Once they arrive, both shift to all-business mode, but it’s Jules who takes the lead and undergoes the most visible and terrifying transformation.
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On the way to the job site, they’re engaging in the kind of low-key mundane, digressive chatter that would become a Tarantino trademark, on everything from fast food in Europe to the purpose of TV pilots to where foot massages rate on the scale of physical intimacy. Take his first scene where he and his partner, Vincent (Travolta), carry out a hit. Image from the Academy's Pulp Fiction collection He’s always keeping you guessing and always manages to surprise, no matter how many times he’s done this shit before. He may be remembered most vividly as a fearsome instrument of vengeance, but he’s really a conundrum: loquacious, expressive, funny, yet elusive, constantly shifting tonal registers depending on his audience, his objective, and his own fancy. In Jackson’s hands, Jules is a man of many moods and dimensions, arguably the most of any character in Pulp Fiction.
While Fishburne is a fine actor and would have brought his own unique flavor to the role, I can’t see him inhabiting every fiber of it the way Jackson does. Indeed, Jackson himself believed it was, although Tarantino has since revealed he wrote it for Laurence Fishburne, who turned it down. Allowing for hindsight bias from dozens of intervening movies and “motherfuckers,” it still reads like it was written for him. To this day SLJ is so closely associated with Jules it’s both remarkable he went on to have as diverse a career as he did and impossible to imagine anyone else playing the part. Still, even among an impressive array of star-making and career-reviving performances, Jackson’s stands out. Practically every character in Pulp Fiction and every beat of their talky, casually violent, non-linear narratives have become embedded in our zeitgeist, whether it’s John Travolta and Uma Thurman doing the twist at Jack Rabbit Slim’s, Bruce Willis tersely pronouncing “Zed’s dead, baby” to his girlfriend as they ride off on a chopper, or Harvey Keitel supervising a messy body disposal while for some reason wearing a tuxedo at 9 am. At least, it wasn’t long before high school and college boys of the mid to late ’90s were sporting “BAD MOTHERFUCKER” wallets and reciting his “path of the righteous” speech – without, of course, anything resembling SLJ’s diction or élan. With his jheri curl helmet, glowering eyes, and stentorian voice, Jackson’s gun-toting, Bible-quoting Jules Winnfield became an instant icon. Jackson on Hollywood’s map, Pulp Fiction (1994) made him a star. “ And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.” Pink was captured by police).We're celebrating each of the upcoming Honorary Oscar winners with a few pieces on their career. Pink (Steve Buscemi), who later escapes with the loot ( Reservoir Dogs’ final audio implies that Mr. Vic Vega (Michael Madsen) goes on a killing rampage after a carefully planned diamond heist, thus upsetting Mr.
There’s not much evidence to support this argument, aside from the gangster aspects and character connections. Some Pulp Fiction aficionados have suggested that the Pulp Fiction briefcase holds the diamonds from Reservoir Dogs. Even without adding an explicitly supernatural element to the world of Pulp Fiction, the briefcase could still symbolically represent the possibility of Marsellus's redemption. Considering Jules’ monologue about “divine intervention” after miraculously surviving a shoot-out, the “soul” theory is indeed intriguing. To support the “soul” theory, many have suggested that the bandage on the back of Marsellus Wallace’s head correlates with a biblical text that reveals how the Devil takes one’s soul.
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