I'm almost 50. This movie came out when I was a teenager. I worshiped it like you wouldn't believe. Everybody my age did. We thought it was the coolest thing in the world and to be honest I still think it is and I like watching it with people who have never seen it so I can see their reactions to it
Only been asked for ID at the cinema twice in my life. Once when i was about to enter theatre door with my older sis (we had tickets), for Pulp Fiction. (i was 15, a movie fan, and had seen reservoir dogs & true romance, and was waiting for this). I begged my way in saying 'please you know how long ive been waiting!!!' , and then around 10 years later, walking into kill bill 2. Around 25 yr old, didnt look young, im 6ft. I laughed.
I’m 46 and I remember everyone was talking about this movie so I told my sister “everyone is talking about this movie so we are going to sit down and watch it” she was 5 years younger than me 😂. So we sat in our living room and watched this and it was the best thing I had ever seen !! 🩷🩷
22:38 - That's not President Nixon. That's Ed Sullivan. He hosted a TV variety show in the 50's and 60's. Acts like Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles (among hundreds of others) all appeared on the show. The theater where the show was taped has been re-named The Ed Sullivan Theater. Currently, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert does their shows from there.
1948 to 1971. It's amazing how these old variety shows were basically gatekeepers to stardom. Just a single episode on the Ed Sullivan show and you became a household name overnight.
The actor who played Ed Sullivan was Jerry Hoban. I actually saw him perform live as Ed Sullivan as an opening act for the Beatles tribute band "The Fab Four" at the old Aladdin Hotel Casino in Las Vegas many years ago.
Martin and Lewis refers to Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis who are white and Amos and Andy refers to a pair of black actors. So Martin and Lewis would be ordering a vanilla shake and Amos and Andy means a chocolate shake.
One inside joke is whenever something big goes down, Vincent is always in the bathroom. He’s in the bathroom when Mia overdoses, when the diner gets robbed, and when Butch comes back to the apartment. Vincent is a heroin addict, so he’s probably chronically constipated.
They'll be fine. I'm sure that they'll see this a ton of times after this just like you have. You're hear for their REACTION.. Not they're faces staring at a movie
@@57kwest when a movie is this dialogue heavy and known for many of its best lines, i just want them to actually hear them.. on multiple occasions just before a line they talk over it and missed it. No one said they can’t talk big boy, just that they could have added to their experiences by listening closely to the dialogue over making jokes
@@57kwest we dont want to hear movie scenes again, *we want to watch them hearing for the first time!* i love comments, if is necesary to pouse better! *nobody likes comments over the dialogues if they miss everything!*
Vincent Vega is always in the bathroom because heroin is an opiate and opiates can make you constipated. He's got a lot of time to read on the toilet. It's a nice touch.
I love the running gag of eveytime Vincent goes to the bathroom something bad happens. -when Mia overdoses -when he waits to ambush Butch -when he washes his hands in Jimmy’s house -the restaurant
The heroin constipates him. I’m not proud of it but I did heroin and I wouldn’t go for days. But it makes it difficult to even pee. A lot of people say why did Vincent leave his gun. He’s not very smart. Some people Have said it was Marcellus’ gun that he left to go get coffee. It wasn’t the type of fun you’d walk around with.
Mr. Wolf (the cleaner) had Jules and Vincent do the grunt work of cleaning the car, but he wasn't "doing nothing" or just telling them to do what they should already know to do. Remember, there's a (mostly) headless body to dispose of as well. The stuff Mr. Wolf had Jules and Vincent do was just to get them and the car out of the area without immediately getting spotted with blood everywhere. He's handling the body, paying off Jimmy for his trouble, cleaning up loose ends, etc.
Marcellus and Vincent were hanging out at Butch's apartment for the very unlikely reason that he would show up there. That's why Vincent was carelessly taking a dump with his machine gun on the counter. Same reason why Marcellus went out for donuts and was walking back to Butch's apt. He completely did not expect to run into Butch.
@@lansorbet5882 Exactly. They really did not think at all that Butch, for any reason, would go back to that apartment. But, just in case, why not just be there to start off with just for the 3% chance that he would. They also could be there to try and get clues to figure out where Butch might be heading to as well.
We had a smoking area in high school. I remember my aunts and uncles smoking in hospital rooms. It wasn’t uncommon for kids 14 or even younger to smoke openly in school or public spaces.
Movie theaters, too. Sometimes they had a "smoking section" and a "non-smoking section" but it's not like the smoke stayed all on one side of the room.
20:00 - "How d'ya want that shake, Martin and Lewis, or Amos and Andy?" Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were a (white) comedy team, while Amos and Andy was the title of an old radio comedy about black characters. So, I'm guessing a Martin and Lewis shake was vanilla and the Amos and Andy was chocolate. (Now what would a Strawberry shake be?)
This won a ton of awards. It's regularly considered in the top ten movies ever made. The dialog is epic, and the fractured timeline is one of it's signature elements.
At the end of the movie Jules keeps yelling “Be Cool!” John Travolta actually ended up doing a movie later called “Be Cool” which is the sequel to “Get Shorty” which stars Bruce Willis. Just a fun little “did you know” fact. 😅
Bruce Willis isn't in Get Shorty or Be Cool. Travolta stars in both. There's not likely any connection to Pulp Fiction, because Get Shorty was a book written by the great Elmore Leonard in 1990. The main character, Chili Palmer (Travolta in both films), was frequently described as effortlessly cool, and I believe he even says the line in the book. Get Shorty is a great flick. Be Cool, not so much.
John Travolta as the Fonz, that is funny. No that was Henry Winkler but during that time period Travolta was on a different tv show called Welcome Back Kotter playing the role of Vinnie Barbarino. Also during the dance competition you said it should be good because Travolta was in Grease, but a year before Grease came out he starred in a movie about a dancer called Saturday Night Fever. If you want to see his moves as a dancer you should check that one out.
I definitely used to roll my own cigarettes. Especially after the price of pre rolled cigarettes went up. I remember when a pack of Marlboros were thirty five cents. And you could buy cartons all day long for around four dollars a carton. Now cigarettes sell for over seven dollars a pack and upwards of seventy five to over a hundred dollars a carton depending on the brand. And fewer and fewer places are selling cigarettes now. I myself quit smoking after over thirty five years of smoking. Only to suffer a heat attack three months later. The cardiologist said it was more than likely partially due to the stress of quitting that could have triggered the heart attack. So now I'm sixty one years old and I have multiple health problems. The worst of which is issues directly related to my lifelong untreated sleep apnea that tried to kill me just this May. I had an acute respiratory failure and my blood oxygen levels were dangerously low and my CO2 levels were through the roof. At the ER they told me that I was touch and go there for quite a while after I arrived and that I had given them several scares. I spent the following five days in the ICU. They told me that had I gone back to sleep one more time. That I more than likely never would have woken up. I spent three days trying to get out of bed to get my phone and call for help. But I kept falling back asleep. I was dying and didn't even know it. But I was finally able to make it to my phone charging in my living room and called 911. I'm glad to still be here.
The Wolf does a lot in that scene, guys. He provides sound leadership when it's chaotic, he has to smooth things over with the owner of the house and reimburse him, and most importantly he's the one who has connections to the junkyard to dispose the car. You can't take a car with a body to any old junkyard
Such a great choice... Pulp Fiction is foundational. Tarantino changed the movie game forever, especially with this film. Amazing reaction... Thank you!
Pulp is a MASTERPIECE and quite arguably the most important film of the 90s. It literally changed cinema. It's QT's seminal work. The Academy should be ashamed for not giving Sam the Oscar that year.
The jumping timelines are one of the things I love about Quentin Tarantino movies. His unique story telling style keeps you engaged and paying attention because you know that if you are distracted for almost any amount of time from the movie that you're probably going to miss something important that ties everything together in the end. Her confusion about John Travolta's character Vincent seemingly dying and then coming back. Was simply a matter of jumping timelines. If you notice towards the beginning of the movie just after Vincent and Jewels kills the two guys in the apartment. It jumps to the scene where Marcellas Wallace is talking to Butch about throwing the fight. And when Butch goes to the bar to buy a pack of cigarettes. He meets Vincent who is wearing the clothes from the scene in the backyard of Jewels friend after getting hosed off. Then when you see the scene where Butch kills Vincent and you don't see Jewel's with him. Is because The scene in the diner with Jewels and Vincent has already happened but has yet to be shown. Point is Jewels isn't with Vincent in Butches apartment because Jewls by that point in the timeline has already had his epiphany and has already retired from the life. So Jewels wasn't there to save Vincent. Watch it a couple more times and you'll figure it out. It's a fantastic story telling style if you ask me. It definitely keeps you on your attentive feet.
Mia snorted the heroin thinking it was cocaine, that´s the detoning to had the overdose (heroin can be snorted as well, but the most common way it´s like Vincent did, using a needle. Also Mia was fully drugged in that moment). And Vincent goes a lot to the bath, due to he´s an heroin addict, and that provokes you, sometimes, constipation. Even the shot to Marvin´s face, it´s due to heroin, that also provokes you spasms (in this case pulling the trigger).
Vincent left his weapon on the counter and shut the bathroom door because Marcellus was with him before he went out for coffee. Vincent though he had returned, which is why he was surprised to see Butch standing there with his gun.😎
Was born in 77, Its cringe when our generation tries to be gate keepers. You suck because you weren't born in the golden age of movies.(20's to 70's).you should know better, You must be stupid.I'm so glad I know and that makes me better than you (lol this is how you sound.)
You say grandparents don't like movies with people shooting and etc, but this movie is the favorite one of my 78 years old Russian grandmother :D She loves a lot of old soviet movies, but this one is her №1 of all time.
Love you guys. Gonna make a few comments to help clarify: Q. Why didn’t Butch just keep the watch with him A. He had a boxing match. He likely didn’t want to get it stolen. Either stolen while it was unattended during his match or stolen afterwards since he knew he would not be throwing the match and would have people going after him. Q. Why did Vincent use the bathroom/leave his gun A. He’s a functional drug addict but a drug addict nonetheless. Heroin makes you constipated which is why he’s always having to use the bathroom Q. What’s the odds he runs into Marcellus A. Marcellus and Vincent were staking out at his place. He went back to his place. Marcellus went out to get donuts and coffee. Vincent is his muscle so he needed to stay at the apartment in case butch showed up Also the reason Vincent was alone was because Jules quit the day before due to his belief in divine intervention
Biggest question was why did Vincent decide to leave his weapon on the kitchen counter? Bonehead move!! The only reason that would remotely make sense would be if Marcellus left for coffee and donuts without telling Vincent and he thought it would be safe to drop a deuce with only his book?
@@morpheusjones4753because he sucks. Remember, he shot Marvin in the face on accident. No trigger discipline, pointing a loaded gun at someone you don't intend to kill is always a bad idea.
@@alicechan404 My guess is that Butch, like many boxers, might have been a few eggs shy of a dozen after the pounding to the cranium that they take over the years to plan proactively outside of the boxing match.
The difference in what happens to Vincent vs Jules arguably comes down to how each of them interpreted the "miracle" when they somehow didn't get shot.
@jaypea468 that is conjecture by the fans. There is no proof of that in the movie, which is all we have to go by. Tarantino may have said it, but again the movie doesn't prove anything.
@@garylee3685 It's implied in the movie since Vince insults Butch and then in his next scene, complains that his car was keyed, and he had JUST taken it out of storage. And Tarantino confirming that in interviews that is what happened isn't enough for you?
@jaypea468 Tarantino may say it, but he didn't write it that way in the movie. He could say Jules was related to Marcellus if he wants, who's going to disagree? That's a pretty big leap to figure out that that's the guy who keyed his car.
19:12 its a reference to kill bill, beatrice kiddo was the deadliest woman with knives, during filming pulp fiction they came up to do the movie kill bill.
20:00 - Regarding your question on the names of the 5-dollar shakes: "Martin and Lewis" (i.e. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy duo) means vanilla shake. "Amos and Andy" means chocolate shake. You can figure out for yourself why. 🤣
It wasn´t that common to roll cigaretes in the 90s, but since Vicent returned from Amsterdan that was a thing in Europe because they taxed cigaretes but not the smoke. After this movie people started to roll cigaretes again.
I started rolling cigarettes around this time. Not because of the movie, but because A) I was poor and B) The government started taxing packs of cigarettes about this time. They do tax loose tobacco now, but not nearly as much as they do packs.
Fonzie is from the TV show Happy Days played by Henry Winkler. For your generation he also played the principal in the movie Scream. No cap. It was fire. Skibidi Ohio Toilet
It was no coincidence that Butch ran into Marsellus. If you look before he was hit, Marellus was holding coffee and donuts. Vincent and Marsellus were staking out Butch's apartment and Marsellus went out to get donuts and coffee while Vincent waited. By the way Vincent is always on the toilet because he's a heroin user and it makes you constipated
Mia mistakenly thought Vince’s heroin was cocaine. That’s why she OD’s. Heroin can be snorted too, but Mia snorts way too much of it. Plus, Lance (the drug dealer) tells Vince earlier that the strain of heroin he’s selling him is for a madman, meaning it was super strong.
And the reason Mia mistakes the heroin for cocaine is because cocaine is usually sold in baggies while heroin is usually sold in balloons. Lance tells Vince that he's out of balloons and asks if a baggie is okay. Thus, when Mia finds a baggie full of powder in Vince's coat pocket, she assumes it's cocaine.
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Loved the reaction. Pulp Fiction along with Reservoir Dogs revolutionised the whole movie industry and the way movies were made when they came out. I'd have watched RD first but it IS a must watch.
There's so many layers of meaning to this film...countless people have literally written dissertations on the meaning within Pulp Fiction. And they hold up -- like comparing the trio of Jules, Vincent, and Butch to the journey of the Buddha in Siddhartha. Mrs October is right...upon multiple viewings there's so much to ponder. Why does Marcellus Wallace always have a bandaid on the back of his neck? What was in the briefcase? What is a miracle? Why was Tony Rocky Horror thrown off the balcony? Did Vincent accidentally shoot Marvin cuz his hands weren't steady? What is the meaning of The Gold Watch? And on and on...
1:08:42 It was definitely set post-80s because when Vincent was bringing Mia's body to the dealers house, towards the end of the call, he said "Are you calling me from a cellular phone?"
A jip means a ripoff. The emcee at the restaurant was supposed to be Ed Sullivan, a famous variety show host in the 60s. The "cool player thing" was a reel to reel player that some people use to have. Zed wasn't a cop; he was just a security guard.
@@michaelescareno7048 It's sad you cannot accept a polite, non-aggressive, well intentioned correction to a simple word in usage, to assist you in the future from appearing ignorant, without resorting to sarcastic childishness.
@USCFlash It's sad that your educational deficiency contributes to your use of comma splicing in a sentence. Unfortunately, it leaves me with no alternative other than to retract my previous assessment that you are smarter than everyone else. Now everyone is "sad".
Be cool like Fonzi. Fonzi (The Fonz) is a character from a US sitcom called Happy days back in the 70s, even us Brits over here grew up on that show 😀 Also Wanker is a british slur, which is the same as jerk off 😅
The emcee in the restaurant is not a President. It’s Ed Sullivan a very popular variety television show host. He introduced many new up and coming artists such as Elvis Presley, The Jackson Five and The Beatles. He had a very distinctive way he spoke. Check out his show on UA-cam
I’m from the Netherlands and the mayonnaise is a bit different, but even with mayo made here (Canada) fries and mayo is great. Give it a try sometime and you’ll see what I mean.
There's something about you two that makes me really enjoy your videos. Can't put my finger on it. I think your probably at a stage in your movie discovery journey to take mental notes of who's directing the movie. We forget that movies are art creations, just like novels, poetry, theatre, sculpture, painting, anime, etc... The artists often have their own unique style, which gives context to the piece. I saw that you recognize Tarantino on screen. Pulp Fiction is often rated as his best movie ever. Here's a description of Quentin Tarantino's style: "His very cinephile style is recognizable, among other things, by its postmodern and non-linear narration, its well-crafted dialogues often peppered with references to popular culture, and its highly aesthetic but extremely violent scenes, inspired by exploitation films, martial arts movies, or spaghetti westerns. He is a very recognizable director because his style is so unique. It's seldom shown in chronologically order. Some believe that by using stylized violence, he forces audience to question their own fascination with said violence. Tarantino loves dialogue and thinks they should be great. There's sometimes tension building during those conversations, or not, but the characters are always talking in a very involved manner.
When you go back and watch the ending of Captain America: Civil War, the scene where Nick was talking with Cap int he cemetery... there's a Pulp Fiction reference in his headstone. Anyway, you should go watch the other Tarantino Movies like Reservoir Dogs or Django Unchained or Hateful Eight. I'm sure you'll dig it. Also from my honest amateur opinion, Tarantino's movies are more about the experience and less about the story. He's pretty good at crafting memorable experiences for the audience... so just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
NOW watch 1.Kill part 1 and 2 2.Django Unchained 3.The HatefulEight 4.Inglourios Bastards 5.Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 6.Jackie Brown 7.Resorvior Dogs
I was 17 when this film came out, it was revelatory to me about the art of cinema and storytelling, it challenged me and i completely rolled with it from first viewing...... I absolutely LOVE this film, THANK YOU Octobers xxx ❤❤❤
Mrs. October was right about Pulp Fiction being about redemption (as well as the recurring idea that people's fates are a result of their choices). Most movies (good movies, anyway) will have a theme and the various characters will represent different expressions of how that theme could play out. So, for example, how could different characters interact with the theme of redemption? One could choose to do the right thing, one could choose to do the wrong thing, and one could initially choose to do the wrong thing but then change course and do the right thing. In this movie, you have: - Jules who sees "the miracle," makes the choice to leave the criminal life and, as a result, lives (presumably). - Vincent who ignores "the miracle," stays in the criminal life (and continues his heroin habit), and, as a result, dies. - Butch who starts out doing the wrong thing -- screwing over a crime boss to steal money from him -- which puts him in danger, but then, when they're both in trouble, decides to do "the right thing" and save Marcellus instead of just running away and leaving him to his fate. As a result of his change of course from bad to good, Butch is saved from the danger. It's three characters being given a decision point where they choose between doing the right thing and doing the wrong thing, and the choice each one makes leads to their individual fates.
You guys are making me feel OLD. I saw this film opening night at the theatre and it was absolutely unlike anything we had seen. Its influence has been so large since its release that I imagine it is hard to discern just how different it was in 1994. Btw, the guy at the restaurant was Ed Sullivan, not Nixon, and the Fonz wasn't played by John Travolta.
People definitely still hand roll tobacco into cigs, I have a friend who does that. It's kind of hipster here in L.A., actually, although almost no one here smokes anymore. It's also traditionally kind of a cowboy thing.
That scene, the whole thing when Vincent brings Mia to his dealer and they try to reanimate her is probably one of the greatest scenes, I have ever seen in my life!
20:06 He asked her earlier if she wanted a Martin and Lewis or an Amos and Andy. Martin and Lewis were two white comedians and Amos and Andy were two black comedians. He was asking if she wanted a vanilla or chocolate shake.
If you guys were wondering how, of all people, Butch happens to see Marcellus (after Butch got his watch and killed Vincent) it's because Vincent was with Marcellus waiting in Butch's apartment all night. Marcellus was so furious with Butch he was gonna be there personally for payback. But, the next morning, Vincent and Marcellus must have gotten hungry and Marcellus went to get food nearby -- which is why Butch encounters Marcellus crossing the street. Marcellus is on his way back to Butches apartment with that box of donuts he is carrying.
5:24 Yes!! it is so good! 1:20:09 Y'all definitely need to check out Jackie Brown (also w/ Samuel L. Jackson) and both Kill Bill movies! Those are my top 4 favorite Tarantino movies (Mia / Uma Thurman as a blonde stars, lol), rounding the top 5 with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. I STILL haven't seen Inglorious Bastards.
We used to be able to smoke in restaurants. When my husband and I used to smoke , sometimes to save money, we'd role our own smokes. When this movie came out I was pregnant with our third child..I have this film in my collection. P.S. I always order quickly, my husband on the other hand takes a while. Its the opposite with us. Ive always been a no nonsense type of gal. Thanx for the reaction, take care.Xx
(Year of release and/or commercial availability in parentheses below.) Reel-to-reel tape recorders/players (mid 1950s) were pre-cassette (1962). Not pre-vinyl (1930), but pre-cassette. In this movie's timeframe (1994), we were using CDs (1983). As an audio engineer in the 90s, I was using digital audio tape (DAT) (1987), and Alesis DAT (ADAT) (1991). An ADAT tape looks like a VHS tape. In fact, you could use VHS, but it wasn't a good idea, since a good quality ADAT tape was thicker and thus, less prone to stretching when you start and stop. It was an 8-track format. Having reel-to-reel in your home in 1994 would've been what we now might refer to as a hipster conceit. My parents had one when I (1961) was a child.
You could light up a cigarette on a boeing 747 passenger jet flying through the air up until 1988. Blue states banned smoking in restaurants, bars, and clubs mid-90's, and continued to ban smoking even outside in some places, red states followed suit early-2000's FYI.
On Welcome Back, Kotter at the end of every episode Mr Kotter told a random joke to his wife, just like Mia on Fox Force Five. This was pure coincidence.
The scene in the diner happened brfore Wallace tells Butch to take the dive in that bar, remember Vince and Jules walk into the bar with the goofy clothes on and Vince ran into Butch buying cigs... The story does jump around a bit in reality, Butch shooting Vince was the last part of the story, Vince was alone in Butch's appartment Jules is off walking the earth at that point...
John Travolta was a wild cast as Vincent Vega. Before Pulp Fiction, he was considered a has been, former pretty boy dancer. He took only 150k for this role.
To me, it always seemed that if Vincent had listened to Jules and walked away, he would still be alive. The whole time Jules was trying to explain to him the significance of the miracle and Vince didn’t listen. He got away with the Mia and Marvin situation and then the miracle, he had all the signs telling him to move away from the life but some people are blind. Love this movie
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Forget how young you guys are bless you.....
Sam Jackson is not the only one outting a hard -er on it in this one... you really have to be careful who you recommend this one to nowadays..😅
The reason Vincent Is always on the toilet is because heroin makes you constipated
Quentin Tarantino always has the greatest soundtracks !
@@TheMikeman1971 agreeed!
“Yeah he was in Grease he’s about to be killin this.” Cue one of the most iconic dance scenes of all time lol
Famous for Saturday Night Fever before Grease.
I'm almost 50. This movie came out when I was a teenager. I worshiped it like you wouldn't believe. Everybody my age did. We thought it was the coolest thing in the world and to be honest I still think it is and I like watching it with people who have never seen it so I can see their reactions to it
I had posters of this movie all over my college apartment.
I saw it on opening night. Nearly 30 years later and I'll never again will have a theater experience like that night in October.
Only been asked for ID at the cinema twice in my life. Once when i was about to enter theatre door with my older sis (we had tickets), for Pulp Fiction. (i was 15, a movie fan, and had seen reservoir dogs & true romance, and was waiting for this). I begged my way in saying 'please you know how long ive been waiting!!!' , and then around 10 years later, walking into kill bill 2. Around 25 yr old, didnt look young, im 6ft. I laughed.
I’m 46 and I remember everyone was talking about this movie so I told my sister “everyone is talking about this movie so we are going to sit down and watch it” she was 5 years younger than me 😂. So we sat in our living room and watched this and it was the best thing I had ever seen !! 🩷🩷
Came out thirty years ago two days ago (10/14/2024)
22:38 - That's not President Nixon. That's Ed Sullivan. He hosted a TV variety show in the 50's and 60's. Acts like Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles (among hundreds of others) all appeared on the show.
The theater where the show was taped has been re-named The Ed Sullivan Theater. Currently, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert does their shows from there.
1948 to 1971. It's amazing how these old variety shows were basically gatekeepers to stardom. Just a single episode on the Ed Sullivan show and you became a household name overnight.
The actor who played Ed Sullivan was Jerry Hoban. I actually saw him perform live as Ed Sullivan as an opening act for the Beatles tribute band "The Fab Four" at the old Aladdin Hotel Casino in Las Vegas many years ago.
Butch couldn't take his watch with him because he knew he's gonna run from the boxing match in his boxing gloves, straight to the taxi.
Martin and Lewis refers to Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis who are white and Amos and Andy refers to a pair of black actors. So Martin and Lewis would be ordering a vanilla shake and Amos and Andy means a chocolate shake.
every day i learn new things on youtube, nice
Exactly so
One inside joke is whenever something big goes down, Vincent is always in the bathroom. He’s in the bathroom when Mia overdoses, when the diner gets robbed, and when Butch comes back to the apartment. Vincent is a heroin addict, so he’s probably chronically constipated.
can't really talk during a tarantino movie, miss all the best diaologue
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They'll be fine. I'm sure that they'll see this a ton of times after this just like you have. You're hear for their REACTION.. Not they're faces staring at a movie
@@57kwest when a movie is this dialogue heavy and known for many of its best lines, i just want them to actually hear them.. on multiple occasions just before a line they talk over it and missed it. No one said they can’t talk big boy, just that they could have added to their experiences by listening closely to the dialogue over making jokes
@@57kwest we dont want to hear movie scenes again,
*we want to watch them hearing for the first time!*
i love comments, if is necesary to pouse better!
*nobody likes comments over the dialogues if they miss everything!*
Bro they have to talk. Thats their job. So what if they miss a few things. It sucks when its a great line or moment but it happens. Enhance your calm.
Vincent Vega is always in the bathroom because heroin is an opiate and opiates can make you constipated. He's got a lot of time to read on the toilet. It's a nice touch.
It sure as hell does. Its how Elvis died. His was so bad his colon was disdended several inches and the strain gave him arythmia and killed him
I love the running gag of eveytime Vincent goes to the bathroom something bad happens.
-when Mia overdoses
-when he waits to ambush Butch
-when he washes his hands in Jimmy’s house
-the restaurant
-and when things go bad at the diner.
The heroin constipates him. I’m not proud of it but I did heroin and I wouldn’t go for days. But it makes it difficult to even pee.
A lot of people say why did Vincent leave his gun. He’s not very smart. Some people
Have said it was Marcellus’ gun that he left to go get coffee. It wasn’t the type of fun you’d walk around with.
Opiates cause constipation.
Vince is a heroin addict and so he would be constantly constipated.
Vince goes to the bathroom a lot because he is constipated from his heroin addiction
Tarantino's philosophical chit chat is legendary.
Travolta goes to bathroom - Mia ODs
Travolta goes to bathroom - coffee shop robbed
Travolta goes to bathroom - left uzi on the counter, gets smoked
Vincent shut the door because Marcellus was there. Marcellus left to get donuts and coffee and left his gun.
I was just about to ask that. I never noticed before, he had two drinks
Why would Marcellus be there? Serious risk of exposure
@@86leewis Marcellus was Vincent's backup since Jules left the "business".
@@JirkaHeyduk his backup? Marcellus is a boss, he could have had anyone over there instead,
@@86leewisMarcellus wanted to be there when he was killed and maybe even do it himself cause he hated him so much for screwing him over
Mr. Wolf (the cleaner) had Jules and Vincent do the grunt work of cleaning the car, but he wasn't "doing nothing" or just telling them to do what they should already know to do. Remember, there's a (mostly) headless body to dispose of as well. The stuff Mr. Wolf had Jules and Vincent do was just to get them and the car out of the area without immediately getting spotted with blood everywhere. He's handling the body, paying off Jimmy for his trouble, cleaning up loose ends, etc.
Also, in a high stress situation, not every can keep cool enough to remember all the little things that seem obvious.
Marcellus and Vincent were hanging out at Butch's apartment for the very unlikely reason that he would show up there. That's why Vincent was carelessly taking a dump with his machine gun on the counter. Same reason why Marcellus went out for donuts and was walking back to Butch's apt. He completely did not expect to run into Butch.
@@lansorbet5882 Exactly. They really did not think at all that Butch, for any reason, would go back to that apartment. But, just in case, why not just be there to start off with just for the 3% chance that he would. They also could be there to try and get clues to figure out where Butch might be heading to as well.
Smoking was common IN restaurants and buildings during this time. Hell I worked office jobs where I could smoke cigarettes at my desk!😂
Good ole days looking ahh
We had a smoking area in high school. I remember my aunts and uncles smoking in hospital rooms. It wasn’t uncommon for kids 14 or even younger to smoke openly in school or public spaces.
Movie theaters, too. Sometimes they had a "smoking section" and a "non-smoking section" but it's not like the smoke stayed all on one side of the room.
When I started work in 1990, people could smoke at theirs desks still. It was gross! And still smoke on planes in certain areas!
Hell, we had a smoking section in my high school in the 1980s!
The first episode of a tv show is a pilot, because it’s job is to get the show “on air”
20:00 - "How d'ya want that shake, Martin and Lewis, or Amos and Andy?" Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis were a (white) comedy team, while Amos and Andy was the title of an old radio comedy about black characters. So, I'm guessing a Martin and Lewis shake was vanilla and the Amos and Andy was chocolate. (Now what would a Strawberry shake be?)
Minnelli and Herron
I Love Lucy = strawberry shake.
Pocahontas and Tonto?
"How d'ya want that shake, Martin & Lewis, Amos & Andy or Strawberry Fields Forever."
This won a ton of awards. It's regularly considered in the top ten movies ever made. The dialog is epic, and the fractured timeline is one of it's signature elements.
Top 100 not top ten
At the end of the movie Jules keeps yelling “Be Cool!”
John Travolta actually ended up doing a movie later called “Be Cool” which is the sequel to “Get Shorty” which stars Bruce Willis.
Just a fun little “did you know” fact. 😅
He also dances with Uma again in that movie.
Bruce Willis isn't in Get Shorty or Be Cool. Travolta stars in both. There's not likely any connection to Pulp Fiction, because Get Shorty was a book written by the great Elmore Leonard in 1990. The main character, Chili Palmer (Travolta in both films), was frequently described as effortlessly cool, and I believe he even says the line in the book. Get Shorty is a great flick. Be Cool, not so much.
@@clh35
You’re right, idk how I mixed up the whole ten yards and get shorty.
I think Be Cool is a funny movie if you’re on drunk or stoned though 😅
@@abducteeofearth1703 Haha that's fair, but it's a low bar. 😄
Samuel L. Jackson wrote a children's bedtime book called Go The Fuck To Sleep! I'm not joking.
He didn't write it, he narrated the audiobook. Adam Mansbach was the author.
Now go back to Captain America: Winter Soldier and read Nick Fury's gravestone at the end 😂
John Travolta as the Fonz, that is funny. No that was Henry Winkler but during that time period Travolta was on a different tv show called Welcome Back Kotter playing the role of Vinnie Barbarino. Also during the dance competition you said it should be good because Travolta was in Grease, but a year before Grease came out he starred in a movie about a dancer called Saturday Night Fever. If you want to see his moves as a dancer you should check that one out.
I definitely used to roll my own cigarettes. Especially after the price of pre rolled cigarettes went up. I remember when a pack of Marlboros were thirty five cents. And you could buy cartons all day long for around four dollars a carton. Now cigarettes sell for over seven dollars a pack and upwards of seventy five to over a hundred dollars a carton depending on the brand. And fewer and fewer places are selling cigarettes now.
I myself quit smoking after over thirty five years of smoking. Only to suffer a heat attack three months later. The cardiologist said it was more than likely partially due to the stress of quitting that could have triggered the heart attack.
So now I'm sixty one years old and I have multiple health problems. The worst of which is issues directly related to my lifelong untreated sleep apnea that tried to kill me just this May. I had an acute respiratory failure and my blood oxygen levels were dangerously low and my CO2 levels were through the roof. At the ER they told me that I was touch and go there for quite a while after I arrived and that I had given them several scares.
I spent the following five days in the ICU. They told me that had I gone back to sleep one more time. That I more than likely never would have woken up. I spent three days trying to get out of bed to get my phone and call for help. But I kept falling back asleep. I was dying and didn't even know it. But I was finally able to make it to my phone charging in my living room and called 911. I'm glad to still be here.
DO “KILL BILL” DO “KILL BILL” DO “KILLL BILLLLL”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that movie pretty much gives you everything that Tarantino films are all about
The Wolf does a lot in that scene, guys. He provides sound leadership when it's chaotic, he has to smooth things over with the owner of the house and reimburse him, and most importantly he's the one who has connections to the junkyard to dispose the car. You can't take a car with a body to any old junkyard
Such a great choice... Pulp Fiction is foundational. Tarantino changed the movie game forever, especially with this film. Amazing reaction... Thank you!
This movie will forever be iconic. Such a classic
Pulp is a MASTERPIECE and quite arguably the most important film of the 90s. It literally changed cinema. It's QT's seminal work. The Academy should be ashamed for not giving Sam the Oscar that year.
The jumping timelines are one of the things I love about Quentin Tarantino movies. His unique story telling style keeps you engaged and paying attention because you know that if you are distracted for almost any amount of time from the movie that you're probably going to miss something important that ties everything together in the end.
Her confusion about John Travolta's character Vincent seemingly dying and then coming back. Was simply a matter of jumping timelines. If you notice towards the beginning of the movie just after Vincent and Jewels kills the two guys in the apartment. It jumps to the scene where Marcellas Wallace is talking to Butch about throwing the fight. And when Butch goes to the bar to buy a pack of cigarettes. He meets Vincent who is wearing the clothes from the scene in the backyard of Jewels friend after getting hosed off.
Then when you see the scene where Butch kills Vincent and you don't see Jewel's with him. Is because
The scene in the diner with Jewels and Vincent has already happened but has yet to be shown. Point is Jewels isn't with Vincent in Butches apartment because Jewls by that point in the timeline has already had his epiphany and has already retired from the life. So Jewels wasn't there to save Vincent. Watch it a couple more times and you'll figure it out. It's a fantastic story telling style if you ask me. It definitely keeps you on your attentive feet.
Mia snorted the heroin thinking it was cocaine, that´s the detoning to had the overdose (heroin can be snorted as well, but the most common way it´s like Vincent did, using a needle. Also Mia was fully drugged in that moment). And Vincent goes a lot to the bath, due to he´s an heroin addict, and that provokes you, sometimes, constipation. Even the shot to Marvin´s face, it´s due to heroin, that also provokes you spasms (in this case pulling the trigger).
I can't believe how many people think he's a cop. His shirt says security guard..
Zed?
@@mikethemotormouth Yep.
@tapoemt3995 thank you for the clarity
@@mikethemotormouth 👍
Vincent left his weapon on the counter and shut the bathroom door because Marcellus was with him before he went out for coffee. Vincent though he had returned, which is why he was surprised to see Butch standing there with his gun.😎
You poor poor summer children... the 80s and 90s were the best generation to grow up... you young-ins just get remakes of the best times 😂
PREACH!!!!
Born in 79 and whole-heartedly agree. I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the 90s are what the kids these days what the 60s were to us. 🤯
@MoreJoy79 I'm an 81 baby, put sand in your wounds, swing from rusty metal and carry your clubhouse stuff in a radio flyer lol
Was born in 77, Its cringe when our generation tries to be gate keepers. You suck because you weren't born in the golden age of movies.(20's to 70's).you should know better, You must be stupid.I'm so glad I know and that makes me better than you (lol this is how you sound.)
Buggy when gen xers talk down on us millenials and our boringness, shut up and go play with your stick lmao
Sam Jackson should have absolutely won the Oscar for this. He was 100% robbed.
You say grandparents don't like movies with people shooting and etc, but this movie is the favorite one of my 78 years old Russian grandmother :D She loves a lot of old soviet movies, but this one is her №1 of all time.
Does she like Tarantino’s other films?
Love you guys. Gonna make a few comments to help clarify:
Q. Why didn’t Butch just keep the watch with him
A. He had a boxing match. He likely didn’t want to get it stolen. Either stolen while it was unattended during his match or stolen afterwards since he knew he would not be throwing the match and would have people going after him.
Q. Why did Vincent use the bathroom/leave his gun
A. He’s a functional drug addict but a drug addict nonetheless. Heroin makes you constipated which is why he’s always having to use the bathroom
Q. What’s the odds he runs into Marcellus
A. Marcellus and Vincent were staking out at his place. He went back to his place. Marcellus went out to get donuts and coffee. Vincent is his muscle so he needed to stay at the apartment in case butch showed up
Also the reason Vincent was alone was because Jules quit the day before due to his belief in divine intervention
Biggest question was why did Vincent decide to leave his weapon on the kitchen counter? Bonehead move!! The only reason that would remotely make sense would be if Marcellus left for coffee and donuts without telling Vincent and he thought it would be safe to drop a deuce with only his book?
@@morpheusjones4753because he sucks. Remember, he shot Marvin in the face on accident. No trigger discipline, pointing a loaded gun at someone you don't intend to kill is always a bad idea.
@@mcfierce True, his character was a 100% dunce...
The main plot hole about Butch's watch that I can't shake is why he didn't pack it ahead of time in whatever bag Fabienne was going to bring.
@@alicechan404 My guess is that Butch, like many boxers, might have been a few eggs shy of a dozen after the pounding to the cranium that they take over the years to plan proactively outside of the boxing match.
94-96 was peak cinema
"They Look Iconic" .... "He looks like he'd be in N'SYNC or somethin'" lmfao!!
In my top ten films of all time. A stupendous film.
The difference in what happens to Vincent vs Jules arguably comes down to how each of them interpreted the "miracle" when they somehow didn't get shot.
"Don't shoot Vincent, he's cool." Vincent was literally there to kill him. 😂😂😂😂
Not to mention the fact they clearly didn't like each other in an earlier scene.
@@garylee3685 Also, Butch was the one that keyed Vincent's car
@jaypea468 that is conjecture by the fans. There is no proof of that in the movie, which is all we have to go by.
Tarantino may have said it, but again the movie doesn't prove anything.
@@garylee3685 It's implied in the movie since Vince insults Butch and then in his next scene, complains that his car was keyed, and he had JUST taken it out of storage.
And Tarantino confirming that in interviews that is what happened isn't enough for you?
@jaypea468 Tarantino may say it, but he didn't write it that way in the movie. He could say Jules was related to Marcellus if he wants, who's going to disagree?
That's a pretty big leap to figure out that that's the guy who keyed his car.
19:12 its a reference to kill bill, beatrice kiddo was the deadliest woman with knives, during filming pulp fiction they came up to do the movie kill bill.
20:00 - Regarding your question on the names of the 5-dollar shakes: "Martin and Lewis" (i.e. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy duo) means vanilla shake. "Amos and Andy" means chocolate shake. You can figure out for yourself why. 🤣
It wasn´t that common to roll cigaretes in the 90s, but since Vicent returned from Amsterdan that was a thing in Europe because they taxed cigaretes but not the smoke. After this movie people started to roll cigaretes again.
I started rolling cigarettes around this time. Not because of the movie, but because A) I was poor and B) The government started taxing packs of cigarettes about this time. They do tax loose tobacco now, but not nearly as much as they do packs.
Fonzie is from the TV show Happy Days played by Henry Winkler. For your generation he also played the principal in the movie Scream. No cap. It was fire. Skibidi Ohio Toilet
"This is turning weird, I think"
😂
Smoking was banned on planes in 2000. You were close, but Vincent and Jules would've been allowed. This was set in 1994.
Jipped or Gipped is a term when you got that bad side of a trade or deal.
It might have been a derivative of "GYPsy", as they were often thought of as dishonest in trade.
@@kevinhenderson5928I’m pretty sure it originated from there
It was no coincidence that Butch ran into Marsellus. If you look before he was hit, Marellus was holding coffee and donuts. Vincent and Marsellus were staking out Butch's apartment and Marsellus went out to get donuts and coffee while Vincent waited. By the way Vincent is always on the toilet because he's a heroin user and it makes you constipated
Wait till yall watch Reservoir Dogs. Tarrantino's first hit before Pulp Fiction. Can't wait for Django.
Mia mistakenly thought Vince’s heroin was cocaine. That’s why she OD’s. Heroin can be snorted too, but Mia snorts way too much of it. Plus, Lance (the drug dealer) tells Vince earlier that the strain of heroin he’s selling him is for a madman, meaning it was super strong.
And the reason Mia mistakes the heroin for cocaine is because cocaine is usually sold in baggies while heroin is usually sold in balloons. Lance tells Vince that he's out of balloons and asks if a baggie is okay. Thus, when Mia finds a baggie full of powder in Vince's coat pocket, she assumes it's cocaine.
_Please do + Quentin Tarantino_
🔥 *Reservoir Dogs* (1992)
★ - *Kill Bill: Vol. 1* (2003)
🔥 *Inglourious Basterds* (2009)
★ - *Kill Bill: Vol. 2* (2004)
BONUS TRACK
Directed by *Robert Rodríguez* :
🔥 *Desperado* (1995)
Antonio Banderas , Salma Hayek , *Quentin Tarantino* , Steve Buscemi & Danny Trejo
and then the sequel
🔥 *Once Upon a Time in Mexico* (2003)
Antonio Banderas , Salma Hayek , Johnny Depp , Willem Dafoe , Mickey Rourke , Eva Mendes , Enrique Iglesias (Pop singer) & Rubén Blades (Salsa singer)
★ - *From Dusk Till Dawn* (1996)
George Clooney , Salma Hayek , *Quentin Tarantino* & Danny Trejo
,
Death proof, grindhouse terror and Django
No Django huh? Lol
Jules’s wallet is real, they actually sell wallets that say “Bad Mother F***er”
The wallet they used was Tarantino's actual IRL wallet.
@24:30"That's a cool player THING"🤣🤣🤣Boy, I felt so old at that description of a Reel to Reel tape recorder.
Loved the reaction. Pulp Fiction along with Reservoir Dogs revolutionised the whole movie industry and the way movies were made when they came out. I'd have watched RD first but it IS a must watch.
Butch had called ahead to have the cab waiting. Needed a getaway after the double cross.
No one thought anything about Pulp Fiction, except it was an INCREDIBLE film. Saved my life oddly enough. Nope that would have been the 90s
There's so many layers of meaning to this film...countless people have literally written dissertations on the meaning within Pulp Fiction. And they hold up -- like comparing the trio of Jules, Vincent, and Butch to the journey of the Buddha in Siddhartha. Mrs October is right...upon multiple viewings there's so much to ponder.
Why does Marcellus Wallace always have a bandaid on the back of his neck?
What was in the briefcase?
What is a miracle?
Why was Tony Rocky Horror thrown off the balcony?
Did Vincent accidentally shoot Marvin cuz his hands weren't steady?
What is the meaning of The Gold Watch?
And on and on...
1:08:42 It was definitely set post-80s because when Vincent was bringing Mia's body to the dealers house, towards the end of the call, he said "Are you calling me from a cellular phone?"
A jip means a ripoff. The emcee at the restaurant was supposed to be Ed Sullivan, a famous variety show host in the 60s. The "cool player thing" was a reel to reel player that some people use to have. Zed wasn't a cop; he was just a security guard.
Just fyi, for future use...it's "gyp".
@USCFlash Thank you for enlightening me. It's a good thing you're smarter than everyone else. 👍
@@michaelescareno7048
It's sad you cannot accept a polite, non-aggressive, well intentioned correction to a simple word in usage, to assist you in the future from appearing ignorant, without resorting to sarcastic childishness.
@USCFlash It's sad your educational deficiencies contribute to your use of comma splicing. Guess everyone is "sad" now.
@USCFlash It's sad that your educational deficiency contributes to your use of comma splicing in a sentence. Unfortunately, it leaves me with no alternative other than to retract my previous assessment that you are smarter than everyone else. Now everyone is "sad".
The announcer at Jack Rabbit Slim's was portraying Ed Sullivan.
Thanks!
Awesome thanks Logan!
Be cool like Fonzi. Fonzi (The Fonz) is a character from a US sitcom called Happy days back in the 70s, even us Brits over here grew up on that show 😀 Also Wanker is a british slur, which is the same as jerk off 😅
Love the rectangle catch, mrs October! I had the exact same reaction first time I saw it. 😂
Greetings from The Netherlands!
Also the quote on Nick fury grave in Winter Soldier was the Bible quote used in this movie.
Didn’t realize that. Cool.
@@yarsivad000.5 I'm an obsessive nerd with no friends so I noticed tiny things like that lol
One of my all time favs for sure.
You guys were soooo fun watching By the way, I have one of those BMF wallets!!
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
The emcee in the restaurant is not a President. It’s Ed Sullivan a very popular variety television show host. He introduced many new up and coming artists such as Elvis Presley, The Jackson Five and The Beatles. He had a very distinctive way he spoke. Check out his show on UA-cam
I’m from the Netherlands and the mayonnaise is a bit different, but even with mayo made here (Canada) fries and mayo is great. Give it a try sometime and you’ll see what I mean.
One of the best soundtracks ever. A high-selling one too. A lot of 90's kids had the CD.
I love it! I listened to it over - an 80s teen!
You should watch Jackie Brown. It's another Tarantino film that isn't as talked about as most of his movies, but it's excellent.
I second this!
Jackie Brown and True Romance.
we did we loved it!
There's something about you two that makes me really enjoy your videos. Can't put my finger on it.
I think your probably at a stage in your movie discovery journey to take mental notes of who's directing the movie. We forget that movies are art creations, just like novels, poetry, theatre, sculpture, painting, anime, etc... The artists often have their own unique style, which gives context to the piece. I saw that you recognize Tarantino on screen. Pulp Fiction is often rated as his best movie ever. Here's a description of Quentin Tarantino's style:
"His very cinephile style is recognizable, among other things, by its postmodern and non-linear narration, its well-crafted dialogues often peppered with references to popular culture, and its highly aesthetic but extremely violent scenes, inspired by exploitation films, martial arts movies, or spaghetti westerns.
He is a very recognizable director because his style is so unique. It's seldom shown in chronologically order. Some believe that by using stylized violence, he forces audience to question their own fascination with said violence. Tarantino loves dialogue and thinks they should be great. There's sometimes tension building during those conversations, or not, but the characters are always talking in a very involved manner.
When you go back and watch the ending of Captain America: Civil War, the scene where Nick was talking with Cap int he cemetery... there's a Pulp Fiction reference in his headstone.
Anyway, you should go watch the other Tarantino Movies like Reservoir Dogs or Django Unchained or Hateful Eight. I'm sure you'll dig it. Also from my honest amateur opinion, Tarantino's movies are more about the experience and less about the story. He's pretty good at crafting memorable experiences for the audience... so just sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
NOW watch
1.Kill part 1 and 2 2.Django Unchained 3.The HatefulEight 4.Inglourios Bastards 5.Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 6.Jackie Brown 7.Resorvior Dogs
I was 17 when this film came out, it was revelatory to me about the art of cinema and storytelling, it challenged me and i completely rolled with it from first viewing...... I absolutely LOVE this film, THANK YOU Octobers xxx ❤❤❤
Same here but I didn't watch it until my Freshman year of college because eveybody had the poster in their dorm room. Got me curious.
Vincent uses the bathroom a lot because he is on that H. Give you stomach issues
There were less ads when this aired on TBS than on this channel.
Mrs. October was right about Pulp Fiction being about redemption (as well as the recurring idea that people's fates are a result of their choices). Most movies (good movies, anyway) will have a theme and the various characters will represent different expressions of how that theme could play out. So, for example, how could different characters interact with the theme of redemption? One could choose to do the right thing, one could choose to do the wrong thing, and one could initially choose to do the wrong thing but then change course and do the right thing.
In this movie, you have:
- Jules who sees "the miracle," makes the choice to leave the criminal life and, as a result, lives (presumably).
- Vincent who ignores "the miracle," stays in the criminal life (and continues his heroin habit), and, as a result, dies.
- Butch who starts out doing the wrong thing -- screwing over a crime boss to steal money from him -- which puts him in danger, but then, when they're both in trouble, decides to do "the right thing" and save Marcellus instead of just running away and leaving him to his fate. As a result of his change of course from bad to good, Butch is saved from the danger.
It's three characters being given a decision point where they choose between doing the right thing and doing the wrong thing, and the choice each one makes leads to their individual fates.
You guys are making me feel OLD. I saw this film opening night at the theatre and it was absolutely unlike anything we had seen. Its influence has been so large since its release that I imagine it is hard to discern just how different it was in 1994. Btw, the guy at the restaurant was Ed Sullivan, not Nixon, and the Fonz wasn't played by John Travolta.
People definitely still hand roll tobacco into cigs, I have a friend who does that. It's kind of hipster here in L.A., actually, although almost no one here smokes anymore. It's also traditionally kind of a cowboy thing.
Lots of prison inmates hand roll cigarettes too.
I’m going to still love Pulp Fiction as a grandpa the same way I still love Spy Kids and School of Rock now. Favourites. All of them. Never grow up.
That scene, the whole thing when Vincent brings Mia to his dealer and they try to reanimate her is probably one of the greatest scenes, I have ever seen in my life!
20:06 He asked her earlier if she wanted a Martin and Lewis or an Amos and Andy. Martin and Lewis were two white comedians and Amos and Andy were two black comedians. He was asking if she wanted a vanilla or chocolate shake.
If you guys were wondering how, of all people, Butch happens to see Marcellus (after Butch got his watch and killed Vincent) it's because Vincent was with Marcellus waiting in Butch's apartment all night. Marcellus was so furious with Butch he was gonna be there personally for payback. But, the next morning, Vincent and Marcellus must have gotten hungry and Marcellus went to get food nearby -- which is why Butch encounters Marcellus crossing the street. Marcellus is on his way back to Butches apartment with that box of donuts he is carrying.
Fun fact. Ezekial 25: 17 is on Nick Fury's headstone in Winter Soldier
20:06 "Martin and Lewis" is two white guys and "Amos and Andy" is two black guys....so he was asking if she wanted a vanilla or chocolate shake
Those dance moves are from the 50s and 60s. And no that was not President Nixon that was Ed Sullivan, he had his own variety show.
What's in the briefcase? Clearly, the whole movie is Nick Fury working undercover to recover the Tesseract.
5:24 Yes!! it is so good! 1:20:09 Y'all definitely need to check out Jackie Brown (also w/ Samuel L. Jackson) and both Kill Bill movies! Those are my top 4 favorite Tarantino movies (Mia / Uma Thurman as a blonde stars, lol), rounding the top 5 with Once Upon A Time in Hollywood. I STILL haven't seen Inglorious Bastards.
We used to be able to smoke in restaurants. When my husband and I used to smoke , sometimes to save money, we'd role our own smokes. When this movie came out I was pregnant with our third child..I have this film in my collection. P.S. I always order quickly, my husband on the other hand takes a while. Its the opposite with us. Ive always been a no nonsense type of gal. Thanx for the reaction, take care.Xx
YES! Pulp Fiction !!! Enjoy and fingers crossed you continue the Tarantino train !!!
That's was not Nixon, that was Ed Sullivan
Martin and Lewis equals vanilla. Amos and Andy equals chocolate.
(Year of release and/or commercial availability in parentheses below.)
Reel-to-reel tape recorders/players (mid 1950s) were pre-cassette (1962). Not pre-vinyl (1930), but pre-cassette. In this movie's timeframe (1994), we were using CDs (1983). As an audio engineer in the 90s, I was using digital audio tape (DAT) (1987), and Alesis DAT (ADAT) (1991). An ADAT tape looks like a VHS tape. In fact, you could use VHS, but it wasn't a good idea, since a good quality ADAT tape was thicker and thus, less prone to stretching when you start and stop. It was an 8-track format.
Having reel-to-reel in your home in 1994 would've been what we now might refer to as a hipster conceit. My parents had one when I (1961) was a child.
You could light up a cigarette on a boeing 747 passenger jet flying through the air up until 1988. Blue states banned smoking in restaurants, bars, and clubs mid-90's, and continued to ban smoking even outside in some places, red states followed suit early-2000's FYI.
Yep, I remember smoking on planes, busses, in restaurants & pretty much everywhere back in the day.
Travolta played Vinnie (another Vincent!) Barbarino, a Sweathog in the 70s show, _Welcome Back Kotter_
On Welcome Back, Kotter at the end of every episode Mr Kotter told a random joke to his wife, just like Mia on Fox Force Five. This was pure coincidence.
The scene in the diner happened brfore Wallace tells Butch to take the dive in that bar, remember Vince and Jules walk into the bar with the goofy clothes on and Vince ran into Butch buying cigs...
The story does jump around a bit in reality, Butch shooting Vince was the last part of the story, Vince was alone in Butch's appartment Jules is off walking the earth at that point...
John Travolta was a wild cast as Vincent Vega. Before Pulp Fiction, he was considered a has been, former pretty boy dancer. He took only 150k for this role.
❤another good Taratino/ Samuel Jackson movie is Hateful Eight 😊
To me, it always seemed that if Vincent had listened to Jules and walked away, he would still be alive. The whole time Jules was trying to explain to him the significance of the miracle and Vince didn’t listen. He got away with the Mia and Marvin situation and then the miracle, he had all the signs telling him to move away from the life but some people are blind. Love this movie