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Marvin

After Vincent and Jules kill everyone in the apartment, they take Marvin with them on his last ride. If Vincent hadn’t accidentally killed him, where were they going???

12 Comments
2025/02/01
07:01 UTC

14

How much gear was Vincent buying?

When Vincent decides on what to buy from Lance, he says if it's as good as he says it is he'll come back and buy another thousand.

Was he going to buy $1000 worth or 1000 grams?

I've never bought heroin, but I imagine even in the 90s, 1kg of heroin would cost a small fortune. And would Lance even have that much?

51 Comments
2025/01/31
11:41 UTC

1

If Jules had to be replaced with another Samuel L. Jackson character, who would it be?

8 Comments
2025/01/31
01:18 UTC

11

The Mysterious Fate of Vincent Vega

Do you guys think that Vincent dying after taking Mia on a date added to the legend that Jules told Vincent about at the beginning of the movie? To clarify, I'm referring to the conversation they have about Tony Rocky Horror being killed by Marsellus over a foot massage. Vince even makes it a point to ask Mia about the incident, and Mia tells him that nothing happened between them (much like Vince and Mia) and that whatever reason Marsellus had to kill Tony was because of something else.

Sorry if this has been discussed before or doesn't make any sense logically, I just couldn't find anyone discussing this aspect of the film anywhere, and wanted to see if my interpretation of it is common or not.

29 Comments
2025/01/28
20:39 UTC

2

Head Canon nr 9999...

My head Canon:

Marcellus Wallace front is being a small time B movies producer, and his credentials as a "real" mob boss depends largely on staged acts of power display.

He lured Rocky Horror into a trap using Mia because he needed to show that he was willing to kill on a whim, and planned to do the same with Vincent.

He married Mia when she was a wannabe actress and grew tired of her but still keeps her around as a Trophy wife/decoy for his plans. He's shown with a blonde girl in the background when Jules call him, and he seems "out of character" because he's relaxing, While when he's shown with Mia he's in his "mob boss" persona.

He acts, talks and plan his hustles like a character from a movie, that's why he's so nonchalant, because he's truly overconfident. He can convince his crew made up of small time criminals that he's a coldblooded gangster because of his money, his ties to actual criminals, and his cinematic gimmicks. (He doesn't actually have people all over the world tending to his business, so why he says he can find Butch even on the other side of the globe? He's clearly exaggerating his influence, because later we see that It's only him and the dumbest of his henchmen, Vincent, looking for him, and being found by him with their pants down, literally)

Jules and Vincent are former extras in his movies who found more lucrative and fun Marcellus' side project of being real, actual gangsters instead of impersonating one.

That's why when they go against Butch everything goes bad for them, because he's a "real", one-dimensional character of the Thought Guy In The Movies, while they are the "simulation" of criminals, not real ones. In a movie, set in the real world, the REAL real world, where people are dumb and take movie's logic for real.

6 Comments
2025/01/27
14:20 UTC

28

If Mia didn’t OD, would she have let Vince hit after their date?

Inquiring minds want to know.

40 Comments
2025/01/27
01:09 UTC

12

When Marcellus Wallace says he's going to get a couple of "pipe hitting" *fellas* in the pawn shop after Butch rescues him to torture the rapist was he the talking about fellas who hit people with a pipe or fellas who smoked cracked?

46 Comments
2025/01/24
18:27 UTC

14

What are your Hot Takes on PF?

29 Comments
2025/01/23
02:08 UTC

3

Trivia - How many times did Brett say "what?" before Jules shot him? (Don't look it up!)

Answer will be revealed in 24 hours

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1 Comment
2025/01/21
23:28 UTC

21

Fabienne

It seems to me that a lot of people didn't like her character. (Not a scientific survey).

I thought she was a great counterpart to Bruce Willis' Butch character. He was jaded and comfortable dealing with sketchy people and violence (including murder). She was an innocent.

Quite a few people commented about her age. Implying that the age gap was too large. But she was 29 when the movie came out. Willis was 10 years her senior.

20 Comments
2025/01/19
09:54 UTC

3

Theory: both halves of PF take place in alternative universes

Universe 1:

Honey Bunny says: “Any of you fucking pricks move, and I’ll execute every last one of you

Vincent doesn’t watch TV.

Pumpkin says Garçon! Coffee! Differently.

Universe 2:

Honey bunny Says: “Any of you fucking pricks move, and I’ll execute every one of you motherfuckers!”

Vincent likes the show Cops.

Pumpkin says “Garçon! Coffee” differently.

In the first universe, the human doesn’t come from the bathroom and Vincent and Jules don’t split off.

The “divine intervention” event is such a massive temporal fracture (as Vincent and Jules were both actually meant to die here), that it causes a parallel universe to split off in some weird way, where we are seeing what might’ve have happened had events unfold as they did in Universe 1.

When Vincent and Jules exit the door, however, at the end in Universe 2, their fates are much less certain.

That’s why the movie works in non-conventional chronological order. Because what we see in the first half doesn’t necessarily happen.

5 Comments
2025/01/18
13:23 UTC

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The Controversial Palme d'Or Win of Pulp Fiction at Cannes 1994

In 1994, Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction shook the film world by winning the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. While the groundbreaking film was celebrated by many, the audience at Cannes had a mixed response. Amid the applause, there were boos, and one person loudly shouted, “It’s a disgrace!” Tarantino, never one to back down, responded with a defiant middle finger, cementing his rebellious persona.

This moment encapsulates the divisive nature of Pulp Fiction at the time. Its unconventional storytelling and stylized violence were groundbreaking but controversial. Nearly three decades later, the film is considered a masterpiece. Was Cannes 1994 a turning point for modern cinema or just an overreaction to a bold new style?

What are your thoughts on this iconic moment in film history?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnS5pXQQmR4&pp=ygUdcXVlbnRpbiB0YXJhbnRpbm8gY2FubmVzIDE5OTQ%3D

3 Comments
2025/01/18
04:25 UTC

2

What did Jules mean "same fucking ballpark" ?

13 Comments
2025/01/17
15:39 UTC

53

Vincent driving high scene

I’ve never had an interest in trying hard drugs, but every time I see the scene where Vincent shoots up at Lance’s house and then goes for a drive in his convertible it makes me really want to try heroin. Such a well made scene

39 Comments
2025/01/17
06:43 UTC

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