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Mia: Don't you hate that?

Vincent: What?

Mia: Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

Vincent: I don't know. That's a good question.

Mia: That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

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After reviving Mia with an adrenaline shot, Vincent collapses onto the carpet. We can hear him say, "Oh man" but his lips are actually forming different words. See more...

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The lady that is shot in the street by Marcellus Wallace when he is trying to catch Butch is the very same lady that Mr. Pink pulls out of her car in Reservoir Dogs, another Quentin Tarantino film. Her name is Delorise Baker. See more...

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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 Mia Wallace has discovered Vincent Vega's heroine and thinks that it is cocaine, she makes a line, then snorts it. She realizes that it is not what she thinks it is and starts to moan and rub her nose. You can tell that Mia is trying to break the blood packet in her nose because at one point she sticks her finger up her nose and pushes hard on something and it takes a couple of seconds of her rubbing her nose to produce any blood. [In the shot where she's rubbing her nose, we never see any blood. The blood doesn't appear until after a cut to a close-up shot. She could simply be rubbing her nose and sticking her fingers in there because the heroin has made her nose itch or burn.]
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In the shop when Butch unsheathes the sword it makes a metallic sound. Yet the Japanese sheaths are made of wood, so on unsheathing there is no metal-metal friction and no metallic sound. [Try pulling a kitchen knife out of its wooden block. It makes the same noise as this does.]
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In the very first scene with hunny-bunny and pumpkin when they decide to rob the restaurant, hunny-bunny says "Any of you f**king pricks move and I'll execute every motherf**king last one of you." However, at the end of the movie with Vincent and Jules, when the scene is repeated she says "Any of you f**king pricks move and I'll execute every one of you motherf**kers." Also in the second scene it takes a few seconds longer for her to take out a gun out of her purse. [As someone said when correcting this exact mistake earlier, the reason for that is deliberate, because the scenes are from two different perspectives, and someone can remember the way it happened differently.]
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Scene when Esmerelda is driving Butch in the Cab: Butch asks for one of her cigarettes, and she complies giving him a smoke and a light with a match. When she lights his cig with the match the flame on the match is still burning. But, when the camera shot changes, to a close-up of Esmerelda lighting the cigarette, Esmerelda's match has gone out, without her shaking the match out, or anyone blowing the match out. How did the match go out? [Butch exhales the smoke from his first drag and blows the match out. This is clearer in the uncut version of the scene included in the DVD extras.]
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Whilst travelling in a car with Samuel, John accidentally shoots the man in the back seat. He and Samuel carry on talking. You just can't fire a high calibre gun in an enclosed space and not have a hearing problem. [Who says they don't have a hearing problem? Their ears may be ringing, but they wouldn't be stone deaf. Anyway, they don't "carry on talking" - they carry on yelling.]
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In the scene where Bruce Willis shoots John Travolta, we can see the impact of bullets that hit Travolta on his body between his waist and neck. However, in the next shot when Travolta is in the bathtub, he is only bleeding from around his belly button and the impacts around his chest are gone. [Travolta gets one or two bullets next to his chest. In the bathtub you can see a few blood stains above his belly next to the left of his tie. The jacket he is wearing makes it harder to see if any of the bullets that shot him on the sides of his chest.]
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When Butch is inside the car on the way to/from his flat, first he turns his head to the left showing his sunglasses, next shot, the glasses are gone. [At no time in this scene does he have sunglasses on.]
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In the scene where Vincent, Jules and Jimmy are having coffee, there's a time interval about two minutes long between the first and the last times we see the wall clock behind Jimmy. Given the type of the clock, you would expect its minute hand to move during the scene, but apparently the clock was stopped during the shooting. If the non-working clock were supposed to be part of the plot, it would be quite a coincidence that it shows the correct time for the scene. [This isn't a film mistake. It's deliberate, a quirky trade mark of the film. All of the clocks in the film are stopped.]
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The kid that listens to Christopher Walken talk about the gold watch opens his eyes to a close up of his beautiful blue eyes. Then they show a close up of Bruce Willis' brown eyes when he wakes up from the dreaming. [Eye colour can change from childhood to adulthood, more often than not they do go darker, as my own did.]
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At the start of the film, when Jules and Vincent are in the apartment, Jules takes a bite out of a burger. For some reason, the burger gets a close up, and you can see it is untouched. When we see Jules take a bite, the burger is already half eaten. [Jules takes a bite from the side that the student HADN'T taken a bite out of. The close up is of the untouched side that Jules is now eating. When the camera reverts back to the normal view, it is the side of the burger that the student had been eating previously that is now visible.]
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Jules and Vincent go to get the briefcase and kill three men in the process. When they leave the apartment, however, neither one of them is carrying the briefcase. [Marvin leaves and gets in the car with them, it's very possible that he was carrying the briefcase.]
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If Butch is so concerned about not leaving his fingerprints on the Uzi after he killed Vincent, why did he only wipe one side of the gun? [Butch's "mistake" was actually intentional; The director felt this was a good way to show Butch's stupidity even further, and cause the audience to believe he would soon be in more trouble, which he will be.]
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After Vincent shoots Marvin "in the face" at point blank range in Jules' car, they go to Jimmy's house for clean-up where the Wolf says "you have a body, minus a head, in a car." Yet when they throw garbage bags into Jules' trunk you see the corpse with an intact head and face. [Ultimately, the only one that's wrong here is Mr. Wolf, and he was most likely just misinformed. When he says "minus a head" he hasn't yet seen the body, he's just going on what he's been told.]
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When Jules is talking to "Ringo", he says that "Mr. 9mm here" could be the shepherd in relation to his Ezekiel quote, but the gun he's holding is a .45; even Quentin Tarantino points this out. [No..Vincent has an Auto Ordnance .45...Jules is toting a Star Modelo B..which are only available in 9mm...it is a gun based on the Colt 1911 .45 ACP..but it is a 9mm Spanish Army issue.]
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According to the book, the briefcase in Pulp Fiction was the soul of the character with a Band-Aid on his neck, which explains why there's so much emphasis on the Band-Aid; that's where his soul was taken out. It also explains why John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson did not get shot, and why the briefcase glows when someone opens it and how everyone is amazed when they see what's inside. [Not true. For an explanation, go to http://www.snopes.com/movies/films/pulp.htm]
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Just before Vincent shoots Marvin in the face, he talks about how is was watching the tv show Cops. But earlier in the film, when Jules was explaining how tv shows are made, Vincent stated that he doesn't watch tv. [He doesn't say he NEVER watches tv. He probably watches it once in awhile.]
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When Vincent goes to pick up Mia for their date, he enters the home. Mia, who's watching him on closed-circuit TV, tells him over the P.A. system that she's on the intercom. Vincent asks where is the intercom. Mia tells him it's on the wall. Now, there's no indication of how Mia can hear Vincent's question. So unless Mia can read lips, how could she know what he was saying and respond accordingly? [Mia might not have been able to hear Vincent, but the fact that he was looking around, confused, would quite easily convey the meaning behind his words anyway.]
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At the beginning, Tim Roth's character yells to the waitress "Garcon, coffee," but then when it returns to that same scene at the end, he says, "Garcon (pauses and looks around) coffee." [Actually, the reason the lines aren't exactly the same is because it's from a different perspective, so to speak. Tarantino says it himself in an interview on the DVD Special Features. The same thing gose along with the girl when she screams her line to the people in the restaurant.]
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Only some words which are said by Jules before he kills people are similar to Ezechiel 25.17. Quentin T. wrote the additional words. [This was intentional. Jules says he's memorized Ezekiel 25:17, but he's actually just giving his interpretation of it. This makes it a better scare tactic.]
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The adrenaline injection scene is loaded with factual errors. First, a nurse's textbook would never contain information about intracardiac epinephrine injections (no nurse would ever perform such a procedure). Second, the instuction to pierce the breast plate in order to hit the heart is erroneous as no needle is strong enough to pierce solid bone. Finally intracardiac injections are only done when the chest has been opened, never through the chest wall (due to the risk of lacerating a coronary artery and causing a fatal heart attack). [All of these mistakes can be explained because Eric Stoltz could not find the little black medical book, so he had no idea what he was doing. He was winging it, and got lucky. As for the needle going through the breast plate, it is possible the needle went between 2 ribs, missing bone.]
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