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Pulp Fiction - briefcase
Posted on 10/2/09 at 11:56 pm
Posted on 10/2/09 at 11:56 pm
this has been a favorite film of mine since the late nineties when i first got into movies.
who has an intelligent idea of WHAT THE HELL is in the briefcase?
gold glow
666 combination
scar on marcellus's neck
marcellus willing to kill for it
pumpkin aka "ringo" describes it as beautiful
tarantino probably wants us to make our own interpretation...
any new ideas? ive read analyses hypothesizing that it's the soul of marcellus or an oscar (
) bruce willis is the shite FWIW
i like bud light
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Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:00 am to rogerlsu
Nothing was to be intended. It was just a plot device/another homage to other movies.
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:02 am to rogerlsu
I'd guess a soul. That's my best guess.
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:03 am to rogerlsu
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that it's the soul of marcellus
I've read this...the reason for the band-aid on the back of his head
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:04 am to geauxlsu07
So Marcellus has a beautiful soul?
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:04 am to TiGeRTeRRoR
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Nothing was to be intended.
i tend to think along these lines. it's just that tarantino placed so many clues in the film... makes me wonder
does he have something in mind? or is this just a plot object to make everyone think? makes for great entertainment
this film should have won best picture IMO instead of forrest gump. hanks > travolta, but my vote goes to pulp fiction
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:05 am to rogerlsu
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LSUsmartass
brah what is your avatar
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:06 am to rogerlsu
Its two figs kissing
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:07 am to rogerlsu
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brah what is your avatar
don't judge..
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:08 am to rogerlsu
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does he have something in mind?
Pretty sure that he has said that he didn't.
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or is this just a plot object to make everyone think?
Probably not even that. The mystery was because they just couldn't come up with something worthy of the hoopla. It was originally a case of diamonds, but it was decided to be too mundane.
I think the "clues" are mostly a series of coincidences that those desperate for resolution/solving the puzzle started to grasp for straws.
For example, the Band-aid is the product of a real life cut, and Rhames has a scar there if you look at his later films.
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:09 am to geauxlsu07
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Its two figs kissing
k that's what i thought. more power to you...
pulp fiction might be my favorite movie of all fricking time
son of a preacher man
Posted on 10/3/09 at 12:10 am to rogerlsu
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Band-aid is the product of a real life cut
i've read this also. thanks for the input. didn't know it was originally diamonds. i'd like to think i'm not grasping for straws, i just wanted some thoughts
Posted on 10/3/09 at 10:44 am to LSUsmartass
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So Marcellus has a beautiful soul?
If it were intended to be a soul you could justify that as saying actually seeing a soul (any soul) would be beautiful
Posted on 10/3/09 at 10:47 am to rogerlsu
It's his soul.
It's one of the reasons why Jules and Vincent weren't shot, because they were returning a soul.
It's one of the reasons why Jules and Vincent weren't shot, because they were returning a soul.
Posted on 10/3/09 at 11:51 am to rogerlsu
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is this just a plot object to make everyone think?
It's just a McGuffin. It can be anything you want it to be. Most popular interpretation though is that it's Marcellus' soul.
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Band-aid is the product of a real life cut, and Rhames has a scar there if you look at his later films.
This. QT wanted to cover up the scar.
Posted on 10/4/09 at 12:54 pm to DanglingFury
QT approves this thread.
He does stuff like this in all his movies, like Brad Pitt's scar on his neck in IB, it was never mentioned how he got it.
He does stuff like this in all his movies, like Brad Pitt's scar on his neck in IB, it was never mentioned how he got it.
This post was edited on 10/4/09 at 12:56 pm
Posted on 10/4/09 at 3:46 pm to Babalugats
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like Brad Pitt's scar on his neck in IB, it was never mentioned how he got it.
In the script notes, they hint that he survived a lynching. JIC you care.
Posted on 10/4/09 at 7:36 pm to rogerlsu
Speculation abounds as to the nature of the mysterious glowing contents of the case: - Could it be Elvis's gold suit, seen worn by Val Kilmer (as Elvis) in True Romance (1993)? - The most persistent theory (most usually attributed to a friend of a friend who saw it posted on a message board by someone whose brother had read a report of a radio interview with Tarantino himself) is that it is Marcellus Wallace's soul. The story goes that when the Devil takes a person's soul, it is removed through the back of the head (this isn't part of any known religion, but this is what the message board posters say). When we see the back of Marcellus's head he has a Band-Aid covering the precise spot indicated by tradition for soul removal. Perhaps Marcellus sold his soul to the devil which would also explain why the combination to open the briefcase is 666. - Quentin Tarantino has said that the band-aid on the back of Marsellus Wallace's neck had nothing to do with an allusion to the Devil stealing Marsellus's soul... but that the actor Ving Rhames had a scar on the back of his neck he wanted to cover up. - Or could it be simply a 20-watt light bulb? - According to Roger Avary, who co-wrote the script with Quentin Tarantino, the original plan was to have the briefcase contain diamonds. This seemed neither exciting nor original, so Avary and Tarantino decided to have the briefcase's contents never appear on screen; this way each filmgoer could mentally "fill in the blank" with whatever struck his or her imagination as best fitting the description "so beautiful". The orange light bulb (projecting shimmering light onto the actors' faces) was a last-minute decision and added a completely unintended fantastic element. - In a radio interview with 'Howard Stern' in late 2003, Quentin Tarantino was asked by a caller the contents of the briefcase, and he answered, "It's whatever the viewer wants it to be."
Posted on 10/4/09 at 7:59 pm to SageStLaurent
Best movie ever.
Posted on 10/5/09 at 12:45 pm to tigerman191
What ever happen to the Vega Brothers movie?
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