Travolta’s character, Vincent Vega, is supposedly the brother of Michael Madsen’s character from Reservoir Dogs, and at one time Tarantino was planning a movie starring the pair. While one line is similar to text from the book, apparently the speech is almost word-for-word identical to the opening scene of the Sonny Chiba movie Karate Kiba. The famous Bible passage memorised by Jules is mostly fictional. Stand outs in Pulp Fiction include the title credits track, Dick Dale’s version of Misirlou the song Mia and Vincent dance to, You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry and Urge Overkill’s cover of Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon. Uma Thurman and John Travolta dancing - about as memorable a movie moment as there is.įamously, Tarantino never used to use original music (that’s now changed with his Ennio Morricone collaborations, of course), instead selecting tracks from his record collection - but his choices were so eclectic, obscure, and personal that many of them are now most associated with the films he put them in. “You mind if I have some of your tasty beverage to wash this down?” - Jules Quote Most Likely To Be Used in Everyday Conversation Vincent: “I don’t know, I didn’t go into Burger King.” Vincent: “Big Mac’s a Big Mac, but they call it Le Big Mac.” Vincent: “They call it a Royale with Cheese.” They wouldn’t know what the fuck a Quarter Pounder is.” Vincent: “No man, they got the metric system. Jules: “They don’t call it a Quarter Pounder with Cheese?” Vincent: “You know what they call a Quarter Pounder with Cheese in Paris?” (You might argue for Harvey Keitel’s character, but his Direct Line adverts have rather soured that.) Nonetheless, you’d have to point to hitmen Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield, and their ever-so-Tarantino rambling conversations about nothing and everything, as the film’s primary duo.Ĭhristopher Walken’s cameo turn as an army vet passing down a watch with an… unusual history. Pulp Fiction muddies its waters considerably, with criminals for heroes at the best of times, and the “short story collection” style meaning there’s an abundance of characters anyway, some of whom arguably change sides from one tale to the next. Most films can be divvied up into heroes and villains one way or another - I’ve certainly managed it for the previous 70 films in this list. Roger Avary ( Killing Zoe, The Rules of Attraction)Ī chronologically-shuffled collection of interconnected short crime stories, including a hitman who has to take his boss’ wife for a nice night out, a boxer who refuses to throw a fight, the clean-up after a misfire, and a diner hold-up gone sideways. Quentin Tarantino ( Natural Born Killers, The Hateful Eight) Quentin Tarantino ( From Dusk Till Dawn, Jackie Brown) Quentin Tarantino ( Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill) Uma Thurman ( Dangerous Liaisons, Gattaca)īruce Willis ( Die Hard, The Fifth Element) That’s thrown all of my “first seen” guesses into doubt now…) (I would’ve guessed several years later than that, but I definitely watched it on BBC Two and I definitely wasn’t 18, so (with reference to the BBC Genome Project) this is the only plausible option. Original Release: 10th September 1994 (South Korea)įirst Seen: TV, 18th December 1999 ( probably) Tarantino chose surf music for the basic score of the film because, "it just seems like rock 'n' roll Ennio Morricone music, rock 'n' roll spaghetti Western music.BBFC: 18 (uncut, 1994) | 18 (cut on video, 1995) | 18 (uncut on video, 2011) Notable songs include Dick Dale's now-iconic rendition of "Misirlou", which is played during the opening credits. Tarantino used an eclectic assortment of songs by various artists. 21 on the Billboard 200, while Urge Overkill's cover of the Neil Diamond song "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" peaked at No. Seven songs featured in the movie were not included in the original 41-minute soundtrack. The soundtrack is equally untraditional, consisting of nine songs from the movie, four tracks of dialogue snippets followed by a song, and three tracks of dialogue alone. The film contains a mix of American rock and roll, surf music, pop and soul. No traditional film score was commissioned for Pulp Fiction. Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction is the soundtrack to Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction.
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