#Im not your friend pulp fiction full#

Really, its like a bunch of short stories loosely stitched together to form a 'plot'. I think the film could be a commentary on the reasons these 'bad people' did these good acts - although, what the Wolf did wasn't really good as he helped covered up a murder.īut I think there's a lot more to it than that as that's a very surface-level interpretation of it. As for OP and Pulp Fiction, the story is not really the focal point and there is nothing to 'get', the focus is on the dialogue and interactions between characters. Wolf does it because it's his job, Jules because he believes it's his purpose, Vincent out of fear, and Butch out of empathy.

So Jules helps Tim Roth by 'saving his soul' and potentially letting him re-start his life, Butch helps Marcellus by not letting him get tortured and killed, Vincent helps Uma by saving her life, and the Wolf helps the two gangsters by disposing of the body. My best guess is that in each story, a character has the opportunity to 'save' another, at a lot of personal risk to themselves, but they all do it for different reasons. I feel like I'm missing out on some aspect of it by only really taking it in on a superficial level - as a bunch of short stories.Įven Quentins own tagline for it was 'Three stories.about one story'.Įmpire magazine once mentioned how each stories was a commentary on the story that proceeded or preceeded it, so it's something like that? Could you explain what it means?Ã¢â‚¬?I've always assumed that there is something that links the three/four stories of Pulp Fiction together other than the shared characters. From Ana Alfaro in Panama: Ã¢â‚¬Å“I have come across the term palooka as in Ã¢â‚¬Ëœthey are a couple of palookasÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ and in Palookaville. !(upload://1Y1JPur4yWPKm2JQGOapOO7A2Ky.jpeg) Ī Simple search is all it takes… and equals a clever line There are the names of the movies about Joe Palooka.Īnd here some stuff about the Palooka comic:

#Im not your friend pulp fiction full#

Some of Joe PalookaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s adventures were made into films, and Palookaville came to be a slang term for a hick town full of gentle losers.

Whether he actually invented palooka, or popularised it, we have no way of knowing, nor do we have any idea what it was based on. ItÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s often said that palooka was the invention of Jack Conway, a former baseball player who became the editor of Variety magazine he is credited by some with creating a whole group of slang terms that include pushover and baloney. The boxing associations seem to have been particularly strong, to judge from the magazine The Ring, which in November 1926 glossed the word to mean Ã¢â‚¬Å“A tenth rater, a boxer without ability, a nobodyÃ¢â‚¬? and which implied it had been known for some time. But Ham Fisher didnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t invent the word: it had been around for several years as a slang term and is first recorded in print in 1925. This first appeared in 1928 it featured the eponymous Joe Palooka as a slow-witted and inarticulate boxer, even though Ã¢â‚¬Å“his heart was pure and his ideals highÃ¢â‚¬?. Many older people first came across the word as the name of the boxer in Ham FisherÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s famous comic strip. And I'm just sayin', I'm just sayin' that it's fuckin' dangerous to have a race car in the fuckin' red. Now, right now, I'm a fuckin' race car, right, and you got me the red. One refers to an unsuccessful boxer, especially one who is both large and stupid, the other to any large and stupid or clumsy person, an oaf or lout. I got a threshold for the abuse that I will take.

Why does Vincent say “you ain’t my friend, Palooka”?