The Pulp Fiction Store

The Video & DVD Pulp Fiction - Miramax Collector's Edition Pulp Fiction Pulp Fiction (Special Collector's Edition) This puppy's got extra scenes on it. - CDM	The Books Pulp Fiction : A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Files	Soundtrack Music is very important to Tarantino when he makes his films.  The music is often essential to the film.  The soundtracks all have movie clips too. - CDM Pulp Fiction: Music From The Motion Picture I think this is one of the best movie soundtracks ever.  It's especially fun when driving in the summer, with the windows down at a stop light with a car with its windows down next to you when you turn up the volume at the end of Ezekiel 25:17 when Sam starts shooting... it funny when people duck. - CDM Reservoir Dogs & Pulp Fiction Double Feature This is how I got my soundtracks, it's a good price and two great soundtracks.  It also comes with a booklet if I remember correctly.  - CDM
Tarantino A to Zed : The Films of Quentin Tarantino In case you hadn't noticed, the Tarantino films (Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Jackie Brown, From Dusk Till Dawn) are all connected by certain characters.  What Quentin has done is created his own Mythology, his own universe.  The book gives a cohesive guide to the characters, locations and connections.  It's a lot of fun to jump around in. - CDM

HugeReviews.com Reviews:

Mark's Movie Info.:

My Favorite Trivia

Listen carefully! When Butch goes through the alley, the radio says that the dancing trophy from Jack Rabbit Slim's had been stolen. Therefore Mia and Vincent did not win, but in fact stole the trophy...we just assumed they had won it!

Thoeries

The bandaid on Marsellus Wallace's neck was there because actor Ving Rhames has a scar there that the makeup people felt would be too distracting during that scene. There are various rumors circulating that this was a deliberate reference to the removal of Marsellus' "soul" (which supposedly is in the briefcase that Jules and Vincent collect) but there has never been official confirmation of this.

Mia Wallace's comment "An Elvis man should love this" is a reference to an earlier cut scene where Mia claims that everyone can be classified as either an "Elvis" person or a "Beatles" person. She bets Vincent that he is an "Elvis", and he confirms it. This helps lead to another speculation on the contents of the briefcase: Elvis' gold suit, seen worn by Val Kilmer (as Elvis) in True Romance.

Tarantino Film Connections

When Vincent calls Lance on his cell phone, Lance is eating a bowl of FRUIT BRUTE, a cereal from the monster cereal family. Fruit Brute (which, along with FRANKENBERRY, BOO BERRY, and COUNT CHOCULA, make up the monster cereals) was the first of the type to be discontinued. Quentin Tarantino has held onto a box and drops it into scenes from time to time. It also appeared in Reservoir Dogs.

Big Kahuna Burgers first appeared in Reservoir Dogs, also written by Quentin Tarantino. The Big Kahuna burger was also eaten in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn, which Tarantino costarred in.

When Butch is approaching his apartment, there is an advertisement for "Jack Rabbit Slims" on the radio. An ad for "Jack Rabbit Slims" can also be heard during the torture scene in Reservoir Dogs.

The innocent bystander shot by Marsellus Wallace is the same actor pulled out of her car by Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs.

In Reservoir Dogs, Nice Guy Eddie refers to a nurse named "Bonnie".

Fabienne says, "Any time of day is a good time for pie." Alabama also says this in True Romance, also written by Quentin Tarantino.

Fun Stuff

John Travolta first met Quentin Tarantino to discuss his part in the film at Tarantino's L.A. apartment. It was the same apartment in which Travolta once lived as a struggling Hollywood newcomer.

Jules' character was originally written to have a gigantic afro, but a crewmember obtained a variety of gerry-curled wigs instead, apparently unaware of the difference. The production schedule did not permit correcting the mistake.

Knoxville, Tennessee, where Butch was meeting his connection and where his great-grandfather bought the gold watch from born, is also Quentin Tarantino's birthplace.

The parts of "Honey Bunny" and "Pumpkin" were written specifically for Amanda Plummer and Tim Roth.

Quentin Tarantino hesitated over the choice between the character he was going to play: Jimmie or Lance. He ended up choosing Jimmie's role because he wanted to be behind the camera in Mia's overdose scene.

Every time Vincent goes to the bathroom, something "bad" happens.

The book that Vincent reads is "Modesty Blaise", by Peter O'Donnell. In that book, a killer indulges in a Biblical rant very similar to that of Samuel L. Jackson's character.

The shot of Vincent plunging the syringe into Mia's chest was filmed by having John Travolta pull the needle out, then running the film backwards.

When Vincent and Lance are attempting to give Mia the adrenaline injection, the board games "Operation" and "Life" are visible in the background.

The marquee where Butch boxes advertises the following fights: "Coolidge vs Wilson" and "Vossler vs Martinez". The first is a reference to United States Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson, the second is a reference to Rand Vossler and Jerry Martinez, who are two friends of Tarantino's from when he worked in a video store.

When Butch goes to leave the pawn shop after freeing himself, he pauses for a moment- he can either go to Tennessee and collect his money, or go back to help Marsellus Wallace. Near to where he pauses are a Tennessee license plate, and a neon sign for "Killians Red" on a shelf. The only letters that are still lit spell "Kill ed". We are then shown a shot of Zed's keyring with the "Z" trinket: we are left with the subliminal message "Kill Zed", which is exactly what Butch proceeds to do.

After Butch kills Maynard, Marsellus Wallace says that he's going to call some friends "to go to work on [Zed] with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch." In the film Charley Varrick, a character named Maynard warns a bank manager that some mobsters "will go to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch."

Jimmy (Tarantino) is wearing a t-shirt bearing the logo of "Orbit", a local alternative newspaper in Metro Detroit, for which Tarantino did an interview when he was promoting Reservoir Dogs.

The "F word" is used 271 times.

The show on the television behind young Butch is Clutch Cargo.

You can see Vincent entering the bathroom at the beginning of the film, when Pumpkin and Honey Bunny are talking about robbery.

Vincent rolls a cigarette for Mia using "Drum" tobacco, a top-selling brand in the Netherlands (which Vincent just returned from).

Connections to Other Films

Pulp Fiction producer Danny De Vito starred in Twins, whose two main characters were Vincent and Julius.  Just like Vincent and Jules in this movie.

Mia calls Vincent "cowboy," and John Travolta starred in Urban Cowboy. Vincent calls Mia "cowgirl" in return; Uma Thurman starred in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

When Captain Koons visits the young Butch to give him his father's watch, his recollections refer to an airman named "Wynocki" who transports the watch back to safety. "Wynocki" is the name of John Garfield's character in Howard Hawks' film Air Force. Hawks is one of Tarantino's favorite directors.

Wilson is the name of the fighter to whom Butch is instructed to lose. Wilson was also the name of the fighter against whom Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) took a dive to in 1954's On the Waterfront.

The scene in which Butch waits at a stoplight and Marsellus walks in front of his car directly resembles that in Psycho in which Marion's boss crosses before her car.