When Mia accidentally overdoses, Vincent races her to his drug dealer Lance ( Eric Stoltz), who brings her back to life with a shot of adrenaline into the heart.Īnd that scene also begins with dialogue that seems like fun, while it's also laying more groundwork. And the story of how Marsellus had a man thrown out of a fourth-floor window for giving his wife a foot massage turns out to be a set-up: Tarantino is preparing the dramatic ground for a scene in which Vincent takes Mia Wallace ( Uma Thurman) out on a date, on his bosses' orders. The discussion of why Quarter Pounders are called "Royales'' in Paris is reprised, a few minutes later, in a tense exchange between Jules and one of the kids ( Frank Whaley). Tarantino's dialogue is not simply whimsical. Finally Jules says "let's get in character,'' and they enter an apartment.
They talk about the drug laws in Amsterdam, what Quarter Pounders are called in Paris, and the degree of sexual intimacy implied by a foot massage. Remember the famous opening conversation between Jules and Vincent, who are on their way to a violent reprisal against some college kids who have offended Wallace and appropriated his famous briefcase. It is Tarantino's strategy in all of his films to have the characters speak at right angles to the action, or depart on flights of fancy. Instead, Tarantino uses an apparently irrelevant conversation to quickly establish her personality and their relationship. In a lesser movie, the dialogue in this scene would have been entirely plot-driven Butch would have explained to Fabienne what he, she and we already knew. He will make a lot of money, but only if he escapes the vengeance of Marsellus Wallace ( Ving Rhames) and his hit-men Jules and Vincent ( Samuel L. He agreed to throw the fight, then secretly bet heavily on himself, and won. The dialogue comes at a moment of desperation for Butch.
Who knew? Bonus extra credit: While he’s surely too old for the part now, Love says Brad Pitt “wanted to play Kurt, by the way.This is wonderful dialogue (I have only sampled it). You can ask Quentin that, because it’s true” (cue someone asking Quentin). “You ever wonder why he thanked Quentin on the back of In Utero? Quentin asked him to play Eric Stoltz’s part in Pulp Fiction.
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“At the same time, boy, was he excited when the scripts started coming in,” Courtney Love said of Kurt’s movie offers. You basically shrugged, moved on and then got older, moving to the suburbs, cutting your long hair and acquiescing to your wife’s desire to dress you in salmon-colored polo shirts and mandals.Ĭut to 2011, you’re washing your car while your three year old wreaks havoc on your living room and the bills are piling up - the “why” is revealed: Cobain was supposed to play Eric Stoltz‘s part in “ Pulp Fiction” according to the singer’s widowed wife.
You’d even hear rumors that Tarantino wanted to include some Nirvana music in his films, but you could never substantiate those claims. Later you would read that Cobain was big fan of “ Reservoir Dogs,” Tarantino’s feature-length debut, and the filmmaker and songwriter were mutual admirers. Courtney Love Claims Brad Pitt Got Her Booted from ‘Fight Club’ After Blocking His Kurt Cobain Biopicīut nope, it turns out you were right.
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