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PULP FICTION
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Presentation
By: Montana Boucher-Burnet
5 things you might not
know about Pulp Fiction
WARNING
The rest of this presentation does
contain serious spoilers for the
movie Pulp Fiction.
1. Made up Bible verse
Did you know, the Bible verse that Jules
Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) recites at
the beginning of the movie is almost
entirely made up?
Jules Winnfield quote
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by
the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will,
shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness.
For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost
children. And I will strike down upon thee with great
vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to
poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I
am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.
Actual Bible quote
I will carry out great vengeance on them and
punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I
am the Lord, when I take vengeance on them.
2. Vincent Vega’s
Bad-luck Bathroom breaks
Did you know, every time the character
Vincent Vega (John Travolta) goes to the
bathroom in the movie, something bad
happens?
1st bathroom break:
Vincent Vega goes to the bathroom
after a night out with Mia Wallace
(Uma Thurman), while in the
bathroom Mia finds heroin that was
in Vincent’s jacket pocket, assumes
it to be cocaine and snorts it putting
her into a drug induced coma.
2nd bathroom break:
After breaking into the home
apartment of boxer Butch Coolidge
(Bruce Willis) to wait for and kill
Butch for not throwing a boxing
match Vincent gets the urge to go to
the bathroom leaving his gun on the
counter in the kitchen, meanwhile
Butch comes into his home, sees the
gun on the counter, picks it up and
when Vincent comes out he
subsequently shoots Vincent and kills
him with his own gun.
3rd bathroom break:
While Jules and Vincent are in a
diner eating after a fiasco to do with
some brains and the back of their
car, Vincent once again decides to
go to the bathroom and while he is
there the diner the two are eating in
is robbed by a man and a woman.
3. The frighteningly free usage of
the F-word
Did you know, the F-word is said
throughout the film a total of 265 times?
Do they kiss their mothers with that
mouth?
4. What’s in the briefcase?
Throughout the movie a mysterious briefcase shows up
many times that Jules and Vincent are supposed to be
retrieving and returning to their boss, Marsellus Wallace
(Ving Rhames). The audience is never shown or told
what is truly in the briefcase, now while in the context of
the fictional movie universe we still don’t know as the
director/writer Quentin Tarantino has said that the
contents of the case are whatever the viewer imagines
them to be, however, the actual physical real world
contents of the briefcase have been revealed to us to
be… Just two batteries and a lightbulb inside a suitcase.
5. Divine intervention and set
inattention
Did you know, at the beginning of the movie
when Jules and Vincent are shot at by a wannabe
thug (Alexis Arquette) that ends up missing
every shot, all the bullet holes in the wall behind
them are there before he even starts shooting?
Before the shooting
During the shooting
After the shooting
Did you learn anything new?
Well that’s all I have to show you about the
film Pulp Fiction hopefully you now know
something you didn’t before, if not, well
you must really be a fan.
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Thanks for watching!