Pulp Fiction Theories [merged]

If anyone watches old movies this device has been used in a 1950's film called "Kiss me Deadly". It stars Charlton Heston and there is a black box that shines when opening it up. You never get to see what is in the box, and that is where Tarantino got this idea. The whole Pulp Fiction Movie is paying homage to old 1950 films. Hints why it is filled with older music, Jack Rabbit Slims, and all the charectors are dressed out of date. The movie is a recylcing of many old 1950 films, just as Kill Bill Recycles 1970 kung fu style films, and along with Jackie Brown.

Thats about the best reasoning yet. Good one, makes a lot of sense.

Originally posted by samhain
Thats about the best reasoning yet. Good one, makes a lot of sense.

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Marsellus Soul does make sense but Quentin said it's nothing like that but i think it's GOLD BARS

Originally posted by JoshSquash2k4
Marsellus Soul does make sense but Quentin said it's nothing like that but i think it's GOLD BARS

"is that what i think it is?"

as Ringo/Pumpkin says...

the truth of the matter is we don't know and we will never know

Mook -

That makes sense because Ringo wouldn't say "is that what I think it is?" if it were somebodies soul.

this is ridiculous what if the brief case had an omniscient glowing dildo? WHO CARES?

Who is Frank Whalley

Quick note about the Wolf's character and Butch's cab driver. The Wolf is not the devil...he's someone else. But he is someone mentioned somewhere else in the movie. I'll explain later.

The numbers on Esmerelda Villalobos' cab license and Winston Wolf's license plate are NOT the same, however, the two characters are connected. Esmerelda was based on a character that cleans up after murders, The Wolf is a character that cleans up after murders. Oh, and their names are the same. Villalobos is a Spanish name which literally means "village of the Wolves" in English.

What the hell is in the briefcase?

I heard rumour is wallaces' soul, because of the plaster on the back of his head, because 'thats where the devil takes your soul from'

NOWHERE is it mentioned the devil takes your soul from the back of your head, so that cant be it.

At first i thought it was gold- hence the glow
But why would gold transfix vincent so much. Why would it totally calm a man who two seconds ago had a gun sombody face during a robbery

Its been on my mind all day, just what on earth is in there?

IT IS A SOUL....what's more beautiful a person can own...his soul. There are a lot of clues..when Jules&Vincent kill that dude after Jules did he speech,you could see the same "shinning". In other words,his soul was leaving his body. SO soul=light. Anyways i picked this up on some Tarantino trivia site..pretty cool explanations...and i believe it.🙂

But the devil doesnt take your soul through the back of your head.
I seriously doubt its a soul 😕

Its what you want it to be

I have read several times that Tarantino did mean for it to be Marcellus Wallace's soul. So there!

Snopes has the answer.

In fact...

Angela Jones, who played a Columbian named Esmarelda Villalobos in PF, is "much interested" in finding out "what it feels like to kill a man". Two years after "Pulp Fiction", Angela Jones starred in a film called "Curdled". In it, she plays a Columbian named Gabriela who is obsessed with violent crime. She finds a job as a "cleaner" who goes into crime scenes and cleans up the blood, etc.

Harvey Keitel, as Winston Wolfe, "cleaned up" the crime scene in PF. A year earlier, he played Victor, a "cleaner" who cleans up at a job gone wrong for superspy Bridget Fonda in "Point of No Return".

EDIT: Frank Whaley played Brett in PF (the guy who kept saying "What?"😉.

Look at the 'note' though....It doesnt offer any real explanation as its Undetermined.

They consider it undetermined, but I'm willing to just accept what Roger Avary said in the interview; that it was originally intended to be an unknown "valuable", and that putting the light in was probably a mistake, seeing as how it's raised so much exasperating speculation.

On the other hand, maybe it helped add to the movie's mystique, like the "Three Men and a Baby" boy.