After making a name for himself as one of the most exciting voices in filmmaking with his wildly popular debut feature Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino managed to top himself with his sophomore directorial effort, Pulp Fiction, which became the highest-grossing indie movie of all time and remains a timeless, endlessly rewatchable classic after all these years.
From Jules and Vincent’s discussion of the differences between American and European McDonald’s to Captain Koons’ monologue about the gold watch to Butch and Marsellus’ ill-fated trip to a pawn shop, there are a ton of iconic scenes in Pulp Fiction that fans are still talking about today.
10 Pumpkin And Honey Bunny Stick Up A Diner
The opening scene of Pulp Fiction sees a Bonnie and Clyde-esque criminal couple — Pumpkin and Honey Bunny, played by Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer, respectively — sitting in a diner, eating breakfast, discussing why no stickup artists target diners and restaurants. By the end of the discussion, they’ve decided to rob the diner they’re in.
It’s unclear how these two characters connect to the larger plot until the final scene when Jules and Vincent arrive at the diner for their own breakfast and get more than they bargained for.
9 Royale With Cheese
Tarantino’s technique of making gangsters relatable by having them discuss mundane topics — one of the things that made Reservoir Dogs unique — continued into Pulp Fiction as Jules and Vincent discuss the differences between American and European McDonald’s on the way to kill Brett for the mob.
According to Vincent, who just returned from a trip to Europe, due to the metric system, a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is called a Royale with Cheese in Paris.
8 Ezekiel 25:17
When they get to Brett’s apartment, Vincent focuses on securing the mysterious briefcase while Jules focuses on intimidating Brett and his friends. He helps himself to a bite of Brett’s burger and interrogates him about his working relationship with Marsellus Wallace.
He recites the Ezekiel 25:17 passage — not the real one from the Bible; the fake one from Sonny Chiba’s The Bodyguard — before emptying his clip into Brett’s chest.
7 The Jack Rabbit Slim’s Dance Contest
The first story in Pulp Fiction, “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife,” sees Vincent taking the boss’ wife out for dinner at a ‘50s-style restaurant called Jack Rabbit Slim’s and trying to ignore the obvious romantic tension between them.
When the manager announces the beginning of the dance contest, Mia enters herself and Vincent and they dance to Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” in the style of the spontaneous dance scenes in both Bande à part and 8½.
6 The Adrenaline Shot
After Vincent takes Mia home and decides to just leave to save himself from Marsellus’ wrath, he turns out to be too late to make that decision as he returns from the bathroom and finds that Mia has mistaken his heroin for cocaine, snorted it, and overdosed.
He races down to his dealer’s house, where they frantically try to find an adrenaline needle to save her life. This is possibly the tensest scene in the whole movie.
5 Captain Koons’ Gold Watch Monologue
The prelude to “The Gold Watch” storyline sets up the titular MacGuffin as a young Butch watches TV and Captain Koons, a Vietnam War veteran who fought with his father, arrives.
In a monologue perfectly delivered by a cameoing Christopher Walken, Koons explains that Butch’s father carried the family heirloom — a gold watch — through the entire war, and even held onto it during his time at a P.O.W. camp, so that Butch could one day inherit it. This scene establishes the significance of the watch brilliantly.
4 The Pawn Shop
“The Gold Watch” storyline takes a wildly unexpected turn when Butch runs into Marsellus on the street. Their chase takes them to a pawn shop, where they’re kidnapped by the sadistic owner Maynard and tied up in the basement.
Maynard invites his equally sadistic friend Zed down to join him. This movie already had a dark sense of humor, but this scene brought the depravity to new lows.
3 “Oh, Man, I Shot Marvin In The Face!”
The movie’s third story, “The Bonnie Situation,” brings everything full circle as it returns to Jules and Vincent in Brett’s apartment and an unseen shooter manages to miss them at point-blank range, allowing them to leave intact with Jules’ contact Marvin.
In the car, Jules says he thinks it was divine intervention and it’s inspired him to give up a life of crime. Vincent, on the other hand, thinks it was just a coincidence. When he turns back to get Marvin’s opinion, the car goes over a bump and Vincent’s gun goes off, blowing Marvin’s brains out all over the window.
2 Enter The Wolf
After Jules drives the corpse to his friend Jimmie’s house, he calls Marsellus, who tells him he’s got Winston “the Wolf” Wolf on the case. The Wolf is a renowned crime scene cleaner played by Harvey Keitel, based on Keitel’s own character from the movie Point of No Return.
While Jules is happy to listen to the Wolf’s instructions and do everything he says, Vincent has a hard time accepting authority, much to the Wolf’s chagrin.
1 The Diner Standoff
Pumpkin and Honey Bunny come back around in the final scene as their diner stickup is interrupted by Jules, who refuses to hand over Marsellus’ briefcase.
Jules has a gun on Pumpkin, Honey Bunny has a gun on Jules, and when Vincent comes out of the bathroom, he pulls a gun on Honey Bunny. When the standoff is over and Jules and Vincent leave, the Lively Ones’ “Surf Rider” is the perfect song to play the movie out.
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