![]() Despite the ease with which he inflicts violence earlier in the film, Jules abstains from killing the two, instead giving them money and telling them to leave. The film ends with Jules and Vince eating at a diner, which is robbed by two lovers midway through the henchmen’s meal. The mob boss escapes with Coolidge, and the two call it even after this disturbing experience. After Coolidge wrecks his car running over Wallace, the two battle, staggering, through the streets until they end up in a shop run by a pair of suspect men, who hold both Coolidge and Wallace at gunpoint before sodomizing Wallace. After a brief manhunt, Wallace, carrying a breakfast of donuts and coffee, spots Coolidge by chance and pulls a gun on him. Coolidge decides not to throw a fight, much to the chagrin of Wallace. ![]() Wallace, Vince takes her home and all is well.Ī series of scenes involving Bruce Willis’ boxer character Butch Coolidge follow. After a meal riddled with sexual tension and subtle critiques of America, the two retire to Mia’s house, where the former actress overdoses on Vince’s heroine. After scoring some highly potent heroine, Vince picks up Mia and the two travel to Jack Rabbit Slim’s, a 1950s themed diner complete with period car booths and wait staff dressed like pop icons of the day. Leading up to the hit, Vince tells Jules that he has been charged with taking Wallace’s wife, Mia (Uma Thurmon), out for a good time that night. After eating their breakfast and simultaneously intimidating the boys, Jules kills all three and retrieves a mysterious suitcase belonging to Wallace. Jackson) driving to kill a group of young men who have wronged the two hit men’s boss, Marcellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Pulp Fiction opens with Vince (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. So for the sake of brevity, this paper will focus on a handful of the most prominent scenes. Food is involved heavily throughout the film, with Tarantino acknowledging that he “likes to in restaurants” (Tarantino & Peary, 1998, p. Indeed, Tarantino’s use of food was central to every major scene in the film, heralding impending violence and offering a tangible and relatable avenue for a commentary on American culture at that time. Dominated by brilliant dialogue, violence, and subtle criticisms of American culture, the Best Original Screenplay-winning film intertwined food to further each of these critical plot threads. He is an honors student, a contributing writer for Vox Magazine, and will be an assistant city editor this summer at the Columbia Missourian.īetween interlocking story lines and black humor, few films have gained such universal critical acclaim (without winning Best Picture) as Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 mob masterpiece Pulp Fiction. ![]() His major is Journalism Print and Digital News with an emphasis in news reporting. ![]()
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