The misunderstanding in the powder comes from the fact that what Vincent takes is usually held in a balloon, and what Mia has is held in a bag to avoid confusion. In the scene where Vincent purchases his stuff, the guy tells him 'I'm out of balloons' so puts it in a bag, hence the confusion; Mia thinks it is what she usually has and things go wrong
One thing you didn't catch: Vince wasn't actually alone in Butch's apartment. Since Jules quit he partnered up with Marcellus, but Marcellus was out getting breakfast and coffee while vince took a shit. Thats why Butch accidentally runs into him on his escape from the apartment, Marcellus was on his way back to vince.
A couple of things to note about Vincent... Two major side effects of heroin are twitching and constipation. His finger twitches setting off the gun when he shoots Marvin in the face. He carries a book with him and he's always coming out of the bathroom because he's constipated. It's subtle unless you know about that drug culture (which Tarantino definitely is experienced in) so it's just another way Tarantino shows his brilliance.
At this stage in Tarantino's filmography, there was no compositing or cgi. The weird lighting was the various bar neon lights. Something dimmer but closer to Ving wouldn't be as present on Bruce's more distant face. There was a common light source off camera to the left. Your insight into a well shot film is awesome.
There was no compositing in 1993? Behave 😂 Compositing techniques had been used for decades before QT could even conceive of this film. Take a look at the original King Kong, for example.
If you’re only 2 movies into Tarantino’s films, you probably don’t know yet 😂 but Quentin has stated (because it’s obvious) that he has a serious foot fetish lmao
he's got the worst taste in feet, too. the malformed, the un-cinematic. he knew margot robbie's were nice so he had to dirty them up for Hollywood. guys a tactician
This movie was definitely something when it came out in 1994, everyone was talking about it because nobody had seen anything like it, and it's quite a feat to make a movie that is SO unique. This movie also catapulted Samuel L. Jackson into the star we know him as today. It IS weird and intentionally confusing and provocative, but it does make a bit more sense on a second watching. The bandaid and briefcase were never officially explained, with Tarantino calling the briefcase "The McGuffin". In real life Ving Rhames has a scar on his neck so that's probably why the bandaid was there, but one of the leading fan theories is that Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) had sold his soul to the devil and that's what was in the briefcase (it had the combination of 666) and it had been removed through the neck where the bandaid was. If you want help deciphering the order, the Pulp Fiction wikipedia page has a list of the segments ordered chronologically. Cheers.
Quentin Tarantino talked about his inspiration for writing Pulp Ficion in an interview with American Film Institute: “Well, the idea in Pulp Fiction was the idea of taking the - I wouldn’t say film noir, but the pulp genre that was represented in the case of magazines like Black Mask where you had Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett writing them. And so I thought the idea in the case of Pulp Fiction, that would be kind of cool is to take three separate stories and make them be the oldest stories in the book. Whether it be Vincent’s character, the hoodlum has to go out with the boss’ lady but ‘Don’t touch her!’ And there’s a whole history of people who have touched her and what happens. Well, we’ve seen that before, a zillion times. In the case of the Bruce Will story, that’s the boxer who was supposed to throw the fight and he doesn’t and now the mob’s after him. We’ve seen that story a million times before. One of the things I thought about the third story was basically kind of the beginning of almost every Joel Silver movie which would start off with a couple of hit men showing up. Boom, boom! ‘You want to witness something? Witness this!’ And then they shoot the guy and then it cuts to Arnold Schwarzenegger walking through the forest and eventually he’s going to meet those guys. So I thought, well, what happens if we hung out with them night long [or] all day long? After they killed the guy, what happens to the rest of their day? And so it was the idea of taking these chestnuts and putting them together and then actually having the characters kind of intertwine. It all kind of takes place in one city, and it’s an environment that they all live in. The characters kind of know each other but you don’t know that for a while.””
What's telling about this extended quote from QT is that he says "I" instead of "we". He gives no credit whatsoever to his then writing partner, Roger Avary. Just shows the extent of the man's ego.
There's quite a few easter eggs. In all of Quentin's films, the cigarettes are "Red Apple" brand, the films all kind of fall into the same universe. Danny Devito was a producer of Pulp Fiction. Comedian/Actress Kathy Griffin was the one checking on Bruce after the Honda crash. The Buddy Holly waiter at the dance scene was Steve Buschemi, and Marvin who lost his head is Phil Lamarr, who is a wonderful voice actor, you know him as Hermes Conrad on Futurama. He's also done Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty, and I think is currently doing Bad Batch - Star Wars. And you noticed Quentin's foot fetish right away. That's something you see quite a bit in Kill Bill, and Death Proof. It's a thing. Also the shots with the camera in the trunk of a car, as the characters open the trunk is a repeated Quentin shot. The watch story scene is one of my favorites, Christopher Walken is amazing, and his delivery was fantastic. Quentin also plays with black and white and color quite a bit. Django was pretty fun considering the subject matter, Don Johnson leading a band of KKK was hilarious. Leo Decaprio was pure racist evil, and pulled it off, but it wasn't easy for him. He had some challenges delivering his lines. And Sam Jackson once again was great. You should really give it a go.
As far as I can tell, Jules and Vincent retrieve the briefcase early, go to breakfast and get robbed, dispose of the body and go to Marcellus to give him the thing, just as Marcellus is buying Butch off for the fight a few days later. Jules quits and Vincent buys a bunch of smack and takes mia out. Mia overdoses on H thinking it's coke and Vincent saves her and takes her home. The next day or so is the fight that butch wins and runs out from, staying in a motel until the next day. In the morning he has to get his watch and shoots Vincent, then runs out and the car accident and ensuing pawn shop thing happen and that's the end with Butch riding off home free with a Vincent's MAC, Zed's chopper, his dad's watch, and his girlfriend. Zed's dead, Jules is Kaine in LA, Vincent is dead, Marcellus and Mia Wallace each suffered horrific trauma that neither will be telling the other about, and Ringo and Honey Bunny probably won't learn their lesson.
@@tillmen4444 Butch picks up and examines a suppressed MAC submachine gun from his kitchen counter when he returned for the watch. He then hears Vincent in the bathroom. It's the gun he kills Vincent with. The encounter with Marsellus takes place on the way back to the motel afterward, and Marsellus uses what looks like a desert eagle to shoot at Butch after the car crash. Vincent dies from submachine gun fire, not a pistol. And the submachine gun was placed on Butch's countertop by Vincent who was waiting for Butch but got caught with his pants down, literally. Review the film if you still doubt me.
The importance of Vincent's date is that at the end of it, he experiences literally the second miracle of the night with Mia not dying and, despite it, continues to maintain his gangster lifestyle instead of taking Jules advice. This decision ends with him getting killed unceremoniously the next day over a dispute that is ultimately resolved as though his existence didn't even matter.
the effect you are asking about is the split diopter. it is an attachment that let's you have 2 focal lengths. the taxi scene uses screen projection, it was the most common way to shoot driving scenes before cgi and when practical streets were cost prohibitive
The ending scene of the movie, chronologically, is Bruce Willis getting the girl and riding off on the modern version of the horse. In fact, the entire movie is the story about Bruce Willis and the events surrounding the fight, and everything else is character development for the people involved in that plot.
Love to see you look at more Tarantino; Django, Inglorious, Etc… Also Some Guy Richie; The Gentleman, Lock Stock, Snatch. Also, as some extras; District 9, Elysium, Transcendence, Tucker and Dale vs Evil. PS Tarantino has a thing for feet, you’ll see the pattern the more movies you watch. Yes its publicly admitted and the actors just take it in their stride 😂
20:35 I've shot the open-bolt fully-automatic .45 ACP version of that firearm with a suppressor. With subsonic ammo you basically hear "clack clack clack" as the bolt carrier hits the stop at the back of the firearm. This was when a friend and I visited his friend in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in probably 1986. I also shot full-auto versions of an Uzi, an FN-FAL, a "Property of the US Government" Colt M-16 (the real thing used in Vietnam), the firearm earlier, and finally a M1919-A4 Browning .30-caliber belt-fed tripod-mounted machine gun. We shot the M1919-A4 at a junk washing machine about a quarter of a mile away. It did not make a "brrrrt" sound like most think it makes. It was 'thump-thump-thump-thump-thump, thump-thump-thump-thump-thump". We were also shooting one of the 9mm firearms at a tree probably 10 yards away. I saw a grey blur pass by me and heard a thump. The guy we were visiting had a grey spot on his tee-shirt and a welt on his chest. So, technically, I guess I have shot someone... That was a hell of a trip that I remember 37 years later.
This is my all time favorite movie. It doesn't really even have a plot, but the performances, character studies, and scenarios that Tarantino puts his characters into are all just genius. Also, he has the best pen game in the industry if you ask me. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who can write better dialogue than Quentin. A few other movies I'd recommend are Kill Bill 1/2, Django Unchained, and The Hateful 8. All of his movies are great, though.
Yes. It is the same actor, Tim Roth. He is FANTASTIC In film called 4 ROOMS. Tarantino directs 1 of the 4 Rooms/scenes. Star studded cast Selma Hyak, Bruce Willis, Antonia Banderas.. more.. it's definitely underrated and worth watching! --> there was a 1950's B&W Zorro TV show
“I’m confused a lot” - “what is the context of this scene?” … “very specifically” if you talk less during and actually watch the movie then you will find out soon enough and then not be confused anymore.
There's a guy I work with who grew up in a fairly rural area and his parents wouldn't pay for cable once it was available. He grew up watching just a small number of movies simply because of the way he was raised. He read a ton because books were something he could get his hands on a bit easier, so movies just sort of never became a thing he cared to engage with. When he joined the company I work for, it took us all of about a month to realize that this 26 year old kid hadn't seen almost any movies, so we started a regular movie night to get his eyeballs on some of the best that film has to offer. It is *easy* to see how a person could miss any number of seemingly classic films that "surely everyone has seen".
It's not a series of short films. It's the same story from the perspective of different protagonists at different points in time. It's non linear storytelling through the lens of different actors. In particular this movie builds off of the style Akira Kurosawa used in his 1950 classic Rashomon and a later film called The Heist, telling the story of a race track robbery in a non linear fashion. The difference is that Tarantino uses a lot of post modern elements that the other two movies didn't. After listening to your reaction I think you kind of missed that this movie is actually a very very dark existentialist comedy. Everyone is given a chance at redemption, those that spurn that chance don't survive the film. I was 34 when I first saw this movie as it came out and when exiting the theatre I immediately turned around and bought another ticket to see it again. Tarantino is one of those directors you strap yourself in and let him take you on a ride. The linear story is not so important in his movies as are the cultural and societal references he is making. That's why the format is what it is. It is deliberately meant to be disjointed, fragmented, episodic and random, much like actual life is. It's a glorious mess. Sit back and enjoy the ride. You never know what is actually going to turn out to be important.
All the Tarantino things everyone says is a movie thing came from this movie this is his 2nd movie and resoivor dogs wasn't highly known till after this movie came out
This is still my favorite movie because of the contact, and the way that the story was told! When I grew up watching movies, the movie had a beginning, middle and end with a nice finish! The way the story was told blew my mind!
TL;DR; This is not a movie. It is a cheap 1940s/1950s paperback novel with 3 stories intertwined, put to film. Tarantino tells you this at the beginning of the film by showing you dictionary definitions for the word 'pulp'. This is supposed to give you some idea of what you might expect to see. The people involved are mostly gangsters, drug dealers and drug users. They don't live in a soft world; they live in a rough, brutal world. Their language matches the world they live in. Marcellus is going out of town. He wants Vincent to keep an eye on Mia while he is gone so she doesn't go out partying on her own. The date sequence is there to make you think that Vincent is going to be killed for messing with Marcellus' wife, but you are thrown a curve when she snorts heroin and ODs, taking the story down an unexpected path. Captain Koons' tale of the watch's history is there to explain why the watch is so important to Butch who was orphaned at a young age. The watch is his only connection to his dead father. It would be an awkward thing to have to explain in the middle of Butch's fit over Fabienne forgetting to pack it for their escape. Jules thinks God has intervened to save their lives. Vincent does not believe it. What happens? Jules walks away from thug life and he lives. Vincent does not and he dies. This is why Jules is not with Vincent in Butch's apartment. It is also why Marcellus was there, he took Jules' place at the stakeout. He happened to be on a donut and coffee run when Butch came back for his watch. Please do watch it again and try to avoid thinking about applying current sensibility to a 30-year-old film whose stories are told in the style of cheap crime short stories from 60 or 70 years ago. P.S. Tarantino doesn't put scenes in a movie to kill time; they are there for a reason. His scenes are longer than those in modern films because he wants to immerse you in the moment. Today's bang bang expectations will not be satisfied in his films. His follow-up to this film is 'Jackie Brown'. He adapted the story 'Rum Punch' written by the black author, Elmore Leonard for its screen play. It is also a tale of drugs and gangsters, but very different from PF. It is also told in a linear timeline, so it is less confusing.
No he impersonating Ed Sullivan! For 11 Seasons from 1948 to 1959 The Ed Sullivan Show was a variety show that had random acts and it showed the most iconic moment in entertainment history he showed Elvis for the first time from the waist up because they were scared his hip movements makes young women go crazy!!!
Rat tailed Jimmy is a second hand hood He deals out in Hollywood Got a '65 Chevy primered flames Traded for some powdered goods Jigsaw Jimmy he's runnin' a gang But I hear he's doin' okay Got a cozy little job sells the Mexican mob Packages of candy cane He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood He's the one that makes ya feel alright He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood Cops on the corner always ignore Somebody's getting paid Jimmy's got it wired, law's for hire Got it make in the shade Got a little hideaway, does business all day But at night he'll always be found Selling sugar to the sweet People on the street Call this Jimmy's town He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood He's the one that makes ya feel alright He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood He's gonna be your Frankenstein I've got one thing you'll understand (Dr. Feelgood) He's not what you'd call a glamorous man (Dr. Feelgood) Got one thing that's easily understood (Dr. Feelgood) He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood oh yeah He'll tell you he's the king of these Barrio streets Moving up to Shangri La Came by his wealth as a matter of luck Says he never broke no law Two time loser running out of juice Time to move out quick Heard a rumor going round Jimmy's going down This time it's gonna stick He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood He's the one that makes ya feel alright He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood He's gonna be your Frankenstein Let him soothe your soul, just take his hand (Dr. Feelgood) Some people call him an evil man (Dr. Feelgood) Let him introduce himself real good (Dr. Feelgood) He's the only one they call feelgood (Dr. Feelgood) I've got one thing you'll understand (Dr. Feelgood) He's not what you'd call a glamorous man (Dr. Feelgood) Got one thing that's easily understood (Dr. Feelgood) He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood Dr. Feelgood (Dr. Feelgood) Dr. Feelgood (Dr. Feelgood) Dr. Feelgood (Dr. Feelgood) Dr. Feelgood (Dr. Feelgood) Feelgood, Feelgood, Feelgood, Feelgood
Honest Trailers did an episode of "Every Quentin Tarantino Movie" in which there was a compilation several minutes long of all the scenes involving feet. He certainly doesn't share your aversion towards them.
Obviously this is not a traditional film by any measure. It is post modern, and the style of each scene matters more than any normal A-Z narrative. There are 3 protagonists: Vince, Jules, and Butch. Each of them kills, and each of them saves a life. How and why, that's what's interesting, moreso than whatever was in the briefcase, which doesn't matter and is whatever you want it to be.
The band aid on the back of Marsellus' neck was purely functional and stayed for continuity, and I believe Tarantino finally said that whatever is in the briefcase, is whatever Marsellus Wallace would hold most dear. It's a MacGuffin. That's it.
Lived in Germany for 10 years as a military brat. I totally love mayo and fries. It’s still the only way I will eat fries after 30 years since I left there.
Film Flaw: Notice that the bullet holes caused by the guy hiding comes out with a "hand-cannon" in Act 3 are visible on the wall in Act 1 before Vincent and Jules were ever shot at. Also notice that EVERY TIME that Vincent goes into a restroom, something bad happens.
The detail of the same book: Vincent is reading in the Diner, is the same one he's reading @ Butch's apartment. Didn't pick up on this. The reason Vincent is always in the toilet 🚽: Heroin makes you constipated, when you don't take it: everything comes out.
The idea behind the disjointed timeline, as I understand it, is that this is supposed to be an Art House Film where the theater got the reels out of order.
The reason they keep showing the back of Marcellus' head is bc the theory that the breifcase contains Marcellus' soul, removed they the back of his neck. Notice the bandaid.
This movie was a series of short stories created by 2 people over a long period of time. They worked together and then over time figured a way to link all the short stories into one longer story. That is why it is hard to follow at the start. As you now know all the links between stories was clearly defined by the end. Being all the stories were separate to begin with, they did a good job linking them into one.
I’ve been saying it’s a rectangle since the first time I saw it. Don’t do Django(silent d. J as in jump) next. It’s awesome. But I don’t think you’re ready. Go in order, do Jackie Brown next. Outstanding movie!
Idk but if you were raised in the 80s and 90s in the Americas cant even imagine before then, the racial slurs were way more prevalent irl than in this movie. remember when this came out thinking the dialogue in this movie was more "realistic" because of the few casual racial slurs in it : P
Yeah, there's no "unnecessary racial slurs" here or in Reservoir Dogs. This is how the characters talk. It adds huge context to the environment they grew up in. They're words they always used around one another and that's just the way it is.
A movie you should check out is Four Rooms. It is literally 4 short movies filmed by 4 different directors and the only thing that connects the films is the night desk clerk of a hotel. Tarantino is one of the film's directors. Another one to check out is True Romance, which was written by Tarantino but was directed by Tony Scott.
Trivia: Big Kahuna burger 🍔 is in Pulp Fiction, Dusk till Dawn. I'm thinking maybe Reservoir Dogs. It's a fictional Hawaiian burger joint but connects all the movies 🍿 into the same universe. So the universe that has WWII(Inglourious Basterds) also has vampires.
Tarantino being in most of his movies 🍿: is self indulgent. But in Dusk till Dawn (1996) he's actually a pretty good actor. I liked him in Reservoir Dogs. He makes a funny cameo in some movie: talking about how Top Gun is Maverick struggling to admit he's a homosexual
You're not seeing The context of the scebecause you're not letting it finish. It's like asking a question and when someone's trying to give the answer you keep stopping them every 3 seconds and saying that you don't understand. You are confusing and harming yourself
This film is not set in 1994. It's meant to be set in the early 80s at the latest. Almost all Tarantino films are set closer to the middle of the coolest century.
People are so impatient watching movies, its brutal watching you pause the movie in confused frustration just for the movie to answer your questions in 40 seconds. Just some constructive critisims.
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Can you react to freedom writers it’s about segregation
Awesome movie
@@williamsmith5340 no one has reacted to it :(
Slurs are because, this is common in the US with how regular people talk. Especially people who would be in this type of work.
Lol every Tarantino movie is about feet.
The misunderstanding in the powder comes from the fact that what Vincent takes is usually held in a balloon, and what Mia has is held in a bag to avoid confusion. In the scene where Vincent purchases his stuff, the guy tells him 'I'm out of balloons' so puts it in a bag, hence the confusion; Mia thinks it is what she usually has and things go wrong
One thing you didn't catch: Vince wasn't actually alone in Butch's apartment. Since Jules quit he partnered up with Marcellus, but Marcellus was out getting breakfast and coffee while vince took a shit. Thats why Butch accidentally runs into him on his escape from the apartment, Marcellus was on his way back to vince.
A couple of things to note about Vincent... Two major side effects of heroin are twitching and constipation. His finger twitches setting off the gun when he shoots Marvin in the face. He carries a book with him and he's always coming out of the bathroom because he's constipated.
It's subtle unless you know about that drug culture (which Tarantino definitely is experienced in) so it's just another way Tarantino shows his brilliance.
And Marsellus was staking out Butch's apartment with Vincent, but went out for donuts, so Vincent went to try and take a shit.
At this stage in Tarantino's filmography, there was no compositing or cgi. The weird lighting was the various bar neon lights. Something dimmer but closer to Ving wouldn't be as present on Bruce's more distant face. There was a common light source off camera to the left. Your insight into a well shot film is awesome.
There was no compositing in 1993? Behave 😂
Compositing techniques had been used for decades before QT could even conceive of this film. Take a look at the original King Kong, for example.
@@richieclean there was none in tarantinos movies. i dont get what u wanna say no one argued the time xD
@@DaxRaider my bad, misread the OP's comment.
If you’re only 2 movies into Tarantino’s films, you probably don’t know yet 😂 but Quentin has stated (because it’s obvious) that he has a serious foot fetish lmao
I've never seen Lboyd this upset!
he's got the worst taste in feet, too. the malformed, the un-cinematic. he knew margot robbie's were nice so he had to dirty them up for Hollywood.
guys a tactician
@@mikemath9508Uma Thurman has perfect feet
This movie was definitely something when it came out in 1994, everyone was talking about it because nobody had seen anything like it, and it's quite a feat to make a movie that is SO unique. This movie also catapulted Samuel L. Jackson into the star we know him as today. It IS weird and intentionally confusing and provocative, but it does make a bit more sense on a second watching. The bandaid and briefcase were never officially explained, with Tarantino calling the briefcase "The McGuffin". In real life Ving Rhames has a scar on his neck so that's probably why the bandaid was there, but one of the leading fan theories is that Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames) had sold his soul to the devil and that's what was in the briefcase (it had the combination of 666) and it had been removed through the neck where the bandaid was. If you want help deciphering the order, the Pulp Fiction wikipedia page has a list of the segments ordered chronologically. Cheers.
Only Samuel L Jackson can call himself "the tyranny of evil men" believably.....lol....
Quentin Tarantino talked about his inspiration for writing Pulp Ficion in an interview with American Film Institute: “Well, the idea in Pulp Fiction was the idea of taking the - I wouldn’t say film noir, but the pulp genre that was represented in the case of magazines like Black Mask where you had Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett writing them. And so I thought the idea in the case of Pulp Fiction, that would be kind of cool is to take three separate stories and make them be the oldest stories in the book. Whether it be Vincent’s character, the hoodlum has to go out with the boss’ lady but ‘Don’t touch her!’ And there’s a whole history of people who have touched her and what happens. Well, we’ve seen that before, a zillion times. In the case of the Bruce Will story, that’s the boxer who was supposed to throw the fight and he doesn’t and now the mob’s after him. We’ve seen that story a million times before. One of the things I thought about the third story was basically kind of the beginning of almost every Joel Silver movie which would start off with a couple of hit men showing up. Boom, boom! ‘You want to witness something? Witness this!’ And then they shoot the guy and then it cuts to Arnold Schwarzenegger walking through the forest and eventually he’s going to meet those guys. So I thought, well, what happens if we hung out with them night long [or] all day long? After they killed the guy, what happens to the rest of their day? And so it was the idea of taking these chestnuts and putting them together and then actually having the characters kind of intertwine. It all kind of takes place in one city, and it’s an environment that they all live in. The characters kind of know each other but you don’t know that for a while.””
What's telling about this extended quote from QT is that he says "I" instead of "we". He gives no credit whatsoever to his then writing partner, Roger Avary. Just shows the extent of the man's ego.
@@richieclean He's talking about coming up with the idea, not actually writing it. You're filling stuff in that isn't there.
But did he mention his writing partner, Avery?
@@orangewarm1 It's Avary, and what do you know about his contributions to Pulp Fiction exactly?
There's quite a few easter eggs. In all of Quentin's films, the cigarettes are "Red Apple" brand, the films all kind of fall into the same universe. Danny Devito was a producer of Pulp Fiction. Comedian/Actress Kathy Griffin was the one checking on Bruce after the Honda crash. The Buddy Holly waiter at the dance scene was Steve Buschemi, and Marvin who lost his head is Phil Lamarr, who is a wonderful voice actor, you know him as Hermes Conrad on Futurama. He's also done Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, Rick and Morty, and I think is currently doing Bad Batch - Star Wars. And you noticed Quentin's foot fetish right away. That's something you see quite a bit in Kill Bill, and Death Proof. It's a thing. Also the shots with the camera in the trunk of a car, as the characters open the trunk is a repeated Quentin shot. The watch story scene is one of my favorites, Christopher Walken is amazing, and his delivery was fantastic. Quentin also plays with black and white and color quite a bit.
Django was pretty fun considering the subject matter, Don Johnson leading a band of KKK was hilarious. Leo Decaprio was pure racist evil, and pulled it off, but it wasn't easy for him. He had some challenges delivering his lines. And Sam Jackson once again was great. You should really give it a go.
As far as I can tell, Jules and Vincent retrieve the briefcase early, go to breakfast and get robbed, dispose of the body and go to Marcellus to give him the thing, just as Marcellus is buying Butch off for the fight a few days later. Jules quits and Vincent buys a bunch of smack and takes mia out. Mia overdoses on H thinking it's coke and Vincent saves her and takes her home. The next day or so is the fight that butch wins and runs out from, staying in a motel until the next day. In the morning he has to get his watch and shoots Vincent, then runs out and the car accident and ensuing pawn shop thing happen and that's the end with Butch riding off home free with a Vincent's MAC, Zed's chopper, his dad's watch, and his girlfriend. Zed's dead, Jules is Kaine in LA, Vincent is dead, Marcellus and Mia Wallace each suffered horrific trauma that neither will be telling the other about, and Ringo and Honey Bunny probably won't learn their lesson.
Only thing wrong is the gun was marcellus not Vincent's
@@tillmen4444 he picked the MAC up from his kitchen counter where Vincent left it when he went to the bathroom.
@@The_Kiosk that was marcellus gun from when he went to get doughnuts, Vincent's is in the bathroom
@@tillmen4444 Butch picks up and examines a suppressed MAC submachine gun from his kitchen counter when he returned for the watch. He then hears Vincent in the bathroom. It's the gun he kills Vincent with. The encounter with Marsellus takes place on the way back to the motel afterward, and Marsellus uses what looks like a desert eagle to shoot at Butch after the car crash. Vincent dies from submachine gun fire, not a pistol. And the submachine gun was placed on Butch's countertop by Vincent who was waiting for Butch but got caught with his pants down, literally. Review the film if you still doubt me.
The importance of Vincent's date is that at the end of it, he experiences literally the second miracle of the night with Mia not dying and, despite it, continues to maintain his gangster lifestyle instead of taking Jules advice.
This decision ends with him getting killed unceremoniously the next day over a dispute that is ultimately resolved as though his existence didn't even matter.
the chronological end of the movie is when Bruce's character says "Zeds dead baby, Zed's dead." And rides off on the chopper.
the effect you are asking about is the split diopter. it is an attachment that let's you have 2 focal lengths. the taxi scene uses screen projection, it was the most common way to shoot driving scenes before cgi and when practical streets were cost prohibitive
Zorro had a TV show in 1957 to 1959
The way he talks about feet makes me want to see a reaction to From Dusk Till Dawn.
He'll probably gag.
I'd think a man of history would recognize Ed Sullivan instead of Richard Nixon...
I've seen a few reactors make the same mistake.
To be honest, I thought it was Nixon too when I first watched it in theaters. Facially he looks more like the Nixon caricatures that I grew up seeing.
@@user-dz6fy6qv2l it's the voice that tips it off for me
This is one of those movies that gets better and better from rewatches. I was lost first watch too lol.
One reason that the Dance Scene happened is that this was John Travolta of Saturday Night Fever.
The ending scene of the movie, chronologically, is Bruce Willis getting the girl and riding off on the modern version of the horse. In fact, the entire movie is the story about Bruce Willis and the events surrounding the fight, and everything else is character development for the people involved in that plot.
Love to see you look at more Tarantino; Django, Inglorious, Etc… Also Some Guy Richie; The Gentleman, Lock Stock, Snatch. Also, as some extras; District 9, Elysium, Transcendence, Tucker and Dale vs Evil. PS Tarantino has a thing for feet, you’ll see the pattern the more movies you watch. Yes its publicly admitted and the actors just take it in their stride 😂
I love L Boyd's logic brain, "that's a rectangle" LOL
“Ah man I just shot Marvin in the face” Has to be one of the funniest lines in cinematic history.
The matter of fact, but slightly annoyed delivery is perfect as well.
It’s not the line that’s great it’s the way he says it
The extra who gets shot is the same lady who gets pulled out of her car in Reservoir Dogs.
20:35 I've shot the open-bolt fully-automatic .45 ACP version of that firearm with a suppressor. With subsonic ammo you basically hear "clack clack clack" as the bolt carrier hits the stop at the back of the firearm. This was when a friend and I visited his friend in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in probably 1986. I also shot full-auto versions of an Uzi, an FN-FAL, a "Property of the US Government" Colt M-16 (the real thing used in Vietnam), the firearm earlier, and finally a M1919-A4 Browning .30-caliber belt-fed tripod-mounted machine gun. We shot the M1919-A4 at a junk washing machine about a quarter of a mile away. It did not make a "brrrrt" sound like most think it makes. It was 'thump-thump-thump-thump-thump, thump-thump-thump-thump-thump". We were also shooting one of the 9mm firearms at a tree probably 10 yards away. I saw a grey blur pass by me and heard a thump. The guy we were visiting had a grey spot on his tee-shirt and a welt on his chest. So, technically, I guess I have shot someone...
That was a hell of a trip that I remember 37 years later.
If only TH-cam was a thing back then. Sounds badass
Watching this man try to justify why fresh washed feet are different from lap juices is hilarious. 😂
LBoyd: Feet are the grossest part of the human body.
Viewers: Oh, Tarantino is going to be a long road for you...
Definitely continue with Q.T.'s filmography. 7 more movies. Quentin is famous for the foot fetish, you see it thru out his films.
This is my all time favorite movie. It doesn't really even have a plot, but the performances, character studies, and scenarios that Tarantino puts his characters into are all just genius. Also, he has the best pen game in the industry if you ask me. You'd be hard pressed to find someone who can write better dialogue than Quentin. A few other movies I'd recommend are Kill Bill 1/2, Django Unchained, and The Hateful 8. All of his movies are great, though.
"I think a rectangle is a cooler square." 😂 I love it!
Yes. It is the same actor, Tim Roth. He is FANTASTIC In film called 4 ROOMS. Tarantino directs 1 of the 4 Rooms/scenes. Star studded cast Selma Hyak, Bruce Willis, Antonia Banderas.. more.. it's definitely underrated and worth watching!
--> there was a 1950's B&W Zorro TV show
Love 4 Rooms
Especially the part with Antonio's kids. Poor Tim Roth. 🤣
*heavy breathing*..... " Is this movie about feet!?"
This is still one of the greatest films of all time.
all filmed at the same time, i believe the whole thing was shot in less than a week. no cgi, just excellent framing and lighting.
As an American kid, I actually (sometimes) ate fries with mayonnaise well before Pulp Fiction came out. It's just good.
"Is this movie about feet?....... I think it is." - That's gotta be the best Tarantino-related quote this year ;)
“I’m confused a lot” - “what is the context of this scene?” … “very specifically” if you talk less during and actually watch the movie then you will find out soon enough and then not be confused anymore.
I don't understand how he has never seen Pulp Fiction before, it's like one of the most classic films of all time
There's a guy I work with who grew up in a fairly rural area and his parents wouldn't pay for cable once it was available. He grew up watching just a small number of movies simply because of the way he was raised. He read a ton because books were something he could get his hands on a bit easier, so movies just sort of never became a thing he cared to engage with. When he joined the company I work for, it took us all of about a month to realize that this 26 year old kid hadn't seen almost any movies, so we started a regular movie night to get his eyeballs on some of the best that film has to offer. It is *easy* to see how a person could miss any number of seemingly classic films that "surely everyone has seen".
@@just_gut That was a nice gesture
Every Tarantino fan knows there's a running theme with feet throughout his filmography.
Kill Bill 1, Kill Bill 2, Inglorious Bastards, and Django Unchained.... is the only acceptable order to watch them in 😂😂😂
It's not a series of short films. It's the same story from the perspective of different protagonists at different points in time. It's non linear storytelling through the lens of different actors. In particular this movie builds off of the style Akira Kurosawa used in his 1950 classic Rashomon and a later film called The Heist, telling the story of a race track robbery in a non linear fashion. The difference is that Tarantino uses a lot of post modern elements that the other two movies didn't.
After listening to your reaction I think you kind of missed that this movie is actually a very very dark existentialist comedy. Everyone is given a chance at redemption, those that spurn that chance don't survive the film. I was 34 when I first saw this movie as it came out and when exiting the theatre I immediately turned around and bought another ticket to see it again. Tarantino is one of those directors you strap yourself in and let him take you on a ride. The linear story is not so important in his movies as are the cultural and societal references he is making. That's why the format is what it is. It is deliberately meant to be disjointed, fragmented, episodic and random, much like actual life is. It's a glorious mess. Sit back and enjoy the ride. You never know what is actually going to turn out to be important.
The vastly underrated Jackie Brown...an homage to the Blaxploitation Era
My favorite of QT
In the cinema it was a square,but due to the change in aspect ratio needed for DVD it became a rectangle
I know he's not calling this a horror film because of the feet. I'm wheezing!
"Look in your rectum." When Bruce Willis is looking for the watch, was very funny, thanks.
All the Tarantino things everyone says is a movie thing came from this movie this is his 2nd movie and resoivor dogs wasn't highly known till after this movie came out
This is still my favorite movie because of the contact, and the way that the story was told! When I grew up watching movies, the movie had a beginning, middle and end with a nice finish! The way the story was told blew my mind!
TL;DR;
This is not a movie. It is a cheap 1940s/1950s paperback novel with 3 stories intertwined, put to film. Tarantino tells you this at the beginning of the film by showing you dictionary definitions for the word 'pulp'. This is supposed to give you some idea of what you might expect to see. The people involved are mostly gangsters, drug dealers and drug users. They don't live in a soft world; they live in a rough, brutal world. Their language matches the world they live in.
Marcellus is going out of town. He wants Vincent to keep an eye on Mia while he is gone so she doesn't go out partying on her own. The date sequence is there to make you think that Vincent is going to be killed for messing with Marcellus' wife, but you are thrown a curve when she snorts heroin and ODs, taking the story down an unexpected path.
Captain Koons' tale of the watch's history is there to explain why the watch is so important to Butch who was orphaned at a young age. The watch is his only connection to his dead father. It would be an awkward thing to have to explain in the middle of Butch's fit over Fabienne forgetting to pack it for their escape.
Jules thinks God has intervened to save their lives. Vincent does not believe it. What happens? Jules walks away from thug life and he lives. Vincent does not and he dies. This is why Jules is not with Vincent in Butch's apartment. It is also why Marcellus was there, he took Jules' place at the stakeout. He happened to be on a donut and coffee run when Butch came back for his watch.
Please do watch it again and try to avoid thinking about applying current sensibility to a 30-year-old film whose stories are told in the style of cheap crime short stories from 60 or 70 years ago.
P.S. Tarantino doesn't put scenes in a movie to kill time; they are there for a reason. His scenes are longer than those in modern films because he wants to immerse you in the moment. Today's bang bang expectations will not be satisfied in his films. His follow-up to this film is 'Jackie Brown'. He adapted the story 'Rum Punch' written by the black author, Elmore Leonard for its screen play. It is also a tale of drugs and gangsters, but very different from PF. It is also told in a linear timeline, so it is less confusing.
This is classic Tarantino....he is known for being how you would say long winded in his scripts and shots
Wow, I made it with less than a minute till the start! First time I have been early for one of these :)
Tarantino is a film GOAT!! Keep going!!
"He puts them in his mouth guys, 100%" lmfao 🤣🤣🤣
No he impersonating Ed Sullivan! For 11 Seasons from 1948 to 1959 The Ed Sullivan Show was a variety show that had random acts and it showed the most iconic moment in entertainment history he showed Elvis for the first time from the waist up because they were scared his hip movements makes young women go crazy!!!
Its just 48 hours of people going though absolutely hellish situations
I grew up poor, living in inner cities, and I can tell you people most definitely speak like this in real life. Especially around drugs and criminals
Love his movies! Try Kill Bill 1& 2,Django,The Hateful Eight,Death Proof,Planet Terror,Jackie Brown and Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood.
Rat tailed Jimmy is a second hand hood
He deals out in Hollywood
Got a '65 Chevy primered flames
Traded for some powdered goods
Jigsaw Jimmy he's runnin' a gang
But I hear he's doin' okay
Got a cozy little job sells the Mexican mob
Packages of candy cane
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's the one that makes ya feel alright
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
Cops on the corner always ignore
Somebody's getting paid
Jimmy's got it wired, law's for hire
Got it make in the shade
Got a little hideaway, does business all day
But at night he'll always be found
Selling sugar to the sweet
People on the street
Call this Jimmy's town
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's the one that makes ya feel alright
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's gonna be your Frankenstein
I've got one thing you'll understand (Dr. Feelgood)
He's not what you'd call a glamorous man (Dr. Feelgood)
Got one thing that's easily understood (Dr. Feelgood)
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood oh yeah
He'll tell you he's the king of these Barrio streets
Moving up to Shangri La
Came by his wealth as a matter of luck
Says he never broke no law
Two time loser running out of juice
Time to move out quick
Heard a rumor going round
Jimmy's going down
This time it's gonna stick
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's the one that makes ya feel alright
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
He's gonna be your Frankenstein
Let him soothe your soul, just take his hand (Dr. Feelgood)
Some people call him an evil man (Dr. Feelgood)
Let him introduce himself real good (Dr. Feelgood)
He's the only one they call feelgood (Dr. Feelgood)
I've got one thing you'll understand (Dr. Feelgood)
He's not what you'd call a glamorous man (Dr. Feelgood)
Got one thing that's easily understood (Dr. Feelgood)
He's the one they call Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Feelgood (Dr. Feelgood)
Dr. Feelgood (Dr. Feelgood)
Dr. Feelgood (Dr. Feelgood)
Dr. Feelgood (Dr. Feelgood)
Feelgood, Feelgood, Feelgood, Feelgood
Honest Trailers did an episode of "Every Quentin Tarantino Movie" in which there was a compilation several minutes long of all the scenes involving feet. He certainly doesn't share your aversion towards them.
Obviously this is not a traditional film by any measure. It is post modern, and the style of each scene matters more than any normal A-Z narrative. There are 3 protagonists: Vince, Jules, and Butch. Each of them kills, and each of them saves a life. How and why, that's what's interesting, moreso than whatever was in the briefcase, which doesn't matter and is whatever you want it to be.
Man Logical can talk, talk, talk sheesh. And damn he takes things so literal yet erroneously tries to fill in the blanks.
The band aid on the back of Marsellus' neck was purely functional and stayed for continuity, and I believe Tarantino finally said that whatever is in the briefcase, is whatever Marsellus Wallace would hold most dear. It's a MacGuffin. That's it.
Lived in Germany for 10 years as a military brat. I totally love mayo and fries. It’s still the only way I will eat fries after 30 years since I left there.
6:25 its called a Macguffin - an object or device in a movie or a book that serves merely as a trigger for the plot.
Film Flaw: Notice that the bullet holes caused by the guy hiding comes out with a "hand-cannon" in Act 3 are visible on the wall in Act 1 before Vincent and Jules were ever shot at. Also notice that EVERY TIME that Vincent goes into a restroom, something bad happens.
Do he just say "Vanilla", hey man! That's our word. 😉 lol
12:43, the host of the diner is supposed to be Ed Sullivan. Sullivan was the host of a tv show like the Tonight Show back in the 1950's.
The detail of the same book: Vincent is reading in the Diner, is the same one he's reading @ Butch's apartment. Didn't pick up on this. The reason Vincent is always in the toilet 🚽: Heroin makes you constipated, when you don't take it: everything comes out.
I had no idea that I was waiting for this… keep the QT movies coming!
And I just got to the point where there is no story just the most disturbing thing you will ever see is napping, I'm still scared of pawn shops
The idea behind the disjointed timeline, as I understand it, is that this is supposed to be an Art House Film where the theater got the reels out of order.
The reason they keep showing the back of Marcellus' head is bc the theory that the breifcase contains Marcellus' soul, removed they the back of his neck. Notice the bandaid.
They stole the dance contest trophy.
I love this movie i see something new every time I watch it
BTW, that's Ed Sullivan as the dance host and Steve Buscemi as their waiter Buddy Holly.
This movie was a series of short stories created by 2 people over a long period of time. They worked together and then over time figured a way to link all the short stories into one longer story. That is why it is hard to follow at the start. As you now know all the links between stories was clearly defined by the end. Being all the stories were separate to begin with, they did a good job linking them into one.
It's a square when projected on a big screen, it was filmed with the movie screen in mind.
I'm sitting here, CRYING laughing 😂😂😂, listening to you talking about gross feet.. because it sounds like my own thoughts😂😂😂
Mayonnaise flavored ice cream would be more of a custard.
I never pictured you with pierced ears
I’ve been saying it’s a rectangle since the first time I saw it. Don’t do Django(silent d. J as in jump) next. It’s awesome. But I don’t think you’re ready. Go in order, do Jackie Brown next. Outstanding movie!
They're detectives 😂.... oh they're criminals 😂😂😂
The guy at jackrabbit slims was not Richard Nixon, it was Ed sullivan
"Everything about that woman seems crazy" she made a career being type cast as the crazy chick
Idk but if you were raised in the 80s and 90s in the Americas cant even imagine before then, the racial slurs were way more prevalent irl than in this movie. remember when this came out thinking the dialogue in this movie was more "realistic" because of the few casual racial slurs in it : P
Yeah, there's no "unnecessary racial slurs" here or in Reservoir Dogs. This is how the characters talk. It adds huge context to the environment they grew up in. They're words they always used around one another and that's just the way it is.
@@AdamtheGrey02 he should check out 48 Hrs : p
Why no audio? All my other reactors managed to have it in their videos. Not bitching, just asking. I’m a big fan.
Q.T. is obsessed with feet. You'll see it in the majority of his films.
The collection of short films 🎥 comment: a valid observation
A movie you should check out is Four Rooms. It is literally 4 short movies filmed by 4 different directors and the only thing that connects the films is the night desk clerk of a hotel. Tarantino is one of the film's directors. Another one to check out is True Romance, which was written by Tarantino but was directed by Tony Scott.
The MC of the dance scene was
“Ed Sullivan”
Of the classic “Ed Sullivan Show” that launched dozens of music careers in that era
You have never seen a forest, have you? Only a bunch of trees.
Every scene is connected.
Watching a movie 5 seconds at a time, never digesting anything you're seeing and wondering why people say you get confused a lot.
He watches the full length on Patreon. As every reactor on YT does.
This is edited for TH-cam users as incentive to join the Patreon. Which is fair.
There was a very famous Zorro TV show in the 1950's.
Trivia: Big Kahuna burger 🍔 is in Pulp Fiction, Dusk till Dawn. I'm thinking maybe Reservoir Dogs. It's a fictional Hawaiian burger joint but connects all the movies 🍿 into the same universe. So the universe that has WWII(Inglourious Basterds) also has vampires.
Never thought I would see you in a Death Row shirt!
"Is it about feet?: LOL It's Tarantino, man. Of course it is.
Tarantino being in most of his movies 🍿: is self indulgent. But in Dusk till Dawn (1996) he's actually a pretty good actor. I liked him in Reservoir Dogs. He makes a funny cameo in some movie: talking about how Top Gun is Maverick struggling to admit he's a homosexual
You're not seeing The context of the scebecause you're not letting it finish. It's like asking a question and when someone's trying to give the answer you keep stopping them every 3 seconds and saying that you don't understand. You are confusing and harming yourself
Four rooms is next in Tarantino films. Most people have never seen it
This film is not set in 1994. It's meant to be set in the early 80s at the latest. Almost all Tarantino films are set closer to the middle of the coolest century.
People are so impatient watching movies, its brutal watching you pause the movie in confused frustration just for the movie to answer your questions in 40 seconds. Just some constructive critisims.
Zorro had a very popular Disney show from either the 50s or 60s not sure it was im plack and white
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