Yeah some people get off on being wrapped in leather or rubber or anything like that. I doubt there are many organised rapists who sodamise anyone walking into there shop though. Too easy for them to get caught working from such a location especially in a big city where they are unlikely to be able to know that the person coming into the shop is an unattatched outsider. Hell they managed to catch a crime boss and a well known boxer in the film. Those are people whose dissapearence wouldn’t go unnoticed.
You can discuss what you like, but, by definition, fiction is made up. So asking whether it describes an actual event or not is missing the entire point.
But we’re not discussing if Pulp fiction actually took place, but whether it is a realistic piece of fiction, and specifically if the situation discribed is in any way related to events which are not fictional. Since I have met people whoes idea of a good time is spending the evening wearing a leather body suit blinfolded and sitting on a couch throughout a fettish party (I think the sitting on a couch bit was going a bit soft, he aught to be have been kneeling at least) I am not inclined to believe the idea of someone who likes to live in a crate and to be susspended in a whole body leather suit all that implausable.
Now the idea that Quentin Tarantino makes really good coffee on the other hand is obviously fictitious 
The question I have is, why didn’t Quentin Tarantino play the Jackrabbit Slim’s waiter part, and Steve Buscemi play the “Does my house have a dead nigger storage sign outside?” part?
In answer to the OP:
Well, there once was this guy name Jeffery Dahmer…
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Anyhoo, it’s kinda comical that this question gets asked during Evil Captor’s suspension. He’d be all over this one, normally.
Yeah, but that wasn’t all the OP asked. And you’re jumping to the conclusion that the gimp is a willing participant.
The OP asked if there are really guys who kidnap other men and rape them as part of some sort of routine thing.
The answer to that is yes, definitely. John Wayne Gacy did it, Jeffrey Dahmer did it. That’s just the two that come to mind, I’m sure there are many more.
Neither of these men kept their victims for very long, though. Gacy typically killed his immediately after raping them and Dahmer’s victims typically only stayed around for a few days at the most.
So I don’t know of any guys who, in addition to kidnapping other men to rape them also kept them as trained sex slaves ala a gimp. I do know that men have done that to women, though. Cameron Hooker kept a woman as his sex slave for seven years, much of that time she spent locked in a small sound-proofed box.
No, I checked. The screenplay is online.
.So, “Vincent (Dean Martin)”, any ideas?
I think more unrealistic and just plain stupid is how Tarantino likes to dress 1990s L.A. gangsters in matching black suits and narrow black ties. Jeez.
Look, the last damn thing Tarantino is trying to portray is realism. His movies, by and large, are a commentary on other movies. His most “realistic” film is Jackie Brown, and even that is a lower-key tribute to 1970s B-movies. His intention never was to portray gangsters “as they really are”. It’s more to say, “Don’t they look cool dressed like this? Aren’t movies super fun?”
I agree. And that ugly ‘straight black hair’ thing, what is with that? Uma Thurman, John Travolta, Christopher Walken and perhaps the French woman/Portuguese actress, ugh.
No they don’t, and you (Tarantino) are just trying too hard to be cool.
I think that’s probably a minority opinion. And if you don’t think movies are super fun, I can see why his movies might not appeal to you.
Heh. Just when Evil Captor got banned, heres one question he could answer in his sleep. Someone must still have his e-mail?
On the subject of the Wolfman, I must ask… What the fuck addition was he? He showed up, Mr. Suave, from a party scene which might I add was taking place at half eight in the fucking morning (what was that? a funeral? Don’t say it was an all-night party dying down… everyone was wstill impecibly dressed) to help out with the body, and his sole expertise, his big help to the guys was, “Ok, wee nedd to mop up the blood, then put blankets over the seats. Then we need to wash you guys in broad fucking daylight. Pretty please. With sugar on top.”
I mean, the least he could have done was wipe the car out. Seriously, what the fuck did he do that Marcellus couldnt have said over the phone?
There’s a much better “Cleaner” in The Assassin, and if memory serves me correctly, its harvey Kietel too. Or, maybe Jean Reno. He’s a cleaner, and what does he do? Fuck me, he cleans. How about that.
I don’t know about the middle of Los Angeles, but San Francisco has a street fair for folks like this. Just put “Folsom Street Fair” into Google Images and poke around.
You’re thinking of Point of No Return, the American remake of La Femme Nikita. Keitel played “Victor the Cleaner,” but I forget if Reno played a similar role in the French original. I’m sure Tarantino was just making a reference to that movie and providing another “cool” role for his friend Keitel (easily the biggest star in his breakthrough film Reservoir Dogs).
How so?
Fiction is often not entirely made up. One may ask how close a work of fiction is to actual fact.
was based in part on an actual event, the wreck of the Whaleship
, and a white whale by the name of Mocha Dick. Of course,
is not “about” a white whale, or about the wreck of a whaling ship, but it is still of interest to find see what Melville’s sources were.
Tarantino’s work is of course fiction, the question of whether it is entirely made up, or whether it draws on actual events or people, or on previous works of fiction.
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How so?
Fiction is often not entirely made up. One may ask how close a work of fiction is to actual fact. *Moby Dick *was based in part on an actual event, the wreck of the Whaleship Essex , and a white whale by the name of Mocha Dick. Of course, Moby Dick is not “about” a white whale, or about the wreck of a whaling ship, but it is still of interest to find see what Melville’s sources were.
Tarantino’s work is of course fiction, the question of whether it is entirely made up, or whether it draws on actual events or people, or on previous works of fiction.
Thats the one, but it is called The Assassin over here. Gabriel byrne and Bridget Fonda, just to make sure we’re all singing from the one hymn sheet. And reno was in the original, yes, all making sense now. You’ll remember, those guys actually did “Clean” the apartment, under pressure, and they disposed of the body in a lovely ritual involving a bathtub and some acid. or I may have dreamt that. Anyway, they did a whole lot more than Mr. “lots of cream, lots of sugar”.