Did you not see White men Can’t Jump?
BIWWWYYYYY!!!
Oh man Rosie Perez’ voice is like nails on a chalkboard. She played an even more annoying character in It Could Happen To You.
Fabienne, however, would be fun for a while.
Actually, yeah. And I loathe Rosie Perez, but Fabianna’s worse.
I think it’s the actress.
Damn, I’m a woman and I’m half in love with Fabienne. My husband finds her incredibly annoying, however, to the point of almost ruining the movie for him. Wow. I think she’s cute.
Maybe it’s a generic thing. You’re either a Fabienne person, or a Rosie Perez person.
As a Fabienne man, I think I’d like Jack Rabbit Slim’s. Except for the five-dollar shakes.
If Fabienne was annoying and unappealing, perhaps you might enjoy Henry and June (with Fred Ward and Uma Thurman) where she played a French-speaking (at least accented) character that made more sense.
I don’t know if it’s the accent, the subservient nature or just that she’s really cute, but I’m with you here, she does it just fine for me.
Rosie Perez? I hear that voice and I just want to drive off a cliff.
I call shotgun!
French speaking character? Dude, she played Anais Nin. That alone qualifies her as hottie sex goddess.
Rosie Perez? I’ll meet you guys at the bottom of the cliff. I’ll be standing in the middle of the big x. You can’t miss me.
If I was Butch I’d have ditched Fabienne and taken the barefoot cab driver with me to Yucatan. She was the hottest woman in the whole movie. Oh, that’s right. He thought Fabi had dad’s Viet Nam ass-watch. And by time he found out she hadn’t packed it the cab driver was gone.
[hijack] Who’s more of “The hot chick you’d want to do but who’s mouth you’d have to duct tape shut” Rosie Perez or Fran Drescher?[/hijack]
Fran Drescher.
That’s the correct answer.
Just God forbid she be a screamer or moaner. I think I’d PREFER her to just lie there.
Dunnit seem really out of character for Butch to key a guy’s car anyway?
That’s a real bitch move. Butch has so much pride that he refuses to throw a fight even though it’s like signing his death warrant, but he keys a guy’s car – a guy whose ass he could squash?
I have a similar sense of Butch’s code. His actions toward Marcellus with the Honda, the fight in the pawn shop and his general attitude about the watch all point to a man of direct action. The decision to find a suitable weapon in the pawn shop to avenge Marcellus after the rednecks “had their way with him” points to a man of principle and honor.
The fact that only an hour or less earlier he had emptied the machine gun into Vincent as he sat on the throne indicates his methods are more “in your face” than the cowardly keying of a car. I can easily believe that the myth about Butch and the keying job sprang from the Ebert Law of Economy that suggests that only the characters made known to the audience can have done anything of consequence in the movie. That’s why cops and detectives only have to look at the cast list to find the perpetrator of the heinous deed.
I suspect that if Tarantino had wanted it to be understood that Butch did the keying, the exchange between Travolta and Stolz would have provided more evidence that it was indeed Butch. But just to say “some asshole keyed it” doesn’t rise to that level for me.
Dude the only reason Buth threw the fight was because with the fix in he could get his brother(?) to go to the knowing bookies and clean up, which he did. He ran! This wasn’t about pride or honour it was about a quick cash in. Cripes he shot a guy on the toilet and tried to run over Marsellus. There was no code there.
Butch didn’t throw the fight. He didn’t throw it so hard that he actually killed the other guy in the ring. That’s why he had to shoot Vince (After he came out of the bathroom, BTW) and run over Marsellus.
He ran down Marcellus because he knew he was gunning for him, and he shot Vega because he knew he was one of Marcellus’ guys.
He mighta bet on himself, but that takes guts and conviction, and keying a guy’s car is “chicken shit”. A guy who risked life & limb going back for his fathers watch doesn’t strike me as the car-keying type.
Of course, the only things in the movie are the things that are in the movie, but IIRC, in the “Trivia Track” on the DVD it notes that in the first cut, we see Vincent pulling in to the parking lot in his car and parking next to Butch’s car even though the rest of the lot is completely empty. Although the scene was cut in the theatrical release, it suggests to me that Butch did key Vincent’s car after their exchange at the bar. The continuity issue doesn’t bother me that much – there are a million ways to explain it, and this is Pulp Fiction we’re talking about, a film which wallows in purposeful continuity “errors.”
What I’m more interested in is the unaswered question of why Butch and Vincent are so hostile to each other. Is it because Vincent has a premonition of their next meeting? Or do they have a history we don’t see? (Seems likely given that Vincent needles Butch about being a boxer, which most people off the street wouldn’t tend to know.) Personally, I choose to believe it’s some kind of oedipal thing.
–Cliffy
Well, he might have known him for being a boxer either cause he was well-known at large, or at least well-known enough in the circles Vega travelled.
As to the hostility. Well, Vega starts it by staring him down, and, IMO, that’s just because Vega is one of those guys who has to be the toughest in the room. I’ve known guys just like that (at least in High School). They see a bigger guy around and they just gotta mouth off.
Butch ain’t gonna back down because he knows he could floor the guy.
I always thought it was because Vincent was disgusted that Butch would do such a low thing as taking a fall in the fight. (Strange sentiment, coming from a murderer. But I suppose they have their own version of morals too.) I don’t remember it being spelled out in the movie; I just assumed that Vincent, as Marcellus’s trusted associate, had been told of the plan and thus knew who Butch was and that he was a boxer.
I don’t see that as particularly consistent with the picture of Vincent we see elsewhere throughout the film. Yes, he’s a hitman, but other than that (ha ha) he’s a pretty charming, decent guy, albeit with a bit of a temper. In his interactions with other folks he doesn’t have to kill (and even some that he does), he never gives anyone the slow burn but Butch.
–Cliffy
Well he did fuck with Mr. Wolf a little bit but it wasn’t so much a tough guy act as he was a little petulant about being ordered around.