IIRC, there’s a deleted scene where Vincent and Jules drive up to the bar to deliver the briefcase. (I think it’s on the DVD, but maybe they just talk about it.) There’s only one other car in the parking lot, which Vincent parks next to. (Butch’s obviously.) Presumably they took a cab from the diner to wherever Vincent parked his car, or maybe the diner was nearby. The fact that they stopped for breakfast at all suggests that time wasn’t of the essence once they had the briefcase in their possession.
Anyway, as to the original topic of the thread, I agree that in a movie that has all sorts of ellipses and condusions, the failure of the police to find Butch and Marcellus in the basement of a shop in which they were being held prisoner isn’t much of a stretch at all.
OK, I just watched the patched together opening and ending. 11:04 seconds from draw down to Vincent and Jules departing. But I did notice that there wasn’t a lot of outside foot traffic and the blinds were down. Not closed, but down.
Well, add to that the fact that Pulp Fiction came out in 1994. Five bucks in those times is equal to about $7.50 today. That’s just crazy for a milkshake, in my experience. One of my favorite milkshakes in the Chicago area, at Edzo’s, is four bucks. And that, to me, is even pushing it. A large milk shake at The Brown Sack, is $5. Small one is $4. (Brown Sack comes up on various lists as being among the best shakes in Chicago.) The place by my high school that was well regarded in the community, Wojo’s, is $3.89 for a large. I just can’t imagine what kind of shake you’d get for $7.50 today. It had better be spiked. Seriously, who the hell pays more than five bucks for a shake today, much less in 1994?
That’s a little pricey by my standards, but not much. Remember, Pulp Fiction was 1994. That’s the equivalent of a $7.50 shake today.
I mean, here’s a list of local best milkshakes. You can get a friggin “miso butterscotch” milkshake in the Four Seasons Hotel, no less, for five bucks. A 14-oz shake that the chef says is “meant to be shared.”
I love the fact that my OP nit was addressed upthread a while ago but the thread is still going. I guess folks enjoy discussing this movie - which is cool; it has a lot of intricacies and also gets strong reactions from folks.
Pulp Fiction is always fun to talk about. It’s one of the few movies I’ve seen multiple times in the theater. I think I saw it 4 or 5 times when it came out.
And…in the upcoming Django Unchained, the character played by Kerry Washington is supposed to be the great grandmother of Shaft, a non-Tarantino character, which could mean that all Tarantino movies live within the universe started in 1971’s Shaft.
The Tarantino Universe also overlaps the Robert Rodriguez Universe thanks to Grindhouse. A couple of Tarantino characters, e.g, Sheriff Earl Warren (Michael Parks) from Kill Bill Vol. 1, appear in both segments. And in the Planet Terror segment, some of Robert Rodriguez’s characters from other films appear, most notably Danny Trejo as Machete from Machete and other quality films.
