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Pulp Fiction (1994) - 49 corrections

Directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Amanda Plummer, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Eric Stoltz, Harvey Keitel, John Travolta, Rosanna Arquette, Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Uma Thurman, Ving Rhames (add more)

Genres: Crime, Drama

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When Samuel L. Jackson is talking with Tim Roth (who is holding a gun on Jackson) at the restaurant we see a closeup under the table of Jackson taking out his 9mm gun with his right hand. But moments later he takes the briefcase with the same right hand and places it on the table between them. Then seconds later Jackson pulls Roth's gun arm down with his left hand and toward him, pinning it for a moment - while at the same time Jackson suddenly pulls out from under the table *his* 9mm gun. Does he have three arms like the alien from Venus in the famous "Twilight Zone" diner episode? If he had placed it down on the seat to his right, wouldn't HoneyBunny standing over them a few feet away have seen it? If it was on the floor, he didn't reach down nearly enough to retrieve it. If it were in his shorts (as he placed it while walking out of the diner with Travolta a few minutes later) he would have had to reach down while sitting, pull it up and out and by that time, Roth and/or Honeybunny would have had three bullets in his head. It was an obvious director's sleight-of-hand, so to speak - a cheat that didn't make visual/time sense in order to surprise the audience - along with Tim Roth. [Why can't Jules simply have the pistol balanced on his right knee, or even pressed up against the bottom of the table with said knee? This action is never shown but that doesn't make it a mistake. Yolanda was on the other side of the cafe and Ringo would've never noticed unless he had dropped to his knees to look and even then it's unlikely because Jules' other (left) knee is in the way. This freed up his hands to appear empty, give the wallet up, etc. When Ringo is momentarily distracted by the briefcase, Jules simply grabs the gun off his knee while pulling him forward with the other arm. If you watch the scene, this explanation works and actually was a smart thing to do on the part of the character. But a mistake it is not.]
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Nowhere in the world is a McDonald's Quarter Pounder known as a "Royale With Cheese". The closest is the French or Portugese "Royal Cheese" but Jules specifically mentions Amsterdam, and a Quarter Pounder With Cheese in Holland is just a Quarter Pounder With Cheese. Many countries which use the metric system don't bother renaming products that use imperial measures. It's a Quarter Pounder With Cheese in Australia, too. [Jules specifically mentions Holland in referring to French Fries. He refers to France as having the Royale with Cheese, which you pretty much confirmed in your submission.]
Edit Corrected by rswarrior
When Mia and Vincent receive the order in Jack Rabbit Slims, the Vanilla Coke ordered by Vincent comes with a straw, then the straw disappears, then reappears, several times. [Travolta removed the straw. The straw does not reappear in his cup.During the uncomfortable silence: after reaching for the cup, there are a few moments before he raises the cup. The reach is off-screen, but during those moments there are physical movements that match removing a straw from a cup and placing the straw on a napkin on the table. There is also audio of ice clinking as he removes the straw.There is no evidence of the straw reappearing.]
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In the scene where Jules is explaining what would happen if Bonnie came home to find them dealing with the dead body, the camera follows her from outside to the kitchen. When she walks through the front door of the house, she leaves the front door open. This is obviously so the cameraman can walk through behind her, but it's not logical for her to just lazily leave her front door open. [It's not logical for me to leave my front door open when I am arriving home to hear the phone ring, and answer it, either, yet it happens.]
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When Mia and Vincent are eating at Jack Rabbit Slims, and she returns from the bathroom, she takes a bite out of her hamburger, then we see just a second later that there are a couple of bites out of her hamburger, then it goes back to one bite out of her hamburger. [It only looks like the burger has gone back to one bite, when in fact this one bite is a new bite on a different side of the burger (the burger has been rotated). If you look closely you can see the original 2 bites at the bottom of the burger for a couple of frames before the bottom of the burger goes out of view.]
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The Zed character was apparently lifted from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, of all sources. Power Rangers also had a villain named Zed (in the English-dubbed scenes) who wields a staff topped with a Z-shaped ornament that is very similar to Zed's keychain in the movie. [Lord Zedd wasn't introduced until season 2 of Power Rangers, which premiered in late July of 1994. Pulp Fiction had its world premiere in May 1994, two months before that. Lord Zedd also was an all-new American-developed character who didn't come from a Super Sentai series.]
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When Vincent shoots Marvin the bullet goes through Marvin's head and exits out the back of his skull with explosive force - enough to splatter "pieces of brain" all over the back of the car. The rear window of the car should have shattered from the bullet, it doesn't even get chipped. [Not if the bullet exited low enough. It could easily have gone through the parcel shelf or into the rear seat.]
Edit Corrected by Phixius
Its interesting to note that Bruce Willis' character shoots the man who played his father in "look who's talking". [Interesting yes, but hardly trivia.]
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Lance is sitting at home eating cereal and watching the end of a Three Stooges short, "Brideless Groom," on television. During the subsequent phone conversation between Lance and Vincent, we can hear the short's soundtrack continuing in the background. The soundtrack then abruptly changes to an earlier scene in the short (Christine McIntyre slapping Shemp around) and then to a different short altogether ("Sing a Song of Six Pants," with Harold Brauer talking about a safe combination). ["Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, and Disorder in the Court" are all 3 featured on the same single copy of a DVD release of The Three Stooges (I own it). Trudy, the one WITHOUT all the "stuff" in her face, is still seen in the same room watching the TV also. She very easily could have changed scenes with a single click of a remote, as the camera is not focused on her during the shots of Lance on the phone with Vince.]
Edit Corrected by Jazetopher
When Jackson and Travolta are at the apartment to collect the money from Brett, Jackson comments, "Look at the big brain on Brad," which should have been Brett. [He says Brett; he just emphasizes the word Brett so it sounds a little like Brad. (Even if he did say Brad it would still only be a character mistake, not a movie mistake.).]
Edit Corrected by Andreas[DK]
Marcellus Wallace is bound and gagged while being sodomized by Zed. Butch makes the save by killing Maynard and holding the sword to Zed. Marcellus then shoots Zed with a shotgun. However it is never revealed how Marcellus becomes untied. His bonds had to have been good and tight in order for Zed to have his way with him. [Marcellus was tied up when he sitting down but you cannot actually see his hands until he pumps the shotgun. They would have had to untie him to position him, and the fact there was two against one (and that they had a shotgun and a pistol) would mean there was a good chance they didn't bother tying his hands up again.]
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After the whole pawn shop incident, Butch returns to his motel on Zed's chopper. As he parks the chopper, look closely at the window in the background on the right of the screen (widescreen only). You'll see the reflection of someone standing up and walking away. [Yes the guy is quite easily seen, but he doesn't look obviously like a crew member, and can be someone living in the motel.]
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When Vincent and Mia get back from the restaurant, she rewinds the tape deck to play music. There is a closeup of her finger pressing the play button, then she presses play again. [She first presses the play with her right finger to stop the tape from rewinding. Then she does a little dance move, presses the play button again with her left finger to start the tape.]
Edit Corrected by Jane Doe Time
In the pawn shop, when Butch comes down to the rescue, he slashes the first man, steps in front of him, then stabs him. Zed steps forward and the sword swings up to Zed's face. In the next shot of Butch, it shows him bringing the sword up again. [Watch this scene twice and it shows the sword next to his face in both shots.]
Edit Corrected by Jane Doe
When Vincent and Mia are in Jack Rabbit Slim's, he hands her a rolled cigarette and lights it for her. After a few seconds, we see him rolling another for himself. In less than five seconds, he is smoking it without having lit it. [This is only part of the original scene, the part when he lights the cigarette is in the deleted scene on the Collector's Edition DVD. Nonetheless, in the "five seconds" he very well could have lit it off screen.]
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When Butch stabs that fat guy in the pawn shop, Zed stands up real fast and starts to go for his gun. When Marcellus shoots him, we see him grabbing his crotch, and can see that his pants are not even unzipped. How could he have time to zip his pants up? [Zed's pants are unzipped when he's laying on the ground. It's just difficult to notice since he's covering them with his hands.]
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When Marsellus is hit by Butch's car, the ladies standing around him are saying "Yep. He's dead", although his eyelids are jittering open and closed. [The ladies are not exactly checking his vital signs to check if he's dead. He's just lying there and they just assume he's dead. ]
Edit Corrected by Lummie
The sign advertising Butch's fight reads, "Coolidge vs. Wilson" and, beneath, "Clash of the Titans". Coolidge and Wilson were formerly opposing candidates in the U.S. presidential race and the slogan was applied to their contest. [ Wilson and Coolidge never ran against each other and no presidential election was ever known as the "Clash of the Titans".]
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When Bruce Willis shoots John Travolta John falls back and lands in the bathroom and the door closes. When Bruce goes to open the door we see him put his hand on the blood spot and start pushing the door open, but when we see the door opening from the inside his hand is much lower on the door and below the blood spot. [The shot that shows him when the door opens, his hand is at the same height as the shot before. In the second shot however his hand moves quickly away from the door, giving the impression that it was lower than in the shot before.]
Edit Corrected by Lummie
If you pause when you see Marvin dead in the trunk, you can see what looks like a bullet hole in his neck, not anywhere on his face, but, right after it happened, Vincent said he shot Marvin in the face. [He is just saying that. A guy just died in the back of their car and they are carrying illegal weapons, they wouldn't be too accurate about it.]
Edit Corrected by SexyIrishLeprechaun Time

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