It tells four intertwining tales of crime and violence in Los Angeles, California. The film stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman.
Yes, believe it or not, this is the '90s. The music and cultural references might trick you into thinking the film takes place in the '50s but we're in the '90s and we're in Los Angeles.
In this now-iconic flashback scene, the Pulp Fiction timeline briefly goes back to the mid-'70s, showing a young Butch sitting in front of the TV. His mother enters with Koons, a man who knew Butch's father when they were both in a Vietnam War POW camp and lets Koons take over.
The diner held up by Pumpkin and Honey-Bunny (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) was the Hawthorne Grill, 13763 Hawthorne Boulevard at 137th Street, Hawthorne, south of Los Angeles Airport. The grill stood empty for a while, and has now been demolished to make way for AutoZone auto parts store.
Pulp Fiction was filmed in Glendale, Los Angeles, North Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Hawthorne, California, USA. Jack Rabbit Slims was located at 1435 Flower Street, Glendale, California. And Butch's apartment was located at 11813 Runnymede Street, North Hollywood.
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Is Pulp Fiction set in LA?
The three primary people in this film are Vincent Vega (Travolta), Butch Coolidge (Willis), and Jules Winnfield (Jackson.) Almost the entirety of the Pulp Fiction filming locations are found in Southern California, primarily in public and private settings in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and Pasadena.
Time at location in movie storyline 10 Butch Parks Car: 11827 Valerio Street, North Hollywood. 11 Butch's Apartment: 11813 Runnymede Street, North Hollywood. This is the location for shots of Butch outside his apartment building. The courtyard & interior shots were taken at a different, unknown location.
Big Kahuna Burger is a fictional chain of Hawaiian-themed fast food restaurants that has appeared in films by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, including Death Proof, Four Rooms, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and From Dusk till Dawn. The packaging was created by Tarantino's old friend Jerry Martinez.
Uma Thurman was only 24 years old when she starred in Pulp Fiction as Mia Wallace, the wife of gang boss Marsellus Wallace who seamlessly dances the twist, overdoses on heroin and takes a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart all in one night.
Fans visiting L.A. would seek out the location only to discover it wasn't a real place. In fact, there was so much interest in the pop culture diner that Disney, who acquired Miramax in 1993 and therefore owned Pulp Fiction, wanted to recreate Jackrabbit Slim's as an actual restaurant at Disney World in Orlando.
Pulp fiction gets its name from the paper it was printed on. Magazines featuring such stories were typically published using cheap, ragged-edged paper made from wood pulp. These magazines were sometimes called pulps. Pulp fiction created a breeding ground for new and exciting genres.
Containing numerous references to other films, it is like a great work of abstract art, or "art about art." It has all the characteristics we associate with great movies: fine writing, first-rate acting, unforgettable characters, and one of the most well-constructed narratives I've ever seen in a film.
Ummm, there was never a Jack Rabbit Slims before Pulp Fiction, maybe people have built them since then, but the restaurant in the movie was a sound stage. It was based on maybe Ed Debevic's or Holly's. The interior of Jack Rabbit Slims was built in a warehouse in Culver City.
"I think its like a wax museum with a pulse." Jack Rabbit Slim's is a fictional eatery featured in the 1994 crime/action film Pulp Fiction, directed by Quentin Tarantino. It is a key setting in one of the more famous scenes in the movie.
My guess is that Tarantino, who was born in 1963 probably shot Pulp Fiction in 1993 when he was 30 and, while he most likely started writing the screenplay years before - maybe while working at the video store with Roger Avary, who gets a co-writing credit - but I suspect that he was tweaking it right up to and ...
Why is Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) the only one on the poster ? Because the "pulp fiction" paperback books the movie is patterned after typically featured a sexy woman on the cover. The prominent position of the gun alerts the reader that there will be plenty of violence as well.
Most likely nothing more than friendship. Vincent and Mia had good chemistry and after dinner and dancing, he wanted to give her way more than a foot massage. However, both were smart enough to understand the consequences for betraying Mia's husband Marsellus, so anything physical was out of the question.
Although he had been acting in small roles and in theatre productions, it was not until he was 40 years old that he received his first major role in Do the Right Thing (1989) and he was 45 when he became a star with Pulp Fiction (1994).
noun. , Slang. the most important or dominant person or thing: Their scholarship program is the industry's big kahuna. He's the big kahuna of a large travel agency.
There are so many food references in Pulp Fiction alone they deserve their own supercut (strangely one doesn't exist on the internet yet) – just think of five-dollar shakes, Big Kahuna burgers, anytime pie and “Douglas Sirk” steaks.
The Durwood Kirby Burger. And now, ladies and gentlemen, we bring you the most iconic forgotten hamburger in cinematic history: the one and only Durwood Kirby burger eaten by Uma Thurman's character, Mia Wallace, in Pulp Fiction.
Having chosen to leave his criminal life behind him, Jules resolves the situation with Pumpkin and Honey Bunny peacefully, showing he is on the path to redemption. This is mirrored in the chronological ending, where Butch rides off into the sunset with his winnings to start a new life with Fabienne.
