I spent most of 1995 muttering selected dialogues from Pulp Fiction over and over again in my car. Usually a few espressos deep, driving recklessly and trying to hit pedestrians for points. Here are some of my favorite scenes. BITCHES.
1. Pulp Fiction Adrenaline Shot
Obviously, anyone faced with this situation – be it Travolta or the Pope- would shit pink fuzz. But it is the complete chaos of the situation that makes this scene truly beautiful. No one wants a “fucked up” chic in their house, least of all when she’s covered in blood and vomit…so now what…no one knows how to give a Adrenaline shot and no one knows where the medical book is….Just goes to show: You never know what the cat might drag in to your house…so let’s start practising: Adrenaline injection straight to the heart…just don’t go stabbing fucking three times! And when your heroin wonder does finally come back to the world of the living, I hope for you it’s a beautifully blood smeared face like Uma Thurman’s.
2. Reservoir Dogs – Walking Scene
For all those women out there, I know y’all are watching this scene with moist panties and a slight blush across the cheeks for who could resist a group of gangsters wearing tuxedos? Even Steve Bucsemi looks sexy! The tunes, the moves, the clothes, the actors – truly classic. They walk the streets like they own them, they’re looking good and they know it. And lets face it: We all have our Reservoir Dogs walk, reserved for those special occasions on which the ego rises high.
3. Pulp Fiction – Say What Again
What a spectacular entrance to a breakfast scenario! When it comes to intimidation and word play this guy even puts Ann Robinson to shame.
Anyone confronted with the likes of Samuel L.Jackson in this role would turn into a stuttering, spluttering idiot, and yet still he somehow seems almost…polite? ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER, do you speak it? Errmm, wh-wh-whaa…Ich spreche kein English…no…Yeah this bad ass motherfucker is scary enough to make you forget your native tongue!
4. Deathproof – Lap Dance
Straight girls turn lesbians, gay men turn straight with this video…Look at her crawling over the floor, that cracking ass taking over the screen..Her pouting lips and fine, fine hips draw you in, there’s no denying. And she’s digging it – Look how she’s digging it! Vanessa Ferlito seems more turned on by dancing for the horny old bastard than the old man himself. This scene has caused, is causing and will cause for wet dreams, yearning lips and tempted cheeky fingers!
5. Reservoir Dogs -Tips
This conversation is one that probably comes up rather frequently while dining in a restaurant or calling in the last rounds at a bar. Is tipping really necessary? Mr Pink makes a fine point, if you ask me. Yeah it’s true that unless you’re in a country like Ireland, waitresses make minimum wage. But so do check-out girls. Garbagemen. And we don’t go tipping them do we? We don’t go into a supermarket for our daily bread and whatnot and then tell the check-out girl to keep the five buck change…No one walks into my office, tells me to type up a letter and then leave me 3 bucks as an extra. So what the fuck makes waitresses so special? Granted, they might have to deal with a lot more shameless pick up lines and unfriendly customers, but shit – ever thought of what a teacher has to endure during the course of one clasS? They ain’t getting tipped…
6. Jackie Brown pulls a gun on Ordell’s Dick
Talk about a woman with true cojones…She might be doing Ordell’s dirty work, taking all the risks in the smuggeling game. She may not look like a hardass, but once she becomes aware of Ordell’s games, there’s no stopping her. Suddenly its done with Miss Nice Girl and out comes a hardass gangsta bitch who knows all about the street life. As she pins him against the window in the dark, it’s almost erotic how she points the gun into his lower back, never once loosing her cool.She is an example to all women out there who have a little of the femme lethal in them and Tarantino’s done an excellent job at making her shine.
7. Louis shoots Melanie
Who hasn’t fantasized about killing a nagging, yacking girlfriend on the spot after several warnings for her to shut up? You can deny it all you want, but remember the last time you were trying to watch the game and your girl suddenly got it into her head that the “us” conversation had to be had and she couldn’t even wait for half time? Tell me you didn’t want to punch her out…at least.
Robert De niro shows us how it’s done; you can see him grow more and more aggitated with Bridget Fonda and for sure you can imagine something bad about to happen, still, when he finally pulls out his gun and pulls the trigger you’re left with a “What the fuck” moment…Too bad those moments never pan out quite so well in real life.
8. I Love you Hunny Bunny
All that sweet bickering about whether it’s riskier robbing a bank or a liquorstore, because apparently a bank can be done by using nothing more than a mobile phone…such a surreal conversation. It almost seems comical – she looks like she could be a kindergarden teacher, cute and petite, he looks like a small time wannabe gangster. She is charmed by his rambeling on about the pros and cons of robbing different stores and seems to romanticise the idea of doing so without violence. Her eyes sparkle with delight as he explains his new plan of robbing the very restaurant they are in, and I swear I can smell it on her: She’s turned on. And just before they lay their gun’s down on the table ready to get to work, they seal their love in cheesy, romantic, gangster fashion: “ANY? OF YOU FUCKING PIGS MOVE AND I’LL EXECUTE ANY MOTHERFUCKING LAST ONE ONE OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!”
9. You Never Can Tell
What makes this scene so brilliant for me, is that before Vincent arrived at Mia’s house, he is cruising the streets strung out on heroin, so far from any care in the world. He knows that if he doesn’t grant Mia her every wish he’ll be in big trouble and so he just plays along with everything she desires. She’s coked up, confident and ready to win the Jack Rabbit Slims Twist contest. Watching them dance you can literally feel Mia’s coke ego pouring out of every orifice, so selacious and hot, spurred on by the effect she is having on Vincent. He wants her and she knows it. Vincent is in his element and whether it is the beautiful Mia pulling him into her force with her moves and charms, or the fact that he is floating on a soft heroin cloud remains unclear, but that doesn’t matter. No matter where they are getting their kicks during this classic dance, the chemisty between them is electric.
10. KILL BILL : The Origin of O-Ren Ishii
In this scene, we have a perfect mixture of false documentary, impressive design and music as amazing as Tarantino has accustomed as. Using the extreme animation created by Shin’ya Ohira (Akira, Sen to Chihiro), Tarantino show us, if possible, his most violent side through the eyes of the yet innocent O-Ren, soon to become a cold blooded assassin due to her parents killing.
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Regarding Scene 5 -Tips.
More than a decade later, I still believe tips shouldn’t be obligatory.
Now here is something you might not have heard since the movie.
Expanding past the basic argument presented by Reservoir Dogs and into further consideration for the 2000′s…
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Why are restaurant tips conventionally accepted as a percentage of the bill and how does this make sense vs. tips as proportional to service (quality and quantity) or compassion for the waiter? Lets talk apples and apples here. After all, aren’t the latter two factors the whole point of the tip?
Sure, its easier to work with fixed numbers (total $ you spent), but I don’t see the logic or proportionality in doing it this way. Doing this, you might be missing the whole point of gratuity.
Using some imagination, you could quantify service or compassion (i.e., a scale of 1 to 5) and assign dollars accordingly
(i.e., a dollar per rating on the scale). I feel that the formula should be entirely up to you, as is the decision to tip or not. Illogical Standardization and blind Convention,.I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger…..
Haha! That is a great point actually.
I’ll never forget the day I went to this restaurant in Santa Clara, CA will a couple coworkers. It was some Italian joint. I only had $70 on me and for some reason I offered to pay for the bill. I don’t remember what the bill came out to, but I could only tip the waitress like $5 or $6.
So she takes the bill, then comes back and asks “Was there something wrong with the food or service?”
And I was like, “uh, no…?”.
She goes, “then why did you only tip me $6?”.
I had no response. I couldn’t even think of what to say to her. I’m was sitting there at the table embarrassed in front of my coworkers, yet kinda shocked that she would cause a scene like that. It was awesome. I love feeling those weird emotions that you only get once a decade, where you don’t know if it’s your fault, their fault, mixed in with a dash of humiliation, and the fear to run out the door. I think it might actually be a fetish of mine.