Interesting details about "Pulp Fiction"

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• Producer De Vito, Danny starred in _Twins (1988), whose main characters were Vincent and Julius---almost the same as Vincent and Jules in this movie.

• The Big Kahuna burger was also eaten in the movie From Dusk Till Dawn (1996).

• Butch tells Fabienne that she does not speak Bora-Boran. Bora-Bora is a French colony, and Fabienne speaks French.

• Jules' character was originally written to have a gigantic afro. The wig failed to appear the day filming began, so Samuel L. Jackson's hair was then gerry-curled.

• 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.

• Quentin Tarantino wrote two of the three stories before he wrote Reservoir Dogs (1992) and True Romance (1993). After the success of those films, he decided to write a third story, intending to have each segment directed by a different person.

• 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.

• In the opening sequence with Honey Bunny and Pumpkin, Jules can be heard talking about quitting "the life".

• "Big Kahuna Burgers" first appeared in Reservoir Dogs (1992), also written by Quentin Tarantino.

• 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 rumours 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.

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

• The book that Vincent reads is "Modesty Blaise", by 'Peter ODonnell.

• 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.

• Vincent can be seen heading for the bathroom in the opening scene.

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

• 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 (1943). Hawks is one of Tarantino's favorite directors.

• 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. See also Crimson Tide (1995).

• 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 (1992).

• The innocent bystander shot by Marsellus Wallace is the same actor pulled out of her car by Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs (1992).

• 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 Charley Varrick (1973), 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 (1992). See also the WWW-links section.

• In Reservoir Dogs (1992) (also written and directed by Tarantino), Nice Guy Eddie refers to a nurse named "Bonnie".

• The word "fuck" is used 257 times (give or take a few for when Marsellus was bound and gagged).

• Butch smokes "Red Apple" cigarettes. The same brand is smoked by Tim Roth's character in _Four Rooms (1995)_.

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