Pulp Fiction is a crime drama movie. It is one of the best cult classic movies to be ever made. Regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time by a number of critics, it covers a story containing crime drama. It won the award for Palme d’Or (Cannes 1994) and the Original Screen Play award (OSCAR 1995). It was released in the year 1994. The movie was produced by Lawrence Bender.
Written and
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast:
Tim Roth as
Pumpkin
Amanda
Plummer as Honey Bunny
Laura
Lovelace as Waitress
John
Travolta as Vincent Vega
Samuel L.
Jackson as Jules Winnfield
Phil LaMarr
as Marvin
Frank Whaley
as Brett
Burr Steers
as Roger
Bruce Willis
as Butch Coolidge
Ving Rhames
as Marsellus Wallace
Paul
Calderon as Paul
Bronagh
Gallagher as Trudi
Rosanna
Arquette as Jody
Eric Stoltz
as Lance
Uma Thurman
as Mia Wallace
Plot Summary:
The opening
scene of the movie shows a scene where people are dining. Two robbers come into
the small dinner and take out their guns.
Vincent Vega
and Jules Winnfield who are the two lead characters of the movie come to an
apartment to take a briefcase with their associate, Brett. They are hitmans (those
who kill for money). They have come to take the briefcase for their boss, Marsellus
Wallace who is a gangster. While Vincent was checking the contents of the briefcase, Jules shoots one of the associates of Brett and kills him. Brett starts to utter a passage from the
bible trying to deceive Vega and Jules, but they both shoot Brett and kill him
instead.
They now
come to a bar to deliver the briefcase to Wallace. They have to wait for some time as the boss was bribing a boxer, Butch Coolidge to die in the upcoming
game. The next day, Vincent buys some heroin from Lance and injects it. As Wallace was out of time, Vincent had to take care of Wallace’s wife Mia Wallace
for some time. They have dinner in a 1950s-themed restaurant. They participate
in a dance-off contest and win the contest. They come back home with the
trophy. While Vincent was using the bathroom, Mia finds a heroine from Vincent’s
overcoat and uses it thinking it is cocaine. Vincent finds overdosed Mia lying
on the sofa and takes her to Lance’s home in a hurry. Then, an adrenaline shot
beside the heart of Mia wakes her up.
Butch Coolidge
betrays Wallace and kills the opponent boxer instead. Then, he and his
girlfriend Fabienne are shown in a hotel room, where they start planning to
run away from Wallace. Butch finds out that the watch that his father has given
was missing. His girlfriend had forgotten to pack the watch. He is angry with
his girlfriend and goes away from the hotel to retrieve the watch. When he
reaches home to take the watch, he finds a gun kept at his kitchen counter and
also hears the sound of the toilet flushing. Vincent comes out from the bathroom
and butch shoots him and kills him. While Butch was waiting for the traffic
lights to go green, Marsellus sees him and his Butch are injured in an accident.
Marsellus chases butch down to a store. The store owner Maynard catches both of
them and locks them inside a basement. A security guard named Zed joins Maynard. Zed takes Marsellus to another room to rape him. They leave Butch with a man
who was wearing a costume. Butch escapes and kills the man. He was about to
escape from the place but decides to save Marsellus instead. He takes a katana
(a type of long knife) from the store and goes to save Marsellus in the other
room. Butch kills Maynard and Marsellus kills Zed with Maynard’s shotgun.
Marsellus tells Butch that they are at peace with each other until Butch does
not spill out about Marsellus’s rape to anyone. Marsellus leaves Los Angeles
forever from now on. Butch goes to pick up his girlfriend Fabienne in Zed’s
chopper biker.
In the
earlier scene where Jules and Vincent kill Brett, another man comes out from
the bathroom and heavily shoots them. But, fortunately, none of the bullets
touch either of them and they then kill the other guy. Jules believes that to
survive in that situation is not less than a miracle but Vincent doesn’t agree
to that. While Jules was driving, Vincent unknowingly shoots Brett’s associate
Marvin and kills him. They hide the car in Jimmy’s house. Jimmy who is a friend
of Jules says to them that they should clean up the mess before his wife
returns back home. Jimmy is portrayed in the movie by the director himself, Quentin
Tarantino. Marsellus sends his cleaner Winston Wolfe to Jimmy’s place. Wolfe
insists Jules and Vincent clean the car and hide the dead body in the trunk
of the car and take the car to a junkyard. Vincent and Jules change their
clothes in Jimmy’s place and go to get some food for dinner. There, Jules explains
to Vincent that he wants to get out of his criminal life. He believes that their
survival earlier in the movie was a sign to retire from crime.
While Vincent was in the bathroom a couple who were shown to be dining in the first
scene of the movie are shown. The girl’s name was Honey Bunny and the boy’s
name was Pumpkin. They rob the people of the dinner. Jules then shows the
briefcase which they got from Brett’s place and points them a gun to stop them
from robbing the place. Honey Bunny is frightened and points her gun toward
Jules. Then, Vincent comes out from the bathroom and points his gun toward
Honey Bunny. This is a classic example of a Mexican Standoff (a strategy where
everyone is pointing a gun toward each other and the strategic tension starts
rising until the situation is settled). They let the robbers take the cash
and leave. Vincent and Jules also leave the dinner taking their briefcase.
This is the
ending scene of the movie.
The
chronological order:
The story of Pulp Fiction does not run in chronological order. Here, three stories that are tangled with each other are shown simultaneously. The movie begins at dinner and also ends at the dinner. In the movie, we are shown about six to seven different sequences. The correct chronological order of the movie is shown below.
Flashback from Butch’s young life: where he is given the watch by his father.
The present: the car scene where Vincent and Jules are in a car. This scene is followed to Brett’s house, taking the briefcase and the death of Brett’s associate Marvin in the car
Jimmy’s place: cleaning the car and going to dinner.
The dinner: the scene from the beginning and end of the movie (the scene with the couple).
The bar: Vincent and Jules take a briefcase to Marsellus. Vincent and Butch see each other and the scene ends.
Vincent buys heroin from Lance and all the preceding incidents with Mia Wallace.
The scene with boxing matches up to the point where Butch kills Vincent in the apartment.
The ending scene: Butch and Wallace are locked down in the basement from where they escape. The ending scene is the one where Butch picks up his girlfriend on the bike.
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