What i always found interesting is that Wallace doesn't know that Butch had just killed Vincent Vega at his apartment just prior to that. I wonder if that changed anything in his mind.
@@MaxWilliams96 nope you can't be after being brutally raped in the ass like that. However you will certainly feel a lot better dispensing some medieval revenge on their asses & watch them slowly suffer in pain & agony until death as opposed for them getting away with their deed or simply end up in jail for a while.
Or butch opens the door and marsellus was waving hello to butch as he was having his butt pumped, only does butch learn he is happy for marsellus and his gay porn aspirations
My favorite moment in the movie: Butch tries to leave, WANTS to leave, but in the end just can't let *that* happen ... not even to his enemy. Beautifully acted by Bruce Willis.
So glad that they protected my sensitive ears from all the cursing in a scene that has a gimp, samurai murder, non-consensual butt stuff and someone getting partially bisected by a close range shotgun blast...
Maybe shouldn't have taken that much time but choosing a weapon was also necessary. If he chosen the hammer, then he wouldn't have killed the first guy easily and also couldn't have threatened Zed with it
Butch deciding whether or not to leave is the moral test of his part of Pulp Fiction's story, just like Vincent's decision not to smash mrs wallace was in his story, and Jules' decision not to kill those robbers in his story
@@DistantLights Vincent was an addict, so his tendency was to return to self destruction. He had no introspection. He had a close call with Seinfeld and the hand cannon and kept doing his job, he had a close call with Marvin in the car and kept doing his job, he had a close call with the robbers in the diner and kept doing his job, he had a close call with Mia overdosing and he kept doing his job. He was like a gambler that couldn't step away from the table and ended up losing it all. Jules was smart enough to see good fortune when it crossed his path and get out while the getting was good.
@@drestathagangsta8880 yeh, but he didn't give up the life when god reached down and saved him from those bullets. It was literally impossible that someone firing head one would miss targets standing less than 10 feet away.
Fuck my life. Not the definition I wanted to read especially as someone that was like, who the fuck is this new guy as he'll never fill Clint's boots but he did with some Charles Bronson too.
Two minds regarding Bruce. He was a talented actor. But at least later in his career he lost his passion for the job, and developed a disdain for his fans. There's a video by Keven Smith that details one such incident.
@@Forscythe80 I read that the aphasia has been creeping up on him for a while which is why he just piled as many roles as possible in recent years. He was trying to get as much of a future together as he could for when he was no longer able to do the job.
Political correctness is brainwashing the world mate... The weirdest fetishes are being normalised, from excessive gender-surgery to even pedophilia.... But oh dear my if you say the F* word or the N* word!! You must believe what you are TOLD to believe!
It takes real character to save someone who tried to kill him. Despite that, nobody deserves to go out like that. Even my conscious wouldn't let me leave Marcellus to suffer like that.
Hit or not, no one deserves what happened to him. Marcellus asked Butch to throw the fight and he agreed then went back on his word at the last minute screwing Marcellus out of money. Marcellus never forced Butch to throw the fight, he never threatened him or held a gun to his head over it. Butch came to his senses and realized the honorable thing to do was save the person he screwed over. Source: Quentin Tarantino himself.
Considering Butch was his arch nemesis, had run him over with a car, had indirectly led to him getting raped and would be the only surviving witness to something he would probably rather be kept secret, I always respected that Marcellus didn't take the easy route of just killing Butch here. Honour among thieves, and all that.
@@mikeh7476 Well thats always been my opinion on the theme of Pulp Fiction. Small mundande actions or choices that turns into a completely different situation and end result.
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I think what's interesting is how Butch sort of recognized Marsellus was doing what he needed to do in his own interest and that just happened to be opposed to Butch's interest, but he realized that it wasn't "evil" or out of needless viciousness. It was when they were faced with genuine sadistic evil on them that they dropped the facade in the moment and unite.
I like the continuation of this scene. Butch: what's next Marcellus: I'm going to get a couple of pipe hard n*****s with pliers and a blowtorch. Butch: no, I mean you and me. Marcellus: your L.A. privileges are revoked.
That moment when Butch hesitates at the door, weighing the decision to go back and then does, is when this movie went from really, really good to legendary.
It’s crazy how this video was released just around 9 hours ago and already has over 100K views. That just shows how iconic this film still is after all these years.
And someone replied to a comment I made, in a way that made me totally rethink the deeper meaning of the whole scene. It is great that this film can still make me *think*, even after all these years.
It took me until my 4th rewatch to realize Butch goes back because of the scene with Christopher Walken. "When two men are stuck in a situation like me and your dad were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other."
I also love how Vincent and Jules give us an idea of exactly how vengeful Marcellus can be at the very beginning of the movie. True or not, it's plausible that he might throw a man off a building for giving his wife a foot massage.
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Not all original thought, but: This is the completion of Butch's arc. His father was a brave soldier who, captured and imprisoned, held out through some of the worst hell imaginable until he was finally overcome and passed away. His legacy is passed down (via Christopher Walken's character) through the gold watch. Butch, however, is a pale shadow of that legacy. He's a cheat boxer who takes dives for money- in a word: dishonorable. He's about to go down one last time (swallowing his pride, as Marsellus phrases it) when Vincent Vega mocks him in the bar scene, calling him a "palooka" - the phrase for a mediocre, cheating boxer. Butch's pride is wounded in this moment, and he decides not to take a dive, and instead beats his opponent in the ring so hard he kills him. But he's still not done. He's made a step toward honor, but there's still one final challenge. Fast forward to this moment: captured, Marsellus being violated in the other room, Butch once again has a chance to walk away and shirk his father's legacy. But he turns back. He searches for the proper weapon to take up the mantle passed onto him, and doesn't find the right fit. That is, until he spots the katana up on the ceiling (that shot is one of my favorite shots ever- him looking up bloodied, exhausted, and awestruck). The katana is a warrior's weapon. Butch honors his father by becoming a warrior and saving his worst enemy from hell.
The big underlying theme of Pulp Fiction is that no matter how badass someone _thinks_ he is, there’s always another level of badass that that person never had any idea existed. In the pre-credit scene, Tim Roth asks, “No one ever robs restaurants-why not?” And, of course, by the end of the movie, he _knows_ why not-and why he’s not cut out to be a robber.
@@fraser9748 this is how God brings justice to those who do what Zed did. Wallace was put through some Hellish fire in order for him to be strong enough to mete out God's wrath upon Zed.
Damn. Imagine how that had to feel. Getting hit by a car and then getting reamed by some random hillbilly as a crime lord. Just imagine what was going through his mind while it was happening. Damn.
I find it quite amusing that they show someone slaughtered with a sword, someone buggered and someone shot in the genitals, but blanked out the swear words
Well he had to find the perfect weapon. The hammer was too short and wouldn't be enough to kill them. The bat had the length but again likely wouldn't put either of them down permanently. The chainsaw would've done the job but starting it would've alerted Zed and Maynard giving them plenty of time to counter attack. The samurai sword was the best option - it was long, silent, and could one shot kill someone. Look at how scared Zed is when Butch eggs him to pick up the gun - he knows Butch could easily cut his hand off with one swing.
@@CHANCHANKIT555 Even if Butch would've took Maynard out with the hammer, Zed could've easily grabbed the gun and shot him. The hammer was too small and likely can't kill someone with it.
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@@zelts this your mind on... I don't even know The question you OK in situations like this means "are you injured enough that you can't stand on move on your own". Butch just got severely raped. Perhaps he wouldn't have been able to...you know... WALK properly
While marsellus is bent over being pumped, he notices butch and gives him the 👍 knowing he is enjoying every thrust giving butch the green light to leave while marsellus and zedmeister are having a 😃 🍯 🌙
@@Cherryponut The shotgun was Maynard's, he took it in the room with him. And it looks like Zed had partially untied Marcellus as he sodomized him. He likely didn't fight back because he was at gunpoint. It was only when Butch entered the room that the tables turned.
I was in the theatre in 1994, I’ve rarely experienced any crowd at any cinema going crazy over over a movie like they did with Pulp Fiction before. And to imagine that the Nineties were full of those cinematic ecstatic high points, as I experienced that again at the Trainspotting premiere, and The Matrix.
Lucky you!! But I did see Matrix when it came out.. another big film also a Bruce Willis movie was Sixth Sense. A big crowd reaction on that one as well
I also saw _Trainspotting_ in '96 (Hammersmith, London) with my then girlfriend. Though not the premiere, I don't recall any significant audience reactions. By contrast they laughed heartily throughout _Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,_ which I found to be consistently unfunny and infantile.
The Katana rightfully gets all the glory here but I gotta say at 3:33 that is probably the most badass rack of a pump shotgun I've seen in any film....
That moment of hesitation was the turning point for Butch’s life; not only did he save Marsellus’ ass (no puns intended) but also his own for doing the decent thing of saving him from that atrocity. Some good karma for decency there I’d say.
Well, he didn't save it save it. He took his sweet time to choose a weapon and then walk slowly. That was at least 20 more pumps that could've been avoided.
He chooses the Samurai sword as it is associated with honor. This action is probably the most honorable he has done in his entire life and it establishes Pulp Fiction as something much more than a nihilistic post modern gore swear fest as many critics dismissed it.
The fact that Wallace gets the shotgun so quickly make this scene look like a dream(nightmare). It Doesn't play within the rules of reality. But makes so much sense in the flow of the scene.
That's something I like about Quentin Tarantino's style of directing. From a writing perspective, he tells horrible stories. Characters do things they shouldn't logically be able to, time jumps around a bit (like someone approaching from far away in the background, in the next shot they're suddenly there). But I love it. He tries to capture the "emotional essence" of the story, and bends the physical elements around that. So like, nobody cares about Marcellus Wallace untying himself. We don't care to see it, we don't care if he actually physically could, we want to see him (the person) to be able to get revenge.
I have to thank you for bleeping the swear words My grandma walked in when they were assraping the large black man and if she would have heard those swears i would be in big trouble!
The gimp was a very unsettling character for me when i was younger. That someone could live a life like that was beyond my imagination. Such a broken soul.
Butch's weapons were chosen by Tarantino as a homage to some of his favorite movies: hammer - The Toolbox Murders (1978) baseball bat - Walking Tall (1973) The Untouchables (1987) chainsaw - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) The Evil Dead II (1987) katana - Seven Samurai (1954) The Yakuza (1975) Shogun Assassin (1980)
A relative gave me a mixtape with this soundtrack when I was 9 as a cool thing, and the whiplash I got when I finally watched this 15-plus years later was indescribable.
I love the fact that he chose the most honorable weapon of all: a samurai weapon... Is almost like a symbol of Butch redeeming himself for not having the same honor as his predecessors
I don't think Samurai were particularly honorable, (what honor is there in killing yourself, if defeated, it's kind of the equivelent of throwing the chessboard when you lose) but as somebody pointed out in another comment, of the weapons choices, the sword was the warriors weapon as opposed to the baseball bat, etc., so it was part of his story arch.
I saw this film opening weekend in October of 1994. I was 18 years old. I remember a great deal about that night. Where we saw it, the energy in the theatre during the opening credits. I don't think I'll ever forget the feeling of the first time I watched Butch scroll through his weapon options before finally laying his eyes on the mystery weapon. It was the kind of thrill I've only had a handful of times in a movie-going experience. This was the year that I fell hopelessly in love with film as a medium.
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Likewise I was there opening weekend too. My cousin and I went, once it was done we immediately got back inline, paid for it again, and watched it again! Like you mentioned, the vibe in that theater was incredible on both viewings. Same here my love of film was definitely cemented in this movie going experience!
@@theundeadllama5637 Wtf are you talking about? Harvey Weinstein? Hollywood is crawling with pedos and rapists, and most are complicit, regardless of gender or victim.
@@Speccymemories i think the point they were making was that men should help women not just men. Which is a fair point to make. I’d like to think someone would protest that if someone said there’s the same unspoken code amongst girls. Should be an unspoken code amongst humans.
@@ssh1487 it would be idiotic to think someone witnessing a rape would say “someone is raping a man! I better get in there and help…. Oh no wait it’s a woman I will let him carry on” I think the llama was just virtue signalling with his comment.
If he hadn’t had medical attention for that shot to the groin, he will bleed to death, helped by the shock and blood loss from further torture. Butch’s statement was very likely the case.
Hammer = Sturdy, can do some damage, but requires you to get up close. Baseball bat = Rigid, blunt, can swing from a distance, but can be grabbed if given the chance Chainsaw = Can REALLY do some damage, but is a bit short and prone to mechanical failure Katana = Sturdy, can swing from a distance, not easily grabbed on the receiving end, and just a sharpened blade through and through Butch chose well.
Excellent cinematography when Willis sees the weapon he wants. It shows him look left, then the camera is shown on his face directly, the music shifts and then it shows us what he's looking at. Badass
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_"A pair of pliers and a blowtorch."_ You know what that means? For every wound they afflict on Zed, they're gonna re-cauterize the wound and create a new one. A very long cycle, of 'almost' killing him. Yep. Zed's dead alright! Just, very very slowly....
That would be nice if that’s how it worked however you wouldn’t cauterize a wound with a blowtorch. You’d do it with a red hot poker or bar. He wanted the torch to inflict excruciating pain on zed. Burning slowly is probably the worse suffering and death you can imagine
I’m gonna call a bunch of hard, pipe hitting niggas to go to work on the homes here. I ain’t done with you by a damned sight. You here me talking Hillbilly Boy? I’m gonna get medieval on your ass.
Would love for QT to do a James Bond movie. Even if it was only a one of movie, not linked to any other of the franchise with a one and done new actor playing Bond, just imagine how insane and awesome that Bond movie would be.
@@leecroft1983 I think it would be terrible. Tarantino is completely the wrong vibe for Bond. The violence, the plot, the style, are incompatible. A Tarantino Bond would be make a mockery of the franchise.
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I never noticed before how much the katana wavers in Butch's hands as he goes down the steps. Butch is terrified: he knows exactly what will happen to him if he gets captured again. It's also why he took his time assessing each weapon (you can see him pause with each one, working out how he could use it to take out the two men): he was going in outnumbered and literally outgunned, so he needed to make sure he went in smart. I'm sure Wallace would have preferred he'd hurried up, but then again he would have been, ahem, screwed as well if Butch had failed. The important thing is that Butch went back when he didn't have to, to save someone who probably wouldn't have done the same for him (Wallace probably would have gone to get his guys with the pliers and blowtorch).
There is no courage without fear. This scene solidifies Butch's character and sense of right and wrong. He had no reason to go back down in the basement. But he did. That's what defined him.
His behavior was entirely realistic. I know the right thing to do is to rush in and save him quickly, but I'm also scared as shit and need to be sneaky, I gotta compose myself a little bit...he gets a minute or two of more ass raping, so be it lol.
One of the great scenes from my favorite movie of all time. Every time I come across it on TV I say I'll just watch this one scene then go from that to the next until the end. The brilliance of the story is that it starts in the middle and ends in the middle.
Great scene, if butch would have left it would have haunted him because whatever beef they had, this thing he witnessed was on a whole other level which brought into perspective of how minor and fixable their beef was. Also at the start, Marselles says to Butch about "Pride". Butch was a fighter with a lot of pride, if he left a man like this, it would have eaten away at him, especially as it could have been him instead. This goes back to raw instinct in people to help each other in their time of need. they both went through something terrible together and in that journey, it reset their animosity.
I liked that he settled on the Samurai sword, a symbol of honor. Nice touch. Although I have always thought that his saving of Marsellus was equal parts good deed and trying to get the death mark on him called off.
Nah he did it because of what Christopher Walken"s character said about two men being in a situation where there may come a time when they take responsibility over each other. So butch does what he feels is right.
I think at the door he thought about it. And realized it was his fault that they got into this situation and also if he saves Marsellus, maybe he will get amnesty. Also this is a fate you wouldnt even would wish your worst enemy
I think it just goes to show the line a character wouldn’t cross. Leaving Marsellus would basically doom him to either death or whatever tf was up with the gimp, and the only reason Marsellus even had a problem with Butch was because he backstabbed him. Butch didn’t have as long of a criminal history as the other characters, so I could see him feeling way more conflicted over this than somebody else
I love this little "searching for weapons" scene, you can basically read his mind, "ohh... lets do this, but I need a weapon...oh.. a hammer good to thrust.. oh no... a baseball bat, even better, ahh wait....chainsaw haha back and for...ohhhhhh...no no...forget the chainsaw... I found the perfect weapon... the Katana!" :D
this dude really took his sweet ass time to save Marcellus 😂lmao you just here them clapping his cheeks yelling “Oh YeAH Aw” until he decides to make a move at 1:39
Looking at this now, I've finally realized the foreshadowing of the scene where Captain Koons was telling the history of the watch to Butch as a kid. The flags in the background when he was about to head out the door are not really symbols of patriotism, but really a reflection on Butch's sense of honor and bravery that's been embodied by the generations of men in his family. Ditching Wallace means he's betraying himself as a person and the ideals of his forefathers. In his final boxing match, Butch chose to fight till the end rather than throw the match for some easy money. When Fabienne forgot to pack the watch, he went out to face danger to retrieve his family heirloom. And now when he's about to escape, he goes back to save Wallace and fight the serial-killing rapists. The fact that Zed miraculously chose Wallace to torture and rape first or that Jules being retired and Wallace grabbing coffee allows Butch to shoot Vega dead in the apartment referenced Butch's great grandfather's luck by surviving World War I and not captured as a POW. Even though he was the only veteran in the family that returned alive and not tortured, it doesn't diminish his bravery. Winocki was referenced by the katana. Winocki brought the watch to Butch's father and relayed the message of Dane's fight to the death in WWII. The katana serves as a message to the serial killers of his willingness to fight without fear of death. And the entire pawn shop situation obviously referenced Butch's father during Vietnam. The whole rape scene referenced the watch up the ass and how each men must "take up certain responsibilities of the other" during dire times as what Captain Koons said to a young Butch. Butch is supposed to hold luck, bravery and honor that the previous Coolidge men had. He can lie and he can cheat, but if he can't even attempt to save someone when he has the opportunity to, then he REALLY doesn't deserve the watch that he spent the entire movie trying to get back.
Big fan of the movie although I haven't seen it in years. So glad I took the time to read down on just enough comments to see yours.. Wow your take on things, it's obvious to me that I need to watch that movie again.. from that other reply... My grandfather fought the Nazis in Africa and Italy in WWII so I know fist hand there were indeed heros. At any rate, Thank you for the insightfull comments and well said man.
His pride didn't let him lose the fight the way Marcellus had it set up to be, but it was also his pride that didn't let him walk out of that situation
At 0:58, when Butch looks for weapons, he finds a hammer, a baseball bat, a chainsaw, and then a katana. In GTA Vice City, you can find the same weapons, sorted in the SAME order in your inventory.
Butch is almost out the door, then he decides that nobody, not even Marsellus Wallace, deserves what those sick bastards are doing to him. He looks for a weapon. A hammer - no, he can do better. A Louisville slugger - no. A chainsaw - Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And then he sees it - a katana - and he's a samurai.
Bruce Willis....LEGEND! This move...LEGEND! Pulp Fiction re-launched the careers of so many people! It also launched the careers of some not so well-known actors! Seeing this movie back in the early 90's with my girlfriend was such an epic moment. She was so uncomfortable....I was laughing....then cringing....then shocked....with every emotion imaginable! I don't think I will see another movie like this in my lifetime! This movie changed cinema forever!
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I always found it comforting knowing that butch and mr wallace were cool with each other after this.
Just so long as Butch never sets foot in LA ever again. >.>
i would consider this wholesome in some way lol
Idk about cool. Kinda like “let’s go each other’s ways and never speak of this”
What i always found interesting is that Wallace doesn't know that Butch had just killed Vincent Vega at his apartment just prior to that. I wonder if that changed anything in his mind.
He'd wanna hope there's no CCTV footage of him taking his sweet ass time selecting his weapon... XD
Butch rescuing Marsellus was the definition of “I wouldn’t wish that fate on my worst enemy”
Bruce did some great acting on the zoom in when he slowly lets the door close again.
Yeah, but i'm just wondering how Marsellus came loose from those bonds -_-
@@lunareclipse4332 boy are you clever and original
He did it so they would be cool
@@saltyshapeervessel2.062 If he left Marsellus would've been killed and not bothered him, he went back out of kindness
"I'm pretty fucking far from okay" the delivery of that line is unparalleled, incredible
Great lines
Its the reload of the shotgun that is such the pay off. That reload has so much anger in it. It says "I am going to mess you up BAD" landmark film.
He looked mean as Fcuk saying it too 😂
He’ll never be okay after that….
@@MaxWilliams96 nope you can't be after being brutally raped in the ass like that. However you will certainly feel a lot better dispensing some medieval revenge on their asses & watch them slowly suffer in pain & agony until death as opposed for them getting away with their deed or simply end up in jail for a while.
I love how Butch makes the decision to help Marcellus , he’s not concerned about friend or foe, color or creed, he’s helping out a fellow Man!
He really took his damn time admiring that sword
@@Sam123QU29well they were enemies prior and tried to kill each other but shows that he wouldn’t wish that upon no one
I agree! I don't think I could've left any man in this position and lived with myself.
Or butch opens the door and marsellus was waving hello to butch as he was having his butt pumped, only does butch learn he is happy for marsellus and his gay porn aspirations
When two men are put into a situation, they take on certain responsibilities.....per Captain Koons' speech earlier in the film
My favorite moment in the movie: Butch tries to leave, WANTS to leave, but in the end just can't let *that* happen ... not even to his enemy. Beautifully acted by Bruce Willis.
It's very obvious Sherlock
@@nerfboy712 Man let the dude enjoy some shit
@@nerfboy712 Don't you have some Nerf guns to go play with? I'm surprised mommy lets you watch R-rated movies.
@@nerfboy712 you can watch a movie and admire the acting you know
@@nerfboy712 obviously your still a bit too young to converse with adults.. Why don't you just stick to watching scooby doo nerf boy😂
So glad that they protected my sensitive ears from all the cursing in a scene that has a gimp, samurai murder, non-consensual butt stuff and someone getting partially bisected by a close range shotgun blast...
Fun for the whole family!
Welcome to America! Violence good. Curse words bad . praise Jesus
@@jediknight73 Amen to that.
"partially bisected" just sounds poetic to me
He wasn't partially bisected
I like how carefully Butch is choosing his weapon. I can imagine Marcellus looking at this and saying "no problem, man. Take your time".
Maybe shouldn't have taken that much time but choosing a weapon was also necessary. If he chosen the hammer, then he wouldn't have killed the first guy easily and also couldn't have threatened Zed with it
You rush in with whatever you can get your hands on and not only you dont save him, but you find yourself in big trouble
Hey, 2 psychos, both armed at one point, one's a cop. You don't put them both down, dead if you're LUCKY, look at Marcelus
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He got pumped like 25 more extra times courtesy of Mr Butch hesitancy, lol.
I love how tarantino puts happy songs in disturbing scenes,it gaves me emotions that i can't explain
Juxtaposition effect in play
Marsellus Wallace is the most happiest contestant there. His butthole nerves are delightfully tingled.
Catharsis they call wikipedia
Marsellus is in his 😊 place
It has a name, "Soundtrack Dissonance"
That’s a lot of “yeah”s Marcellus had to endure while butch went shopping
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Yeah!
Heck yeah hahaha
Better late than never I guess 😂
He took his time, LOL.
Butch deciding whether or not to leave is the moral test of his part of Pulp Fiction's story, just like Vincent's decision not to smash mrs wallace was in his story, and Jules' decision not to kill those robbers in his story
i think vincent 100% would have smashed if mia didn’t OD. funny enough, he’s the only one of the 3 to die.
@@user-zi2wd3uc1i yeh I think Vince kinda failing the test is the reason why he died
@@DistantLights Vincent was an addict, so his tendency was to return to self destruction. He had no introspection.
He had a close call with Seinfeld and the hand cannon and kept doing his job, he had a close call with Marvin in the car and kept doing his job, he had a close call with the robbers in the diner and kept doing his job, he had a close call with Mia overdosing and he kept doing his job.
He was like a gambler that couldn't step away from the table and ended up losing it all.
Jules was smart enough to see good fortune when it crossed his path and get out while the getting was good.
@@DistantLights But Vincent didn't smash Marcellus' wife so how did he fail?
@@drestathagangsta8880 yeh, but he didn't give up the life when god reached down and saved him from those bullets. It was literally impossible that someone firing head one would miss targets standing less than 10 feet away.
The moment when he was deciding on a weapon...But the when he looked up and saw the Samuria sword was priceless!
Tarantino gold.
Throw to killbill to the next movie
How awesome would it be if it turned out to be a Hattori Hanzo sword?
Foreshadowing of Kill Bill.
@Stephen Shymkus Exactly
It’s mind blowing to imagine that Bruce Willis can’t remember his own movies, what a legend he will always be
The World will remember for him, absolute legend.
His own mind couldnt handle that level of badassery.
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In some cases, that may be a blessing. Like that one where he's in a bunny suit.
That's what happens when Kuru gets ya
If butch kept looking I'm sure he would have eventually found a rocket launcher
He would've found nuclear launch codes
God I love that sequence. Seeing the katana, you’re like ‘oh hell yeah, dump that crappy chainsaw!!!”
@@enshk79 he can't exactly be silent and sneaky with the chainsaw can he. also it probably didn't have gas in it
Sorry, Ahnoid had it checked out for “Commando”.
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A "Falling Down" reference?
Yesterday, Bruce Willis retired from acting because of aphasia. Utter respect for the sheer legacy of his movie career.
Fuck my life. Not the definition I wanted to read especially as someone that was like, who the fuck is this new guy as he'll never fill Clint's boots but he did with some Charles Bronson too.
Two minds regarding Bruce. He was a talented actor. But at least later in his career he lost his passion for the job, and developed a disdain for his fans. There's a video by Keven Smith that details one such incident.
@@Forscythe80 yeah the guy was also fired from the expendables for demanding something stupid so they replaced with him harrison ford
@@Forscythe80 I read that the aphasia has been creeping up on him for a while which is why he just piled as many roles as possible in recent years. He was trying to get as much of a future together as he could for when he was no longer able to do the job.
Because of vaccine
Censors the swearing but shows a man getting raped. Because swearing is more traumatising?
Lol... exactly what I thought
I knew I wouldn't be the first to call this out
Its current year, thats a good thing now.
it wasnt his first time apparently.
Political correctness is brainwashing the world mate...
The weirdest fetishes are being normalised, from excessive gender-surgery to even pedophilia....
But oh dear my if you say the F* word or the N* word!!
You must believe what you are TOLD to believe!
I remember watching this in the theater. Every weapon he picked got more and more cheers from the crowd +
This is the reason I dislike watching films in the US. The fucking cheering and hollering
@@Mugdorna good for you
@@Mugdorna I agree, have you seen the Endgame reactions? Like a damn circus show... Glad I live in England where we watch the film with respect.
@@AutisticAl oh lord. I can only imagine.
I can’t stand hearing people rustle through food wrappers never mind screaming and high fives!
Imagine the balls it takes to go help the guy who put a hit out on you the day before
Marcellus showed some “man code” by doing what he did, canceling the hit and not shooting butch in the back when he could have.
Also though if he didn't,m help Marcellus and he survived, than butch would always be on the run
It takes real character to save someone who tried to kill him. Despite that, nobody deserves to go out like that. Even my conscious wouldn't let me leave Marcellus to suffer like that.
It was Butch’s only move. And he knew it.
Hit or not, no one deserves what happened to him. Marcellus asked Butch to throw the fight and he agreed then went back on his word at the last minute screwing Marcellus out of money. Marcellus never forced Butch to throw the fight, he never threatened him or held a gun to his head over it. Butch came to his senses and realized the honorable thing to do was save the person he screwed over.
Source: Quentin Tarantino himself.
Considering Butch was his arch nemesis, had run him over with a car, had indirectly led to him getting raped and would be the only surviving witness to something he would probably rather be kept secret, I always respected that Marcellus didn't take the easy route of just killing Butch here.
Honour among thieves, and all that.
Crazy how this all happened because Butch wanted to make pop tarts
@@mikeh7476 Well thats always been my opinion on the theme of Pulp Fiction. Small mundande actions or choices that turns into a completely different situation and end result.
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@@massudddecat7449 Adjective verb adverb noun am is are was were.
I think what's interesting is how Butch sort of recognized Marsellus was doing what he needed to do in his own interest and that just happened to be opposed to Butch's interest, but he realized that it wasn't "evil" or out of needless viciousness. It was when they were faced with genuine sadistic evil on them that they dropped the facade in the moment and unite.
I like the continuation of this scene.
Butch: what's next
Marcellus: I'm going to get a couple of pipe hard n*****s with pliers and a blowtorch.
Butch: no, I mean you and me.
Marcellus: your L.A. privileges are revoked.
That moment when Butch hesitates at the door, weighing the decision to go back and then does, is when this movie went from really, really good to legendary.
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It’s crazy how this video was released just around 9 hours ago and already has over 100K views. That just shows how iconic this film still is after all these years.
It's reached India. Only gonna stonk
200k in 20 hours
And someone replied to a comment I made, in a way that made me totally rethink the deeper meaning of the whole scene.
It is great that this film can still make me *think*, even after all these years.
I really didn't see the hype about that movie. It is absolutely overrated in my opinion.
No it doesn’t. It shows what happens when a channel with 3 million subs uploads something.
"I pawned that years ago"
"You hawked a hatori hanzo sword?"
"Yep"
It's priceless
That would be cool if it were the same sword. I was actually just thinking that except I remembered it was pawned in El Paso :/
@@ArkansasGamer guess that makes him a liar now doesn’t it?
He lied about pawning it i thought
"It was priceless"... "Got me 250 dollars for it"
Bruce Willis' subtly different reactions to the different weapon options are a thing of beauty. Superb actor.
It took me until my 4th rewatch to realize Butch goes back because of the scene with Christopher Walken. "When two men are stuck in a situation like me and your dad were, you take on certain responsibilities of the other."
Also, Marsellus put his asshole on the line instead of Butch, just like Mr. Walken's hero
And in both situations one of the two gets something shoved up his butt. A gold watch in one case, Zed in the other.
Damn. Never thought of that.
That is exactly why this is the greatest movie of all time.. almost nothing is wasted in this movie.. everything connects
I also love how Vincent and Jules give us an idea of exactly how vengeful Marcellus can be at the very beginning of the movie. True or not, it's plausible that he might throw a man off a building for giving his wife a foot massage.
Rumor has it Zed isn't dead. He's still alive, with Marsellus and a couple of his boys going medieval on him with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch.
what a shit joke.
Zed’s dead, baby.
@@palmerlp And he welcomed the end when it came, I expect.
Post mortem on the 'Rumor has it' jargon. It's death date was 1999.
@@cooperrec Marcellus kept him alive for 5 years?
FUCK.
thank you, Bruce Willis, for those great times with you as an actor
Many great times
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Don't fkg talk about him like his dead!!
Bruce wills is forever David Dunn
Not all original thought, but:
This is the completion of Butch's arc. His father was a brave soldier who, captured and imprisoned, held out through some of the worst hell imaginable until he was finally overcome and passed away. His legacy is passed down (via Christopher Walken's character) through the gold watch. Butch, however, is a pale shadow of that legacy. He's a cheat boxer who takes dives for money- in a word: dishonorable. He's about to go down one last time (swallowing his pride, as Marsellus phrases it) when Vincent Vega mocks him in the bar scene, calling him a "palooka" - the phrase for a mediocre, cheating boxer. Butch's pride is wounded in this moment, and he decides not to take a dive, and instead beats his opponent in the ring so hard he kills him.
But he's still not done. He's made a step toward honor, but there's still one final challenge.
Fast forward to this moment: captured, Marsellus being violated in the other room, Butch once again has a chance to walk away and shirk his father's legacy. But he turns back. He searches for the proper weapon to take up the mantle passed onto him, and doesn't find the right fit. That is, until he spots the katana up on the ceiling (that shot is one of my favorite shots ever- him looking up bloodied, exhausted, and awestruck). The katana is a warrior's weapon. Butch honors his father by becoming a warrior and saving his worst enemy from hell.
That makes sens. Nice theory pale 👍
Nicely done bro
Source: wikilinks
Just kidding very well done. I never thought about that angle about Butch coming full circle
@@gturcott1 Source: having watched Pulp Fiction a dozen times and read a few other dozen analyses. I said it wasn't all original thought.
The big underlying theme of Pulp Fiction is that no matter how badass someone _thinks_ he is, there’s always another level of badass that that person never had any idea existed. In the pre-credit scene, Tim Roth asks, “No one ever robs restaurants-why not?” And, of course, by the end of the movie, he _knows_ why not-and why he’s not cut out to be a robber.
And I consider the film to be more about forgiveness and the benefits of being a good person, but okay.
@@PhilipPetrunak Indeed! The reclamation of Maynard and Zed has really inspired me to live a righteous life.
"badass" is not the term you're looking for. You mean DEPRAVED. UNLESS you find male on male anal rape "badass." In that case, you're ...
Be ready to be violent when threatened but dont be violent as a way of life
Well. All that said, ..... Marcellus Wallace, ... Why he don't like to be f***ed by anybody cept Mrs Wallace.
“No, man. I’m pretty fucking far from ok.” That line absolutely killed me.
it killed zed too lol
@@fraser9748 this is how God brings justice to those who do what Zed did.
Wallace was put through some Hellish fire in order for him to be strong enough to mete out God's wrath upon Zed.
"Nah" 💀
No man , i just got rammed in the butt with no vasoline. Im pretty far from ok.
Damn. Imagine how that had to feel. Getting hit by a car and then getting reamed by some random hillbilly as a crime lord. Just imagine what was going through his mind while it was happening. Damn.
I find it quite amusing that they show someone slaughtered with a sword, someone buggered and someone shot in the genitals, but blanked out the swear words
That's American puritanism for you I guess
You Tube picks up the swearing and demotes the video in the algorithm
Exactly what I wrote lol that's American media for you. In the UK we show fuck on TV at 9pm.
Susan doesn't like swear words. Graphic violence and torture though is OK.
Well people also are taking experimental vacc'. Welcome to 2021 which looks like a dystopian movie from the 90s.
I like how he went back to do what is right, but still decided to take his time to pick a handy weapon XD
To be fair, you wouldn't go up to rapist thinking they won't be armed and an armed guy means life or death, he had every right to take time for it
Well he had to find the perfect weapon. The hammer was too short and wouldn't be enough to kill them. The bat had the length but again likely wouldn't put either of them down permanently. The chainsaw would've done the job but starting it would've alerted Zed and Maynard giving them plenty of time to counter attack. The samurai sword was the best option - it was long, silent, and could one shot kill someone. Look at how scared Zed is when Butch eggs him to pick up the gun - he knows Butch could easily cut his hand off with one swing.
@@ghostfacekiller4371 but realistically Butch only needed to deal with one guy with the hammer since the other one is busy nailing a wall lol
@@CHANCHANKIT555 Even if Butch would've took Maynard out with the hammer, Zed could've easily grabbed the gun and shot him. The hammer was too small and likely can't kill someone with it.
A hard and direct blow straight to the head will incapacitate anyone.
It's those two seconds of silence between "Are you OK?" and "No, man..." that kill me everytime. Just an endless source of laughter.
The silence is when they both stop and think about what just happened 🤣
Asked a cliché question. Got a logic answer.
Yeah poor Marsellus is going to need a proctologist for sure 🤣
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@@zelts this your mind on... I don't even know
The question you OK in situations like this means "are you injured enough that you can't stand on move on your own".
Butch just got severely raped. Perhaps he wouldn't have been able to...you know... WALK properly
Butch a boxer, handling a samurai sword is one of the coolest things ever.
I like Marcellus' hand gesture at the end.
"thanks for coming back for me."
He knows he could have just left.
While marsellus is bent over being pumped, he notices butch and gives him the 👍 knowing he is enjoying every thrust giving butch the green light to leave while marsellus and zedmeister are having a 😃 🍯 🌙
@@edwinverzosa7655 I missed that. I'll have to watch it again. I'm always missing things in movies.
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Can we all take a moment to admire Marcellus's escapology skills in untying himself?
And the speed to find a shotgun.
@@Cherryponut The shotgun was Maynard's, he took it in the room with him. And it looks like Zed had partially untied Marcellus as he sodomized him.
He likely didn't fight back because he was at gunpoint. It was only when Butch entered the room that the tables turned.
I never would she’s thought you could be badass after getting….well
Something up the ass. But there we go.
Can we admire how original you are.
Marcellus was never tied up ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Classic textbook "I wouldn't want my worst enemy to go through this" scenario.
Correction: I'd only would wish it "liberal"ly on my worst enemies. There are those that deserve it because they'd wish it on you.
or, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
@@michaelmartin8337 Fucking spot on, mate, spot on.
It was also a moment for Butch to redeem himself from being a coward and become the man his father was.
Correction: I'd wish this on my most HATED enemy. Someone can still be your worst enemy but there can still be respect among us.
Butch's humanity won out in the end.
*Anyone noticed?*
0:58 “Django Unchained”
1:07 “Inglourious Basterds”
1:36 “Kill Bill”
Good eye haha
I don't see it
@@jonahstewart6267 the weapons used in each movie are shown
Ah thanks man
I don’t remember when the hammer was used in Django
I was in the theatre in 1994, I’ve rarely experienced any crowd at any cinema going crazy over over a movie like they did with Pulp Fiction before. And to imagine that the Nineties were full of those cinematic ecstatic high points, as I experienced that again at the Trainspotting premiere, and The Matrix.
Seven, Schindler's List, Terminator2
Lucky you!! But I did see Matrix when it came out.. another big film also a Bruce Willis movie was Sixth Sense. A big crowd reaction on that one as well
Best decade of the movie industry. Period. No questions about it.
I also saw _Trainspotting_ in '96 (Hammersmith, London) with my then girlfriend.
Though not the premiere, I don't recall any significant audience reactions.
By contrast they laughed heartily throughout _Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,_ which I found to be consistently unfunny and infantile.
Good work. I saw them all too
The Katana rightfully gets all the glory here but I gotta say at 3:33 that is probably the most badass rack of a pump shotgun I've seen in any film....
Tarantino uses real guns on set, but not real ammunition.
@@turhaturpa8186 as long as he don’t cast Alec Baldwin all should be OK
@@paulatreides0777 Make sure your armorer is competent. Yikes.
@@turhaturpa8186 that should be the industry standard imo
The pump sound in that room with the shell hitting the floor is very satisfying.
What a masterpiece is pulp fiction! The casting, the music, the story 10/10
My greatest movie going experience ever, closely followed by Lost Highway.
That moment of hesitation was the turning point for Butch’s life; not only did he save Marsellus’ ass (no puns intended) but also his own for doing the decent thing of saving him from that atrocity. Some good karma for decency there I’d say.
He did saved Marsellus's ass.. Literally
No, man. His butt is pretty f*ckin far from having being saved.
His life on the other hand
Karma is imaginary
Well, he didn't save it save it.
He took his sweet time to choose a weapon and then walk slowly.
That was at least 20 more pumps that could've been avoided.
@@LordTalax sure is. Look how many truly evil people have existed in impunity.
He chooses the Samurai sword as it is associated with honor. This action is probably the most honorable he has done in his entire life and it establishes Pulp Fiction as something much more than a nihilistic post modern gore swear fest as many critics dismissed it.
I Wonder of that Samurai sword was used by Uma Thurman in Kill Bill
Verdy Interesting
@@chrissmith7669 Hatori Hanzo's sword
It's not that deep man
@@SGGTTGF thank you for your stimulating input, "man"!
The fact that Wallace gets the shotgun so quickly make this scene look like a dream(nightmare). It Doesn't play within the rules of reality. But makes so much sense in the flow of the scene.
That's something I like about Quentin Tarantino's style of directing. From a writing perspective, he tells horrible stories. Characters do things they shouldn't logically be able to, time jumps around a bit (like someone approaching from far away in the background, in the next shot they're suddenly there). But I love it. He tries to capture the "emotional essence" of the story, and bends the physical elements around that. So like, nobody cares about Marcellus Wallace untying himself. We don't care to see it, we don't care if he actually physically could, we want to see him (the person) to be able to get revenge.
Never thought of that, but true it all makes so much sense
@@misteral9045 NAH, İT'S LAZY WRİTİNG AND MOVİE MİSTAKES. :)
@@tarkantruman430 And better writing than anything you've ever done that anyone remembers. It's not a "mistake" either you knob.
Who unties Wallace? Are we supposed to believe that he wouldn't fight back if he could? I feel like Wallace would rather get shot than what he got.
I have to thank you for bleeping the swear words My grandma walked in when they were assraping the large black man and if she would have heard those swears i would be in big trouble!
The gimp was a very unsettling character for me when i was younger. That someone could live a life like that was beyond my imagination. Such a broken soul.
When I saw this in the theatre and Marsellus said I'm pretty fkn far from okay I was the only one who burst out laughing.
😂😂😂 I can imagine people looking at you
Ahaha I would laugh too Shiet
everyone else was still in shock
pretty sure he wasn't wearing pants that whole scene either lol standing there with his shotgun
I laughed out loud.
"I'm pretty fucking far from ok" that is one.of my favorite movie lines
Same here!
and i bet he won't be okay ever again after this lol
@@mr.jx5n324 not until he gets his guys with a couple pairs of pliers and a blow torch, to go medieval on his ass
@@mr.jx5n324 yeah how funny
Step aside butch.....
"No man. I'm pretty fukin far from ok"
Such a perfect response to that question.
Sad thing is….I bet a lot of “missing persons” end up in places like this. Real life is more brutal, savage and depraved than these scenes. My God!
only just this week they identified one of the 33+ boys found in Gacy's basement
It’s just a movie. If you think real life is worse than that, you better switch your news sources
@@vitaliypro8441 well i mean... real life CAN be worse than that, depending on how psychopathic/sociopathic someone's kidnappers are
@@vitaliypro8441 Oh my sweet summer child, if you think this scene holds even a candle to the depravity of the real world you’re so very wrong.
@@RW77777777 It was 27 in his basement and 6 more in a river near by.
Hammer : Too short
Baseball Bat : Not strong enough
Chainsaw : Too loud
Katana : Perfect
Butch's weapons were chosen by Tarantino as a homage to some of his favorite movies:
hammer - The Toolbox Murders (1978)
baseball bat - Walking Tall (1973) The Untouchables (1987)
chainsaw - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) The Evil Dead II (1987)
katana - Seven Samurai (1954) The Yakuza (1975) Shogun Assassin (1980)
Shotgun - Perfect
@@Paul1958Rhammer is from Friday the 13th Part 2
Not just any katana either. That was a Hattori Hanzō katana.
Also Chainsaw - Too brutal
It's hard to believe that this movie was released nearly thirty years ago. Some legendary movies don't age well. This one doesn't age at all.
one of those cases where age is just a number
Thanks for the renewed existential crisis!
If you’re soft just say so.
A relative gave me a mixtape with this soundtrack when I was 9 as a cool thing, and the whiplash I got when I finally watched this 15-plus years later was indescribable.
There's so much morality in this movie.
They should have finished showing the end of this scene. Marsellus's ending commentary is priceless.
“…when you're gone, you stay gone, or you BE gone.”
This movie was so good and different. It was all the buzz for a long time. It's a true classic.
I love the fact that he chose the most honorable weapon of all: a samurai weapon...
Is almost like a symbol of Butch redeeming himself for not having the same honor as his predecessors
VERY good observation!!
He didn't shove the watch up his was tho. Disgraceful
Just as Tarantino intended.
@@redbaron8130 no shit?
I don't think Samurai were particularly honorable, (what honor is there in killing yourself, if defeated, it's kind of the equivelent of throwing the chessboard when you lose) but as somebody pointed out in another comment, of the weapons choices, the sword was the warriors weapon as opposed to the baseball bat, etc., so it was part of his story arch.
Butch took a long ass time picking a weapon, mind you.
I saw this film opening weekend in October of 1994. I was 18 years old. I remember a great deal about that night. Where we saw it, the energy in the theatre during the opening credits. I don't think I'll ever forget the feeling of the first time I watched Butch scroll through his weapon options before finally laying his eyes on the mystery weapon. It was the kind of thrill I've only had a handful of times in a movie-going experience. This was the year that I fell hopelessly in love with film as a medium.
The end of Silence of the Lambs was my high point in watching movies in the theater. Nothing before or since has impacted me as much.
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Likewise I was there opening weekend too. My cousin and I went, once it was done we immediately got back inline, paid for it again, and watched it again! Like you mentioned, the vibe in that theater was incredible on both viewings. Same here my love of film was definitely cemented in this movie going experience!
I was 12 seeing this in theaters with dad and been one of my favorite movies sinceb
Pretty much the "unspoken code" between men, if going through that situation, you have to help another man, even if he is your worst enemy.
What about when men rape women? Men are pretty fucking quiet during those times. The fuck?
@@theundeadllama5637 Wtf are you talking about? Harvey Weinstein? Hollywood is crawling with pedos and rapists, and most are complicit, regardless of gender or victim.
@@theundeadllama5637 what are you talking about? You are referencing something completely different
@@Speccymemories i think the point they were making was that men should help women not just men. Which is a fair point to make. I’d like to think someone would protest that if someone said there’s the same unspoken code amongst girls. Should be an unspoken code amongst humans.
@@ssh1487 it would be idiotic to think someone witnessing a rape would say “someone is raping a man! I better get in there and help…. Oh no wait it’s a woman I will let him carry on”
I think the llama was just virtue signalling with his comment.
Zeds not dead, he only wishes that he was. After Wallace and his friends get medieval on him
With a pair of pliers and a blow torch
If he hadn’t had medical attention for that shot to the groin, he will bleed to death, helped by the shock and blood loss from further torture. Butch’s statement was very likely the case.
@@Scyllax Captain Obvious
@@mrwp819300 yep it's a fucking movie. How often do they exaggerate in movies? LOL!
Medieval on his ass
Hammer = Sturdy, can do some damage, but requires you to get up close.
Baseball bat = Rigid, blunt, can swing from a distance, but can be grabbed if given the chance
Chainsaw = Can REALLY do some damage, but is a bit short and prone to mechanical failure
Katana = Sturdy, can swing from a distance, not easily grabbed on the receiving end, and just a sharpened blade through and through
Butch chose well.
Seems you know all the horrific killing methods? Get a life, chummy!
Excellent cinematography when Willis sees the weapon he wants. It shows him look left, then the camera is shown on his face directly, the music shifts and then it shows us what he's looking at. Badass
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_"A pair of pliers and a blowtorch."_ You know what that means?
For every wound they afflict on Zed, they're gonna re-cauterize the wound and create a new one. A very long cycle, of 'almost' killing him.
Yep. Zed's dead alright! Just, very very slowly....
That would be nice if that’s how it worked however you wouldn’t cauterize a wound with a blowtorch. You’d do it with a red hot poker or bar. He wanted the torch to inflict excruciating pain on zed. Burning slowly is probably the worse suffering and death you can imagine
As it should be
If Zed was dead how did he become Redfoot in the Usual Suspects? 😋
I’m gonna call a bunch of hard, pipe hitting niggas to go to work on the homes here. I ain’t done with you by a damned sight. You here me talking Hillbilly Boy? I’m gonna get medieval on your ass.
The answer I've looking for😮😮
Honestly one of the best scenes ever...to me anyway. There's something so great about it, from camera angles to dialogue. QT is a genius filmmaker.
Would love for QT to do a James Bond movie. Even if it was only a one of movie, not linked to any other of the franchise with a one and done new actor playing Bond, just imagine how insane and awesome that Bond movie would be.
@@leecroft1983 I think it would be terrible. Tarantino is completely the wrong vibe for Bond. The violence, the plot, the style, are incompatible.
A Tarantino Bond would be make a mockery of the franchise.
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@@aaronb2779 thats why it would be awesome!!
I always admire the actors who have to play the bad guy. They have to be very good at taking a lot of abuse in order to make the guys look good.
I never noticed before how much the katana wavers in Butch's hands as he goes down the steps. Butch is terrified: he knows exactly what will happen to him if he gets captured again. It's also why he took his time assessing each weapon (you can see him pause with each one, working out how he could use it to take out the two men): he was going in outnumbered and literally outgunned, so he needed to make sure he went in smart. I'm sure Wallace would have preferred he'd hurried up, but then again he would have been, ahem, screwed as well if Butch had failed. The important thing is that Butch went back when he didn't have to, to save someone who probably wouldn't have done the same for him (Wallace probably would have gone to get his guys with the pliers and blowtorch).
There is no courage without fear. This scene solidifies Butch's character and sense of right and wrong. He had no reason to go back down in the basement. But he did. That's what defined him.
His behavior was entirely realistic. I know the right thing to do is to rush in and save him quickly, but I'm also scared as shit and need to be sneaky, I gotta compose myself a little bit...he gets a minute or two of more ass raping, so be it lol.
The way Willis made his way down the stairs was so iconic to me. Almost like a big cat stalking prey. Absolutely epic.
True!
Thank you Bruce for being with us all those nights at the cinema or in our living room tv. You will be missed!!!
What?he is not dead.
@@erwinorellano34 retired
@@erwinorellano34 he has alzhaimers now i think
The time when the music stop, it's like the music talking to Zed, and say, "the party is over pal"
haha
This scene is epic, human decency, helping one's enemy.
Decency! Yep, the whole episode emphasises decency! Get a life, monkey!
Harvey Weinstein - "Why is Butch killing the good guys?"
😭😭😭😭😭
Good One
Bruh
That's pretty much every Republican these days.
@@imcallingjapan2178 And we were doing so good .
One of the great scenes from my favorite movie of all time. Every time I come across it on TV I say I'll just watch this one scene then go from that to the next until the end. The brilliance of the story is that it starts in the middle and ends in the middle.
Only Ving Raimes could act that tough after going through that.
Blocks out the swearing, but not the gratuitous violence 😂
Great scene, if butch would have left it would have haunted him because whatever beef they had, this thing he witnessed was on a whole other level which brought into perspective of how minor and fixable their beef was.
Also at the start, Marselles says to Butch about "Pride".
Butch was a fighter with a lot of pride, if he left a man like this, it would have eaten away at him, especially as it could have been him instead.
This goes back to raw instinct in people to help each other in their time of need.
they both went through something terrible together and in that journey, it reset their animosity.
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Not necessarily!!!! Marsellus would’ve been a mighty platinum gay porn star. Butch would be kicking himself saying that should’ve been me
Well said!
Nobody's talking about the background music, saxophone gave life to this scene
Doesnt need to be said. It's one of the pieces of an iconic scene
I liked that he settled on the Samurai sword, a symbol of honor. Nice touch. Although I have always thought that his saving of Marsellus was equal parts good deed and trying to get the death mark on him called off.
Nah he did it because of what Christopher Walken"s character said about two men being in a situation where there may come a time when they take responsibility over each other. So butch does what he feels is right.
It was pure good deed. If you thought otherwise, then the deficiency is yours.
Pulp fiction is without a doubt Quentin’s best movie.
"I mean 'what now?' between me and you."
"Oh that 'what now'. I'll tell you what now between me and you. There IS no me and you. Not no more."
Hats off to the writers! 🏆
Damm it, Budd…. You really did pawn your Hittori Hanzo!
But he didn't though.
Butch going back down to save the guy was the most unbelievable part of the movie
I think at the door he thought about it. And realized it was his fault that they got into this situation and also if he saves Marsellus, maybe he will get amnesty. Also this is a fate you wouldnt even would wish your worst enemy
I think it just goes to show the line a character wouldn’t cross. Leaving Marsellus would basically doom him to either death or whatever tf was up with the gimp, and the only reason Marsellus even had a problem with Butch was because he backstabbed him. Butch didn’t have as long of a criminal history as the other characters, so I could see him feeling way more conflicted over this than somebody else
@@---ro1fc true, the butch character did seem to have a much more Humane character than the typical Criminal
Butch caused the situation in the first place by not throwing the match.
I saw it that Butch figured it was in his best interest in the long run to save him
I love that Tarantino can make extraordinary violence humorous.
I still just randomly revisit this scene in my head, for no reason at all…it really ties the movie together!
That hammer really tied the room together man
Na you really came back to see a big black man get his buns clapped lol
@@fleecejohnson6969We all do.
Nigs bunk broken
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One of the best movies of all time, never get tired of watching it!
I love this little "searching for weapons" scene, you can basically read his mind, "ohh... lets do this, but I need a weapon...oh.. a hammer good to thrust.. oh no... a baseball bat, even better, ahh wait....chainsaw haha back and for...ohhhhhh...no no...forget the chainsaw... I found the perfect weapon... the Katana!" :D
If he had found an old Traci Lords video he might have gone home.
The pride that wallace told butch to forfeit saved his ass literally
this dude really took his sweet ass time to save Marcellus 😂lmao you just here them clapping his cheeks yelling “Oh YeAH Aw” until he decides to make a move at 1:39
Marsellus enjoying the pumps in his butt! He wasn’t in a hurry to be rescued
I love that look on bruce like saying to himself "Man I know we just tried to kill each other but I cannot leave a man like that!"
What would have happened to Marcellus Wallace if Butch had left him there? Sex Slavery forever?
@@martinm.1967 he would have been rated and then killed or slowly starved and used as a sex object whenever those two felt it was convenient.
Butch still up there an hour later looking at all the possible weapons. He’s in there, even finds a record to play. Just taking his time lol.
I couldn’t leave my worst enemy behind in that horrible situation ! Definitely have to save him !
1:21 love how the beat drops when he lays eyes on the katana!
Looking at this now, I've finally realized the foreshadowing of the scene where Captain Koons was telling the history of the watch to Butch as a kid.
The flags in the background when he was about to head out the door are not really symbols of patriotism, but really a reflection on Butch's sense of honor and bravery that's been embodied by the generations of men in his family. Ditching Wallace means he's betraying himself as a person and the ideals of his forefathers.
In his final boxing match, Butch chose to fight till the end rather than throw the match for some easy money. When Fabienne forgot to pack the watch, he went out to face danger to retrieve his family heirloom. And now when he's about to escape, he goes back to save Wallace and fight the serial-killing rapists.
The fact that Zed miraculously chose Wallace to torture and rape first or that Jules being retired and Wallace grabbing coffee allows Butch to shoot Vega dead in the apartment referenced Butch's great grandfather's luck by surviving World War I and not captured as a POW. Even though he was the only veteran in the family that returned alive and not tortured, it doesn't diminish his bravery.
Winocki was referenced by the katana. Winocki brought the watch to Butch's father and relayed the message of Dane's fight to the death in WWII. The katana serves as a message to the serial killers of his willingness to fight without fear of death.
And the entire pawn shop situation obviously referenced Butch's father during Vietnam. The whole rape scene referenced the watch up the ass and how each men must "take up certain responsibilities of the other" during dire times as what Captain Koons said to a young Butch.
Butch is supposed to hold luck, bravery and honor that the previous Coolidge men had. He can lie and he can cheat, but if he can't even attempt to save someone when he has the opportunity to, then he REALLY doesn't deserve the watch that he spent the entire movie trying to get back.
No one was a hero in WWI
Big fan of the movie although I haven't seen it in years. So glad I took the time to read down on just enough comments to see yours.. Wow your take on things, it's obvious to me that I need to watch that movie again.. from that other reply... My grandfather fought the Nazis in Africa and Italy in WWII so I know fist hand there were indeed heros. At any rate, Thank you for the insightfull comments and well said man.
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Very Edgy
Fantastic analysis.
Wow! Really insightful analysis there mate 😊
2:14 Imagine walking in on that!! Whew!! I'd be scarred for life!! Good on Butch for saving his mortal enemy!!
His pride didn't let him lose the fight the way Marcellus had it set up to be, but it was also his pride that didn't let him walk out of that situation
At 0:58, when Butch looks for weapons, he finds a hammer, a baseball bat, a chainsaw, and then a katana.
In GTA Vice City, you can find the same weapons, sorted in the SAME order in your inventory.
Butch punching the gimp takes the cake for me.
Butch is almost out the door, then he decides that nobody, not even Marsellus Wallace, deserves what those sick bastards are doing to him. He looks for a weapon. A hammer - no, he can do better. A Louisville slugger - no. A chainsaw - Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And then he sees it - a katana - and he's a samurai.
We just watched the video, don't need it written out!
@@Juice421fs actually I am blind so I needed this
@@ahoy_11 underated coment LOL
He remembers that he actually is McClane, die hard cop.
Now this is the definition of “I wouldn’t wish that on my worse enemy” 😱😱😱
They missed out marcellus' epic speech at end where he and his homies are gonna get medieval on zed
....with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch!
Bruce Willis....LEGEND! This move...LEGEND! Pulp Fiction re-launched the careers of so many people! It also launched the careers of some not so well-known actors! Seeing this movie back in the early 90's with my girlfriend was such an epic moment. She was so uncomfortable....I was laughing....then cringing....then shocked....with every emotion imaginable! I don't think I will see another movie like this in my lifetime! This movie changed cinema forever!
Bruce Willis was famous way before this movie.