Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
Director: Quentin
Tarantino
Writer: Quentin
Tarantino & Roger Avary
Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L.
Jackson
The movie begins with the two gangsters, Jules and Vincent,
headed off on an early morning mission to claim a briefcase with some important
contents that belongs to their boss, Marsellus. They talk about Vincent's
recent travels in Europe and how Marsellus almost killed a guy for massaging
his wife's feet. When they arrive at their destination, they confront the young
drug dealers who've apparently tried to mess with Marsellus and keep the
briefcase. Jules and Vincent shoot two of them as their informer, Marvin,
cowers in the corner. A fourth kid pops out of the bathroom (because why not)
and empties a clip at them but misses. Jules takes this as a sign of divine
intervention. On the drive back to return the briefcase to Marsellus, Vincent
accidentally shoots Marvin in the head in the middle of a discussion about
Jules' divine intervention theory.
They drive to the home of Jimmie, a "friend" of
Jules. Marsellus sends his professional problem solver, The Wolf, to clean up
the mess. The Wolf succeeds in getting the boys out of Jimmie's hair and
disposes of the car and the body before Jimmie's wife gets home. Jules and
Vincent decide to stop at a diner for breakfast, where Jules tells Vincent that
he's quitting his life of crime because of the way his life was divinely
spared. After they return the briefcase, he's done; he plans to "walk the
earth." The diner's about to be robbed by Ringo and Yolanda, small-time
crooks who we see chatting about how robbing a bank or a diner makes so much
more sense than the liquor stores they've been holding up. But when Ringo makes
his way over to Jules, Jules disarms him and then tries to talk some sense into
Ringo and into himself. He lets Ringo off with his own money and a life lesson Then
it's off to Marsellus where they see the boss just finishing up a conversation
with a boxer, Butch. Butch takes Marsellus' money in exchange for agreeing to
fix his next boxing match by going down in the fifth round. Vincent's next
assignment is to keep Marsellus' wife Mia company that evening while the boss
is away on business. This is a very risky proposition; remember the rumor about
the guy who got thrown out the window?
Before he heads over to her place, he buys some heroin and
shoots up. Because that's just what happens in Pulp
Fiction. Then he takes her to a '50s diner where they have some
burgers and enter a twist competition. Vincent is very attracted to Mia, and
when they get back to her house, he goes into the bathroom to remind himself to
keep his hands off her. While he's in there, Mia overdoses by snorting some of
Vincent's heroin, which she thought was cocaine. Vincent drives her to Lance's
(his drug dealer) house where they revive a dying Mia with a dramatic
adrenaline shot to the heart. The next day, Butch wakes up from a dream/memory
of receiving his great grandfather's watch from a captain who was a POW with
his father. We don't see Butch's fight, but he KOs his opponent in the first
round, defying Marsellus' orders. He flees the scene into a waiting taxi, where
the driver informs him that the guy he knocked out died. The taxi takes him to
a motel, where his girlfriend Fabienne is waiting for him. She picked up some
stuff from Butch's apartment in preparation for fleeing town.
When Butch wakes up in the morning, he realizes Fabienne
forgot his very important watch, so he risks going back to his apartment to
retrieve it. While there, he sees a gun on the counter, and he hears someone
flush the toilet. When that someone—Vincent—comes out of the bathroom, Butch shoots him and then gets out. But as he's driving back, he happens
upon Marsellus walking back to Butch's apartment stakeout with coffee and
donuts. Butch tries to run him over and ends up crashing into another car. In
case you wanted more blood.
Both Marsellus and Butch are pretty hurt, but
Marsellus doesn't care. He chases Butch until Butch ducks into a pawn shop.
Marsellus follows but is caught off-guard by Butch, who's about to kill him
when the pawn shop owner pulls out a shotgun and clocks him a good one. When
Marsellus and Butch wake up, they're tied up in the shop basement by Maynard,
the sicko shop owner, and his equally sicko buddy Zed.
Maynard and Zed decide to rape Marsellus first.
Butch is able to escape and is about to hit the road when he has second thoughts
about rescuing Marsellus. He turns around, grabs a samurai sword from the
pawnshop, and goes into the back room of the basement. He slices up Maynard and
gives Marsellus enough time to castrate Zed with a shotgun. Marcellus says
they're even so long as he doesn't tell anyone about this and leaves town
immediately and permanently. Butch jumps on Zed's motorcycle, grabs his girl,
and gets out of town.
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