Question about 'Pulp Fiction' ?

[j7wild]

I just watched Pulp Fiction for the gazillion times and I always have the same question:

'what is in the brief case that John Travolta and Samuel Jackson were asked to retrieve for their boss?'

[Cyguy5]

I think it's meant to be whatever you want it to be. The common solution among most viewers is it Ving Rhames', I think his character's name was Macrellus Wallace, soul. I did not like the film, nor do I really like Tarantino (except for Resevoir Dogs) and he does this crap in all his films so you won't get a solid answer.

[Crazy_jules]

what are you talking about.

pulp fiction is one of the coolest movies ever!

[WorkShed]

Another rumor is that it's a ton of crack. Also that it's a gold Elvis costume, like the one in another Quentin-written film, True Romance. As for me, I don't really care. It's just a great image to open up a briefcase and have it glow at you.

What's in it? Who cares! It's glowing!

[Jake]

Where's Zed? Zed's dead.


lol

That scene where Bruce Willis is looking for a weapon is priceless.

[j7wild]

thank you Cyguy 5 and Workshed!!

[bloss]

Supposedly, it's Wallce's soul. The clue is that Wallace has a band-aid on the back of his neck. My memory is hazey, but it's supposed to relate to the old days when it was said that a human's soul was taken out through the back of their neck or something like that. Not sure how accurate that is though.

[Jax]

Got this from IMDB:

Speculation abounds as to the nature of the mysterious glowing contents of the case:

* Could it be Elvis's gold suit, seen worn by Val Kilmer (as Elvis) in True Romance (1993)?
* The most persistent theory (most usually attributed to a friend of a friend who saw it posted on a message board by someone whose brother had read a report of a radio interview with Tarantino himself) is that it is Marcellus Wallace's soul. The story goes that when the Devil takes a person's soul, it is removed through the back of the head (this isn't part of any known religion, but this is what the message board posters say). When we see the back of Marcellus's head he has a Band-Aid covering the precise spot indicated by tradition for soul removal. Perhaps Marcellus sold his soul to the devil which would also explain why the combination to open the briefcase is 666.
* Quentin Tarantino has said that the band-aid on the back of Marsellus Wallace's neck had nothing to do with an allusion to the Devil stealing Marsellus's soul... but that the actor Ving Rhames had a scar on the back of his neck he wanted to cover up.
* Or could it be simply a 20-watt light bulb?
* According to Roger Avary, who co-wrote the script with Quentin Tarantino, the original plan was to have the briefcase contain diamonds. This seemed neither exciting nor original, so Avary and Tarantino decided to have the briefcase's contents never appear on screen; this way each filmgoer could mentally "fill in the blank" with whatever struck his or her imagination as best fitting the description "so beautiful". The orange light bulb (projecting shimmering light onto the actors' faces) was a last-minute decision and added a completely unintended fantastic element.
* In a radio interview with Howard Stern in late 2003, Quentin Tarantino was asked by a caller the contents of the briefcase, and he answered, "It's whatever the viewer wants it to be."

[KRALe]

I wold like to be a green/orange ball like in SF movie "Heavy Metal" from '80 - the pure Evil

[j7wild]

I didn't know where to put this unless I started a new thread:

http://www.filecabi.net/video/pulp-fiction-short.html

[chernabog_ca]

That was f*cking great!!

[Mithrandir01]

'what is in the brief case that John Travolta and Samuel Jackson were asked to retrieve for their boss?'

Maybe the same thing, what was in the Ronin suitcase?

[Jake]

That's ****ing hilarious!