Vincent is confused. Travolta is confused - a new meme that makes users cry with laughter
John Travolta, who played the hero Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino, has become the new hero of the Internet, writes TJournal.
A short fragment from the tape became an example for describing life situations causing confusion. IN original version– Vincent Vega is trying to understand where the voice of Marcellus Wallace’s wife comes from.
The first user to use such a joke was a user of the photo hosting site Imgur ILikeToWonkaMyWilly.
He cut out Travolta using video editing tools and superimposed it on a photo of a children's toy store.
The resulting image was captioned as "my reaction when my daughter asked for a doll for Christmas." In less than a week, the video meme was viewed by more than 2 million users.
In her defense, she"s only 3.User Sub Edit:Wait, are we still supposed to announce when its OC? I feel like that"s a bit... Idk, self serving? Well, yes, this is OC. I made dis. And I can show you how to make dis too!Front Page Edit:Ok so I"m getting a huge amount of PM requests, on top of comment requests. I"m gonna put together a proper post and get it uploaded as soon as possible. I"m at work right now, though. So there"s only so much I can do. I"ll continue replying to PMs and comments, at the quickest speed possible.Here"s the tutorial! http://imgur.com/gallery/JWFFe Sorry for the sloppy language. PM me if you need any specific details or troubleshooting. I took 3 years of CAD and Commercial Art classes. So I may be able to help with what you"re wanting to do.
Brief guides on creating similar videos using Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere are also gaining popularity on the Internet.
21 years ago, John Travolta played a gangster named Vincent Vega in cult film"Pulp Fiction", and recently it famous character found a second life as an Internet meme. As always, for some unknown reason, the choice of restless users fell on Vincent Vega, who was elevated to a fashionable meme and began churning out hilarious photoshopped photos. The subject of the photoshop was the moment in the film when Vincent picked up the wife of his boss Marsellus Wallace, but cannot understand where her voice is coming from.
Original moment
It all started when an Imgur user with the nickname ILikeToWonkaMyWilly cut out Vincent's figure from a video using a video editor and superimposed it on a photo of a children's toy store
He called his first meme "When I asked my daughter what she wanted for Christmas and she said, 'a doll.'"
After that, he posted instructions on how to create such a meme online, and then away we go:
When they invited me to star in A-Ha's video, but didn't explain what "Take On Me" meant
When no one said that the lesson was canceled
When you can't find your car on a snowy morning
When you decided to buy a suit, but the seller left somewhere
When I came to Europe during the refugee crisis
When the driver forgot to pick you up
When I left Vault 111 (Fallout 4)
When you're transported into interstellar space and you can't find your daughter (Interstellar)
When your team left you alone on Mars
When you mixed up the bar
When at the clinic I asked “Who’s last?”
At a game of tennis
When you invited your friends to watch Pulp Fiction, but no one came
We also didn’t forget about “Inglourious Basterds,” another famous film by Quentin Tarantino
One of the brightest and cult paintings Quentin Tarantino— “Pulp Fiction” is already more than 20 years old. However, venerable age does not interfere black comedy becoming an increasingly large source of quotes and trends on the Internet. This includes memes and coubs. Charming bandit Vincent Vega - character John Travolta from " Pulp Fiction”, - looking around and not understanding what is happening, now on the Internet he expresses bewilderment at any reason. He was turned into the main character to illustrate different life situations that cause confusion.
Dancer, pilot and actor
By the way, Travolta dreamed of being a pilot as a child; he has no other education other than pilot courses. In his youth, John collected model airplanes and also enjoyed watching flight exercises at a military base located near his home.
Having matured, he became more familiar with military procedures and decided that he would leave his career as a pilot. Then Travolta devoted himself to dancing and acting career to earn a lot of money and buy your own plane.
The most popular role in “Pulp Fiction” went to Travolta almost by accident. Gangster Vincent Vega in Quentin Tarantino's film was supposed to be played by Michael Madson, but he last moment got sick. Literally at the last moment, the role was given to Travolta. The actor's fee for starring in Tarantino's film was only 150 thousand dollars. After the release of the film, it increased to $10 million.
Travolta in Russian reality
The history of memes began with a publication on Imgur, an online service for sharing pictures and photographs. One of the subscribers complained to users about the difficulty of fatherhood. The man couldn’t choose a gift for his daughter: for Christmas, the girl asked her dad for a doll. The blogger accompanied his comment with a short animated image of John Travolta in a toy store.
"My reaction when my daughter asked for a doll for Christmas"
For those who do not remember the original scene from “Pulp Fiction,” let us remind you that the reason for the confusion of Travolta’s hero, who came to the wife of the stern boss Mia Wallace, was the loudspeakers installed in the room. Vega is at first lost and funny, throwing up his hands in search of the source of the voice.
Original from the movie "Pulp Fiction"
The witty idea was immediately picked up by other users. “Confused Travolta” immediately spread around the world and is now invariably surprised by any event that is actively discussed on the Internet. Now everyone can offer their own versions of situations that could confuse John Travolta.
Today, Travolta feels great against the backdrop of a variety of scenery - from parking lots drowned in snow and a night landscape to a kindergarten, a queue at a Russian clinic and a Microsoft Windows desktop.
Travolta suffers from RuTracker blocking
"Who is last?" Waiting in line at a Russian clinic
"When I came to kindergarten looking after the child and remembered that you don’t have children.”
"When I came to school on Sunday"
“When I chose a suit, but there is no seller”
“When you are looking for a car in a parking lot after a snowfall”
Fought with Yatsenyuk
Travolta is a witness at a wedding
Russian users even sent John Travolta to the stands of the tennis court to watch the game Maria Sharapova.
Also popular in RuNet is the “John Travolta on frontal place" In it, Travolta found himself on film set"House 2".
However, Travolta was not always loved in Russia. When the role of a dancer in the film “Saturday Night Fever” made him an overnight superstar and brought the Hollywood handsome man his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor, “ Literary newspaper“criticized the film for its deceit, lack of ideas and frivolity - they say, a working boy should not live by dancing alone.
Meme in cinema and advertising
The hero of "Pulp Fiction" unexpectedly ended up in Quentin Tarantino's film "Inglourious Basterds."
He also ended up in the film "Scream", "Hulk".
Travolta annoys Hulk
Over time, the abundance of memes with Travolta began to scare users.
Confused John Travolta was also “forced” to advertise a Belarusian shoe store. Director Andrey Levkovich shot a funny video where the actor playing Travolta is perplexed by the empty shelves in the store.
