Pulp Fiction

A detailed Summary of Pulp Fiction


One movie that I always wanted to see and never did was Pulp Fiction. I heard that it was an excellent movie. I rented it the other day and saw it. The rage going around about the movie was true it was fantastic.

Quentin Tarantino's blockbuster follow-up to Reservoir Dogs is a breathtaking tribute to old dime store novels about small time hoods and dangerous criminals. It features deftly woven plotlines, creating a mythic Los Angeles underworld of drug dealers, molls, affable hit men, restaurant-robbing lovers, and a boxer out to scam the mob on his last professional bout. This is the film that put Travolta back on the map as a major box-office draw in the 90's and officially established Samuel L. Jackson as a superstar. It also inspired a seemingly endless slew of dreadful imitators.

The plot jumps around a fair bit, moving between past and present. The movie begins with a pair of small-time hoods who call each other Honey Bunny

and Pumpkin (Amanda Plummer, Tim Roth) and they are eating in a diner they are about to rob. Next come the two hit men, Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) who work for


We believe that the strung-out British couple are capable of a killing rampage in the restaurant -- Amanda Plummer is a remarkable sight standing on a restaurant table screaming obscenities and waving a Saturday-night special. We also know that the day before Jackson would have killed them without blinking an eye, and that he will have to kill them today if they try to take the boss' briefcase. Instead Jackson sends the couple peacefully out of the restaurant clutching each other and a trash bag filled with stolen money.

crime boss Marsellus Wallis (Ving Rahmes) are sent to recover a briefcase which has been stolen by a gang of amateur thieves. They kill the gang except for one member, who they are taking back to Marsellus when they accidentally shoot him, covering the interior of their car with blood. They stop off at a friend's house, and with the help of Winston Wolf (Harvey Keitel) they clean the car before going off for breakfast where they almost lose the briefcase during a hold up.

The final twist in the story concerns boxer Butch (Bruce Willis) who is persuaded to fix a boxing match by Marsellus, but who turns the ta

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