Pulp Fiction Year. The film "Pulp Fiction": actors and roles

The plot is divided into 6 parts, gradually filling in the gaps in the origins and relationships of what is happening. We follow the adventures of two criminal six Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield (John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson), their ruthless boss Marcellus Wallace and his sexy drug addict wife Mia (Ving Rhames and Uma Thurman), boxer Butch (Bruce Willis) and his girlfriend Fabian (Maria de Medeiros).

Their storylines complemented by a mass of charismatic characters. These are the unlucky robbers Pumpkin and Sweet Bunny (Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth), Jimmy Dimmick (a cameo by Tarantino himself, which later became a pleasant tradition in each of his films), Captain Koons and his gold watch (one of best monologues In Christopher Walken's filmography, it also echoes his role in The Deer Hunter), sadomasochists Zed and Maynard (Peter Green and Dwayne Whitaker). We can’t help but mention the breathtaking dance of Travolta and Uma Thurman, as well as Samuel L. Jackson’s fiery quotation of a verse from the book of the prophet Ezekiel. When Tarantino wrote the script for “Pulp Fiction,” he saw only Vic Vega, Mr. Blonde from “Reservoir Dogs,” as the partner for Samuel L. Jackson’s hero. But Michael Madsen, who played him, could not accept the offer. The director remade the character - he turned into Vic's brother, Vincent Vega. The brothers have a lot in common - they both dress stylishly, love violence and work for crime bosses. Harvey Weinstein advised Tarantino to cast Travolta in this role.

Viewers counted 429 swear words and expressions in the film - a record for that time. Of these, 271 uses are of the word fuck.

Pulp Fiction cinematographer, who previously worked on Reservoir Dogs Andrzej Sekula, shot the film from wheelchair, where he ended up due to a car accident.

There's a pretty crazy theory that Mia Wallace and Beatrix Kiddo from Kill Bill are the same person. In Pulp Fiction, Mia tells Vincent that she tried her hand at acting in a TV series about foxes, which never saw the light of day. She describes his main characters as a "blonde", a "Japanese girl who knows kung fu", a "black explosives expert" and a "sexy French girl". Mia herself played “the deadliest woman in the world, skillfully wielding knives.” It's all very reminiscent of Bill's team: Ellie, O-Ren Ishii, Vernita Green, Sofia Fatale and Beatrix Kiddo herself.

Another crossover between Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill (and it's not a samurai sword at all - they're different) is Jules and the pianist Rufus, who plays at the Bride's wedding in Kill Bill 2. In "The Bonnie Situation," Jules decides to say goodbye to the world of crime, and in the next chapter, she discusses the possibility of leaving with her partner. There is an opinion that he really “gave up” and retrained as a traveling musician.

Many film fans are sure that the dance scene between Mia and Vincent Tarantino was inspired by an episode from Federico Fellini's film Eight and a Half.

Dance from "8 1/2"

After Mia and Vincent's twist to Chuck Berry's "You Never Can Tell" at a dance competition, they return home with the trophy in hand. Later, the radio reports that unknown people have stolen the dance competition cup. And since we never saw the award ceremony, the conclusion is that they didn’t win, but simply stole the cup.

We were never shown what was in Marcellus’s briefcase, around which, in fact, the plot of “Pulp Fiction” revolved. After many fan theories about the contents of the suitcase (diamonds from Reservoir Dogs, Elvis Presley's gold jacket, Wallace's soul), Tarantino stopped the talk with one phrase: “I don’t know. Whatever you want was there.” Well, the glow emanating from the depths of the briefcase was created using a simple light bulb and a power supply - it automatically lit up when opened.

One of the producers of the film was Danny DeVito. 5 years earlier, he starred in the comedy “Twins” with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Their heroes' names were... Vincent and Julius.

One of the most famous films of the American director Quentin Tarantino, a classic of the crime comedy genre called " Pulp Fiction", which is in the top ten in the list of films on the IMDb website, is the winner of more than 40 film awards, including " Palm d'Or» Cannes Film Festival and Awards « Oscar"for the best script. Great actors played in it: John Travolta(“Off Face”, “Password “Swordfish”), Samuel L. Jackson("Goodfellas", "Coach Carter") Tim Roth(“Reservoir Dogs”, “Four Rooms”), Amanda Plummer("The Fisher King", "Hercules"), Eric Stoltz("Butterfly Effect", "Fluke"), Bruce Willis(“The Fifth Element”, “Die Hard”) and Ving Rhames("Casualties of War", "Final Fantasy").

« Pulp Fiction"simultaneously amazes with the richness of its plots and confuses with the randomness of its actions. According to Tarantino, the film is divided into three parts, and the first of them is both the beginning and the end of the film. Each of these parts is a separate story, in which all the genres, images and attributes of an ordinary Hollywood film are mixed.

The first of the stories is about a bandit in a black suit, Vincent Vega, who is walking the boss’s wife:

– Do you hate it too?
- What?
- An awkward silence. Why do people have to talk about something in order to feel at ease?
- Don't know. Good question.
– Only when you find your person can you remain silent for hours and enjoy it.
- This is not about us. You and I barely know each other.
- OK. I'll go powder my nose, and you come up with a topic for conversation.
- Will try...

Three tomatoes are walking down the street: mommy tomato, daddy tomato, baby tomato. The baby tomato begins to lag behind and the daddy tomato becomes furious, he runs up to him, crushes him and says: « Catch up, ketchup!”

Other story – about a boxer who deceived a mafia boss, but by chance gets out of a serious scrape:

– Whose motorcycle is this?
– It's chopper, baby.
– Whose chopper is this?
– Zeda.
– Who is Zed?
– Zed is dead, baby. Zed is dead.

Third story – about a couple of strange robbers, a hysterical woman and a cowardly but balanced man, who are trying to rob a small restaurant.

John Travolta as the scumbag Vincent, Samuel L. Jackson as Bible-quoting gangster Jules, Harvey Keitel as an intellectual – Wolf's magic wands, cocaine addict Mia Wallace performed by Minds Thurman, Ving Rhames as mafia boss Marsellus Wallace, himself Quentin Tarantino in the role of henpecked Jimmy - all these actors played in “Pulp Fiction”, perhaps the most colorful and memorable characters in the history of world cinema.

The music for the film is made up of good old hits, and the soundtrack has been in the top twenty best-selling films in the history of cinema for 16 years.

Excellent direction by Tarantino with perfectly composed shots, an original and witty script with unexpected plot twists, excellent dialogues with Tarantino’s signature black humor, brilliantly played roles and an Oscar-winning camera work – all these components that make the film a cult favorite in its genre and spawned a sea of ​​fans and imitators. The age limit for watching the film is 16 years old.

• $5 million of the $8 million budget went to the actors' salaries.
• Quentin Tarantino couldn't decide who to play – Jimmy or Lance, but Lance had a rather difficult sequence with Mia's resuscitation, during which the director would have to be behind the camera, so he chose Jimmy.
• In the scene of sticking a syringe with adrenaline into Mia's chest, in reality the needle is pulled out, that is, the scene is played in reverse.
• Butch's great-grandfather bought his grandson's gold watch in Knoxville, Tennessee. hometown Quentin Tarantino.
• Uma Thurman refused to play Mia Wallace, but Tarantino persuaded her by reading the script to her over the phone.
• Tarantino says about the contents of the case: “What the viewer wants to be there is in there.”
• As Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega leave the club, a voice-over radio announces that the top prize for the dance competition has been stolen.
• The 1964 Chevrolet Malibu that Vincent Vega drives in the film belonged to Tarantino and was stolen during filming.
• Jules' "Bad Motherfucker" wallet belongs to Quentin Tarantino.
• Brona Gallagher, who plays Trudy, is wearing a T-shirt with the image of The Frames, one of the Irish rock bands in which an acquaintance of the actress plays - he was promised to wear the T-shirt if Brona was invited to the film.
• The restaurant scene (at the beginning and end of the film) was filmed in a real establishment, the building of which was destroyed after the film's release. The curse word “fuck” is used 271 times by the characters in the film.
• The film's cameraman, Andrzej Sekula, filmed it while in a wheelchair.
• Contenders for roles in “Pulp Fiction”: Johnny Depp and Christian Slater (Pumpkin), Paul Calderon ( Jules); Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon ( Butch); Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Joan Cusack, Isabella Rossellini, Daryl Hannah ( Mia) and Sylvester Stallone and Daniel Day-Lewis (Vincent).
• Last name of a taxi driver girl named Esmeralda – Villa Lobos, belongs to to the best friend Quentin Tarantino.
• The length of the special edition of the film is 168 minutes.

Quentin Tarantino himself noted that, in his opinion, a good story should have a beginning, a main part and a denouement, but not necessarily in that order. Of course, the plot of the film" Pulp Fiction"was inspired by the examples of the masters of the past, whom Tarantino admired for many years as a film fan. The film consists of a number of scenes that are closely interconnected. But even among people who have highlighted Pulp fiction more than once, a complete picture of what is happening can be difficult to form, since the order of the scenes is mixed and the chronological sequence is not observed. How long do the events of the film last? There are only two main days - from Jules and Vincent's car ride to work, to Butch and Fabian's departure from the city in Zed's chopper. The full chronology starts not even from the meeting of little Butch and Captain Koons, but from the events before the First World War, which begin the history of that very gold watch. There is even a remounted one, in the correct chronological order, a version of Pulp Fiction. It is worth arranging the scenes shown in the film in a linear sequence, omitting the events that are only mentioned (the story of the Coolidge family and the Samoan Antwan, whom Marcellus threw out of the window).

• Conversation between Captain Koons and little Butch Coolidge in the living room. The officer gives the boy a gold watch - the property of the Coolidge family with a difficult fate.
• Jules and Vincent Vega are driving in a car and discussing the peculiarities of Europe, such as different names for cheeseburgers, beer in the cinema, mayonnaise instead of ketchup, and the rights of police to search people on the street.
• Vince and Jules get out of the car, take the weapon from the trunk and go to a residential apartment building to find Marcellus Wallace's unreliable partners. Men discuss the boss's wife, television pilots, massage of women's feet. Armed with guns, they enter the apartment, where Jules quotes a passage from the Bible. The mafiosi kill three guys, miraculously escaping from execution, and take away a diplomat with a yellow glow inside.
• On the way to Marcellus's bar, Vince accidentally shoots snitch Marvin in the head. The criminals are forced to turn to a guy named Jimmy for help. They have an hour and a half to do something with the corpse, wash off the blood and get the car in order. Marcellus sends Mr. Wolfe, a cleaner, to help them. As a result, the car is washed clean of blood, as are the shooters themselves.
• Jules and Vincent decide to have breakfast at a diner. At this moment, Ringo and Yolanda try to rob the cafeteria, but Jules foils the plans of the unlucky criminals. A conversation ensues, and Samuel L. Jackson's hero takes the righteous path. After the situation is resolved, the men leave.
• Marcellus Wallace talks to a boxer named Butch. He invites him to give up the fight for money, putting his pride far away. After this, Butch runs into Vincent at the bar, who treats him without an ounce of respect.
• Vincent visits a drug dealer named Lance. He buys heroin from him and says that someone scratched his favorite car, which had been in the garage for three years before.
• That evening, Vince Vega, on behalf of his boss, takes Marcellus' wife Mia for a walk. He visits Jack Rabbit Slim's, admires a five-dollar milkshake, and participates in a dance competition. Returning to the Wallaces' home, Mia snorts heroin and overdoses. Vincent takes the comatose girl to his drug dealer, and they save her with an injection of adrenaline straight to the heart. After everything they have experienced, Mia and Vincent agree to keep what happened a secret.
• On the evening of the second day, a boxing match takes place, where Butch Coolidge thwarts plans for selling bets and kills, not on purpose, his opponent Wilson in the ring. Marcellus enters the locker room, where his wife Mia and Vince Vega are also present. He is beside himself with rage and orders to find an unreliable partner.
• Butch arrives at the hotel room of his girlfriend Fabian. They make love and go to bed. The next morning, Butch realizes that the girl left his father’s watch in the rented apartment and he must go to where armed criminals are clearly waiting for him. He gets into Fabian's car and goes there.
• Arriving at the place, Butch manages to take his father’s watch, and finding an automatic weapon on the table, he kills Vincent, who went to the toilet. On the way back, Butch accidentally runs into Marsellus and they have a scuffle, a chase and a fight. The men are captured by two perverts and Wallace is raped. Butch frees himself and does not leave him in trouble. They agree on further relations, and Butch leaves Los Angeles forever, along with Fabian.

Accidents and influence on the plot

Quentin Tarantino fills his story with a whole series of little things, random and unplanned events, or the consequences of other decisions in the past, or not the most thought-out plan. But these plot twists have a direct impact on the behavior or, more importantly, the worldview of their main characters. That is, unforeseen situations, solutions minor characters, expose the personalities of Jules, Butch, Vincent and force them to reconsider their attitude not only to a specific situation, but to other people and even their own future. Let's remember these same accidents in no particular order.

1. When Vincent Vega and Jules, in their usual gangster style, deal with two guys in the apartment, a third suddenly appears on the scene (fourth, if you count Marvin). They did not consider that another person, still with a weapon, could be hiding in the toilet. He suddenly jumps out with a gun, firing six bullets that miss Vincent and Jules. They kill the guy in cold blood, but this accident, just an accident for Vincent, becomes a turning point for Jules (Samuel L. Jackson).

1. When Marcellus is chasing Butch, the latter is ready to kill the mobster at any opportunity. Just a couple of minutes ago, Butch was glad that he managed to avoid death at the hands of Vincent, that he managed to take his father's watch. He was driving in his girlfriend's car, humming a song until, as a friend, he met Marcellus at an intersection. The latter simply went out to buy donuts and coffee while he and Vince were waiting for Butch, and also became a victim of an unexpected meeting. This accident with minimal chances changes the situation and Butch’s attitude towards what is happening. Now he is ready to defend himself and kill his pursuer. That is, for the third time in a day (after the sad boxing match and the reprisal against Vince) to become a killer, which before the whole situation with the corrupt match was something alien to him. He grabs the gun from the burly man, gags the shop owner and prepares to shoot Marcellus in the head in cold blood. But an accident happens - the owner of the store turns out to be not a timid one and takes the situation into his own hands. He suddenly knocks out Butch, and later, together with his friend or brother Zed, turns out to be a sadist and rapist. Seeing what is happening in this basement, Butch, freed, again changes his attitude towards Marcellus. He was ready to kill him recently, but, nevertheless, he does not leave it to two perverts to deal with. The identities of Zed and Maynard lead Butch to commit another murder.

1. While Mia (Uma Thurman) is sitting with Vincent at Jack Rabbit Slim's, she hears about a dance competition. They engage in an iconic scene that later, as an act of bonding, leads Vincent to the toilet to, among other things, consider his future behavior with the boss's wife. While Vincent Vega talks to himself in the restroom, Mia falls into a drug-induced coma. Travolta's character suddenly has to deal with a frightening prospect. For Lance, Vincent's call also comes as a complete surprise. He peacefully watches TV at home, eating a “Fruit Brute” breakfast cereal with milk. A couple of minutes later, the drug dealer already has to participate in the resuscitation of a person with a huge syringe.

1. Butch had what he thought was a well-thought-out plan. Break your boss's bets, profit from a boxing match yourself, get your money and run away. Train tickets were purchased, a motel room was booked, where Fabian's girlfriend was already waiting for him. But an unforeseen accident happens - Fabian forgets to take the most important thing from his previous apartment - Butch's father's gold watch, which is so dear to him. This oversight leads to a series of events and murders that Bruce Willis' character would confidently call the worst day of his life.

1. Vincent and Jules have just completed the task assigned to them. They dealt with their boss's unreliable partners, took away a mysterious diplomat with a golden glow inside, and even escaped accidental death at the hands of a stranger. Suddenly the unexpected happens - Vincent Vega unintentionally kills Marvin in the back seat of the car, as the gun accidentally went off. This leads the heroes to a new series of incredible events and acquaintances.

1. For Jimmy (Quentin Tarantino), who spent his mornings in a robe with a cup of coffee, life was simple and clear. He was waiting for his wife, who was supposed to come from her work shift at the hospital at nine in the morning. And now an unforeseen situation with an acquaintance, Jules, now puts this whole life on the brink of collapse. Moreover, we are talking not so much about complicity in murder and breaking the law, but about the loss of a spouse.

1. And although Jules is already determined to change his life after the shooting incident, a new surprise in the restaurant gives him confidence. Vincent and Jules were just having breakfast in a cafe when a couple of unlucky robbers, Bunny and Pumpkin, decided to rob him. Moreover, they had never robbed a cafe before, as they themselves admitted to each other - the decision was a spontaneous result of a short dialogue.

1. It is interesting that weapons in the film Pulp Fiction are not always used for their intended purpose, but are often used accidentally or not as intended. At the beginning of the Pulp fiction film, a huge revolver fires six bullets, but they miss their targets, although they should not have left Vince and Jules a wet spot. The machine gun in Butch's hands kills Vince, although this happened almost by accident, and the weapon was intended specifically for the character of Bruce Willis. Butch wants to shoot Marcellus in the head, but the shop owner, Maynard, prevents him from doing so. Vince's gun suddenly blows Marvin's head off, which shouldn't have happened. Jules' gun is not used for its intended purpose to kill Gringo, but, on the contrary, becomes a tool to control the situation.

Violence on camera, in one form or another, is almost always prominent in the plot of films. It is often the apogee of individual story arcs, character lines, and directors traditionally lead us to it emotionally. This is done by building tension, using music, dialogue and visual storytelling, right down to working with the palette of colors and lighting. Quentin Tarantino in "Pulp Fiction" actually makes fun of violence - this one is so important element to the cinema. While other directors still avoid unnecessary cruelty in the frame, Pulp Fiction doesn't just do the opposite - the Pulp fiction film uses violence on camera as part of the narrative and an integral element in revealing its characters. Moreover, these very scenes are most often the result of random spontaneous events.

While public condemnation of incorrect things inclines us to take crimes seriously, Tarantino shows, through the example of his heroes, how everything is relative. Vincent Vega and Jules have a casual conversation, discussing mayonnaise, burger names, and drugs in Europe. Who performed foot massage on whom, and how TV series are launched. They only stipulate in a couple of sentences that they will now kill several people in cold blood, and the dilemma boils down to the fact that they had to take shotguns and not come too early. These few minutes that the men linger at the door have no fundamental significance and will not decide the fate of the guys on the other side. Vincent and Lance have a spontaneous, meaningless dialogue about why they should scratch other people's cars while breaking the law. It's about about selling drugs, about their use, which destroys Vince's life and body.

Bunny (Yolanda) and Pumpkin (Tim Roth) make fun of the way banks are robbed today - that you don't need a gun, just a phone. They drink coffee and have breakfast, and then decide to carry out an armed attack. Vince Vega and Jules discuss how good it is to eat pork, who the hobos are, and what it's like to walk the world. They've already killed four people this morning, washed pieces of brains and blood from a car, and now they're still facing a couple of robbers. And the most striking reason that Tarantino gives the viewer to ridicule violence, of course, relates to the plot of “The Bonnie Situation.” The five men (Vince, Jules, Jimmy, Mr. Wolf, Marcellus) are completely oblivious to the fact that poor Marvin was killed. All they worry about is scraping the residue off their car and clothes in time, and doing it all before Bonnie arrives. Jules is more worried about getting blood on the towels at Jimmy's house than he is about what they did.

Symbolism in Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino deliberately and not always focuses our attention on objects, places of action and even passages from the Bible, to which we return again and again while watching the film “Pulp Fiction”. Let's look at these six elements of symbolism that play important role in the development of characters or simply in the movement of the Pulp fiction plot forward.

One of the most discussed subjects in world cinema, over a quarter of a century it has acquired the most incredible theories and interpretations of the yellow glow. The simplest ones say that there are gold bars inside (which is not confirmed by the weight of the diplomat), diamonds from the robbery in “Reservoir Dogs”, a gold suit from the movie “True Romance”, for which Tarantino wrote the script earlier. The most famous theory says that inside is the soul of Marcellus Wallace, locked with the combination 666, which he sold to the devil, who, according to legend, extracted it from the back of his head, on which Marcellus now has a small patch. True, what relation can a couple of young guys, supposedly partners, have to such a mystical object and why then Ringo, in a cafe, says that this is a wonderful sight.

In fact, the content of the diplomat is not so important. A much more decisive role for the plot of Pulp Fiction is played by its fate and the need to preserve it at any cost. Vince and Jules kill three people for him, then Marvin accidentally dies, a situation ensues with Bonnie, and then the danger of losing valuable cargo in a cafe, giving it to robbers. As if according to the behests of Hitchcock himself, this item simply moves the story forward, through the hands of the main characters, and carries more symbolic than practical meaning. As he himself said several times in interviews Tarantino, inside is exactly what each viewer wants to figure out on their own.

Toilets. We will separately look at three fateful trips to the toilet of Vincent in Pulp Fiction, each of which accelerated the plot of Pulp fiction unexpected turn. But if you remember, toilets appear in the film not only in these three cases. Mia goes off to powder her nose, but in reality, to snort cocaine at Jack Rabbit Slim’s. At the apartment of Marcellus' young partners, the third guy hides in the closet before emptying his large revolver at the intruders. Vince Vega and Jules wash their hands in Jimmy's bathroom and discuss the poignancy of their situation. Two metaphors are usually given here. One concerns the toilet, as a place where we do “dirty things”, and then have the opportunity to “clean up”, which suits the heroes of the film Pulp Fiction, due to the crimes they commit. And the second metaphor considers the toilet as a place where a person is vulnerable, and after leaving, the plot finds the characters “with their pants down.”

As with the diplomat, this gold watch that little Butch receives from Christopher Walken's character is symbolic and drives the plot. IN in this case for Butch - this small object moves his story forward, confronting him first with Vincent in the apartment toilet, then with Marcellus on the street, and then with perverts in the basement of the store. Among other things, the gold watch gives Butch life certain meaning. Yes, he wants to drink cocktails somewhere on a tropical island instead of with his girlfriend Fabienne. But he would have received good money anyway for rigging the fight and collaborating with the mafia. But it’s precisely this connection that Butch wants to get rid of. The gold watch reminds him of the past generations of his family - of the men who fought with honor on the fronts of the First and Second World Wars, of his father, who died honorably in captivity, saving his subordinates in Vietnam. Butch would later return to the path of honor when he decided to save Marcellus from being bullied.

Samurai sword. In the scene where Butch (Bruce Willis) breaks out of the rapists' confinement, he stops. Until recently, he was ready to shoot Marcellus in the head, but now he decides not to leave him to the perverts to deal with. At first, Willis's character's choice falls on a hammer, which is quite ordinary for a hardware store. Then onto a baseball saw - a traditional movie attribute under the counter in American stores. The chainsaw turns out to be a less ordinary object, but the samurai katana seems alien here. Maynard and Zed tortured people here and killed them, which is quite likely. But today an unusual person found himself here, who picked up an equally extraordinary object. For Butch, this is a decision to save Marcellus, and the sword itself is a connection with his ancestors, who lived and died with honor, like the Japanese samurai centuries before.

Confederate flag. Although the events of the film Pulp Fiction unfold on the streets of Los Angeles, we see the Confederate flag - one of the sad symbols of the American Civil War in 1861-1865. We see this item in the same Maynard’s shop. There is a popular interpretation of this symbolism in Pulp Fiction. In fact, when Butch saves Marsellus from a terrible fate, he frees a black man who was decided to be violated by two white men with a Southern accent and a Confederate flag hanging next to the national one. And although Zed determines the fate of the first victim with a rhyme, certain symbolism and references to racial problems in the United States can be found here.

This is no longer just an element of symbolism in the film, but one of the most famous symbols of Pulp Fiction itself. The passage is most concerned with the development of the character of Jules. The phrase had previously meant nothing biblical to him. He simply considered her a pretentious addition to cold-blooded murder the person at whom the finger was pointed at him. After the incident with avoiding death from bullets, Jackson's hero begins to look for meaning and apply verses from the Bible to himself and his life, and then to situations. In the cafe scene and dialogue with Gringo (Tim Roth), Jules discusses who is the shepherd - who is weak, and who is the tyranny of evil.

It is noteworthy that throughout the two and a half hours of the film "Pulp Fiction" Quentin Tarantino, only once do we hear confirmation that the events are taking place in Los Angeles. Marcellus Wallace tells Butch that he has lost all privileges in the city and must get out today. As in Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino pays more attention to developing his characters than to revealing locations. Without a doubt, Los Angeles is full of interesting places, iconic ones, but the film does not exploit them. We will not see the letters HOLLYWOOD or other symbols of the city in the frame. Much of the action and dialogue takes place indoors, with an emphasis on people and their stories. Moreover, due to the many cultural references, the surroundings of the Jack Rabbit Slim’s restaurant, and the cafeteria, you might think that we are in the middle of the twentieth century. But it's still the 1990s, and that's another incredible thing about Pulp Fiction. It's summer in the picture, although Jules and Vince Vega note that it can be chilly here in the mornings without clothes. Most of the events take place during the day, but there are also evening scenes, again, often indoors, and not in open locations, as one might expect.

Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction

It is no coincidence that Tarantino placed in his new film many references not only to pop culture, his favorite films of the past, but also to his first successful project » Mad Dogs" In fact, the two stories take place in the same cinematic universe and also in Los Angeles. In addition to the fact that they are similar in narrative spirit, the events take place in the same city, in summer time, indoors and outdoors, in "Pulp Fiction" can be found whole line direct references and allusions to Reservoir dogs.

The most famous reference to Reservoir Dogs comes from one of the main characters. Vincent Vega and Vic Vega (Mr. Blonde from “Reservoir Dogs”) are not just namesakes, but siblings. Quentin Tarantino himself confirmed this fact, as well as the fact that he initially thought of inviting Michael Madsen to play the role, as a background to his past adventures, but he chose to participate in another project, which he obviously had time to regret later. And secondly, Tarantino had been nurturing for several years the idea of ​​making a film about the two Vega brothers, the events of which, for obvious reasons (they were both killed), would precede both “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction.”

Tarantino played not just a cameo, but a full-fledged role of Jimmy - a man who agrees, at his own peril and risk, to help out Jules and his partner. So, it’s interesting that in the credits this character is listed simply as Jimmy, but if you set your sights, you can find information that the character’s last name is Dimmick. Larry, aka Mr. White, from Reservoir Dogs, had the same last name, hinting at a family connection between the two characters.

The appearance of Steve Buscemi in a small cameo as a waiter at Jack Rabbit Slim’s is already a bold reference to Tarantino’s past work. And it’s worth noting that in Reservoir dogs his character, Mr. Pink, talks at length about the work of waitresses and recalls that he himself worked for the minimum wage.

Tarantino invented the fast food chain Big Kahuna Burger, and it did not exist in reality in Los Angeles, although with the advent of popularity for his films, the fictional brand began to be used by various establishments. Jules notes that this Hawaiian burger, which he takes from Brad's table, is very tasty and advises Vince to try it in the future. I wonder what trademark appeared for the first time in the film "Reservoir Dogs". Michael Madsen's character, Vic Vega, brings a carbonated drink to the warehouse with a Big Kahuna Burger emblazoned on the glass. In the future, the invented trademark will appear briefly in “Four Rooms”, “From Dusk Till Dawn” (in the first film and the new series), in “Death Proof” and even in Robert Rodriguez’s film “The Adventures of Sharkboy” and Lava''.

We can once again mention the mysterious contents of the diplomat, which Vince and Jules must take possession of on an important assignment from Marcellus. One of the theories, and Tarantino confirmed that he originally intended this meaning, says that inside the diplomat there are diamonds from the robbery in Reservoir Dogs. Hence the glow and the thoughtful glances of first Vince, and then Ringo, at the contents.

In one of the deleted scenes from the movie Reservoir Dogs, the characters Eddie, Mr. White and Mr. Pink mention a certain nurse named Bonnie, and even in the context of the words “Bonnie situation”. In Pulp Fiction, this is the title of an entire section of the film, and Nurse Bonnie is Jimmy's wife and appears in the frame where the characters visualize her coming home at an inopportune moment.

Actress Linda Kaye played a woman in Reservoir Dogs who is forced out of her car by Mr. Pink. In Pulp Fiction, her character is not deliberately hit by a bullet from Marcellus Wallace when he wants to shoot Butch after a car accident.

In fact, Jules, like Vincent Vega, is a cold-blooded killer who makes his living by following the orders of his boss. He does not question whether a person deserves to die. He worries about the cleanliness of the towels in the bath, but is completely indifferent to the death of the young guy Marvin. He quotes the Bible, but for a long time he does not even think about the meaning of the words he utters. In Pulp Fiction, Tarantino lets us know that even hitmen can be human when he turns the hero's arc 180 degrees. In a conversation with the cafeteria robber, Jules admits that he understands how difficult it is to change his life, and that he is trying his best, which is why he will save the lives of Pumpkin (Ringo) and Bunny (Yolanda), and will not allow Vince to shoot them for $1,500, in particular.

The rethinking of his life and the world around him that Jules experiences is interesting for a number of reasons. At the very beginning of the film Pulp Fiction, he is presented as a detached killer who conducts a dialogue about foot massage, television pilots, and cheeseburgers in Europe. A few minutes later, he kills three people in cold blood, following his typical behavior. He follows the orders of his boss and does not think much about whether the person pointed at is worthy of death. Moreover, in a dialogue with Tim Roth’s character, at a table in a cafe, Jules admits that on any other day he would have killed them long ago without raising an eyebrow. And yet, in last scene In the film "Pulp Fiction" Jules exchanges not only money for life. He saves one life in a peculiar act of exchange for the three deaths he brought at the beginning of the story. Thus, Quentin Tarantino emphasizes in his story that we always have a choice, even in the extreme conditions of a violent world. This is the culmination of the idea, following the choice Butch made earlier to save Marsellus from being bullied by rapists.

It's amazing how Quentin Tarantino created this memorable image of world cinema by showing us a criminal who is paid to kill. Moreover, Vincent is also a drug addict who smokes, drinks alcohol and injects heroin. Such, at first cinematic glance, an unsightly and unpleasant character, is revealed through dialogues. We almost feel sorry for him when Vince unintentionally blows Marvin's brains out in the car and looks like a confused child. When he is offended and embarrassed at moments when his voice is raised at him. Vince gives Mia Wallace the famous injection with a huge syringe and saves her life. He is ready to easily kill another person (Yolanda and Ringo) in order to help his friend Jules out of trouble or out of principle, for the sake of $1,500. He is not able to refuse the boss, either with a request to kill some guys or to take his wife to a restaurant in the evening. He does the iconic dance and wonders why a simple milkshake costs a whopping $5. Thus, the plot reveals this killer and drug addict as a character and personality - a full-fledged participant in the history of Pulp Fiction. As a result, after a successful combination of circumstances with shots missing, Vincent Vega, unlike Jules, does not see any signs in what happened and death overtakes him, as if quoting that very phrase from the Bible about vengeance for sins.

In fact, Vincent is the link between the two characters' arcs, which transform throughout the story. Vince spends a significant portion of his screen time, especially in the first and final acts, in the company of Jules. While the latter accepts signs from above and changes his attitude towards life and the future, John Travolta’s character remains a cynic. He views the luck with the shots as just a coincidence, and judges Jules' decision to get involved in criminal activity as stupid. Subsequently, without following his friend into retirement, Vincent receives two trials. The first is the situation with Mia, the chance to become a corpse at the hands of her own boss. And the second situation, without an alternative or choice, leads Travolta’s hero to death, as if quoting the same passage from the Bible that Jules was so fond of. If Vince Vega had not died, he would still be the same narrow-minded guy who, when not killing people, spends time with women, friends, pays attention to the differences in Big Macs, and wonders what a pilot is in TV series.

It is noteworthy that although Vincent Vega- a criminal, also with heroin, alcohol and cigarette addiction, he lives by a certain concept of honor, as it seems to him. He is ready to carry out any order from his boss Marcellus. And it’s not so important whether it’s to kill strangers, deliver a mysterious diplomat, or take Butch by surprise. Tarantino again satirizes the lives of such criminals with the storyline and Mia. Vince easily kills people with a pistol, wipes brains out of his hair, but he is shivered by the task of taking the boss's wife to a cafe in the evening. He understands that Marcellus can test him and himself voices the idea that this is his personal test of loyalty.

Three trips to the bathroom for Vincent

Every time John Travolta's character goes to check the restroom, something unexpected happens for him, for the viewer, and has serious consequences. Thus, events important to the plot occur in contrast to a completely ordinary process, reduced to jokes, like going to the toilet. Vincent Vega performs in two scenes minor characters in the unfolding events and in one - the protagonist who must resolve the current situation.

1. Vincent goes to the toilet in the Wallace house. For him, this is an occasion to gather his thoughts and plans regarding Mia and his future behavior, while remaining loyal to his boss Marsellus. While Travolta's character is having a dialogue with himself in front of the mirror, Mia (Uma Thurman) finds heroin in his coat pocket and falls into a coma. Until this point in the plot, Vincent's biggest concern was the temptation to go further than just dancing with his boss's wife. Now his whole life hangs by a thread in an instant, and all he had to do was go to the restroom for 2 minutes.
2. Vincent Vega is waiting for Butch at his last known place of residence. He's probably been waiting for a while and decides to go to the toilet to relieve himself. Vincent leaves his automatic weapon in the kitchen and retires. At these moments, Butch enters the apartment, driven by the desire to find his father's watch. In the famous scene where the sound of toast finally seals the fate of John Travolta's character, a murder occurs. A couple of minutes away decide the fate of one of our protagonists.
3. For the third time during the film, our long-haired bandit goes to the restroom, a robbery begins in the cafe, and Jules’ life is under a small, but still threat, as is the fate of the diplomat, because of whom they had to endure so much. It is noteworthy that before this, two friends are engaged in a dialogue on philosophical themes about the meaning of life, about Jules' future, about pork. And then Vincent Vega says his famous phrase, reducing the importance of topics to going to the restroom. A few minutes later he is ready to kill two unlucky robbers.

A character whose life flashback begins the story of Pulp Fiction, if you arrange the pulp fiction scenes in the correct chronological order. We see a little boy who is visited by a stranger. Man in military uniform(Christopher Walken) served with Butch's father in Vietnam. He transmits family value the Coolidge family, which went through three wars, and gives the child several instructions. In this particular moment, the boy is silent, and we cannot draw any conclusions about his personality and attitude towards his father's death and this entire conversation on the living room floor. However, Tarantino leaves a strong plot anchor here, which will later be revealed through Butch's relationship to his father's gold watch and his family's past.

It’s even more interesting to speculate why Butch Kuldizh risked challenging the boss of organized crime, risking his and Fabian’s lives in order to earn tens of thousands of dollars more. After all, cooperation with Marcellus could promise even greater dividends in the future. The plot of Pulp Fiction does not reveal to us the nature of their relationship and the circumstances of their meeting in the past. At the same time, Butch is clearly not happy with the fact that he has to deal with criminals, the scum of society. That the bald black mafia boss tells him what to do, degrades his boxing career and personality as a whole, tells him to shove his pride away and sell out, show himself to be a weakling in the ring and lose his honor for a couple of wads of banknotes.

When Butch (Bruce Willis) crosses paths with Vince Vega (John Travolta) at the same bar after talking to Marsellus, he is in for another act of humiliation. Vincent knows that Butch is a boxer and, apparently, the fact that his presence here and conversation with the boss is not accidental. He calls Butch first "Palooka" and then "Punchy", insulting him as an athlete, calling him a punching bag and a person, in fact, with a broken brain. Butch keeps himself in check, but he also sees with what disposition Marcellus treats this most disrespectful rude, while to Butch, just a couple of minutes ago, he offered to sell his honor and shove his pride into his butt. In one of his interviews, Quentin Tarantino hinted that it was Butch who scratched Vincent's car - although it is not entirely clear where he found it at Wallace's establishment if Vince Vega and Jules arrived by taxi. Butch, in one of the scenes, tells himself that this is how he will defeat all these scum, because they constantly underestimate him. He kills Vincent in cold blood in the toilet, ending their correspondence.

Even more interesting is Butch's decision to return to the basement of the store and save Marcellus from the rapists. The latter was destined not only to be a victim of violence and humiliation, but also, most likely, to be killed in order to avoid the consequences. When Butch stops in the doorway, something in him switches. The reason is that, although he has already killed two people in less than 24 hours, Butch is not a bad person. He's not a criminal. He is influenced by the glorious past of his family, where his great-grandfather, grandfather and father fought and died for their country. Butch's father saved his subordinates from death. Moreover, in the flashback, Captain Koons says that he hopes Butch never has to experience the situation he found himself in with Major Coolidge. When two men find themselves in such a situation (captivity in Vietnam), you have to take responsibility for your comrade. This seems incredibly ironic, for Butch Coolidge, apparently, resurrects these parting words from the depths of the subconscious and Marcellus, whom he recently planned to shoot in the head in cold blood according to the principle: either you or me, becomes such a comrade in misfortune for him.

It is also interesting to pay attention to Butch's attitude towards his girlfriend Fabian. He appears to the viewer as an emotional man who scolds, who can easily lose his temper. Butch just killed his opponent in the ring and isn't too worried about it. He challenged an entire criminal organization. However, with his girlfriend Fabian he is completely different. He clarifies why she wants to have a small belly, how she spent the day, what she will eat. Even when he breaks down at her, shouting (first after learning about his father’s forgotten gold watch, and then on a motorcycle), he later tries to soften the situation. Butch asks if the girl ordered breakfast and what the pancakes tasted like.

The film “Pulp Fiction” has become a cult black comedy of American cinema and one of the director’s famous works. The tape was released in 1994. Tarantino also had a hand in the original script, for which the film was awarded an Oscar.

The music in the trailer and the film, so easily recognized by fans and simply film lovers, was not written specifically for the film. The soundtrack was composed of compositions by various artists in the genres of rock and roll and surf rock.

The film is divided into stills and quotes. The audience especially remembered the flowery, albeit poorly censored, dialogues of Jules and Vincent about the peculiarities of national cuisines: “Hamburgers! The cornerstone of healthy eating."

Samuel L. Jackson (Jules Winnfield)

Jules Winnfield is a bandit in the employ of crime boss Marcellus Wallace and a Bible scholar. Together with his partner Vincent Vega, he goes to pick up a suitcase belonging to the boss from other bandits. A simple assignment turns into a shootout, after which Jules, who miraculously survived, makes a firm decision to quit his career as a criminal.

She has been working with director Quentin Tarantino for many years. After his debut in “Pulp Fiction,” the actor appeared in Tarantino’s drama “Jackie Brown” (1997), the spaghetti western “Django Unchained” (2012) and another western, “The Hateful Eight,” which was released in wide release in 2016. For his work in Pulp Fiction, Jackson received a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for an Oscar.

Viewers of the 2010s know Jackson primarily for his role as Nick Fury, a Marvel comics hero, in whose image the actor appeared in the films of the series “ iron Man", " ", "The Avengers". In 2018 and 2019, fans of the Marvel universe will see the actor as Fury in the films “Avengers: Infinity War” and “Captain Marvel.”

John Travolta (Vincent Vega)

Vincent Vega is Jules' partner, and together with him he participates in the ups and downs around the suitcase. After the task, on behalf of the boss, he goes to “walk” his wife, Mia. The "outing" turns into disaster when Mia, mistakenly mistaking heroin for cocaine, almost dies from an overdose.

American film actor with Italian roots. He first became known to the public in 1978 after the release of the cult musical film “Grease”, where he played main role. Travolta's career took its next turn upward after the release of Pulp Fiction in 1994. The 80s became a time of decline for the actor, but after his role in the film by Quentin Tarantino, Travolta’s business began to improve again. Travolta is also known as a writer, film producer, dancer and singer. In the musical Grease, Travolta performs several songs that became super hits of their time.

Bruce Willis (Butch Coolidge)

Butch Coolidge is a professional boxer. He agreed to lose the match, taking money for the contractual loss, but he violates the terms and wins the fight, having previously bet all the money received from the bandits on himself. Fabian plans to flee with his money and girlfriend, but events take an unexpected turn.

One of the most famous actors in Hollywood. He became famous primarily thanks to the Die Hard film series, where he played the role of police officer John McClane. Last film The series was released in 2013, but this is not the end - viewers will see Willis in the role of McClane in 2019 in the film Die Hard: Year One. Willis is so widely known that he has now made at least six cameo appearances in different films - that is, as himself. For example, in the film "Ocean's Twelve" (2004).

Uma Thurman (Mia Wallace)

Mia Wallace is the wife of a crime boss. Goes for a walk with Vincent Vega to the Jack Rabbit Slims restaurant, where the heroes perform a twist to the single “You Never Can Tell” and win for dancing Grand Prize. After the “walk” he goes home to Vincent Vega, and from there he almost goes to his forefathers, having mistakenly taken a large dose of the drug.

The role of Mia in “Pulp Fiction” first brought her fame. For this role, the actress was nominated for three prestigious film awards - Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA. Thurman's photo on the film's poster becomes one of the most recognizable images of the actress. In 2003 and 2004, Thurman again appeared on screens in Quentin Tarantino's films - in the Kill Bill series, where he played the main role. And in 2014, the erotic drama “Nymphomaniac” was released, where Thurman plays one of the supporting roles. The collaboration with Trier continues; the actress will appear on screens in his film “The House That Jack Built” in 2018.

Tim Roth ("Pumpkin" Ringo)

Ringo is a petty robber who, together with his girlfriend Yolanda, robs a diner where he had just had coffee. Jules and Vincent end up in the same cafe, allowing a couple of robbers to get away with their loot.

He firmly joined the team of director Quentin Tarantino and played his best roles in the latter’s films - “Reservoir Dogs” (1992), “Pulp Fiction”, “The Hateful Eight” (2016) and in the black comedy “Four Rooms”, where Tarantino was one of four directors who participated in the filming (each filmed his own episode). Art house fans are familiar with Tim Roth for his role as Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, as well as for Peter Greenaway's drama The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).

Amanda Plummer (“Sweet Bunny” Yolanda)

Yolanda, Ringo's girlfriend, robs with him the cafe where Jules and Vincent are having breakfast, discussing the former's desire to leave the criminal world.

The role in “Pulp Fiction” became one of the most famous in the actress’s career. In 1991, Amanda Plummer appeared on the screens in Terry Gilliam's film "The Fisher King", built around one of the legends of the Arthurian cycle. The film received high marks from critics and collected many awards (Oscar, Golden Globe, Venice Film Festival awards). To date, Amanda's last film work was her role in the fantasy thriller The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).

Harvey Keitel (Winston "The Cleaner" Wolfe)

Winston Wolfe, nicknamed “The Cleaner,” helps Jules and Vincent clean up themselves and the inside of the car, where one of them smashed a man’s head. Wolfe then takes the car, along with the body in the trunk, to a car scrap yard.

Harvey Keitel's film career began in 1967 with the film Who's Knocking at My Door? The film became the debut for both the actor and the director, with whom he later collaborated closely. Harvey played in Scorsese's tragicomedy Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), crime drama“Mean Streets” (1972), the neo-noir thriller “Taxi Driver” (1976), in the film “The Last Temptation” (1988), where Keitel played Judas Iscariot - and these roles brought fame to the actor. The 78-year-old actor continues to act and does not take long breaks in his career. In 2017, viewers saw him in French comedy"Madam."

Maria de Medeiros (Fabian)

Fabian is the girlfriend of Butch Coolidge, a boxer. She had to pack her things in her rented apartment, but forgot her gold watch, Butch’s family heirloom. The hero was forced to return for them, and this entailed a chain of unexpected and unpredictable events.

Maria de Medeiros is an actress from Portugal who has also worked as a film director, screenwriter and singer. At the age of fifteen she acted in films for the first time. He plays on the theater stage in France (where he lives). In 2007 she recorded music album. As a film actress, she is known mainly to European audiences. She starred in French, Portuguese, Spanish films. In the USA, in addition to Tarantino, she worked with director Philip Kaufman (melodrama Henry and June, 1990).

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Plot

Following on from Tarantino's previous film Reservoir Dogs, parts of the plot "Pulp Fiction" were separated, mixed up and shown in the “wrong” order; a technique previously used by directors of the French New Wave, in particular Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, as well as Stanley Kubrick in The Killing.

In total, there are six parts in the script, and three of them have original titles: “Vincent Vega and the Wife of Marsellus Wallace” ( Vincent Vega and Marcellus Wallace's Wife), "Golden Watch" ( The Gold Watch) and "The Bonnie Situation" ( The Bonnie Situation).

The first and last parts (Robbery) intersect in time and take place in the same place. Two chronologically sequential parts (“Vincent Vega and the Wife of Marcellus Wallace” and “The Golden Watch”) are also shown one after the other.

Vincent and Jules

Vincent buys a bag of heroin from his old drug dealer Lance, injects himself intravenously, and goes after Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman). They go to the Jack Rabbit Slims restaurant, where Mia snorts cocaine in the toilet, after which she and Vincent perform a twist to Chuck Berry's single "You Never Can Tell" and win the grand prize. Vincent takes Mia home, where she overdoses after mistaking his bag of heroin for cocaine.

Horrified by the possible consequences, Vincent takes Mia to Lance, where, following instructions from a manual for nurses, he tries to bring the lifeless girl back to life using a direct injection of adrenaline into the heart. Mia immediately comes to her senses, after which Vincent takes her home. Having agreed that Marcellus will not learn anything about this situation, they part.

"Golden Watch"

The story of professional boxer Butch Coolidge begins with a childhood dream in which his father's army comrade, Captain Koons (Christopher Walken), gives him his family's heirloom, a gold watch. During a lengthy monologue, it turns out that while in Vietnamese captivity, Butch’s father hid the watch “in his ass” for five years so that it would not be taken away. And after his death, Koons hid them in his for another two years.

Waking up, Butch finds himself forced to participate in a fixed match, in which he was paid by Marcelas Wallace to lose. However, Butch violates the agreement by betting the money received from Wallace on himself through a trusted bookmaker, knocks out his opponent (later it turns out that he died; the fight itself is not shown) and escapes by taxi, where he tells the girl driver for a cigarette about his feelings about the death of a man from his hands. Butch does not consider himself a killer, since he was just fighting in the ring and did not intend to kill anyone.

Waiting for him at the motel is his girlfriend, Fabian (Maria de Medeiros), who was supposed to collect things from their rented apartment. The next morning, it turns out that in her haste she forgot Butch's family gold watch, and he has to return for it in Fabian's car. He carefully enters the apartment, finding no one there, takes the watch and, having already calmed down, begins to prepare himself toast for breakfast. Suddenly he realizes that he calmed down too early - on the table in the kitchen there is an Ingram MAC-10 submachine gun with a silencer, and it means that the killers waiting for him are somewhere very close. The only place he hasn't had time to look yet is the toilet. Butch takes the weapon in his hands and points it towards the bathroom, from where the sound of water being flushed can be heard. The toilet door opens to reveal Vincent Vega. Seeing Butch pointing at him formidable weapon, Vega also freezes, amazed by the current situation. The still, silent scene lasts several seconds when the sudden click of the toaster fires leads to an instant climax: the on edge Butch reflexively fires a long burst at Vince. And again, this cannot be called premeditated murder: Butch clearly did not intend to kill him. Stunned by this state of affairs, Butch goes to the exit, not forgetting, however, to carefully erase his fingerprints from the weapon.

Butch leaves the apartment and goes to the hotel in Fabian's car. Stopped at a red light good mood, he suddenly sees Marcelas, who, while crossing the road, notices Butch in the car. In a panic, Butch sharply presses on the gas, hits Wallace with a car and, jumping out into the intersection at a red light, gets into an accident. Having come to his senses, an enraged Marcelas grabs a pistol and begins to shoot at Butch, wounding a bystander. Butch, stunned by the accident, has difficulty running.

On a deserted street, Butch drops into a pawn shop, ambushes Wallace, knocks him down and takes away the gun. The owner of the pawnshop, Maynard, takes out a gun and calms down the raging Butch, who is already ready to shoot Marcelas right on the spot, with a blow from the butt. While both Marcelas and Butch are unconscious, Maynard ties them up and calls his acquaintance (according to the script - his brother), Ranger Zed. Next scene: Marcelas and Butch are tied up and sitting in chairs, their mouths gagged, and Zed is in no hurry to make an arrest. Marcelas and Butch look at each other in confusion.

Cast

Russian dubbing

The film was dubbed at the Nevafilm studio by order of Disney Character Voices International in 2008.

• Dubbing director: Gelena Pirogova
• Translation author: Dmitry Usachev
• Author of the synchronous text: Ekaterina Barto
• Sound engineer: Tatyana Veresova
• Sound editor: Dmitry Vasiliev
• Casting: Olga Efimova
• Creative consultant: Yulia Baranchuk

Creation

For a long time Quentin Tarantino couldn't decide who he would play in the film - Jimmy or Lance. He ultimately chose Jimmy because he felt that the scene bringing Mia to life was too difficult and he needed to be behind the camera when filming the scene.

According to Tarantino, the role of Butch was to be played by an actor who had already achieved Hollywood fame. It was assumed that the role of this boxer would go to Sylvester Stallone (an allusion to the film “Rocky”), but in the end it was given to Bruce Willis, who wanted to play the role of Vincent. [ ]

Tarantino was smitten by Uma Thurman's big feet (he finds them very sexy), and therefore offered her the role of Mia. Tarantino read the script to her over the phone so that the actress would agree. [ ]

The restaurant scene ("Honey Bunny" and "Pumpkin") was specifically written for Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer.

Quentin Tarantino wanted the character of Michael Madsen (Vic Vega) from Reservoir Dogs (1992) to return to the film, so the role that later went to John Travolta was written specifically for Michael (Daniel Day-Lewis also auditioned for the role). But Michael Madsen was unable to take part in the film due to contractual obligations on other projects. Tarantino had to change the character's name from Vic to Vincent.

The role of Wolfe was specifically written for Harvey Keitel.

Steve Buscemi was originally supposed to play the role of Jimmy, but due to his contractual obligations on other projects, he was unable to do so. However, he still appeared in the film in a cameo role: Steve played a waiter taking an order from Mia and Vincent at the Jack Rabbit Slim’s restaurant.

Despite the fact that Tarantino specifically wrote the role of Jules for Samuel L. Jackson, the actor might not have played it, since the producers really liked Paul Calderon's audition for this role. But in the end, Jules was played by Jackson, and Paul played the role of a bartender in Marcelas's bar.

Quentin Tarantino offered Kurt Cobain, founder and lead singer of Nirvana, a role in the film, but the musician refused. About this to the British tabloid The Sun Cobain's widow Courtney Love said. Tarantino also offered Courtney Love herself a cameo role, but she, following her husband’s example, also refused it. According to the website World Entertainment News Network, instead of Cobain and Love, the director ended up casting Rosanna Arquette and Eric Stoltz.

The film's budget was $8 million, of which $5 million went to actors' fees.

In the "adrenaline shot into Mia Wallace's heart" scene, John Travolta pulls the needle out of Uma Thurman's chest. When editing the film, the scene was played in reverse, and thus the necessary effect of reality was achieved.

Tarantino wrote two of the three short stories before the script for Reservoir Dogs and True love" After the success of these films, Tarantino decided to complete the script. He also wanted the three short stories to be directed by different directors.

The car Vincent drives is a red 1964 Chevrolet Malibu convertible that belonged to Quentin Tarantino and was stolen during filming. The car was recovered on April 18, 2013, 19 years after it was stolen, in San Bernardino County, California.

No music was written specifically for the film, but its soundtrack consists of compositions by various artists in the style of rock and roll, surf rock, pop, and soul.

The word "fuck" is used 265 times in the film.

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References to other works

The story of Mia overdosing and being revived by an injection of adrenaline into the heart is a verbatim reproduction of the story told in the documentary American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince. (English)(1978), directed by Martin Scorsese.

Mia calls Vincent a cowboy, and Vincent calls Mia a cowgirl in response. It is noteworthy that John Travolta previously played in the film “Urban Cowboy” (1980), and Uma Thurman - in “Even Cowgirls Are Sad Sometimes” (1993).

Harvey Keitel played the role of a similar "Cleaner" in the film No Return (1993).

Vincent and Mia's dance references a similar scene in one of Tarantino's favorite films, Band of Outsiders.

Angela Jones played in the film "Curdled" ("Gore"), executive producer and one of the screenwriters was Quentin Tarantino. Her character is also from Colombia and is interested in murder.

Movie links

The scene where Uma Thurman's character in the Jackrabbit Slim's restaurant talks about the pilot episode of the television show in which she took part, "about foxes" was partially based on the film "Kill Bill", that is, the "blonde vixen" is their leader (Ellie ), “a Japanese vixen knows kung fu” (Oren Ishii), “a dark-skinned vixen is an explosives expert” (Vernita Green), there is also “a particularly sexy French girl” (Sophia Fatale), and she herself played “the deadliest woman in the world, skilled with knives."

The situation where the syringe sticks out of Uma Thurman's body is also played out in the film Kill Bill. Movie 2 in the scene where Bill shoots Beatrix Kiddo with a syringe containing truth serum.

The phrases that Ringo and Yolanda shout at the very beginning of the robbery can be heard in the intro to the program “Culture Shock” on the radio “Echo of Moscow”.

In film "From Paris with love"(English) From Paris with Love) Travolta's character calls the Royale cheeseburger with cheese his weakness.

Parodies

The taxi driver who takes Butch away after the fight is called Esmarelda Villa Lobos (as indicated on her license card, but in the end credits there is a different spelling - Esmarelda Villalobos).

The book Vincent Vega is reading is Modesty Blaise by Peter O'Donnell.

The chopper Butch takes from Zed is a modified Harley-Davidson FXR.

In 2012 music project"Movie" composed a music track using dialogue and sound effects from the film.

Three phrases from the film became titles musical groups: Zed's Dead (English), Yolanda Be Cool and 25/17 .

Awards

The film was awarded the following awards:

• Oscar Award - Best original script(Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery)
• Palme d'Or - Quentin Tarantino, director (the award was presented on May 23, 1994 at the Cannes Film Festival)
• Golden Globe - Best Screenplay feature film(Quentin Tarantino)
• BAFTA - Best Supporting Actor (Samuel Jackson)
• BAFTA - Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary)

The film claimed