# "Fire and ice" trick **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 26, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199 "2001-06-26T12:30:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199/21 "2011-04-17T12:15:13Z")
Yeah… I’m kinda hot and cold about it myself. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199/22 "2011-04-17T13:20:34Z")
> [@toofs](#): > > McZombie. From _ten_ years ago. Three new (April 2011) posters all responded within a 30 minute time window. > > 😕 If you’re wondering why, it’s because that movie was on last night on Cinemax, which is having a free-weekend on DirecTV. It must of set off a flurry of googles on “fire and ice trick” that led here. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199/23 "2011-04-17T17:37:14Z")
Man, it’s surreal enough to see one’s own old post in a zombie thread, but seeing myself leaving a mod note? Now _that’s_ weird. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199/24 "2011-04-17T18:17:28Z")
Blood writes: \> I’ve heard in the past that the briefcase in Pulp Fiction contained Marcellus \> Wallace’s soul, which he had undoubtedly lost or sold to the devil on his way to \> becoming a crime lord. That would explain the combination to its locks being 666 \> and also why Jules refused to give it to the robber saying, “I can’t give it to you \> because it isn’t mine.” \> I’ve read that Mr. Tarantino has went public and diffused this all as urban \> legend stating it was just a McGuff but that still doesn’t explain the bandaid. It \> does seem like I’ve heard somewhere before about the belief of certain \> individuals that a person’s soul either resides in one’s head or mind or maybe \> that when it is taken it is extracted through the back of one’s neck/head. The bandage is there because the actor playing Marcellus Wallace happened to have a cut or sore or some such on the back of his head the day of the filming, so it was decided that it would be less distracting to have a bandage there. There is no traditional belief that a soul is extracted through the back of the neck. The light in the briefcase is there because the writers couldn’t figure out anything interesting to be in it, so they just threw that in at the last minute. The whole “retrieving Wallace’s soul” business was made up by film geeks on the Internet who have too much free time. ---
**Author:** ![SirRay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199/25 "2011-04-17T22:32:32Z")
[QUOTE=Blood] I’ve heard in the past that the briefcase in Pulp Fiction contained Marcellus Wallace’s soul [/QUOTE] Heh, Nice Timing after 10 years - One of the Cracked Lists from today (17 April 2011) covers this very topic - [7 Hotly Debated Movie Questions That Totally Have Answers](http://www.cracked.com/article_19138_7-hotly-debated-movie-questions-that-totally-have-answers.html) - right off the bat, #7 Pulp Fiction – What’s in the Briefcase? (The answer, according to the original script, was diamonds) ---
**Author:** ![Blood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Blood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blood)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199/26 "2011-04-22T06:20:29Z")
Its funny but I was actually watching the movie about the stripper that started this thread and I had a good idea what “Fire and Ice” was meant in the movie’s context but decided to search it and this forum popped up. I haven’t posted much in a few years but this place seems interesting. Glad to see that there are still some ppl here. note- threadjacking complete ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199/27 "2011-04-25T02:50:11Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Man, it’s surreal enough to see one’s own old post in a zombie thread, but seeing myself leaving a mod note? Now _that’s_ weird. 😃 Couldn’t Chronos dope out some neat physics for that? ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2011, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-and-ice-trick/70199/28 "2011-04-25T12:02:02Z")
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