Pulp Fiction - Casting Mistake?
03-17-03, 11:42 AM
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Pulp Fiction - Casting Mistake?
I don't understand one thing in Pulp Fiction - those white kids who Vincent and Jules get the briefcase back from ("Lookit the smart brain on Brad!"). Those soft kids were doing business with Marcellus Wallace?! C'mon!! And what did Marvin have to do with them?
You'd have thought Brad and his guys would have been a little rougher around the edges, no?
You'd have thought Brad and his guys would have been a little rougher around the edges, no?
03-17-03, 11:44 AM
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That main guy was in Career Opportunities with Jennifer Connelly and Swimming with Sharks with Kevin Spacey. He also is the guy who kills Jimmy Hoffa in Hoffa.
03-17-03, 11:47 AM
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And that other white kid hiding in the bathroom with "the cannon" was a Jerry Seinfeld lookalike! Surely Jerry Seinfeld lookalikes couldn't be mixed up with the mob, could they?!
03-17-03, 11:47 AM
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Originally posted by Groucho
That main guy was in Career Opportunities with Jennifer Connelly and Swimming with Sharks with Kevin Spacey. He also is the guy who kills Jimmy Hoffa in Hoffa.
That main guy was in Career Opportunities with Jennifer Connelly and Swimming with Sharks with Kevin Spacey. He also is the guy who kills Jimmy Hoffa in Hoffa.
First saw him in "Born on the Fourth of July" with Tom Cruise.
03-17-03, 11:49 AM
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Originally posted by Groucho
He also is the guy who kills Jimmy Hoffa in Hoffa.
He also is the guy who kills Jimmy Hoffa in Hoffa.
03-17-03, 12:20 PM
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just for clarifciation's sake:
"Look at the big brain on Brett!" is the quote.....it sounds like Brad, and since that's my name i've heard it a million times....but Whaley's character name is actually Brett.
And no, i don't think any were miscast....we don't know what kind of business they were doing for him - could have been hackers for all we know....
"Look at the big brain on Brett!" is the quote.....it sounds like Brad, and since that's my name i've heard it a million times....but Whaley's character name is actually Brett.
And no, i don't think any were miscast....we don't know what kind of business they were doing for him - could have been hackers for all we know....
03-17-03, 12:39 PM
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I thought that was part of the point. These kids were way in over their heads and I thought it added a lot of tension to the scene because of it. You knew it wasn't going to end well for them because they were so outmatched, and the whole conversation about burgers and such just served to draw out that awful feeling in your gut as you watch the scene.
03-17-03, 12:47 PM
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Was Marvin the connection between Marcellus and Brett? If so, why was he scared? If he wasn't, then why wasn't he terminated along with the rest of the group? Why was he taken along with Vince & Jules?
03-17-03, 01:10 PM
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Originally posted by Tscott
I thought that was part of the point. These kids were way in over their heads and I thought it added a lot of tension to the scene because of it.
I thought that was part of the point. These kids were way in over their heads and I thought it added a lot of tension to the scene because of it.
Also the Jerry lookalike is actually Alexis Arquette, the brother to Patricia, David and Rosanna.
03-17-03, 01:27 PM
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I actually just watched this movie again, first time on dvd.
Those trivia subtitles were great. What a great idea instead of a commentary.. i liked it alot and i learned things about the plot that i didn't know before..
Those trivia subtitles were great. What a great idea instead of a commentary.. i liked it alot and i learned things about the plot that i didn't know before..
03-17-03, 02:08 PM
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Originally posted by DonnachaOne
"Pulp Fiction - Casting Mistake?"
I never, ever, not once in a million years, thought that I'd ever read THAT.
"Pulp Fiction - Casting Mistake?"
I never, ever, not once in a million years, thought that I'd ever read THAT.
If the point was to convey that those kids were way over their heads (as seems to be the popular consensus here), then bravo! Point well taken.
But who was Marvin?
03-17-03, 02:10 PM
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Oh, and since Vincent Vega accidentally kills Marvin, perhaps it is Marcellus' punishment to Vincent that he sit in wait at Butch's apartment (that is, if Marvin actually meant something to Marcellus). It was a ******** assignment - nobody thought Butch would go back there - and a flunky could have done the job, but they sent Vincent there instead.
03-17-03, 04:21 PM
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They needed them cats for the part,they needed someone who Samuel L. Jackson could rip into which he did,if they where part of the mob or something along the lines of organized crime then it would have been a little unrealistic.
03-17-03, 04:40 PM
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http://us.imdb.com/Name?Arquette,%20Alexis
Here's "Jerry" for ya. (known as fourth man in credits)
Here's "Jerry" for ya. (known as fourth man in credits)
03-17-03, 05:06 PM
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Yeah apparently Alexis is a crossdresser. Do you remember the character George in the Wedding Singer, than sang backup for Adam Sandler? Yeah, that was him.
