Here’s a clip of the crash and most of the chase. Note that Marcellus chases Butch around at least two corners and down an alley. The civilians scattered as soon as Marcellus started shooting.
Most people don’t follow people who are firing guns.
The witnesses to the crash would have absolutely no idea that M&B went into the pawn shop.
It would be up to other people closer to the pawn shop to help out the police. In some neighborhoods, that’s just not done.
Actually, the connection is Inglourious Basterds -> True Romance -> Reservoir Dogs -> Pulp Fiction.
Donnie Donowitz (the Bear Jew) from IG is the father of Lee Donowitz from TR. Alabama from TR is the former partner of Mr. White from RD. And Vic Vega from RD is the brother of Vincent Vega from PF.
A ha!
You are not alone. I didn’t like it either. In fact, I have a hard time even understanding what people see in it.
I’m just sayin’, here, if you find this kind of thing distracting, don’t ever see either of the ‘Kill Bill’ flicks. One of the scenes that sticks in my mind has Uma Thurman traveling to Japan. According to the visuals, the airline conveniently provides a receptacle for one’s Samurai sword next to each seat.
Anyway, the Tarantinoverse clearly is a parallel reality.
There would have been at least a couple days between the diner and Butch’s apartment. After the diner, Jules & Vincent take the briefcase to the bar to deliver it to Marcellus.[sup]*[/sup] That’s when Butch and Vincent have their first little confrontation. That night, Vincent takes Mia out, she ODs. Then there’s the night of the fight that Butch is supposed to throw; Vincent and Mia greet each other and she thanks him for the nice time. It’s the next day when Butch goes back for his watch.
Which makes for an interesting morality-play angle to the whole thing. Jules, who recognized and accepted the Miracle of the Bullets presumably lives to a ripe old age. Vincent, a doubter, does not. Maybe God did come down and stop the bullets.
Yep; I didn’t mean to imply that Vincent moved onto staking out Butch’s place the same day…
And El Kabong: 
Got it.
I was always bothered how there are no real life forces affecting the characters.
The restaurant is being held up for 20 minutes and not on person walks by, glances in and sees three guns being pointed at various persons? For that matter, not one cook sneaks out the back and calls the cops?
In Brads apartment no one calls the cops after hearing shots after they off the guy on the sofa?
No one in the neighborhood calls tha cops after Vincent very loudly crashes his car into the front yard of Lances house? Not one person notices Vincent carrying a limp woman into the house?
I always just figured QT just ignores this stuff because it would make the story less interesting if things evolved like they would in real life.
Exactly. If I wanted to watch real life I’d look out the window. At a movie I want to be entertained, and PF did that in spades.
Yeah, that line is really dated. The rest of the movie holds up well, though.
At least Damon Wayons’ $600 leather pants in *The Last Boyscout *still sound outrageously expensive. With or without a television in them.
I agree, but I also like some consistency. One entire (and hilarious) scene was devoted to J&V being pretty paranoid about getting caught by the cops. I thought that was a bit too much. You’d have to be pretty unfortunate to randomly have cops notice blood splattered inside your car.
It is probably one of my top ten favorite movies. I think i was underwhelmed the first time i saw it, and only came to recognize its genius later in subsequent viewings. But…it’s a weird movie.
I love this movie. It’s definitely one of my favorites.
You have to realize that it’s not about plot. It’s about dialog and individual situations. And it’s certainly not about realism or even consistency.
Sure there are. When Vincent Vega is taking Uma’s character to the drug dealer when she ODs, the drug dealer freaks out b/c he is worried the cops will overhear what Vega said on the cell phone.
I didn’t mean that the police didn’t exist. I meant that they aren’t part of the movie plot, therefore they never show up.
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I agree, but I also like some consistency. One entire (and hilarious) scene was devoted to J&V being pretty paranoid about getting caught by the cops. I thought that was a bit too much. You’d have to be pretty unfortunate to randomly have cops notice blood splattered inside your car.
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Well, they were already unfortunate with Marvin, so I’d say they were right to be a bit spooked. 
The lack of police didn’t bother me at all. In fact it WAS realistic. (not they didn’t show up, but that they showed after the action had passed)
Wallace chasing Butch? Until Wallace shot the civilian, it was just a car crash w\injuries. An ambulance and\or fire department would probably arrive before the cops. Even after shots are fired, we are looking at conservative estimate of 3 to 5 minutes before the first cruiser would arrive. Wallace and Butch were long gone by then.
And IIRC, and I could be wrong, the restaurant robbery didn’t take nearly 20 minutes. It was closer to 10. And passers-by may not have looked in the window or have seen anything even if they did.
I doubt it took that long. Someone could put a stopwatch on it, but from “I’ll execute every mother-fucking one of you” to the end couldn’t have lasted more than a couple of minutes, tops.
I can’t watch it to verify, but the rip on YouTube that claims to be the restaurant scene is 9m41s according to the Google hit.
The cops are too busy investigating a trophy theft from Jack Rabbit Slim’s the night before.
I loved the nonlinear storyline but to put all the scenes in chronological order:
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[li]Vincent & Jules recover the briefcase[/li][li]The Bonnie Situation[/li][li]The Diner Part 1 [/li][li]The Diner Part 2 [/li][li]Vincent Vega & Marcellus Wallace’s Wife[/li][li]Butch’s pre-fight dream: Captain Koons’ gold watch speech[/li][li]The Gold Watch[/li][/ol]