It’s also mentioned on the Trivia Track
I thought that was really cool when Vincent shoots up heroin. I thought that would be the closest anybody would get to shooting up heroin. I saw Fearless Freaks(a documentary about The flaming lips). The guitar player shoots heroin. You see him burning it and everything.
When Vince and Jules are stripping in Jimmie’s backyard and Wolfe is hosin’ them down. QT is rocking side to side and all I could think was, “is he in character or does he do that in real life?” I think it’s a habit of his, it’s endearing.
I love the way Travolta carries himself. He’s like so badass. Even when he’s in the dorky outfit he still carries himself in a way that makes him look cool.ÂÂ
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I love the way Travolta carries himself. He’s like so badass. Even when he’s in the dorky outfit he still carries himself in a way that makes him look cool.ÂÂ
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that is exactly what I love about travolta’s performance…its his movement, his timing, the way he slowly pronounces his words…the arrogant/stoned/on top of the world look in his eye…I think only a writer like Marcel Proust or so could capture the true feeling you get by watching his acting in pulp fiction! brilliant!
I have to agree; Travolta is awsome in this movie. Especially that twist scene. I think thats a pretty cool thing.
But my favorite detail is when Honey-Bunny (Yolanda) is getting really scared, and Vincent says, “Jules, if you give that [something], $1,500, I’ll shoot him on general principal,” and Yolanda is in that funny, pregnant-woman-who-is-tired posture, pointing the gun with one hand at Travolta, and the other hand as if she has the gun in it at Jackson. It makes her look so pathetic.
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I just noticed how when Jules starts his Ezekiel 25:17 speech, you see Vincent in the background from the chest down, and he gets out his gun and holds it while folding his hands, as if to pay respect to Jules…almost as if Jules is a preacher saying a prayer. Also makes it seem like they’ve done this together many times before.
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haha, I always saw that as Vincent being annoyed. Like a: ow here we go again with the religious stuff. It’s like he’s bored with his job wacking people.
Travolta is the man.
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haha, I always saw that as Vincent being annoyed. Like a: ow here we go again with the religious stuff. It’s like he’s bored with his job wacking people.
Travolta is the man.
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thats how i saw it aswell, same old routine once again, perfect move by Travolta
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Here’s a detail that I thought was cool, but I think Ebert explains it better, in fact perfectly:
And that scene also begins with dialogue that seems like fun, while it’s also laying more groundwork. We meet Lance’s girlfriend Jody (Rosanna Arquette), who is pierced in every possible place and talks about her piercing fetish. Tarantino is setting up his payoff. When the needle goes into the heart, you’d expect that to be one of the most gruesome moments in the movie, but audiences, curiously, always laugh. In a shot-by-shot analysis at the University of Virginia, we found out why. QT never actually shows the needle entering the chest. He cuts away to a reaction shot in which everyone hovering over the victim springs back simultaneously as Mia leaps back to life. And then Jody says it was ``trippy’’_and we understand that, as a piercer, she has seen the ultimate piercing. The body language and the punchline take a grotesque scene and turn it into dark but genuine comedy. It’s all in the dialogue and the editing. Also, of course, in the underlying desperation, set up by thoughts of what Marsellus might do to Vincent, since killing Mrs. Wallace is much worse than massaging her foot.
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I think Ebert forgot the obvious here. Its not so much the piercings, but more that Stolz deals in Heroin. I think the “trippy” was more referring to the kick of heroin and the imagination of having it injected in your heart 
. That would be “trippy”
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haha, I always saw that as Vincent being annoyed. Like a: ow here we go again with the religious stuff. It’s like he’s bored with his job wacking people.
Travolta is the man.
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I always saw it like Vincent was preparing himself for what was going to happen i.e. the shooting and the speech before it. It’s as if they follow the same procedure everytime, it’s almost a standard and so Vincent does what he always does, get’s behind the victim (whilst Jules stands in front), this way the victim is aware of their presence but is almost trapped as there is one guy in front of him and one guy behind him.
The way Vincent shakes himself off (his leg movement) and how he straightens himself tells me that he is getting ready for Jules’ speech which he ISN’T against. If he was against the speech, he would stand sloppily (can’t think of the right word). He wouldn’t smarten himself, he would do the exact opposite if he was opposed to Jules’ speech. His shoulders would probably droop too, and he would just let his arms fall beside him and NOT neatly ‘posed’ in front of him.
The high pitched detail in Brads horrified voicing. That poor son of a bitch was fucking scared. It showed, thinking oh fuck oh fuck, these guys are colder then cold, they actualy appear to be enjoying this. They’re veterans at it.
Did anyone think about the relation between Tim Roths character in Pulp and Dogs?
I just thought that is was funny how Yolanda called him Pumpkin, and pumpkins are orange, and Tim Roth played Mr. Orange in Reservoir Dogs. Coincidence?
Or, maybe I’m looking a little too far into it.
Never really thought about that. I love these little details that seem to tie all of his movies together.
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And that scene also begins with dialogue that seems like fun, while it’s also laying more groundwork. We meet Lance’s girlfriend Jody (Rosanna Arquette), who is pierced in every possible place and talks about her piercing fetish. Tarantino is setting up his payoff. When the needle goes into the heart, you’d expect that to be one of the most gruesome moments in the movie, but audiences, curiously, always laugh. In a shot-by-shot analysis at the University of Virginia, we found out why. QT never actually shows the needle entering the chest. He cuts away to a reaction shot in which everyone hovering over the victim springs back simultaneously as Mia leaps back to life. And then Jody says it was ``trippy’’_and we understand that, as a piercer, she has seen the ultimate piercing. The body language and the punchline take a grotesque scene and turn it into dark but genuine comedy. It’s all in the dialogue and the editing. Also, of course, in the underlying desperation, set up by thoughts of what Marsellus might do to Vincent, since killing Mrs. Wallace is much worse than massaging her foot.
sean and tarantino is god made further comment on this
i think this (the stabbing of her heart) is more refering to the relationship of mia and vincent (and marselles)
after hearing about the foot massage and being thrown 3 storys
he thinks foot massages mean something but not as much as eating pussy
vincent kept loyalty "because loyalty is very important"
but what he did was penetrate her heart which is a far greater deception than penetrating her sexually
and the deception went further "mum’s the word"
and regarding the piercings i think it is hilarious when she goes thru her piercings and vincent is more curious why she has a stud in her tongue … yet she has one in her clit
yeah i have so many favs
but prob the look of pride on vincent’s bloody face when the wolf says “good job gentlemen”
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I think Ebert forgot the obvious here. Its not so much the piercings, but more that Stolz deals in Heroin. I think the “trippy” was more referring to the kick of heroin and the imagination of having it injected in your heart . That would be “trippy”
[/quote]I think Ebert flatout gets it wrong. The key word in the initial scene about piercing is “needle”. This is a way of setting up the device of the needle in a really oblique way. Writers like Jim Thompson and especially Charles Willeford did this, and Tarantino does it allot. It’s a way of floating a concept beforehand, getting it into the audience’s imagination. The most interesting line IMO in the O.D. scene is when Vincent says, “I don’t know exactly where her heart is,” and Jodie answers, "That’s it."
Another funny detail in the Vincent Vega story is when Lance says, “Me case, su casa (sp?),” as he’s counting the money. Of course, he changes his tune when his wicked ways come back to bite him in the ass.
And on and on. Pulp Fiction is a marvel of a movie.