Pulp fiction main character. The film "Pulp Fiction": actors and roles

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 Oscar-winning cinematography – 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, Quentin Tarantino's hometown.
• 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 Quentin Tarantino's best friend.
• The length of the special edition of the film is 168 minutes.

There are successful and unsuccessful films, and there are real film masterpieces - those that not only entered the history of cinema, but also became its main milestones. One of the legends of world cinema, undoubtedly, is "Pulp Fiction" by Quentin Tarantino– a film called “an icon of postmodernism.” And the most popular scene in it is the dance performed by the characters The minds of Thurman and John Travolta. So, let's twist again!

Music, according to Tarantino, "defines the identity of a film, it is the tonal center around which the entire film revolves." The tracks for “Pulp Fiction” were selected by the director at the stage of writing the script; they set the emotional background of a particular scene and became a significant part of the plot. Tarantino independently selected his favorite songs of the 1960s for the film in the style of funk, soul, rock and roll, and twist. And the most famous and recognizable was the composition “Let’s twist again” - the calling card of “Pulp Fiction”.

The twist scene looks so easy, casual and delicate that it’s hard to believe that it was the scene that caused problems during filming. The dance was filmed for 13 hours straight, almost without pause! And the problem was that Uma Thurman felt too constrained and could not “catch the courage.” Let's start with the fact that the actress had doubts about her participation in the film for a long time. And the dance scene caused her the greatest doubts.

The dance movements were invented by Quentin Tarantino and John Travolta based on a twist that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. For Travolta, this was not difficult, because he had been dancing since he was eight years old! While rehearsing the scene, he spent a long time teaching Uma Thurman. The movements were remembered quickly, but the necessary ease was not there. The actress recalls: “Oh, I was so awkward, so embarrassed and so shy!” Uma Thurman was very timid by nature, and realizing the importance of this scene for the film, she was even more nervous. It was even necessary to remove everyone from the set except the cameraman and lighting technicians so that the actress would not feel constrained.

But the twist still looked forced. Then Tarantino showed the actors a still from Godard’s film, in which the characters danced in the same restaurant. Travolta recalls the moment: “Look how they dance,” Tarantino said. – They are not professional dancers, but they dance just great, only because they dance for themselves, for their own pleasure. They don't care whether those who watch them like their dance. Now they live in music, they are immersed in it, moving with it. This is exactly what I want from you.”

Travolta says that at that moment Tarantino looked like a 13-year-old boy: “But with all this, he was so spontaneous and sincere that one could not help but admire him. By his example, he not only liberated us, but provoked us to the most unexpected inventions and improvisations.” And the result exceeded all expectations!

It is difficult to overestimate the role he played in the history of cinema

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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 main 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 a formidable weapon at him, 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. Stopping at a red light in a 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 could not 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 Romance. 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 starred in the film Curdled, which was executive produced and co-written by 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 named 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, the music project "Movie" composed a music track using dialogue and sound effects from the film.

Three phrases from the film became the names of musical groups: Zeds Dead (English), Yolanda Be Cool and 25/17 .

Awards

The film was awarded the following awards:

• Academy Award - Best Original Screenplay (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 Feature Film Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino)
• BAFTA - Best Supporting Actor (Samuel Jackson)
• BAFTA - Best Original Screenplay (Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary)

The film claimed

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, the hero of Marvel comics, in whose image the actor appeared in the films of the Iron Man, The Avengers series. 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 the 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. The last film in the series was released in 2013, but this is not the end - viewers will see Willis as 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. He 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 the main prize for the dance. 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), the crime drama Mean Streets (1972), the neo-noir thriller Taxi Driver (1976), and 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 the French comedy Madame.

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 a 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).

The film "Pulp Fiction" - official trailer (video):

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 are complemented by a host 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 the best monologues in Christopher Walken’s filmography Also echoing 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 Andrzej Sekula, who previously worked on Reservoir Dogs, filmed the film from a 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.