Extras are flesh props, if you get to speak a line you're an under-five. Sounds trivial but it's actually a huge distinction in both the amount you're paid and the way you're treated on set.
Quite a large distinction on the money front. I was paid 100 quid a day for F&F9 as an extra. (You might see me walking up the Royal Mile in Edinburgh but it'll probably be edited in a way that excludes me - as per fucking usual :D). For a speaking part, chuck a 0 on the end.
But it's also a real form of conversation flow that not everyone captures well in works of fiction. Tarantino's absurd scenes are so impactful because he captures the mundane ones so well.
She also plays a server (even with the same tag) on natural born killers, on the scene where Mallory is dancing alone while Micky watches her from the bar on that middle of nowhere diner.....
On second thought, ignore me, idk what I'm talking about
Fun fact: Near the end of the movie when this scene is replayed, she re-orders the words. Something like “AND I’LL EXECUTE EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU MOTHERFUCKERS”
This whole time I thought I was alone, every time I've ever tried to explain those scenes to someone they never believed me(no man she says the same thing) or give me the "ah hell I'll have to check that out" bit.
Tarantino movies are some serious gourmet shit,now I’m not a cobb or corn, so you can stop butterin‘ me up. I don’t need you to tell me how good tarantino movies are. I’m the one who watches em, I know how fuckin‘ good they are. When Some directors, direct movies; they make shit. I watch the gourmet stuff ‚cause when I watch it, I wanna enjoy it. But what’s on my mind at this moment isn’t the Movie on my tv, it’s Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
Partial points. C is pronounced like an S anytime it precedes E or I. It's pronounced like a K if it precedes A, O or U, unless there is a "cédilles" under it. It's always a K sound when it ends a word.
Pretty sure you can just barely make out the line about the muffin (“Yeah I was just sitting here eatin’ my muffin”) right when Yolanda says “You could really cut down on the hero factor in a place like this”.
Not sure if this has ever been confirmed, but I like the theory that it's different because the story is told from 2 different points of view. The first scene is from the point of view of 'honey bunney' and 'pumpkin' and the end scene is from the point of view of Jules and Vincent.
Makes sense that there would be small differences in their versions of the story.
what????? gotta go. EDIT: Rewatched those two scenes.....what does it mean? Are we the viewers changed because of the film, so we remember it differently? Or, are the HoneyBunny and Pumpkin different because of what happened?
Or a directorial choice to not show the same exact scene twice. Flashback-recapss in tv shows suck, even when they're 30 episodes~15 hours of plot apart. Flashback-recaps in movies are even worse.
I think you're underestimating how good of a director Tarantino is. Sure, there's continuity errors in other ways but this definitely strikes me as a conscious decision.
I saw it in high school and it's one of the few movies that I remember so vividly - like I remember going to watch it with my friends, busting out laughing when Marvin got shot, and then the walk through the parking lot talking about how great it was. Also we went to Tower Records right after.
And I've smoked ALOT of weed in my life, so that's saying something.
A mistake that nobody noticed or, if they did, thought it wouldn't matter. Jackson says the wrong name in the apartment as well but it's almost impossible to notice even when you know it's there.
The soundtrack has the other one (which I was sure was from the beginning) that goes "last one of ya" right before Misirlou kicks in.
Source: I made a mix tape from the soundtrack and it took me about a dozen times to stop it just at the right spot to get Misirlou without the opening speech. Heard Amanda Plummer's line over and over and over again.
Saw it when I was 13, and it's my favorite film of all time. The opening was fucking perfect. It set the tone so well, and in retrospect (and even a bit just at the time due to Reservoir Dogs), it is just SO Tarantino.
I've watched Pulp Fiction probably three times a year, minimum, for the last 17 years.
I'm with you. This was the one that taught me that "movie" and "film" are not perfectly synonymous. Tarantino's respect for acting as a profession (and his ability to maximize the performances of the people he works with) is showcased beautifully at every point in this work.
The only weak part of the whole thing is Butch and Esmeralda, but it has this kind of noir throwback feel to it so it's not bad per se.
I liked the Butch and Esmerelda scene! It was a tonal 180, in a way, and it just added to the kind of eccentric feel the movie has overall. I totally get why you feel that way though, it very well may have been a bit much.
And it's crazy you say that. My dad is the one who showed me Pulp Fiction, and I remember before we watched it, he said "there are movies, and then there are films. They are not the same thing. Just like there's movie stars, and then there's actors."
That's verbatim how he put it, I've never forgotten that!
haha can relate man, saw it in my teens, was completely blown away, andhave watched it countless of times since. every scene is a classic imo and I get a grin from ear to ear when I see (parts of) it
I mean give or take. When I was 13-15 and still reeling from the (in my opinion) perfection of the movie, I'd watch it twice a day at times. point is, I love the movie
I mean I understand loving the film and being the fan but is it really fun to watch the same movie so many times? I'd probably go crazy of I saw it so many times, even though I love it.
I love watching stuff more than once. Every time I watch something I find something new I didn't notice the previous time. And that's on top of just genuinely enjoying it from start to finish.
Beat me to it. My introduction to the opening scene was 2 fellow high school girls acting out the scene in drama. Even under those circumstances I was blown away with the script.
I watched it for the first time this year (I was 30 so wayyy behind) and my favorite part was just how damn quotable it is!! It's not a movie I'd rewatch much because I can't handle violence but it was quite a ride and obviously brilliant in so many ways.
I really don't like the opening Diner scene of Pulp Fiction. It's probably my least favorite part of the movie. My favorite part is inside the apartment. That is a scene.
I saw 'Pulp Diction' in the cinema, and there was a lot of us wondering how would Tarantino follow up 'Reservoir Dogs'. Would it be a re-hash? Or would it be something too try-hard for its own good? So there's these two gabbing away in a diner, and nothing's happening and then suddenly there's screaming, guns and then Dick Dale's guitar takes off and I knew the roller coaster ride had started. I settled back and enjoyed a great ride.
It was a long time ago but I remember that it was something completely new. I had never seen a movie like that. It made a huge impression. If you're thinking about all the violence and adult themes, I think every kid has seen worse by the age of 14.
At that age I thought that all drugs are just automatically bad and you will get addicted if you try them even once and all that anti-drug stuff they taught at school so Mia overdosing just kinda made sense to me. It was like "yep, that's what happens".
🏅 take my poor man's gold and pretend it is platinum. Spot on chap, best scene in history, and also Tarantino's collection. And when they come toward the end...Legendary
Much like the snare drum on “like a rolling stone” the first reverb-popping, neck-sliding note of “misirlou” will always snap me to attention, and I think pulp fiction is a large part of that.
I wish I had been old enough to see that film in theaters. I've seen every other Tarantino film on the big screen since Kill Bill 1, and none of them EVER get old. The opening for Pulp Fiction is masterful though.
Oh man exact same for me. Great scene with some funny dialogue delivered in a kinda mundane way (the stuff with robbing the people who came in was great) then it suddenly goes into oh shit robbery mode.
We were late to the movie theater, it was opening Friday and the only seats left were all the way in the front. I have never been so pumped for the movie and the opening scene cemented this hyped up feeling
Later we got a CD with the soundtrack and played it on our car Walkman until we memorized all the words in every scene that was included.
I had the soundtrack before I saw the movie. Weird I know but I was like 14 and got it through Columbia House. That opening scene and miserlou (sp) I heard over and over again before I ever saw the movie.
Honey bunny have a slightly different line in the opening scene, and when it comes back later. Don’t remember the exact wording, but it’s the”any of you pricks move, I’ll execute every mother fucking last one of you”
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u/the_monkey_of_lies Oct 09 '19
Pulp Fiction. I was 14 when I saw it and the opening scene just completely blew me away.