# Pulp Fiction mystery solved **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2018, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543 "2018-11-15T04:02:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/21 "2018-11-17T03:34:25Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Do you have a cite for this? Everything I’ve read suggests the briefcase was never anything more than a MacGuffin. Okay, it wasn’t Tarantino but his Pulp Fiction co-author Roger Avery. And it _began_ as diamonds, but was changed to a McGuffin later. > [@](#): > > Originally the briefcase contained diamonds. But that just seemed too boring and predictable. So it was decided that the contents of the briefcase were never to be seen. > **[What's in the 'Pulp Fiction' Briefcase?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/whats-in-the-briefcase/)** > > The question of what's in the 'Pulp Fiction' briefcase is one of filmdom's most enduring mysteries. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/22 "2018-11-19T19:06:32Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > mono. you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/23 "2018-11-19T19:23:51Z")
I wish someone would suck my mono. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/24 "2018-11-19T19:25:21Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I wish someone would suck my mono. ☹ you only have one? ---
**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:** [November 19, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/25 "2018-11-19T21:24:07Z")
If he had two, it’d be a di. ---
**Author:** ![Daytona\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Daytona\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daytona_Dave)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/26 "2018-11-20T00:52:19Z")
In the last scene of the movie, ‘Ringo’ orders Jules to open up the briefcase at gun-point. When he does, Ringo says “Is that what I think it is?”. How would he know what somebody’s soul looks like? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/27 "2018-11-20T02:54:03Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > you only have one? Yeah, just the one, but if I fold it in half, I can come _and_ go! ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/28 "2018-11-20T18:56:34Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > So I don’t know if I’ve been whooshed, but if you don’t [immediately recognize this as Marcellus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DCTCZcFkPs#t=40s), the .2 sec you can maybe see the band-aid isn’t going to help. > > The RL explanation from Tarantino is that Ving Rhames had cut himself shaving the morning they shot the bar scene (“Fuck pride.”), so he had a band-aid on. They kept it after that for continuity. IIRC, that’s also the reason Les Nessman on _WKRP in Cincinnati_ always had a band-aid on his face or head; Richard Sanders was wearing one over a real cut in the first scene he filmed, and the producers decided Les was exactly the kind of schlump who’d always have minor wounds. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/29 "2018-11-20T20:14:17Z")
> [@Daytona\_Dave](#): > > How would he know what somebody’s soul looks like? Well, he knows what diamonds, and gold, and other usual items look like, so if he sees something in the case that he doesn’t know what it is, what else could it be? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/30 "2018-11-20T20:48:43Z")
> [@Daytona\_Dave](#): > > How would he know what somebody’s soul looks like? Because in a universe where one can put a soul in a briefcase, people know what souls look like. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/31 "2018-11-20T20:49:01Z")
> [@Daytona\_Dave](#): > > In the last scene of the movie, ‘Ringo’ orders Jules to open up the briefcase at gun-point. > > When he does, Ringo says “Is that what I think it is?”. > > How would he know what somebody’s soul looks like? There was a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the Devil in the briefcase as well. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/32 "2018-11-20T21:10:22Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > There was a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the Devil in the briefcase as well. But, was it notarized? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/33 "2018-11-20T21:45:10Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > But, was it notarized? Wasn’t that how Marge saved Homer from Satan/Flanders? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2018, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/34 "2018-11-20T22:48:08Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > It was Tony Rocky Horror who sucked out Marcellus’s mojo/soul. You don’t think he threw him out the window just for giving Mia a foot massage do you? I give my grandmother a foot massage. Feet are filthy. I don’t care if my grandmother’s feet smell like pumpkin pie, I ain’t giving her no goddam foot massage. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2018, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543/35 "2018-11-21T02:51:13Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Feet are filthy. I don’t care if my grandmother’s feet smell like pumpkin pie, I ain’t giving her no goddam foot massage. What if they taste like pumpkin pie? THEN would you do it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pulp-fiction-mystery-solved/824543.md?page=1)