent, since killing Mrs.
Wallace is much worse than massaging her foot. The movie's circular, self-referential structure is famous; the restaurant hold-up with Pumpkin and Honey Bunny Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer begins and ends the film, and other story lines weave in and out of strict chronology. But there is a chronology in the dialogue, in the sense that what is said before invariably sets up or enriches what comes after.
Several TriStar executives favored Gary Oldman for the role of Lance, based on his portrayal of a similar character in the Quentin Tarantino -written True Romance Vincent talks about Amsterdam because Quentin Tarantino spent time there writing the script for this movie.
Tarantino purchased a school notebook to write the script, thinking one would be enough, but he wound up filling several of them. This film and Reservoir Dogs have prologues featuring criminals at breakfast. Tim Roth links these scenes, as he's in both of them. Except he isn't a criminal in the latter, as he was an undercover cop. Out of all of them, Tarantino said he preferred Pfeiffer. Out of the fifty-four cast members, fifty of them are listed as "Known For" this movie. The two actors played together in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead Jimmie is wearing a t-shirt bearing the logo of "Orbit", a local alternative newspaper in Metro Detroit, for which Quentin Tarantino did an interview when he was promoting Reservoir Dogs The building was demolished soon after filming.
The marquee where Butch boxes advertises the following fights: "Coolidge vs. Wilson" and "Vossler vs. The first is a reference to U. Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson , and the second is a reference to Russell Vossler and Jerry Martinez , who are two friends of Quentin Tarantino 's from when he worked in a video store. Late in the film, when they take the car to the wreckers, Mr. Wolfe playfully calls Vincent "Lash La Rue".
Lash La Rue was an actor who frequently played cowboys in western movies in the s and s. He was particularly skilled with a bull whip, and would use it to subdue the villains. After having a shower, Fabienne goes to tell Butch something but sees that he is fast asleep and says "never mind.
This is the first of many collaborations of Quentin Tarantino and Samuel L. Jackson , unless you count True Romance , which Tarantino wrote, but didn't direct. It was Tony Scott who directed.
This movie contains two product placements for real world products, a first for a Quentin Tarantino movie. When Mia is rolling a cigarette at home, while Vincent is in the bathroom, a package of "Drum" tobacco is on the table. The role of Lance was written for John Cusack, but once he passed on the role, the second choice for the role, Eric Stoltz, was cast.
When the film was announced as the winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, Quentin Tarantino 's speech was interrupted by a protesting French woman yelling profanity. An amused Tarantino affectionately flipped her off, but also acknowledged his own surprise at winning, stating that his films usually drive juries apart rather than unite them. According to her manager, Julia Louis-Dreyfus turned down the role of Mia Wallace, due to her commitment to Seinfeld Roger Avary was an old friend of Quentin Tarantino 's dating back to their days as video store clerks, and they frequent collaborated on their screenplays.
Avary's writing credit on Pulp Fiction stems from the incorporation of his short film script for "Pandemonium Reigns" forming a core element of Tarantino's screenplay. Avary's input can largely be found in the Butch and Fabienne scenes.
However, the studio reportedly wanted to maintain the image that Tarantino was the sole artistic force behind the movie, so they awarded him the full screenplay credit hence the "written and directed by Quentin Tarantino" billing at the end ; Avary was only given a shared story credit.
This allegedly led to a falling out between Tarantino and Avary, who haven't worked together since. Jules' car, a Chevy Nova, is never seen in full frame. Only the interior, or parts of the exterior, are visible. Wallace describes the other girls in the force, "There was a blonde one The Japanese fox was a kung fu master. The black girl was a demolition expert.
French fox's speciality was sex. Picked by Entertainment Weekly magazine as one of the "50 Greatest Independent Films" in a special supplement devoted to independent films that was only distributed to subscribers in November Holly Hunter was also considered by producers to play Mia Wallace. Ranked number seven on the American Film Institute's list of the ten greatest films in the genre "Gangster" in June Three references to Tennessee: 1.
Butch's gold watch purchased by his great-grandfather in a general store in Knoxville. Butch's call to Scotty, headed to Knoxville, "next time I see you will be on Tennessee time". On the wall of the pawn shop, the Tennessee license plate "CAC". Sylvester Stallone was briefly considered for the role of Butch.
On the wall of the pawn shop, there is a license plate bearing "SW ". Tarantino's film first played the Cannes Film Festival in May It was shown at other festivals around the world, from Munich to Locarno, before hitting American shores on September 23, , at the New York Film Festival.
The film officially opened in the U. Tony Scott , who directed True Romance , and was a close friend of Tarantino, directed the film. If you look at Jules Winnifield driver license in the wallet scene, it states " Shepherd Way, Inglewood" as his home address. Also do note the expiration date as "". Ving Rhames and Harvey Keitel have the back of their heads filmed before their faces are shown.
Although Rhames and Keitel don't share a scene, they do talk on the phone near the end of the film. The lines from Pumpkin and Honey Bunny "All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery! Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of ya! Jules: Laurence Fishburne , Samuel L. Jackson , Eddie Murphy , Charles S. Dutton , and Michael Beach. Jackson , and Eric Roberts. Jackson , Charles S. Vincent called Butch "Palooka," a reference to a cartoon character named Joe Palooka, who was portrayed in a long-running comic series as a heavyweight boxing champion.
In Vincent's eyes, "Palooka" would be a derogatory term for boxers in general, implying he looked down on Butch for his profession. It's also a fairly popular euphemism from the s to refer to anyone who appears oafish or dumb.
Butch is obviously not either but it was a convenient insult for Vincent to use. After Butch asks, "What was that? On Sunday, May 1, Robert Rodriguez revealed via his journal, that he was away in Austin, Texas when Quentin was initially showing some of his director friends a private screening of Pulp Fiction.
As he had missed the screening, Rodriguez inquired about how it turned out. At the time, Tarantino did not feel that Pulp Fiction felt like a 'real movie'. And that it more felt like a 'crazy Quentin movie'. As it did not resemble anything released prior to Pulp Fiction. Rodriguez tried to lift Tarantino's spirit, while he also mentions that another director wished to have stern words with him once he returned from Cannes.
Only for Tarantino to return having won the Palme d'Or. Despite being longtime collaborators, this is the only time that Samuel L. Jackson and Quentin Tarantino have appeared in a film on-screen together so far. They were also in Django Unchained , which Tarantino also wrote and directed, but had no scenes together.
Was originally set up at TriStar Pictures, before being put into turnaround and picked up by Miramax Films. Vincent's gun is a A1 Auto Ordnance. Jules' gun is a Star Model B 9mm pistol that has been chromed, and given mother of pearl grips, too. Upon receiving the page screenplay to read after TriStar dropped the project, Harvey Weinstein remarked, "What is this, the fucking telephone book?
Jacob turned down the role to star in Three Colors: Red When Butch is seen relaxing in the hotel, right after the boxing match, there is a movie being shown on the room's television. The movie is The Losers Harvey Keitel reprising his role in , in a series of commercials for the UK insurance company "Direct Line", wasn't to everyone's liking as the following extract from User Reviews reads: "I've kind of lost respect for him.
The Wolf was a mysterious character, and it's been cheapened". Obviously, this movie came twenty years before the Direct Line commercials, so Keitel had also aged somewhat, yet gracefully. The commercials are still on television in the UK, in fact a woman in the latest one says, "Here's your coffee, Mr.
Lots of cream, lots of sugar", a nod to how Keitel replied to Jimmie Dimmick Quentin Tarantino in this movie. Winston Wolfe also carried the takeaway paper cup, as opposed to holding a china cup, while standing still, making for a highly amusing scene. This movie was the third biggest R-rated earner of The film lost out on the title to True Lies The film's earnings were strong enough to place it in the overall top ten for the year, though was dominated by Forrest Gump , which brought in Roth and Ruth are in the scene in the coffee shop.
Tarantino and Keitel are in a scene near the end, before the grand showdown in the coffee shop. Buscemi and Bender are the only two Reservoir Dogs cast members not to be together in a scene in the film. The house that was used as Jimmie Dimmick's Quentin Tarantino 's house was owned by a press agent named Jack Mullen who passed away in There was an article titled "A story arc worthy of Hollywood" about this in the July 30, edition of the Los Angeles Times. The Guy in Black is "The Gimp," an extreme sexual submissive who is apparently kept prisoner in Maynard and Zed's basement.
The character was Roger Avary's idea, who was inspired by Deliverance Unfortunately, nothing is specified about the character's origin or the circumstances of his time in the basement, except that he has no apparent desire to be freed.
Another character named "Russell" once inhabited the same room. The screenplay implies that Russell was a previous prisoner whom Maynard and Zed eventually killed. It only refers to the Gimp a few times, and calls Butch the "victim of violence" and the Gimp the "perpetrator of violence.
Despite the fact that this story is about gangsters, Zed is the only cop actually a security guard to appear in the film. The samurai sword Butch uses was a Shin Gunto. The character of Honey Bunny was named after the pet rabbit of Linda Chen, a friend to Quentin Tarantino who typed up the script for him. I was averaging about 9, grammatical errors per page. After I would correct them, he would try to put back the errors, because he liked them.
Quentin Tarantino originally wanted Christopher Jones for the role of Zed. At around one hour and four minutes The little ceramic kangaroo, that Butch uses to store his watch, can be spotted on the counter to the left of Butch's mother in the flashback scene. The opponent that Butch kills in the ring is referred to as "Wilson", which could be a reference to On the Waterfront where Terry Malloy is said to have thrown a title match to a man named "Willson".
According to Roventiti, he recited his famous four-word line on live on-air performances and public events a half million times. Counting the playback of recordings of him saying this line the number is easily double. Along with this movie, the line has been used in various media, including Stephen King's "IT". The bottom of Esmerelda's Thermos is a rare instance of an existing name brand logo making an appearance in a Quentin Tarantino film.
When Vince first meets Mia, she videotapes him, and tells him, "I knew that you could". This is the same line Travolta uses several times in Saturday Night Fever. This is Chandler Lindauer's only film appearance so far. He played young Butch. In the special features, Tarantino describes Pulp Fiction as a salvation film, with the three parts of the anthology seeing the salvation of Pumpkin and Honey Bunny, the salvation of Jules, and the salvation of Butch and Fabienne.
Ving Rhames turned down a role in Renaissance Man to star in this movie. The sword at the pawn shop isn't the Brides from Kill Bill , as hers was custom made by Hattori Hanzo. Some fans believe that the sword in the Pulp Fiction pawn shop is Budd's, as Budd tells Bill early in Kill Bill Part 2 that he pawned the sword that Bill had given him.
However, it is later shown that Budd was lying, as The Bride discovers Budd's sword hidden in a golf bag during her battle with Elle. Therefore, the sword is neither The Bride's nor Budd's. It is simply a sword that happened to be at the pawn shop. Wallace's briefcase has been referenced and shown not the contents on Community season two, episode nineteen, "Critical Film Studies".
Jeff was said to buy the case at an auction as a gift, as Abed loved cinema and pop culture, and referenced this movie many times, and kept it as a surprise gift. Abed discussed with Jeff his appearance as an extra on Cougar Town , and Jeff realized that Abed was done with pop culture. However, the case was made burnt, due to a small fight, as someone wanted to see what was really inside the case, and the others were resisting opening it.
In the "Jack Rabbit Slim's" scene, Mia never eats the cherry from her five dollar shake. Jackson's only Oscar nominated role.
Several days before the film was first broadcast on terrestrial television in Autumn , Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield were shown firing their guns non-stop when the film was being advertised. They didn't fire for as long as that in the film, however. Tarantino's apartment at the time of this film's pre-production phase was the same exact one Travolta himself had rented in the s.
The book Vincent reads throughout most of the film is the first Modesty Blaise novel, which tracks the adventures of female spy Modesty Blaise.
Though not of general reference to anything in the movie, it could be noted that Modesty is of some comparable significance to Mia's earlier mentions of "Fox Force Five," a show about a group of female spies.
The edition Vincent reads has a mock-up cover that Tarantino had his prop department make, based upon the cover of an early edition of the novel. The chronological rearranging of vignettes closely resembles the structure of Jim Jarmusch's 'Mystery Train'. As Quentin Tarantino filmed Christopher Walken 's cameo on the last day of filming, Walken reportedly didn't get to meet any of his illustrious co-stars.
In the scene where Vincent picks Mia up from Marsellus' house, the record needle lifting off the turntable as Dusty Springfield 's "Son Of A Preacher Man" cuts off abruptly is on an Audio Technica P-mount cartridge; an inexpensive item, in an otherwise lavish house. It also went to show that Marcellus and Mia don't feel the need to always spend a lot of money in order to have a good quality item.
If you look closely at Lance when Vincent is buying the heroin, Lance wears a tartan shirt around his waist. The tartan colors are red, black, and yellow.
This is also the Wallace clan tartan, and ties in with Mr. Butch listened to Marsellus Wallace for thirty-six seconds before he delivered his first line of dialogue. When Butch is on his way to his apartment. In the background, you can faintly hear someone say "This is the Jack Rabbit Slim's The film is included on Roger Ebert 's "Great Movies" list.
When Jules first tells Vincent about what happened to Mia's foot massager, he describes how Marcellus' men go to Rocky Horror's place, take him out on the balcony, and throw him off. In subsequent descriptions of the event, Rocky Horror is thrown from a window by Marcellus. When Vincent and Jules are in one of the hallways before Brett's apartment, it is posible to hear "Strawberry Letter 23" playing in one of the other apartments.
A Brothers Johnson's hit of s. Shortly after starring in this movie, John Travolta starred in Get Shorty Jackson starred in Jackie Brown Both films were adapted from Elmore Leonard novels. Quentin Tarantino said the backstory he imagined for the Gimp was that he was a hitchhiker who had been picked up by Zed and Maynard seven years earlier, and had been trained by them to do as they wanted.
Early in the film, Vincent refers to Butch as "punchy". The infamous pawn shop scene was filmed in the same store where Cindy Mila Kunis sells the stolen guitar in Extract The building where the opening scene was filmed Vincent and Jules kill Brett and his two friends to recover the briefcase was completely demolished and a new building was built in When Butch is unlocking the door to his apartment, Bruce Willis's four ear piercings are visible.
John Travolta , Samuel L. Vincent mentions that European cinemas serve beer, unlike in America. In the twenty-first century, it is now commonplace for movie theaters to serve alcohol. The chronology of the movie takes place over four days. Day one at am was the hit at the apartment followed by the accident with Marvin, the clean-up and the hold-up at the restaurant, followed by the delivery of the case to Wallis and the encounter with Butch.
This was also when Butch keyed Vincent's car a detail later shared by Taratino in an interview, which is found in the special features. The second day is unaccounted for but is presumed to be when Jules began his walkabout. The third day was most likely when Butch and Fabiene checked into the motel, followed by the prize fight that evening. That same evening Vincent went to Lance's house to buy drugs. He tells Lance that his car had been keyed "the other day.
This was followed by the outing with Mia, the overdose and the return to Lance's house. The morning of the fourth day was when Vincent attempted the hit at Butch's apartment, followed by the incident with Zed and Wallis, and the departure of Butch and Fabiene. Really early region 2 DVDs of the movie accidentally had the Irish age rating as a This was corrected to an 18 in later releases. Jackson , while not hitting either one of them after unloading his entire gun. Alexis Arquette, who played "The Fourth Man", was born "Robert Arquette", and is the sibling of David Arquette, Patricia Arquette, and Rosanna Arquette, the latter one playing the girlfriend, Jody "with all that stuff in her face", as quoted by Vincent.
More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Jules Winnfield Samuel L. Jackson and Vincent Vega John Travolta are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace Ving Rhames. Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia Uma Thurman out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge Bruce Willis is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents.
Girls like me don't make invitations like this to just anyone! Rated R for strong graphic violence and drug use, pervasive strong language and some sexuality. Did you know Edit. Trivia Mr. Blonde, a. Quentin Tarantino even had a spin-off film in development, titled "Double V Vega", which was a prequel to both movies.
This film was scrapped, because both actors were too old to play younger versions of themselves. Goofs at around 1h 50 mins In the apartment miracle scene where Jules and Vincent are about to be shot at by the kid in coming out of the adjoining room, there are bullet holes already clearly visible in the wall behind them. Quotes Mia : Don't you hate that?
Vincent : What? Crazy credits The coffee shop manager in the robbery scene at the end is credited as "Coffee Shop" because he is cut off as he speaks: "I am not a hero, I'm just a coffee shop--". Alternate versions The Canadian DVD version of the film includes the two alternate scenes mentioned above, plus a few additional ones. A longer scene of Vincent Vega purchasing heroin at Lance Eric Stoltz 's house, complaining about how rude people are.
Eric's character complains about how he had asked for directions one time and was given incorrect instructions. Another additional scene takes place in Esmarelda's cab, where Butch does a lengthier explanation of how he feels about killing the man in the boxing ring.
The other scene included on this DVD takes place at the auto parts yard, where Winston Wolf and the yard owner's daughter flirt and make plans for breakfast. All of the deleted scenes are shown in a separate section of the DVD, introduced by Tarantino, and are not included in the actual film. User reviews 3. Top review. A masterpiece of screenwriting. This is Tarantino's masterpiece, there's no other way to say it. It has arguably one of the smartest scripts I've ever seen.
The story, which is non-linear, is so well constructed it takes several viewings to grasp it all. The movie doesn't seem to be about any spesific thing, but there is a subtle hint of redemption as a central theme. The characters and preformances in this movie are practically perfect. This is still one of the best performances I've seen from Sam Jackson, and it's an outrage he didn't win an Oscar.
Each scene has its own unique flavour and charm, every segment has its own arc while also tying into the main plot.
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