Watching Pulp Fiction for the First Time Ever!! // Reaction and Commentary // I get it now!!

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This week I watched Pulp Fiction for the first time ever and I have to say it's up there as one of my top fav Tarantino films ever. Pulp Fiction LIVES UP TO THE HYPE, and I'm so glad I got to watch on camera!
Is this your favorite Tarantino flick? What other films do I need to catch?
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[@Phi1618033]

We're used to the Tarantino style of film now, but let me tell you, when this film came out 25 years ago, we had no fucking idea what we were watching.

[@Tusc9969]

It was groundbreaking! Soon after, there were quite a few films made imitating QT's style.

[@misterkite]

Well Reservoir Dogs had come out 2 years earlier so I at least had come to expect the nonlinear storytelling.

[@pete_lind]

@@misterkite Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1847) , is a non linear story telling in a book ... one of the first ones , think there is one or two before that . Jean-Luc Godard famously stated, "I agree that a film should have a beginning , a middle and an end but not necessarily in that order" He did movies in 1960s in France , new wave cinema , what Americans call European art movie ... Tarantino did not invent anything new :-) American Robert Altman had nonlinear stories in his movies , McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Nashville (1975), The Player (1992) and Short Cuts (1993)

[@DC_Prox]

I don't know how much truth there is to it, but I read that some of the theatres assumed the reels were in the wrong order and played them according to how they thought they should go.

[@ThreadBomb]

I knew what I was watching. I immediately realised it was a masterpiece.

[@alanholck7995]

“ I like to start in the middle of things” You picked the right movie.

[@ApesAmongUs]

You restart in a new middle every 20 minutes.

[@danh8804]

"I love a good soundtrack" You picked the right movie.

[@andrewcharles459]

Pulp Fiction is going into a round room and trying to sit in the corner.

[@dreamcruzer4743]

@@andrewcharles459 I was so confused the first time I watched this.

[@centuryrox]

The funny part of this for me is that my first viewing of this movie was on VHS. My friends were watching it, and I happened to walk in right around the time just before Bruce Willis blew away John Travolta. So when Travolta reappeared in the movie a little later, I was like "WTF???". It was completely confusing to me until I rewatched the movie in its entirety! LOL

[@BATTIS94]

"Oh man! I shot marvin in the face!" will never not make me laugh. Such perfect delivery.

[@stevewilldo3056]

His whole demeanour is like a kid who kicked a ball through a neighbour's window, it's horrible, hilarious and perfect!

[@O_Towne_Bear]

"True Romance" is a must. He didn't direct it, he wrote it.

[@porgyt7177]

And for another QT writing gem, which he also acts in : From Dusk Till Dawn

[@McBeelzebub]

I was literally coming here to say this. True Romance is the best because T wrote it but didn’t direct is! Also simply the best cast of all time!

[@van8ryan]

In a lot of ways, Tony Scott got down Tarantino's style perfectly (as it came out just before or right after RESERVOIR DOGS), whereas Robert Rodriguez and Oliver Stone used their own styles with Tarantinos scripts). Scott and Tarantino had some issues with the ending (as Tarantino killed off his romantic couple in TRUE ROMANCE), and Scott said, "I'm not doing it for audience approval or for studios. I LOVE these characters and I WANT them to get away safe."................awesome movie regardless

[@wolverines112]

My favorite movie

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Tony Scott's distinctive style and QT's writing go together perfectly!

[@joelesser2550]

When this movie first came out, a coworker saw it and came to work saying how sick she thought it was. I blurted out "Oh, I loved it! That movie is great!" - She literally spent the rest of the morning staring at me with this horrified look on her face. Every time I looked she was still staring at me as if I was some psycho that now she had to keep an eye on.

[@carladavis1473]

🤣 🤣 🤣

[@dread9030]

"What's in the case?" One of the most famous McGuffins in film history.

[@chrisleebowers]

It looks like some of Jules's breakfast got on the briefcase in the scuffle. So now it's ... An Egg McGuffin...

[@jainelson8840]

@@chrisleebowers hahaha. Fuck that’s funny.

[@jimmcdonald4087]

It's Marcellus Wallace's soul. Based on an old urban legend. You saw the bandaid on the back of his head in the bar scene with Butch.

[@MrParkerman6]

It isn't a Mcguffin. They don't have Mcguffins in Amsterdam! They are on The Metric System! They don't know what a Mcguffin is!

[@Rusaarules]

@@MrParkerman6 It's a Royale with Guffins.

[@realisticthought1781]

Funny how a 5 dollar shake isn’t weird now

[@ThreadBomb]

That's what we call inflation.

[@matsv201]

@@ThreadBomb it have really not been that much inflation since 1994.. most og the inflation was during the 80tys

[@centuryrox]

According to the inflation calculator, a $5 milkshake in 1994 would cost $9.08 in 2021. So yes, $5 is actually a bargain now!

[@matsv201]

@@centuryrox that is avrage consumtion coat, not the cost for served food.. now I live in europe, not the us, but something like a served milkeshake have actually become cheaper. The youth of today have never really seen inflation, but its comming. In 5 years a $10 milkshake will look like a bargin. For expencive prices in a movie, look at the 1986 bevely hills cops 2, with the $7 coke

[@MuljoStpho]

I've very very rarely ordered shakes over the last decade or two, but I remember in the 90s and maybe the early 00s I was getting them fairly regularly and a "large shake" meant that they took they same cup that they use for a large soda and they fill it all the way up to the top with a shake. At some point or another (mid or late 00s?) McDonalds and most other places that served shakes changed up their standards so that "large shake" meant that they took a clear plastic iced-coffee cup comparable to a small soda cup and filled it maybe about 3/4 full with the shake and topped it with cream and a cherry and had the audacity to charge the exact same price for it as what they used to serve as a "large shake".

[@msmrsro]

This was a huge comeback movie for John Travolta at the time.

[@centuryrox]

Yep, considering he was on top of the world from the late 70s to early 80s with hits like "Saturday Night Fever", "Grease", and "Urban Cowboy", and even "Blowout", he literally fell off the map with quite a few terrible movies for about 10 years until "Pulp Fiction".

[@ecbenson98]

For Willis too, but more in terms of credibility. He was getting roles but mostly bad sequels and had kind of become a joke.

[@Wearywastrel]

Phenomenon was okay

[@MrTCHOSS]

Yep, and Bruce Willis too. Although Travolta was in Look Who's Talking, which was a blockbuster hit in 1990 and the sequel a couple of years later. Come to think of it, Bruce Willis was the voice overs in those too. And yet, somehow they got pushed out by the studios. Considered not marketable or not stars anymore. Thank god Tarantino just goes after who he wants

[@styot]

Quentin has told the story of going into a restaurant or bar (I forget where it was they went) with Travolta before Pulp Fiction. Quentin was used to be being around movie stars but seeing the way everyone reacted to Travolta he knew it was another level and he was still an A list movie star, people hadn't forgotten about him, he just needed a good movie.

[@83gemm]

“Aw, man, I shot Marvin in the face,” is one of the funniest deliveries in cinema history. I am 38 freaking years old and I saw this movie for the first time in my early 20s. It’s so iconic that one encounters it frequently. So I’ve got 18 years, give or take, of randomly watching Pulp Fiction. I belly laugh over Travolta’s delivery every single time.

[@citpeks2000]

I remember watching this movie in the theaters when it first came out. The shooting in the car stuck with me, because when Vincent turns around I remember thinking "He shouldn't be pointing the gun at Melvin like that, that's dangerou...."

[@christopherconard2831]

When I showed the movie to a friend she had a similar reaction. Something along "Don't they show actors how to hold a gun? That's just begging for an accidental dis..OH FUCK!"

[@timallenbrown]

hahaha I thought the exact same thing!

[@fidel2xl]

SAME!! lmao

[@styot]

"Don't point a gun at anything you don't intend to kill."

[@leehanson1416]

1. Treat all guns as if loaded. 2. Don't point a gun at anything you don't want to destroy. 3. Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to discharge the firearm. My family was involved in sports shooting training, and we told the kids "Keep your booger hook off the bang switch".

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Marvin, who got shot in the backseat, was played by Phil LaMarr, a legendary voice actor.

[@kirkwright8954]

And also a hilarious cast member on MAD TV

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Didn't he do the voice for Samurai Jack?

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

@@porflepopnecker4376 Huh?! Jack spoke?

[@ThreadBomb]

Wow, I never even realised Phil LaMarr was black. I only knew him from Futurama audio commentaries. He is an amazing talent.

[@centuryrox]

He didn't even have an opinion. Now he doesn't even have a head.

[@timminore2126]

The audience was going crazy the whole movie. The scene I remember most was when Zed said, "Bring out the Gimp!" and the other guy unlocked him and brought him out on the end of a leash. Some guy in the row behind me whispered, "What the f*ck?" really loud.

[@forsakenjones4695]

An older couple in front of us walked out .

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Lol, I remember thinking something right along those lines🤣

[@SnabbKassa]

@@forsakenjones4695 It was probably for the best that they did

[@MrTCHOSS]

I remember being 15 when I saw it on video for the first time around the mid-90s. By the 2nd scene where Vincent and Jules are in the car and then walking that apartment complex talking about Amsterdam and Tony Rocky Horror, I remember thinking it was already the most unique and maybe greatest movie I had ever seen. No characters talked like that in any other movie I had every seen. I knew 10-15 minutes in that Pulp Fiction was going to change film making and writing forever.

[@stephanieb663]

omg! so jealous this must have been amazing to watch for the first time in the theatre

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

You should watch Robert Rodriguez's "From Dusk Til Dawn." It was sort of a collaboration with, and starred Quentin Tarantino. And you should go in absolutely blind/uninformed.

[@ormsucher]

I support this suggestion!

[@Rudromukherjeenerv]

I second this suggestion!

[@garysmith3037]

I agree with this suggestion, as well as the support and seconding of the suggestion...

[@charliemac64]

I agree, support the initial support, vote in favor of the seconded motion, and congratulate Gary on his agreement, supporting of the seconding of the initial support of the suggestion. :D

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I call for the election of a secretary, to record the minutes of this meetng.

[@frigginjerk]

To be fair to Vincent, bad things happen when I go to the bathroom, too.

[@jonathanhill4366]

I can't give you a thumbs up for this comment. But it is funny.

[@superbooster2636]

He probably always knew the heroin would kill him, but he likely didn't think it would be because of the constipation

[@disconnexionsdotcom]

Does the fire alarm go off too?

[@syrrix]

I'm just glad they happen in a vacuum

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Shannon, something you may find interesting as a filmmaker in the making: Tarantino said he learned to write dialog by watching movies and then, later, trying to rewrite scenes from memory. If he couldn't remember what they said, he'd just fill in that part with what he thought was there (or might be there). He did this over and over and over. When he'd go back and watch the actual scenes later, he'd often find that he'd unknowingly gotten little-to-none of the dialog right and had written in extra bits of story that weren't there but that he (and his friends) thought what he wrote was actually good. This gave him the confidence (and practice) to write dialog and story the way he does.

[@lethaldose2000]

Stallone did the same thing as well. HE worked in a movie theater, so he could record the dialouge, learn the cadence and fill it in later with is own version of the story.

[@johnplaysgames3120]

@@lethaldose2000 Oh, that's cool! I didn't know that about Stallone. Well, hell, apparently there's something to that technique...

[@lethaldose2000]

@@johnplaysgames3120 for sure. If two of the greatest screenwriters can use it who a I to scoff at that technique.

[@turbulentlobster]

Always a fun movie to watch, and your reactions just make it that much more enjoyable. Thanks for sharing :) As the husband of a critical care nurse practitioner, I have a few observations. She typically handles 2-3 heart attacks a week, and she’s told me she never does the adrenaline shot to the heart thing. It’s an old procedure that almost never works, and they have much better techniques in an ICU. But maybe if your a drug dealer it’s all you’ve got 🤷🏻‍♂️ On the plus side, I can say that if she came home from a 12 hour overnight shift to find two gangsters and a guy with no head in the garage, there would absolutely be hell to pay. So that one’s totally accurate.

[@pokeround]

Can't think of a film that was so electrifying on first viewing and yet so rewatchable. Great reaction!

[@rileyandmike]

I never really liked it when rewatching it - it’s so dialogue heavy; once I knew the dialogue, I just lost interest

[@ACinemafanatic]

@@rileyandmike give Jackie brown a try it’s more relatable and yet mature

[@rileyandmike]

@@ACinemafanatic that one is pretty good; I also like “True Romance” and “From Dusk ‘till Dawn” - mostly because of Selma Hayek

[@pokeround]

@@rileyandmike What did you think of Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead?

[@StimParavane]

@@ACinemafanatic Jackie Brown is a great film. What's interesting is the first time I watched it I thought she had used Max, but on rewatching, I've changed my mind and now I believe she genuinely liked him. It's filmed ambiguously but perhaps it reflects my own growing maturity...What do you think?

[@johnplaysgames3120]

In an interview with AFI, Tarantino explained his inspiration for Pulp Fiction. Basically, he was thinking about classic plotlines from old pulp fiction stories (e.g. the henchman who is tasked with taking the boss's wife out "but don't touch her!", the boxer who is instructed to throw a fight but doesn't and then has to run from the mob, and hitmen showing up to kill some target or 'nother at the beginning of an action movie before the story cuts to the hero who will eventually run into the hitmen and fight them) and wondered what would happen if all the stories happened in the same city, at the same time, over the course of one day, and some of the characters from the stories had connections to characters in the other stories. Also, in the hitmen story, he wondered what would happen if, instead of cutting to and following the hero's story after the hitmen shoot and kill their target, we followed the hitmen through the rest of their day and saw what they were up to. None of the plots are original (Tarantino called them "old chestnuts") but how he approached them and wove them together was original. And genius.

[@jeknechtphotography7106]

"Oh Man, I shot Marvin in the face" I love that line but this is my favorite Sam Jackson role.

[@BeardedMonkeyRecords]

I took two different dates to this movie when I was in college and didn't get a second date with either one. 🤣

[@StimParavane]

This is a great comment. Actually, this film could be used a good test for a potential partner, albeit a little extreme.

[@IntenseSarcasm]

If you love being dropped into a movie with no clue what is going on, Memento by Chris Nolan is definitely for you.

[@ThreadBomb]

I've never actually seen that but I have read the script online. It was an amazing script, and I am worried that seeing the film would damage that memory.

[@TheMightyBone]

2nding. Memento is a must-watch for anyone who loves interesting movie making. I am quite certain I've never seen any movie like it. It's also quite good, but the star is def the structure and how it relates to the main character's condition; can't recommend enough(though I've had friends who didn't like it..ex-friends that is.)

[@doug4036]

I saw it in the theater and my God it was confusing

[@michaelmiller6709]

Great call, IMHO.

[@arconeagain]

Great movie. Guy Pearce, great Aussie actor.

[@brads2362]

This movie was so influential and spawned so many imitations, that its hard to describe how utterly new, exciting and unexpected this was to see in the theaters in 1994. No mainstream audience had ever seen anything like it before. As a Beatles man, I would be remiss if I did not recommend to you A Hard Day's Night.

[@jndaley]

Recommend “four rooms”. 4 vignettes set in a hotel with Tarentino directing one and Rodriguez directing another. And best of all haven’t seen anyone react to it yet.

[@cavalryscout9519]

Surprised you didn't mention the "personality goes a long way" conversation from the last diner scene - it pretty much sums up Vincent. If you take Vincent in "the Gold Watch" (the story with the clearest "good guy"), then he's just a disposable goon, who's really only there to show that Bruce Willis is being hunted. No lines, no heroic death, and really no focus on the loss - he's just gone, and in that particular story he's the sort of character who can be killed off with no consequence or emotional impact. But the rest of the stories show that Vincent has personality, so you care about him and don't want to see him killed off just so the hero can advance his story. Vincent is a dog, not a pig, and no one wants to see a dog get hurt, even if he's still a filthy animal. The whole movie is basically turning some disposable goon into a character that matters.

[@zach4627]

Meh

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Yeah. In an interview with AFI, Tarantino said one of his inspirations for Pulp Fiction was the "hitmen show up and kill a target" scene at the beginning of various action movies that then cut to the hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger, e.g.) and follow his story in which he eventually meets and fights/kills the hitmen on the way to the big bad. He then wondered what would happen if we ignored the hero and instead followed the hitmen through the rest of their day.

[@krautgazer]

@@zach4627 Tarantino himself confirmed that theory so I don't get your "meh".

[@missk8tie]

A few of my mom's friends were talking about how one of them bought a "mini" pig that wasn't really mini, just a regular pig that was now around 100 lbs. Everyone was asking how she could stand to keep it in their house, and she said it had a great personality. Without thinking I just blurted out "that must be one charming motherf#$%ing pig" and everyone just stared at me for swearing. LOL

[@hgman3920]

Because of this movie, I can no longer hear a toaster pop up without imagining the sound of gunfire immediately thereafter.

[@kylelewis4685]

A coworker of my brothers had a family member who was in film school. As a project he took this movie and re-edited it in time sequence. It was SO BAD and boring. It was a real eye opener on how a film can be ruined/made in the editing room.

[@JU5TINPDX]

When Vincent is buying his heroin his dealer says, "I'm out of balloons, is a baggie ok?" This turns out to be very important, because Mia doesn't recognize it as heroin, because of the way it's packaged she assumes it is cocaine. Also the reason Vince is always on the toilet, and even brings a book to every bathroom is because of the constipation that accompanies heavy opiate use. Most other writer/directors would feel the need to explain things like that, but as you said, Tarantino respects, and trusts the shit out of his audience. edit: I wrote this comment prior seeing the end of this video, lol 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@jonathansemler369]

Wow, thanks. Never made that connection before about the baggie/balloon thing.

[@amazingusername8925]

She doesn't assume it's coke because of the packaging, she assumes it's coke because that's what normal people do and not fucking heroin! Besides any half-decent dealer would never sell coke in a baggie in a million years anyway, it gets stuck in the corners and the seal, it's really awkward to get it out of a baggie without dropping loads and then having to scoop up the excess and get it back in the baggie with just a credit card and a bank note, much more sense to sell it in wraps and much more cost effective as well. There's also nothing in the film to suggest that he is a heavy user, he shoots up once, that's it! People read books on the crapper all the time who aren't smack-heads! You are over-analysing it way too much!

[@JU5TINPDX]

Yeah sorry, I failed drug dealing 101… …but not you, you must have been the smartest inmate in your class!

[@bobbabai]

Extended applause from the audience at the end of the movie when I first saw it in the theater in Minneapolis. Everyone knew they had just seen something special. The only previous time I can remember that happening was after Star Wars in 1977. THAT is when seeing a great movie in a packed theater for the first time is special. Quoting all the way out to the car and on the drive home. Everyone remembered "Royale with Cheese". I also had a motorcycle at the time and my daughter was 11 and she loved riding on it. I got to say to her once, "It's not a chopper, baby", because mine wasn't (it was a Honda).

[@DarraghC]

"Pulp fiction" more or less describes a genre of disposable action stories that were churned out in mass production without real depth or importance...like mass produced books that you more or less read for the thrill then forget. Anyway, great reaction as always, love you channel :) Great stuff.

[@norwegianblue2017]

The reason they were called "pulp" novels is because they were printed on extremely cheap pulp paper, half a grade above toilet paper. They weren't expected to last as books, just read and thrown away.

[@ThreadBomb]

@@norwegianblue2017 They were produced like that purely to save money, not as any comment on the quality of the content. Some great writers emerged from the pulp scene, including Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammet, and John McCain. They all had multiple famous movies made from their work.

[@SimonWakefieldUK]

@@ThreadBomb Except it did kind of make a comment on the quality. None of them were masterpieces, they were hurriedly written because they were pumping them out as quickly and cheaply as possible, they weren't things you were going to put on your bookshelf or ever read again they were simply something light and entertaining while reading to then be forgotten, they are basically the precursor to exploitation movies that are what shaped QT as a filmmaker. Just because people found success coming out of either pulp fiction or exploitation genres doesn't mean there was quality in them, you can actually learn a lot as artists working in those kinds of circumstances that when actually given the chance to have more freedom as it can make you more creative and less likely to get hung up on every little thing being perfect.

[@matsv201]

Its like romantic fiction.. but action

[@Lethgar_Smith]

The last remining pulp fiction magazines ended up being the science fiction ones. With the final pulp fiction magazine, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, being in continuous publication since 1930. Originally titled Astounding Stories of Super-Science, it is still published to this day. Although the format is no longer using "pulp" paper the magazine has a "digest" style format like The Reader's Digest. The rise and popularity of cheap paperback books is what killed off most of the pulp magazines.

[@TheNeojanus1]

Shit happens when Vincent goes to the Bathroom.

[@Amarok41]

Its because of the heroin .. its constipating

[@ItDoesntMatterReally]

Constipation is one of the lesser talked about side effects of heroin use.

[@dabe1971]

@@ItDoesntMatterReally No shit...

[@GlamityJean]

@@Amarok41 so in fact shit doesn't happen

[@darkhorse1280]

Literally.

[@Mekias]

Best movie day ever. Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump were both in theaters at the same time in 1994. I watched them back-to-back one afternoon and they're still in my top 10 to this day. It honestly felt like an out-of-body experience. Never has time passed by so quickly.

[@jimglenn6972]

She’s not overacting with shot of adrenaline in the heart.

[@jdiggitty]

Did you see the needle on that thing? It would have went into the carpet under her.

[@tigqc]

They were overacting with how they inserted the needle. In real life it would have snapped off if they did that way.

[@jdiggitty]

@@tigqc I always wondered if it was meant to be another "act of god", cause it couldn't have worked. Which kind of goes with the other crazy theory I posted.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Wow, I can't believe they overacted and it wasn't just like real life!

[@SmallFryAmI92]

Only mildly related to the conversation but, the part where he actually plunges the needle down was filmed in revers.

[@victorcachat7984]

You know what’s in the case… a McGuffin!

[@johnfriday5169]

A hundred watt light bulb

[@victorcachat7984]

@@johnfriday5169 😂

[@PaulA-bv1rt]

Owl Kitty.

[@oltyret]

A gold McGuffin!

[@jessemata6714]

Tarantino is a great storyteller, I would totally take his film class if he had one

[@DC_Prox]

The Tarantino universe has two "levels". There's the "real" level, where Reservoir Dogs and Pull Fiction take place, then there's the movies and TV shows that those people watch. The Fox Force Five pilot that Mia was part of ended up getting reworked into a movie script. This is why Uma Thurman is in Kill Bill, because in the Tarantinoverse, that's Mia's breakthrough role.

[@spmfan20]

So technically in Kill Bill Uma Thurman is playing Mia Wallace playing the Bride

[@DC_Prox]

@@spmfan20 almost as good as that movie where Helena Bonham Carter acted like Emma Watson playing Hermione pretending to be Bellatrix...

[@mikewoodrow5878]

And don’t forget the Vega brothers connection, between Pulp and Reservoir Dogs, too.

[@thebudgetgamer]

@@mikewoodrow5878 The director in True Romance is the grandson of on of the Basterds

[@MrTCHOSS]

@@mikewoodrow5878 And Harvey Keitel's character Mr. White mentions how he worked with a good little thief named "Alabama" - maybe a connection to True Romance

[@dard4642]

Here is some incredibly interesting (to me) trivia about this movie: When initially given the scripts to consider, every actor had a problem with the rape scene EXCEPT for Ving Rhames. He insisted the scene be shot because, being a man of large, imposing stature, he never gets cast in a vulnerable role (or even scene). Fun fact: his real name is Irving Rhames and he was given the nickname "Ving" by his acting school classmate, Stanley Tucci; he kept it as his stage name. Tarantino wrote the part of Jules for Samuel L Jackson. When it came time to make the movie, Samuel L Jackson had commitments and was not available. The actor, Paul Calderón, was cast as Jules and, according to everyone in the know including Tarantino, was EXCELLENT in the part (he plays the bartender in the scene where we meet Bruce Willis and is Vincent's partner after the boxing match). At the last minute, Jackson had a change of heart and wanted to do the role. Tarantino, who was desperate when Jackson first turned down the role, told Jackson that the part is his at any point if he wants it; so we felt obligated to let Jackson have it. He had been in plenty of movies before Pulp Fiction, but PF is where Jackson's stock as an actor went through the roof. Paul Calderón sort of faded into obscurity. Life's a real bitch sometimes. I think my favorite part is watching Samuel L Jackson try to keep cool while Jimmy (the square) is kind of freaking out on him in the kitchen. It's brilliant and Tarantino wrote such a character as a friend of Jules -- and a good friend, One who can yell at him in front of Vincent and get away with it. The mere fact that those two are friends makes Jules even more interesting of a character. I would love to see you watch The Big Lebowski.

[@TheSpoonman00]

What's in the briefcase? It's a MacGuffin. It's whatever you want it to be. It's a lightbulb.

[@seansitton1929]

You are right ✅ It was a yellow light bulb from what I have read.

[@seansitton1929]

@ballbag scrotumus 😁👍

[@cheebagardens1759]

It’s a Kiss Me Deadly homage

[@wolfmanjack3451]

Being the 90's,It's a million in coke..

[@garysmith3037]

@@wolfmanjack3451 , New Coke or the original Coca-Cola recipe?

[@porflepopnecker4376]

Part of the dance Vincent and Mia do is also taken from the "Batman" TV series from the mid-60s--it's "The Batusi" as performed by Adam West as Batman. I believe that Jules calls Pumpkin "Ringo" as a western gunslinger reference and not a Beatles reference. In my opinion, Tarantino made a mistake cutting away to him saying "Garcon! Coffee!" in the final segment, instead of just letting us hear it in the background and making the connection ourselves. Speaking of Tarantino just dropping the viewer in the movie and making them find their way... I would love to see you react to "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" if you haven't already seen it. It's one that only a person well-versed in trivia, movie and TV lore, and the Manson family/Sharon Tate murder, as well as being an all-around old movie lover, can appreciate. A few KZbinrs have reacted to it, but it's disheartening to see them miss all the references and ultimately fail to appreciate this great movie at all.

[@milligan8838]

‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is in my opinion, his masterpiece

[@adgato75]

"Tombstone" came out the previous year. I agree with you that that is more likely

[@desoliver9712]

Here's what I don't understand. Shanelle Riccio is/has been a film student and yet she's seen so few films... ? Something doesn't add up.

[@jonmercano1138]

I saw this movie through my dad. He owned the dvd. It’s basically mine now. I bought the t shirts Vincent and Jules wear after getting cleaned up for me and my dad, but we almost never wore them together. Didn’t help that we both preferred the same shirt.🤦‍♂️ He occasionally wears the banana slug shirt and people think he actually went to the school 😂

[@styles2980]

I think it makes great reactions when you know as little as possible about the plot, good on you. This may be my favorite reaction of yours so far, keep the good ones coming. Thumbs up from me.

[@mchllwoods]

Did u know Travolta's character and Micheal Marsden character from reservoir dogs r brothers? Also, Willis's character was the one who keyed Vega's car.

[@TL.BATMAN]

When you said " Quentin Tarantino is a master of stakes," a light bulb went off in my head. Love your reaction to this one!

[@ThreadBomb]

Master of stakes - a reference to From Dusk Till Dawn?

[@rustyforceps1012]

Shanelle just needs to react to all the Tarantino films she hasn’t seen yet. True Romance, Reservoir Dogs, From Dusk Til Dawn, Kill Bill, etc.

[@MyXxx77]

It is and will always be Tarrantino's masterpiece.

[@orangewarm1]

Masterpiece is a bit strong if you compare Tarrantino to Scorsese, Mann, Ford, Leone...

[@javarpuffen5652]

@@orangewarm1 The declaration of "masterpiece" has no barring on the work of other filmmakers. Also, it's subjective. But, Leone? No. Tarantino is better than him.

[@FrancoisDressler]

@@javarpuffen5652 Even Tarantino would say you're out of your mind.

[@MyXxx77]

@@orangewarm1 I said it was Tarrantino's masterpiece. Not everyone else's

[@taddy_mason4197]

@@javarpuffen5652 I was with you until you brought Leone into this. Leone was a master.

[@matthewmarcinko9157]

Hi, Michelle! I remember seeing this when it first came out in 1994, the same summer as "Forrest Gump", which I think this was INFINITELY BETTER then, and in the years that followed, every maverick director in films desperately wanted to make one of these types of movies.

[@spiderfingers86]

One of Samuel L. Jackson's earlier films and what rejuvenated John Travolta's career as an actor

[@jscan4442]

Earlier films?? Do you realize how many movies he made BEFORE Pulp Fiction?

[@disconnexionsdotcom]

@@jscan4442 Yeah Sam had been around for a while but mostly in black movies so I guess people thought he came outta nowhere. You do have to give Tarantino credit for making sure Sam was credited as the lead actor in the film over bigger names like Travolta and Willis. He made sure Sam got his just due.

[@josephsarto689]

Before pulp fiction, Sam was getting killed in goodfellas and Jurassic park

[@johnplaysgames3120]

@@josephsarto689 Even in a small role in Jurassic Park, Samuel Jackson stole a moment with the classic line, "Hold onto your butts..."

[@sternjesternje9699]

Now that you've hit up and blown up the QT middle, go back to the beginning and react to True Romance. I gotta have more Walken!

[@antoinettelopes]

Sounds like you've got a fever!

[@ecbenson98]

Walken and Hopper in True Romance may be my all time favorite scene.

[@QuayNemSorr]

You need to watch Reservoir Dogs as well. This and Pulp Fiction are my two favorite Tarantino movies.

[@markmac2206]

yup i suggested that too!

[@lastguyminn2324]

Jackie Brown is worth a look, too.

[@BenjWarrant]

"Say 'what' again!" "What?" is like a drug-world reincarnation of "Who's on first base?"

[@albertcornett7408]

Great reaction. Love that you know about what goes into making movies and your not just a casual fan.

[@frigginjerk]

Feel weird sharing your thoughts at the end if you want, but keep doing it. That's always my favorite part.

[@Melancthon7332]

That's the part that separates a real film geek from just another dime-a-dozen reactor.

[@Tusc9969]

When I first went to go see Pulp Fiction, I remember coming out of the cinema and thinking how I wished more filmmakers could make films like that… Unfortunately, alot of the filmmakers at the time seemed to think the same thing, and we got dozens of Tarantino-esque movies over the next few years… But no one does it like QT!!!!!

[@johnplaysgames3120]

Yeah, the problem was the Tarantino wannabe directors aped the style of Tarantino movies but forgot (or didn't understand) the substance. QT movies are more than just flashy grit and violence.

[@annaclarafenyo8185]

The two that got the style and substance similarly right were "Mememto" and "Breaking Bad".

[@dmbassett]

watch again! I've watched it sooo many times and it's still EPIC!!!

[@javarpuffen5652]

"Out of Sight" from 1998 would be a good one to react to.

[@ralphvanz.7925]

I saw this for the first time in the summer of 1994, when I was 18 years old, at a local Dutch filmfestival, when it was as one of the first (if not the first) post-Cannes festival screenings worldwide. So that was months before it had a official theatrical US/European/Dutch release. By that time I already had been into film and film history for more than half my lifetime, because of my family's obsession with film. And it was the time I was planning to go to film school to study screenwriting in particular. I had already seen Reservoir Dogs, more than a year prior and loved that. It was a new kind of cinema for my generation. The screening I saw was a packed midnight screening, and I can tell you the audiences reaction was spectacular. One of those great screenings that you'll never forget. (Even thou I still attend around 100-120 screenings each year.) BTW: Not knowing what is in the briefcase is also clearly a reference or an ode to Kiss Me Deadly. One of the great film noirs, which was really the essence of the words pulp fiction.

[@michaelbastraw1493]

"I thought he made it till the end." Well, he does...sorta. Best. Leo.

[@Baekstrom]

Tarantino used to work in a video rental store, and a movie would always be playing on repeat in the background, so he would see the movies in short sequences out of order, because he was continually interrupted having to service customers. He wanted to give movie goers the same sort of experience when he made Pulp Fiction.

[@_eclipz_]

The way you break down these movies... got a feeling you will go on to do great things. Happy new year!

[@brianvalencia7717]

The way Christopher Walken says "his ass", he sounds so nonchalant and casual makes that monologue sound so funny.

[@markmac2206]

that man is a national treasure.

[@Danstaafl]

I was told you could shoot a whole needle full of air into an vein, not an artery. The air is just to make sure you get all the dope. Just so you know Shanelle... You rule for seeing how freaking awesome this movie is.. I was laughing all the way thru my first view.. Having grown up in L.A. I was in Oregon when it was released, no-one else but my wife and I was laughing, they just didn't get it.. But YOU do.. Kudo's!!!

[@scottriches3282]

Thanks for reviewing one of my favorite films and putting a smile on my face in doing so. Love watching your channel and reactions! Not sure if you've seen Kill Bill 1 and 2, would love to see you're reaction to those as well. Keep up the great work! Can't wait for you're next upload, thanks

[@richardpuente867]

Great reaction, I've been waiting for this

[@sevilnatas]

I only watch reactions to movies that I am excited to see the reactor discover and your addition of the trivia at the end is a great way to end things. It can be anticlimactic to watch a reaction to a movie that blows the reactor away but then to have them say thanks for watching and bail. I think you would really enjoy almost any, if not all of Wes Andersen's movies, would love to see those reacted to, of course you probably have seen them, since you were a film student.

[@jasonm8017]

“Ahhh man, I shot Marvin in the face”

[@forealus]

I've watched a few of your Reaction vids now. You are one of my favs. I enjoy what I consider honest reactions from this format. Love the IMDB Trivia followup at the end; has me looking through IMDB a lot more now.

[@FanFanBessie2]

Never seen anyone read movie trivia after watching.. It was GREAT!!! You earned a sub. Keep it up!!😀👍👍

[@tehdipstick]

"I would twist with shoes on." Welcome to a Tarantino movie.

[@Will-nn6ux]

There's something to be said for saving his best movies for last. This, Reservoir Dogs and True Romance (written by not directed, but it's still a Tarrantino movie!).

[@harrywilks55]

Love your channel! Your little insights are really interesting

[@jdrussell3828]

One thing people tend to overlook is that it was no coincidence that Marsellus Wallace was there when Butch hits him with his car. Marcellus and Vincent were staking out Butch's apartment. Vincent stayed and Marsellus went to get coffee and donuts. Hence the fact that Marsellus was right around the corner holding the coffee and donuts when Bitch runs him over.

[@markmac2206]

2 words: Reservoir Dogs you like this style of movie, you will love RD.

[@stevebrescia3764]

Jackie Brown too

[@markmac2206]

@@stevebrescia3764 i love that one too.

[@Gathbard]

I would suggest tracking down the movie “four rooms” too. It’s a multi-director movie and Tarantino directed a segment in it. Not gonna spoil it, but I remember liking it a lot at the time.

[@monarch-black]

When she mentioned writing a movie in four parts, this is the first thing that popped in my mind. Doesn't hurt that it also has 4 people (that I can think of) from this movie in it. Tim Roth has many good roles, but this is the one that made me a fan.

[@jaybird4038]

Especially the 1/4 that was done by and co-starred Tarantino. The movie is worth the watch for sure... The last section will take your breath away.

[@TravMaxAdventures]

Awesome movie and awesome reaction Shan. Hearing your input about different styles and takes is quite refreshing. It’s not often you hear an educated in depth perspective on movie reviews. I know Tarantino has a few masterpieces in his repertoire, and in time you should watch them all. But one of my absolute favorites is the 2015 “The Hateful Eight”. It too does the “time hop” from scene to scene. But the whole film is set on the way to and at one location. Basically it is a film that consist of story telling, but you’re engaged in every tale. It’s brilliantly done. I imagine your keen eye will appreciate it as well.

[@KaBeeM]

I loved your every reaction. you know what you're talking about, you're funny, this was great. from the first minute I had a smile on my face. never subscribed so fast to any channel.

[@pyrite13]

One of my favorite things about Tarantino is the way he uses music...and doesn't use music to enhance the scene. So many films just drop a score into the background to fill the silence or set the mood. Tarantino is much more selective. When you hear a song it really means something in contrast to the more frenetic scenes when he relies on what the characters are actually saying and doing to have the desired impact.

[@vwlssnvwls3262]

I like the actor that played Brett (Frank Whaley). I feel like he always does a great job. Underrated actor in my opinion.

[@TTM9691]

Ha! Great reaction video, you have a great eye! I saw this movie twice in the theatre, both in the Village. Everyone remembered Reservoir Dogs, which had made a big splash, and everyone knew Travolta was in this, playing an entirely different kind of role than he was known for (and giving new life into his career. At this point, he was doing those Look Who's Talking movies! The complete opposite of Pulp Fiction!). I was blown away. Dazzled! That New Year's Eve, I was at a party; I had longish hair, and was dressed in a black suit. My future (but not yet) girlfriend was there, and she had just recently dyed her hair black. At one point, this other girl came up, pointed to us and said "Oh my god, look! It's Pulp Fiction! You guys gotta dance! You guys gotta dance!" lol. We were so embarrassed, and declined! Anyways, when Pulp Fiction came out, it made a HUGE splash....and the 90s (and early 2000s) was FILLED with imitations. "Get Shorty" (which is good, and again stars Travolta) was one of those. Most of them were lousy. As far as Tarantino, he followed "Pulp Fiction" with "Jackie Brown" which, in retrospect, is my favorite Tarantino film. You'll DEFINITELY love that one Shanelle, if you haven't seen that one! PS: Another 90s movie I'd LOVE for someone to do a reaction video: "Boogie Nights". That's almost like "Dazed And Confused" and " Pulp Fiction" combined! If you haven't seen "Boogie Nights" (Paul Thomas Anderson), that's definitely one for your list, oh my god...... That was a blast watching "Pulp" with ya!

[@TheBigLlamaShow]

Yet another awesome video and movie watch along. This was one of my favorite movies back in the 90s. I always enjoy your reactions and insight

[@GNo03]

If you haven’t seen Die Hard yet, you should react to it! One of the best action movies ever

[@nochannel1q2321]

Check out The City of Lost Children. It's fantastic.

[@garavonhoiwkenzoiber]

oh man that movie was crazy good, but I could never work out what year it was set in, far in the past or far in the future?

[@nochannel1q2321]

@@garavonhoiwkenzoiber I think just alternate. My understanding was its time system was unrelated to ours.

[@timmunro7313]

I love the fact that you do the trivia at the end. Thanks Shanelle 😊❤

[@lopol78]

I saw this movie 100 times, I think your reaction was on point, I loved it.

[@matthewurquhart5495]

This whole time I never realized that was Steve Buscemi as the waiter! Hm, learn something new every day.

[@ThreadBomb]

That is quality casting!

[@DiabIe37]

Best part is Steve Buscemi's character in Reservoir Dogs doesn't believe in tipping waiters. 😉

[@chrisleebowers]

"What is it?" *The drugs from True Romance? *The (slight spoiler) loot from Reservoir Dogs? *The Best Actor Academy Award?

[@Yggdrasil42]

* Marcellus Wallace's soul?

[@hoaxheaux]

Shanelle I LOVE watching you watch movies!

[@stumilesyt]

What a treat! A film buff who appreciates Tarantino but hasn't seen all his films?! Please do finish up his works on screen with us :)

[@Dirkus17]

Shanelle didn’t want us to see the medievals.

[@billhicks6449]

I loved the fact you brought up Tarantino trusting his audience. It's one of the marks of good writing. Feeling like you have to over explain everything is actually insulting to your audience.

[@ThreadBomb]

I don't think it's even a matter of trust. Some writers just aren't capable of delivering information without infodumps. Tarantino knows that strong characterisation plus strong situation are always essential.

[@billhicks6449]

@@ThreadBomb it goes way, way beyond that. Read a Doestoyesky novel. Then read Tolstoy. The latter batters you over the goddamn head with things that don't matter. The former accepts that his readers aren't stupid and treats them as such.

[@cameron120587]

Pulp fiction refers to pulp paper, a step above newsprint that was the cheapest type of paper that you could make a book out of, charge a price that working people could afford. So the stories had to sensational and entertaining to get people to buy weekly and monthly editions of fiction magazines. A lot of pulp writers then went on to tv, radio, and paperbacks by the 1950s.

[@chiefofcst]

I hope you have a successful career in film. Your knowledge of how movies are made is impressive. I love how you provide information on production and such as much as your reactions.

[@Rehunauris]

I've seen this movie multiple times and never noticed that the waiter is Steve Buscemi.

[@kittykatt7652]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@ded-pihto]

In Reservoir Dogs Steve Buscemi didn't give tips to waiters so in Pulp Fiction Tarantino made him a waiter

[@alexb.e7498]

@@ded-pihto not only that but, Steve Buscemi's character in Reservoir Dogs only tips someone if that person has done an exceptional job... in Pulp Fiction, Travolta's character, Vince, says about Buscemi that he's a lousy waiter, and therefore, the's not gonna give him a tip !

[@matbasterson520]

Amanda Plummer's dialogue is different from the opening of the movie.

[@centuryrox]

Speaking of Amanda, I've watched this movie countless times since it came out, and even though I knew her name as Amanda Plummer, it wasn't until recently that I found out she's Christopher Plummer's daughter. Which is incredible since Christopher Plummer has always been one of my favorite actors, may he rest in peace.

[@pimoen]

Thoroughly enjoyable commentary! I learn so much from you, thank you

[@inthebiscuits]

I love when people discover this movie, this was such a huge deal among my friends and me when it came out. I was in high school and a huge movie nerd, I remember watching this with a group and all of us walking out of the theater blown away, couldn't stop talking about it. We were buying the soundtrack the next day and of course rented Reservoir Dogs and True Romance (written by Tarantino, directed by Tony Scott) the next weekend, AND Killing Zoe. If you notice in the opening credits it says something like, "Stories by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary", well if what I heard was accurate they met at a video store they both worked at because they got to watch and talk movies all day. The year before this came out Avary made Killing Zoe, starring Eric Stoltz (who played Lance the dope dealer in this) and Julie Deply, it was a great little heist movie set in Paris that I personally loved. Being that it's set in Europe I always assumed Avary's contributions on Pulp Fiction included the Amsterdam references and the French girlfriend character, among other things, probably the drug stuff, which also featured a lot in Killing Zoe. True Romance is also definitely worth a watch. Fun fact, supposedly, the way that script, and Tarantino's script for Natural Born Killers, were treated by Tony Scott and Oliver Stone respectively, convinced Tarantino to direct his own movies and never sell his scripts again, I heard he was pissed at the way they were changed by those other directors, although I personally loved them both.

[@ramoncunningham71]

Another good movie Tarantino did similar to this was call Four Rooms. That was also a very good movie. I would recommend watching.

[@jkp41978]

Would live to see your take on the Kevin Smith movies.

[@ThreadBomb]

At least the first one, and maybe Dogma too.

[@centuryrox]

"37??!!" "In a row??"

[@MrTCHOSS]

@@centuryrox LOL. Good one

[@peppyd]

You're right about Tarantino's ability to introduce his characters. Christoph Waltz's first scene in Inglourious Basterds (That is the correct title spelling) was one of the best character introductions in film history!

[@goldthunder2529]

I have such a great memory of seeing this film for the first time, well it's a great memory to me personally. My dad and I were up one night and we saw this available for rent on PPV, we watched it and at the end we were both so confused, but at the same time we both thought we enjoyed the film. We decided to watch it again as when you rented things on PPV you had them till 6am the next day back in the 90's. He fell asleep shortly after it started the second time, but I stayed awake and watched it all again. I absolutely loved it and he and I discussed it at length the next day. This moment was important to me then, but even more so later as it would be the third to last real bonding moment I had with my father before he died in 2002.

[@joelesser2550]

When Vincent gets killed, would Jules have been with him if he hadn't quit the business? Did religion really save him?? -- or maybe having Jules around is how Vincent made it that far. Jules kept Vincent's dumb junkie butt alive. The minute he left the life, Vincent lost his.

[@MrParkerman6]

Jules was there. He was outback eating another tastey Burger and drinking a Tastey Bev-er-age!!!!

[@johnplaysgames3120]

In an interview with AFI, Tarantino said that every character is given a choice. They can change their ways and do the right thing or keep doing the wrong thing. In response to "the miracle," Jules made the good choice and left the violence biz, thus, presumably, he went on to live another day. Vincent ignored the choice and just kept doing what he was doing (not just the violent life but also the drugs which lead to him being in the bathroom when Bruce Willis arrives at the apartment, arguably leading to his death). Butch initially makes the dishonorable choice (agreeing to throw the fight for money) and his life is put in danger but then he makes the honorable choice to not abandon Marcellus and is granted a reprieve to go live his life somewhere else. He redeems himself. Tarantino said that redemption isn't the major theme of the movie but each character is given the choice and lives or dies by the choices they make. Honestly, it's pretty classic screenwriting: You set the theme or main struggle and then you write in characters who each represent one of the possible approaches to the situation. You see this all the time in movies, sitcoms, and, really, everywhere. Each character is written to embody a possible answer/response to the main question and their fates are determined by the answer they embody. He didn't mention this part but I noticed that Mia nearly dies from ODing on drugs and seems pretty shaken up at the end of her part of the story but it's left ambiguous whether she learns a lesson and changes her ways or continues on down the road until something permanently bad does happen. Basically, we see the main characters live or die by choosing the right or wrong path but the fates of the side characters are left with a question mark.