PULP FICTION (FILM)

'''Pulp Fiction''' is an Academy Award-winning 1994 film written by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary and directed by Tarantino. The film has a fragmented storyline and is known for its eclectic dialogue, heavy arthouse and independent film influences, ironic and campy style, unorthodox camerawork, and numerous pop culture references. Tarantino and Avery won Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay and the film was nominated for seven Oscars in total, including Best Picture; it also took home the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Cannes Film Festival 1994
The plot, in keeping with most other Tarantino works, runs in nonlinear order. The unconventional structure of the movie is an example of a so-called postmodernist film. The film's title refers to the pulp magazines popular during the mid–20th century, known for their strongly graphic nature. Much of the film's dialogue and many of its scenes are based on other works of B-grade movies.

Contents

Overview and synopsis

Plot

Homage as style

Recurring motifs

The mysterious briefcase

Jules' Bible passage

Bathrooms

Cast

Production

Reception

Awards

Soundtrack

References and footnotes

External links

Overview and synopsis

''Pulp Fiction'' is divided into six distinct but interrelated stories where a boxer, two hitmen and a crime boss meet their fates in a course of two days; although each story recounts a separate incident, they share some common characters. As is common in Tarantino's films, they are not arranged in chronological order. The use of a non-linear structure is one element of the film which identifies it as part of the neo-noir tradition, despite its initial appearance as an action, black comedy satire.^[1] The narrative structure as a whole is nearly circular, as the final scene overlaps and resolves the interrupted first scene. Circular Narratives: Highlights of Popular Cinema in the '90s Fiona A. Villella
Essentially a black comedy directed in a highly stylized manner and employing many pop culture references, ''Pulp Fiction'' joins the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles gangsters, fringe characters, petty thieves and a mysterious briefcase. In keeping with Quentin Tarantino's directorial trademark of nonlinear story telling, ''Pulp Fiction'' is written out of sequence, telling several stories concurrently that intersect as the film progresses. Pulp Fiction DVD trivia subtitles.
''Pulp Fiction'' is strongly character driven, with considerable screen time devoted to conversations and monologues, that reveal the characters' senses of humor, philosophical perspectives and secret histories. The film starts out with a hold-up in a restaurant staged by "Pumpkin" and "Honey Bunny", then picks up the stories of mob hitmen Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield, Mia Wallace and Marsellus Wallace, prizefighter Butch Coolidge, and finally returns to where it began, in the restaurant, where Vincent and Jules stop for a bite, foil the hold-up and set the robbers on a more righteous path.

Plot

"Pumpkin" (Tim Roth) and "Honey Bunny" (Amanda Plummer) decide to rob the diner in which they're eating after realizing they could make more money off of customers than the business as with their last liquor store heist.
Hitmen Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) head to a Los Angeles apartment to retrieve a briefcase that was involved in a failed deal for their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Their witty and philosophical banter is a striking juxtaposition against the scene's end, in which they kill Brett (Frank Whaley) and his cohorts in a dramatic fashion, sparing only their informant, Marvin (Phil LaMarr).
At Marsellus Wallace's request, Vincent Vega escorts Mrs. Wallace, Mia (Uma Thurman), to Jackrabbit Slim's, a slick 1950s-themed restaurant with look-alikes of the decade's top pop culture icons as staff. Mia recounts her experience as an actress in a failed television pilot, "Fox Force Five." Mia's character, Raven McCoy, was a knife expert raised by circus performers who knew "a zillion old jokes."
After winning the twist contest, they return to the Wallace house where Mia finds Vincent's stash of heroin in the pocket of his coat. She snorts it, mistaking it for cocaine, and overdoses. When a fearful Vincent finds her, he rushes her to his small-time drug dealer Lance (Eric Stoltz) for help. Together, they administer an adrenaline shot to Mia's heart, reviving her. Before the two part ways, Mia and Vincent agree not to tell Marsellus of the incident, both fearing what he might do to either of them.
Aging prizefighter Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) accepts a large sum of money from Marsellus, agreeing to "take a dive" in the fifth round of his upcoming match. Butch double-crosses Marsellus, instead betting the money he received from Marsellus on himself (with favorable odds). Butch wins the bout, accidentally killing his opponent in the process, and flees by taxi, enjoying a cigarette and a short interlude during the ride with a death-obsessed taxi-driver, Esmeralda Villalobos (Angela Jones).
There is a flashback in which a young Butch Coolidge (Chandler Lindauer) receives his father's watch from Vietnam veteran Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) while watching Clutch Cargo on the television. Butch's father died in a Vietnam War POW camp and at his dying request Koons hid the watch in his rectum for two years from the Vietcong to give to Butch. The gold watch, passed down from father to son since World War I, is of great sentimental value to Butch.
When Butch discovers his girlfriend Fabienne (Maria de Medeiros) has forgotten to pack the watch, he is compelled to return to his apartment and retrieve it though Marsellus's men are most likely looking for him. Butch moves quickly to retrieve the watch, but thinking no one awaits to kill him, he pauses for toaster pastries. Only then does he notice a silenced MAC-10 submachine gun on the kitchen counter. Hearing the toilet flush, Butch readies the gun in time to kill a startled Vincent Vega exiting the bathroom.
Returning from the apartment, Butch encounters Marsellus by chance, and the two grapple, landing in a pawnshop. Butch is about to shoot Marsellus, when the pawnshop owner Maynard (Duane Whitaker) captures them at gunpoint. Maynard and his accomplice Zed are sexual predators, and they tie the two captives with red ball gags strapped in their mouths. They take Marsellus into the back room and rape him, leaving a gimp to watch Butch. Butch breaks free from his bonds and knocks out The Gimp, and is prepared to flee when he hesitates, deciding to save Marsellus. As Zed is raping Marsellus on a small wooden pommel horse, Butch kills Maynard with a katana from the shop. Zed retreats, but Marsellus retrieves Maynard's shotgun, shooting Zed in the groin. Marsellus informs Butch that they are even with respect to the money and botched fight-fix, so long as he never tells anyone about the rape and leaves Los Angeles forever. Butch agrees, leaving town on Zed's chopper with Fabienne.
The story now flashes back to Vincent and Jules. After Vincent and Jules shot Brett, another man (Alexis Arquette, Rosanna Arquette's real-life brother) bursts out of the bathroom and shoots wildly at them, missing every time before an astonished Jules and Vincent can return fire. Jules decides this is a miracle and a sign from God for him to retire as a hit man. Vincent disagrees, and as they drive he asks their informant, Marvin, for his opinion, accidentally shooting him in the head while carelessly waving his gun.
Forced to remove their bloodied car and clothing from the road, Jules calls upon the house of his friend Jimmy (Quentin Tarantino). Jimmy objects to the situation, saying his wife, Bonnie, will be returning soon from work. At Jules's request, Marsellus arranges the help of Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel). Wolfe takes control of the situation, ordering Jules and Vincent to clean the car, hide the body in the trunk, dispose of their bloody clothes, and change into "dorky" T-shirts provided by Jimmy. He also pays Jimmy for his linens, used to cover the bloody seats while they drive to a junkyard run by Raquel (Julia Sweeney). When Wolfe and Raquel leave for breakfast, Jules and Vincent decide to do the same.
While Jules and Vincent eat, the discussion returns to Jules's decision to retire. While Vincent is in the bathroom, the pair of thieves from the first scene hold up the diner. "Pumpkin" demands all of the patrons' valuables, including Jules's mysterious case. Jules surprises "Ringo," holding him at gunpoint. "Honey Bunny" becomes hysterical, and trains her gun on Jules just as Vincent emerges from the restroom with his gun trained on her in a Mexican standoff. Jules explains his ambivalence toward his life of crime and as his first act of redemption convinces the two robbers to take the cash and valuables in exchange for the case and their departure.

Homage as style

Like Tarantino's other works, ''Pulp Fiction'' is full of homages to other films and television shows, particularly in the gangster genre, as well as many other pop culture artifacts. The movie has been described as a pastiche of "popular culture since 1950." The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice, , Ken, Dancyer, Focal Press, , ISBN 9780240804200 In the sole overt example of literary pulp fiction in the movie, Vincent Vega is seen in several scenes reading the first Modesty Blaise novel while sitting on the toilet. The edition Vincent reads has a mock-up cover that Tarantino had the prop department make, based upon the cover of an early edition of the novel. The cereal that Lance is eating when Vincent comes to his house with Mia is called Fruit Brute, which was discontinued in 1983. Fruit Brute also shows up in ''Reservoir Dogs'' and ''Kill Bill''. The majority of clocks in the movie, especially in the pawnshop, are set to 4:20, a subtle drug culture reference. The movie itself was originally going to be titled ''Black Mask'', the name of the magazine largely responsible for popularizing hardboiled detective fiction in the 1930s. Butch's double cross of Marsellus is possibly an homage to the 1929 Dashiell Hammett crime novel ''Red Harvest'', whose protagonist challenges an organized crime operation by blackmailing a boxer into "unfixing" a fixed fight.
The scene in which Marsellus sees Butch while crossing the street in front of Butch's car is reminiscent of the scene in which Marion Crane's boss sees her under similar circumstances in ''Psycho''. The scene in which Butch stabs Maynard with the katana is identical to a scene in Bruce Lee's ''Enter the Dragon'' - from the same camera angle, Butch is seen stabbing Maynard, who is standing behind him, directly through the stomach and holding the sword in place for a few seconds, while he makes exactly the same facial expressions as Bruce Lee does in the same scene in his movie. When he pulls the sword out and Maynard is seen falling in the same way as the victim in ''Enter the Dragon''. The "dungeon scene" is believed to be an homage to John Boorman's ''Deliverance''; and Zed was the name of Sean Connery's character in Boorman's follow-up - the sci-fi film ''Zardoz''. "Zed's dead" was one of the last lines spoken in that film. (Chronologically speaking, it's also the final line in Pulp Fiction.) It is believed that Butch's weapons of choice (hammer, bat, chain saw and katana) are homages to ''Walking Tall'', ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' (1974) and samurai films.
Tarantino has also created his own pop artifacts, partly to establish recurrent motifs in his films and partly to avoid showing actual commercial products in certain scenes. Big Kahuna Burger is featured not only in the ''Pulp Fiction'' apartment scene, but also in ''From Dusk Till Dawn'', ''Reservoir Dogs'' and most recently, ''Death Proof''. The Red Apple cigarettes that Butch buys inside Marsellus's bar also appear in various ways in ''Jackie Brown'', ''Kill Bill: Volume 1'', ''Grindhouse'' and ''Four Rooms''. (A Red Apple billboard also appears in the background of a scene in ''Romy and Michele's High School Reunion''. Tarantino was dating Mira Sorvino, one of the film's stars, at the time.) Iconic items of Tarantino's also appear: Jules uses a STAR model B 9mm-caliber pistol, and Vincent uses an Auto-Ordnance Colt 1911A1 model .45 ACP-caliber pistol. Both weapons—each chrome plated with a custom mother-of-pearl grip—are owned by the director.

Recurring motifs

The mysterious briefcase

The combination of the mysterious suitcase is "666", the "number of the beast."[1] Number of the Beast (MathWorld) Whenever asked, director Tarantino has replied that there is no explanation for the case's contents: it is simply a MacGuffin. Originally, the case was to contain the diamonds stolen in ''Reservoir Dogs'', but this was seen as too mundane. For filming purposes, the briefcase contained an orange light bulb, silver foil, and a battery. Despite Tarantino's explanation, many theories have been proposed for the contents of the briefcase.^[2]
In a video interview with fellow director and friend Robert Rodriguez on MySpace Tarantino "reveals" the secret contents of the briefcase, but the film cuts out and skips the scene in the style employed in Tarantino and Rodriguez's double feature, ''Grindhouse'', with a caption that says "Reel Missing." The film resumes with Rodriguez discussing how radically the knowledge of the briefcase's contents alters one's understanding of the movie.^[3]
A glowing briefcase is also used in the 1955 film noir ''Kiss Me Deadly'', in which the briefcase glows due to its nuclear contents. When Tarantino learned of the similarity, he said it was purely accidental but that he liked the idea.^[2]

Jules' Bible passage

In the final diner scene, Jules explains that he recites a Biblical passage, Ezekiel 25:17, each time he kills someone. Jules's (misquoted) version of the passage reads as follows:
Jules's pronouncement is a typically obscure Tarantino reference to ''Karate Kiba'' / ''Chiba the Bodyguard'', a 1976 film starring Sonny Chiba, whom the director would later cast in ''Kill Bill''. ''Karate Kiba'' opens with the exact same biblical misquote, likewise attributed to Ezekiel 25:17. The actual passage does not contain most of the misquote either: While the final two sentences of the misquote are similar to the cited passage, the first two are completely absent, while the preceding biblical passages simply indicate that God's wrath was retribution for the hostility of the Philistines. ^[5] The passage actually reads "I will execute great vengeance upon them with furious rebukes; and they shall know that I ''am'' the LORD, when I shall lay my vengeance upon them."

Bathrooms

Tarantino uses the toilet or bathroom as a plot device to signify a crucial turn in the plot.^[6]
Instances include: when Jules and Vincent are shooting Brett and his companions, a fourth man is hiding by the toilet, waiting to fire; when Mia comes back from "powdering" her nose at Jackrabbit Slim's, their quiet dinner turns into their competing in a dance contest, and they become more and more attracted to each other.
Also, any time Vincent enters a bathroom, things go wrong. Surprisingly, the problems increase in magnitude as the movie moves forward chronologically; due to poor washing habits, Vincent soaks one of Jimmy's bathroom towels in blood while washing up after the accidental car shooting; Vincent and Jules’ breakfast and philosophical conversation in the diner turns into an armed robbery while Vincent is in the bathroom; while Vincent is in the bathroom worrying about the possibility of going too far with Marsellus' wife, Mia mistakes his heroin for cocaine and overdoses while attempting to snort it; Vincent goes to the toilet during a stake-out at Butch’s apartment and is killed by Butch with Marsellus' MAC-10.

Cast

★ 'John Travolta' as 'Vincent Vega': Tarantino cast Travolta in ''Pulp Fiction'' only because Michael Madsen chose to appear in Kevin Costner's ''Wyatt Earp'' instead. Madsen later said in interviews this was the worst career move he ever made. Travolta was paid just $140,000 for his services, but the film's success and his Oscar nomination as Best Actor revitalised his career. Travolta was subsequently cast in several hits including ''Get Shorty'', in which he played a similar character, and the John Woo blockbuster ''Face/Off''.^[7] The exchange in which Mia Wallace asks Travolta's character "Can you dig it?" to which he responds "I can dig it" is a nod to Travolta's career-making role in ''Saturday Night Fever''. Travolta, not a real-life smoker, learned how to expertly roll Drum-brand tobacco into cigarettes for his part.

★ 'Samuel L. Jackson' as 'Jules Winnfield': The role of Jules was written with Jackson in mind by Tarantino as a payback for casting others in place of Jackson in previous films. However Jackson nearly lost the part after the initial audition. Paul Calderon, Jackson's friend, managed to argue for a second chance. Jackson flew to Los Angeles and auditioned a second time, winning over Tarantino.^[8] Jules was originally scripted with an Afro; due to a mix-up in wardrobe, he wears Jheri Curls. For his performance, Jackson received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

★ 'Bruce Willis' as 'Butch Coolidge': In Tarantino's original script the character of Butch is a fighter in his twenties. The character was aged to a washed-up boxer to accommodate Willis in the role. Despite his stature as a bankable leading man, Willis took a pay cut and low billing to appear in the film, a career move that drew praise from critics and motivated other high-profile actors to do the same. According to Tarantino, his character was patterned after actor Aldo Ray in the Jacques Tourneur film, ''Nightfall''. Crime Rave Rick Groen

★ 'Ving Rhames' as 'Marsellus Wallace': Rhames gained considerable acclaim for his dynamic portrayal of the sadistic Marsellus Wallace. His performance paved the way for supporting roles opposite some of Hollywood's most popular stars in such big budget features as '', ''Con Air'' and ''Out of Sight''.^[9]

★ 'Uma Thurman' as 'Mia Wallace': Thurman beat out Holly Hunter and Meg Ryan to win the role of Mia Wallace. Thurman dominated most of the film's promotional material, appearing on a bed with cigarette in hand. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in ''Pulp Fiction'' and was launched into the celebrity A-list. She took no advantage of this new found fame and chose to not do any big budget films for the next three years.^[10] Thurman's outfit reappears in three of Tarantino's later films, ''Jackie Brown,'' ''Kill Bill, Volume 1'' and ''Kill Bill, Volume 2''.


★ 'Harvey Keitel' as 'Winston Wolfe' or simply '"The Wolf"': Keitel agreed to be in the film as he had previously starred in Tarantino's ''Reservoir Dogs'' in which he played Larry Dimmick, the cousin of Jimmy Dimmick in ''Pulp Fiction''. The name "Winston Wolfe" was borrowed from a regular customer named "Winston Wolff" who frequented the video store where Quentin Tarantino worked. The real Wolff was a video game programmer. Keitel's role as a "cleaner" is very similar to his character in ''Point of No Return'', released a year earlier.

★ 'Tim Roth' as '"Pumpkin"' or '"Ringo"': Roth had also starred in ''Reservoir Dogs'' alongside Keitel and was brought on board again. A year after Pulp Fiction, Roth would again appear with Eric Stoltz in Rob Roy, in which Roth's character kills Stoltz's character. Tim Roth used his natural, London accent in Pulp Fiction but used an American accent in ''Reservoir Dogs''.

★ 'Amanda Plummer' as '"Honey Bunny"' or '"Yolanda"': Plummer gained a lot of attention with a small amount of screen time. She followed up with director Michael Winterbottom's ''Butterfly Kiss'', in which she plays a serial killer. According to sources such as IMDB and the DVD factoids, the role was written for Plummer in mind.

★ 'Christopher Walken' as 'Captain Koons': The Vietnam War veteran. Walken delivered a small but memorable performance scene in the movie as his often played slightly "off" persona. He appeared in another small but memorable role in the "Sicilian scene" in the Tarantino-written ''True Romance'' a year earlier.

★ 'Eric Stoltz' as 'Lance': Vincent's drug dealer.

★ 'Quentin Tarantino' as 'Jimmie Dimmick': Tarantino played a small role in the film as he had done previously in ''Reservoir Dogs''.
Out of the $8 million it cost to make the movie, $5 million went to the cast. The film is known for revitalizing the career of John Travolta, and helping establish Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman as major stars (all three received Academy Award nominations for their respective roles in the film). The characters of Pumpkin, Honey Bunny, and Winston Wolfe were written specifically for Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, and Harvey Keitel, respectively.
Other actors considered for the film included Sylvester Stallone and Daniel Day-Lewis as Vincent; Paul Calderon as Jules; Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon as Butch; Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Joan Cusack, Isabella Rossellini, Daryl Hannah (later cast in ''Kill Bill'') as Mia, and Johnny Depp and Christian Slater (previously cast in ''True Romance'') as Pumpkin. Tarantino has also said that he originally wanted to cast Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love as Lance and Jody, respectively. At one point Pam Grier (later cast in "Jackie Brown") was also considered to be cast as Jody, but Tarantino thought it would be unrealistic for such a strong woman to put up with verbal abuse by Eric Stoltz's Lance. ^[11]

Production

Quentin Tarantino first got the idea for ''Pulp Fiction'' in 1989 after he had written ''True Romance'' and ''Natural Born Killers''. Criminals Rendered in 3 Parts, Poetically Beverly Lowry However, he could not get it into production and so he wrote the Jules and Vincent story and Roger Avary wrote "The Gold Watch" segment. After the success of ''Reservoir Dogs'', Tarantino returned to these two stories and "I got the idea of doing something that novelists get a chance to do but filmmakers don't: telling three separate stories, having characters float in and out with different weights depending on the story." He decided to live in Europe for three months and worked on the script for ''Pulp Fiction'' in Holland. Heavyweight Tarantino won't be taken lightly Craig MacInnis Columbia TriStar bought his script but did not make the film. Miramax agreed to back the film and provide the $10 million budget.
For the costumes, Tarantino took his inspiration from Jean-Pierre Melville who believed that the clothes his characters wore were their symbolic suits of armor. Quentin Tarantino on ''Pulp Fiction'' Manohla Dargis According to the filmmaker, ''Pulp Fiction'' was shot "on 50 ASA film stock, which is the slowest stock they make. The reason we use it is that it creates an almost no-grain image, it's lustrous. It's the closest thing we have to 50s Technicolor."

Reception

Made on a budget of $8 million, the film was a major success, earning $107,928,762 at the U.S. box office and $213,928,762 in total.^[12]
''Pulp Fiction'' is found at the top of critics' lists and in popular rankings, at #5 on the IMDB Top 250 List. It boasts a 96% certified fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes^[13] and a Metascore of 94 on Metacritic.^[14] As of August 19, 2007, ''Pulp Fiction'' is #8 on Metacritic.com's list of All-Time High Scores.^[15] In 2000, readers of ''Total Film'' magazine voted it the 18th greatest comedy film of all time. In Britain (2001), it was voted as the 4th greatest film of all time in a nationwide poll for Channel 4.
In 2005, Time.com named it one of Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Movies. All-Time 100 Movies: Pulp Fiction (1994) It won the 1994 ''Palme d'Or'' at the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. It was named Best Picture by the and the National Society of Film Critics. In a 1995 poll by British magazine, Empire, it was voted as number 1 on "The 100 Favorite Films list." When released in 1994 it appeared on 110 film critics' list of top 10 films of the year, 65 of which named it Best Picture Of The Year.The film ranks at #29 on Entertainment Weekly's "100 Greatest Films" list. The film also appeared at #94 on "AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies" list.
Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four stars, saying it's "so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it—the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'"^[16]
He added ''Pulp Fiction'' to his Great Movies list in June 2001.^[17] The film has since become a cult classic.
Some felt the film glamorized violence while others thought Tarantino was criticizing excessive violence through a "twisted sense of morality".^[18][19]

Awards

''Pulp Fiction'' has both won, and been nominated for, many awards.
It has won the following accolades:^{[20][21][22][23]}

Year	Award	Category — Recipient(s)
1994	Academy Award	Best Original Screenplay — Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
1994	BAFTA	Best Supporting Actor — Samuel L. Jackson
1994	BAFTA	Original ScreenPlay — Quentin Tarantino/Roger Avary
1994	BAFTA	Best Actor — John Travolta
1994	Palme d'Or	Quentin Tarantino
1994	Edgar Award	Best Motion Picture Screenplay — Quentin Tarantino

It was nominated for the following Academy Awards:

★ Best Actor (John Travolta)

★ Best Supporting Actor (Samuel L. Jackson)

★ Best Supporting Actress (Uma Thurman)

★ Best Director (Quentin Tarantino)

★ Best Film Editing (Sally Menke)

★ Best Picture (Lawrence Bender, producer)
It was nominated for the following BAFTA awards:

★ Actress in Leading Role (Uma Thurman)

★ Director (Quentin Tarantino)

★ Best Film (Lawrence Bender and Quentin Tarantino)

★ Cinematography (Andrzej Sekula)

★ Editing (Sally Menke)

★ Sound (Stephen Hunter Flick/Ken King/Rick Ash/David Zupancic)

Soundtrack

No film score was composed for ''Pulp Fiction'', with Quentin Tarantino instead using an eclectic assortment of surf music, rock and roll, soul and pop songs. Notable songs include Dick Dale's rendition of "Misirlou", which is played during the opening credits. Tarantino chose surf music for the basic score of the film because, "it just seems like rock 'n' roll Ennio Morricone music, rock 'n' roll spaghetti Western music." Some of these songs were suggested to Tarantino by his friends Chuck Kelley and Laura Lovelace, who were credited as Music Consultants. Lovelace also appeared in the film as "Laura" the waitress.
The soundtrack album, ''Music from the Motion Picture Pulp Fiction'', was released along with the film in 1994. In addition to songs from the film, it contains excerpts of dialogue, such as Jules' "Ezekiel 25:17" and "Royale with Cheese". The album peaked on the Billboard 200 at No. 21. The single, Urge Overkill's cover of the Neil Diamond song, "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon", peaked at No. 59.;Charts & Awards, All Music Guide (December 26, 2006).
A two-disc collector's edition of the album was issued in 2002—the first disc contained the songs, including five additional tracks; and the second disc was a spoken-word interview with Tarantino.

References and footnotes

1. Silver, A. ''Film Noir'', 2004 ISBN 3822822612 p. 65
2. What's in the Briefcase?
3. Rodriguez and Tarantino: Artist On Artist
4. What's in the Briefcase?
5. Ezekiel 25, New International Version
6. Tarantino in a Can? Mike White and Mike Thompson
7. John Travolta Biography Dominic Wills
8. Samuel L. Jackson Biography Dominic Wills
9. Ving Rhames Biography
10. Uma Thurman Biography Dominic Wills
11. List Actors considered for Pulp Fiction
12. Box Office Mojo
13. Rotten Tomatoes
14. Metacritic
15. Metacritic.com's List of All-Time High Scores
16. Roger Ebert's Review of Pulp Ficiton
17. Roger Ebert's list of Great Movies
18. Should we censor apparently amoral films such as Pulp Fiction? Or are they challenging us to repudiate their twisted morality? Nigel Cliff
19. Sick or Sanctified? Tony Bowden
20. Academy Awards for Pulp Fiction
21. BAFTA Archives
22. List of Palme d'Or winners
23. Edgar Awards Database

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★ Roger Ebert's review of ''Pulp Fiction''