Mia Wallace and Vega. The film "Pulp Fiction": actors and roles

On May 12, 1994, exactly 22 years ago, the film " Pulp Fiction", which overnight became one of the most popular paintings 1990s You can list the artistic merits of the film for a long time and unique style director, but all this is superfluous - to understand what the charm of "Pulp Fiction" is, you just need to watch it. Then revise. And review again. Once again...

Caption remembered 22 interesting facts about the film masterpiece of Quentin Tarantino, which are not even known to all fans.

However, before giving her consent, Uma mocked Tarantino from the bottom of her heart, forcing herself to be persuaded for several weeks! They say that great director I was ready to kiss her feet. Neither Uma Thurman nor Tarantino confirmed these rumors, but they did not refute them either.

But due to his contractual obligations on other projects, he was unable to do so. However, he still appeared in the film in a cameo role: Steve played a waiter taking orders from Mia and Vincent at the Jack Rabbit Slims restaurant.

But he is so awesome that even 20 years later, Samuel is ready to repeat it from memory.

Instead of paying, Linda asked Quentin to keep an eye on her pet rabbit, Honey Bunny, while she was busy with work, but the director did not heed her requests and the rabbit died after a while. Thus, Tarantino decided to perpetuate the name of the unfortunate pet and apologize to his assistant.

It is curious that before that, Travolta played a role in the film "Cowboy City", and Thurman - in the film "Even Cowboy Girls Are Sad Sometimes".

There is also a version that the suitcase contains a golden Elvis jacket or an Oscar figurine that Marsellus bought for his wife, an aspiring actress. Quentin himself in an interview said that there is no clear explanation of the contents of this portfolio, and he was added to the script for intrigue.

During filming, Travolta did not work hard, but pulled out a syringe from Mia, and then the scene was played back to get the desired picture.

On the back of the boxes was a quote from the movie:

"If you play with matches, you must remember that you can get burned."

According to Travolta, he borrowed some of the dance steps for the scene in Jack Rabbit Slims from Batusi, Adam Wesia's character from Batman (1966). Uma Thurman drew inspiration for the dance from the Duchess of Cats-aristocrats". Video from the set shows how Tarantino enjoys the process of filming this episode.

For a long time, Tarantino could not make a choice, torn between the roles of Jimmy and Lance. Tarantino ended up playing Jimmy because the scene with the prick in Mia's heart required the director to be behind the camera. " And " Reservoir Dogs". The design of the branded packaging that appears in the frame was created by Tarantino's old friend, Jerry Martinez.

One of the most famous films American director Quentin Tarantino, a classic of the crime comedy genre called " Pulp Fiction”, which is in the top ten in the list of films on the IMDb website, is the owner of more than 40 film awards, including “ golden palm» Cannes Film Festival and Awards « Oscar" behind best script. Great actors played in it: John Travolta("Without a face", "Password" Swordfish "), Samuel L. Jackson("Goodfellas", "Coach Carter"), Tim Roth (« Mad Dogs", "Four rooms"), Amanda Plummer("The Fisher King", "Hercules"), Eric Stoltz("The Butterfly Effect", "Fluke"), Bruce Willis("The Fifth Element", "Die Hard") and Wing Rhames("War Losses", "Final Fantasy").

« Pulp Fiction"At the same time, it strikes with the richness of its plots and confuses with the randomness of actions. As conceived by Tarantino, the film is divided into three parts, and the first of them is both the beginning and the end of the picture. Each of these parts is separate story, which mixes all the genres, images and attributes of an ordinary Hollywood film.

The first of the stories is about a gangster in a black suit, Vincent Vega, who walks the boss's wife:

Do you hate it too?
- What?
– An awkward silence. Why do people have to talk about something in order to feel at ease?
- Don't know. Good question.
- Only when you find your man, you can be silent for hours and enjoy it.
- It's not about us. We hardly know each other.
- OK. I'll go powder my nose, and you come up with a topic for conversation.
- Will try...

Three tomatoes are walking down the street: a tomato mom, a tomato dad, a tomato child. The baby tomato starts to fall behind and the daddy tomato becomes furious, he runs up to him, crushes him and says: « Catch up, ketchup!"

Other story – about a boxer who deceived a mafia boss, but by chance gets out of a serious scrape:

– Whose motorcycle is this?
– It's a chopper, baby.
– Whose chopper is this?
– Zed.
– Who is Zed?
– Zed is dead, baby. Zed is dead.

third story – about a couple of strange robbers, a hysterical woman and a cowardly but level-headed man who are trying to rob a small restaurant.

John Travolta as scumbag Vincent, Samuel L. Jackson as Bible-reciting gangster Jules, Harvey Keitel as an intellectual – Wolf's lifesaver, cocaine player Mia Wallace performed by Uma Thurman, Wing Rheims as mob boss Marsellus Wallace, himself Quentin Tarantino in the role of henpecked Jimmy - all these actors played in Pulp Fiction, perhaps the most colorful and memorable characters in the history of world cinema.

The music for the film is collected from the good old hits, and the soundtrack has been in the top twenty of the best-selling in the history of cinema for 16 years.

Superb directing by Tarantino with perfectly lined shots, an original and witty screenplay with unexpected turns plot, great dialogue with signature Tarantino black humor, brilliantly played roles and Oscar-winning camera work – all these components that make the film a cult film in its genre and spawned a sea of ​​​​fans and imitators. The minimum age limit for watching the film is 16 years.

• $5 million of the $8 million budget was spent on actors' salaries.
• Quentin Tarantino couldn't decide who to play – Jimmy or Lance, but Lance had a rather difficult resuscitation sequence for Mia, during which the director would have to be behind the camera, so he chose Jimmy.
• In the scene where the adrenaline syringe is inserted into Mia's chest, in reality the needle is pulled out, that is, the scene is played in reverse.
• Butch's great-grandfather bought a gold watch inherited from his grandson in Knoxville, Tennessee, hometown Quentin Tarantino.
• Uma Thurman refused to play Mia Wallace, but Tarantino persuaded her by reading the script to her over the phone.
• Tarantino says about the contents of the case: "There lies what the viewer wants to lay there."
• As Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega leave the club, an off-camera radio announces the theft of the grand prize for a dance competition.
• The 1964 Chevrolet Malibu that Vincent Vega drives in the film belonged to Tarantino and was stolen during filming.
• Jules' "Bad Motherfucker" wallet belongs to Quentin Tarantino.
• Armor Gallagher, who played Trudy, is wearing a T-shirt with The Frames, one of Irish rock bands, in which a friend of the actress plays - he was promised to wear a T-shirt if Bron was invited to the film.
• The restaurant scene (at the beginning and end of the film) was filmed in a real establishment, the building of which was destroyed after the film's release. The curse "fuck" is used by the characters of the film 271 times.
• The cinematographer of the film - Andrzej Sekula - filmed it while in a wheelchair.
• For the roles in "Pulp Fiction" claimed: Johnny Depp and Christian Slater (Pumpkin), Paul Calderon ( Jules); Sylvester Stallone, Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon ( Butch); Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Joan Cusack, Isabella Rossellini, Daryl Hannah ( Mia) and Sylvester Stallone and Daniel Day-Lewis (Vincent).
• The surname of the girl - a taxi driver named Esmeralda – Villa Lobos, owned to the best friend Quentin Tarantino.
• Length special edition film - 168 minutes.

The film "Pulp Fiction" became a cult black comedy of American cinema and one of the famous works of the director. The tape came out in 1994. Tarantino also contributed to the original screenplay, for which the film was awarded an Oscar.

The music in the trailer and the film, so easily recognizable by fans, and just cinema lovers, was not written specifically for the tape. The soundtrack was composed of compositions by various artists in the genres of rock and roll and surf rock.

The film is divided into frames and quotes. The audience especially remembered the flowery, albeit uncensored, dialogues between Jules and Vincent about the peculiarities of national cuisines: “Hamburgers! Foundation stone healthy eating."

Samuel L. Jackson (Jules Winnfield)

Jules Winnfield - a bandit in the service of crime boss Marsellus Wallace, an expert on the Bible. Together with his partner Vincent Vega, he goes to pick up the suitcase belonging to the boss from other bandits. A simple assignment turns into a shootout, after which the miraculously surviving Jules makes a firm decision to quit his career as a criminal.

Works with director Quentin Tarantino for many years. After his debut in Pulp Fiction, the actor appeared in Tarantino's drama Jackie Brown (1997), the spaghetti western Django Unchained (2012) and another western, The Hateful Eight, which was released in mass distribution in 2016. For his work in Pulp Fiction, Jackson received a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for an Oscar.

Viewers of the 2010s Jackson is known primarily for the role of Nick Fury - the hero marvel comics, in the image of which the actor appeared in the films of the series " iron Man"," "", "Avengers". In 2018 and 2019, Marvel fans will see the actor as Fury in Avengers: Infinity War and Captain Marvel.

John Travolta (Vincent Vega)

Vincent Vega - Jules' partner, participates with him in the ups and downs around the suitcase. After the assignment, on behalf of the boss, he goes to "walk" the wife of that one, Miya. The walk turns into disaster when Mia, mistakenly confusing heroin for cocaine, nearly dies from an overdose.

American film actor with Italian roots. He first became known to the public in 1978 after the release of the cult film-musical "Grease", where he played leading role. Travolta's career took a further turn after the release of Pulp Fiction in 1994. The 80s were a time of recession for the actor, but after the role in the film by Quentin Tarantino, Travolta's business went up again. Travolta is also known as a writer, film producer, dancer and singer. In the musical "Grease" Travolta performs several songs that have become super hits of their time.

Bruce Willis (Butch Coolidge)

Butch Coolidge is a professional boxer. Agreed to merge the match, taking money for a contractual loss, but violates the conditions and wins the battle, before which he put all the money received from the bandits on himself. Together with the money and his girlfriend, Fabian is about to run away, but events take an unexpected turn.

One of famous actors Hollywood. He became famous primarily thanks to the Die Hard series of films, where he played the role of police officer John McClane. Last film The series came out in 2013, but it's not over yet - viewers will see Willis as McClain in 2019's Die Hard: Year One. Willis is so widely known that he has appeared at least six times in different films as a cameo - that is, in the role of himself. For example, in the movie Ocean's Twelve (2004).

Uma Thurman (Mia Wallace)

Mia Wallace is the wife of a crime boss. Goes for a walk with Vincent Vega to the Jack Rabbit Slims restaurant, where the characters perform a twist to the single "You Never Can Tell" and win for the dance Grand Prize. After the “walk”, he goes home to Vincent Vega, and from there he almost goes to the forefathers, having mistakenly taken a large dose of the drug.

The role of Mia in "Pulp Fiction" first brought fame. For this role, the actress was nominated for three prestigious film awards at once - Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA. The photo of Thurman on the film poster becomes one of the most recognizable images of the actress. In 2003 and 2004, Thurman again appears on the screens in the films of Quentin Tarantino - in the Kill Bill series, where he plays the main role. And in 2014, the erotic drama "Nymphomaniac" was released, where Thurman plays one of the minor roles. Collaboration with Trier continues, the actress will appear on the screens in his film "The House That Jack Built" in 2018.

Tim Roth ("Pumpkin" by Ringo)

Ringo is a petty robber who, along with his girlfriend Yolanda, robs an eatery where he just drank coffee. Jules and Vincent end up at the same cafe, allowing a couple of robbers to get away with their loot.

He firmly joined the team of director Quentin Tarantino and played his best roles in the latter's films - Reservoir Dogs (1992), Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight (2016) and in the black comedy Four Rooms, where Tarantino turned out to be one of four directors who participated in the filming (each filmed his own episode). Art house fans know Tim Roth from his role as Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Peter Greenaway's drama The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989).

Amanda Plummer ("Sweet Bunny" Yolanda)

Yolanda - Ringo's girlfriend, robs the cafe with him, where Jules and Vincent have breakfast, discussing the desire of the first to leave the underworld.

The role in "Pulp Fiction" has become one of the most famous in the career of an actress. In 1991, Amanda Plummer appears on the screens in the film by Terry Gilliam "The Fisher King", built around one of the legends of the Arthurian cycle. The film received high marks from critics and collected many awards (Oscar, Golden Globe, Venice Film Festival prizes). To date latest work Amanda in the movie was the role in the fantasy thriller The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).

Harvey Keitel (Winston "The Cleaner" Wolfe)

Winston Wolf, nicknamed "The Cleaner", helps Jules and Vincent clean up themselves and the interior of the car, where one of them blew a man's head off. Wulf then delivers the car, along with the corpse in the trunk, to a car yard.

Harvey Keitel's film career began in 1967 with Who's Knocking on My Door? The film became the debut for both the actor and the director, with whom he later collaborated closely. Harvey played in Scorsese's tragicomedy Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), crime drama"Mean Streets" (1972), the neo-noir thriller "Taxi Driver" (1976), in the film "The Last Temptation" (1988), where Keitel played Judas Iscariot - and these roles brought fame to the actor. The 78-year-old actor continues to act and does not take big breaks in his career. In 2017, the audience saw him in the French comedy Madame.

Maria de Medeiros (Fabian)

Fabian is the girlfriend of Butch Coolidge, a boxer. I was supposed to collect things in a rented apartment, but I forgot the gold watch - Butch's family heirloom. The hero was forced to return for them, and this led to a chain of unexpected and unpredictable events.

Maria de Medeiros is an actress from Portugal who has also worked as a film director, screenwriter and singer. She made her first film appearance at the age of fifteen. plays on theater stage in France (where he lives). In 2007 she recorded music album. As a film actress, she is known mainly to the European audience. She starred in French, Portuguese, Spanish films. In the USA, in addition to Tarantino, she worked with director Philip Kaufman (melodrama Henry and June, 1990).

The film "Pulp Fiction" - official trailer (video):

There are films that are successful and unsuccessful, but there are real film masterpieces - those that not only entered the history of cinema, but also became its main milestones. One of the legends of world cinema, no doubt, is "Pulp Fiction" by Quentin Tarantino- a film called "an icon of postmodernism." And the most popular scene in it is a dance performed by heroes Uma Thurman and John Travolta. So, let's twist again!

Music, according to Tarantino, "defines the personality of the film, is the tonal center around which the entire film revolves." The tracks for "Pulp Fiction" were selected by the director at the stage of writing the script, they set the emotional background of a particular scene, became a significant part of the plot. Tarantino independently selected his favorite songs of the 1960s in the style of funk, soul, rock and roll, twist for the film. And the most famous and recognizable was the composition "Let's twist again" - business card"Pulp Fiction".

The twist scene looks so light, laid-back, and filigree that it's hard to believe that it was she who caused problems during filming. The dance was filmed for 13 hours in a row, almost without pauses! And the problem was that Uma Thurman felt too constrained and could not "catch the courage." Let's start with the fact that the actress generally doubted for a long time about her participation in the film. And the scene with the dance caused her the most doubts.

Dance movements were invented by Quentin Tarantino and John Travolta based on the popular twist in the 1950s and 1960s. For Travolta, this was not difficult, because he had been dancing since the age of eight! While rehearsing the scene, he trained Uma Thurman for a long time. The movements were remembered quickly, but there was no necessary ease. The actress recalls: “Oh, I was so awkward, so embarrassed and so shy!”. By nature, Uma Thurman was very timid, and realizing the importance of this scene for the film, she became even more nervous. I even had to remove film set everyone, except for the operator and lighting, so that the actress does not feel constrained.

But the twist still looked forced. Then Tarantino showed the actors a frame from Godard's film, in which the characters danced in the same restaurant. Travolta recalls the moment: “Look how they dance,” Tarantino said. - They are not professional dancers, but they dance just fine, just because they dance for themselves, for their own pleasure. They don't care if those who look at them like their dance. Now they live in music, they immersed themselves in it, move with it. That is what I want from you."

Travolta says that at that moment Tarantino looked like a 13-year-old boy: “But with all this, he was so direct and sincere that it was impossible not to admire him. By his example, he not only liberated us, but provoked us to the most unexpected inventions and improvisations. And the result exceeded all expectations!

It is difficult to overestimate the role played in the history of cinema