(Random notes after a recent viewing…)
Excretory
Vincent is shitting when Ringo and Yolanda hold up the coffee shop.
Vincent is shitting when Butch comes into his apartment (the one Vincent is guarding) to retrieve the watch.
(The watch itself is said to have been concealed in the rectum of Butch’s father’s friend.)
Yolanda says (in a moment of fear during the coffee shop hold-up, when Jules is threatening Ringo’s life) “I need to pee.”
Jules (having returned from the episode of the coffee shop and brief case, when Vincent is discussing his upcoming date with Mia with Paul) says — “I’m gonna piss.”
Vince, at Mia’s, says he’s gonna take a piss.
(Doesn’t Ringo tell Yolanda they’ll “catch them with their pants down”? This is literally the case with Vince. Vince is also “caught with his pants down” with Butch.)
“Through Vince…we see the contemporary world as utterly contingent, transformed, disastrously, in the instant you are not looking.” (wiki)
International
Esmerelda is Colombian; Fabienne is French; Vincent Vega suggests Italian; Mia (maybe Italian); the Wallace home decorated in African Icons, (“Marsellus” suggests Ancient Rome); Vincent has just returned from a three-year stay in Amsterdam; Mia reports that she will go to Amsterdam on a yearly basis; Butch and Fabienne plan to escape to South East Asian locations; (Marsellus remarks that, even should Butch go to French Indo China, he will find him); (the only way Butch can save himself from Marsellus is by saving Marsellus from white male rapists); Wolf I guess suggests Germany; ethnic tension between Butch (Polish) and Vincent (Italian) which is also a tension about who will and who will not do certain things for Marsellus; Antwan Rockamora (Tony Rocky Horror) is 1/2 black 1/2 Samoan.
The movie begins with Internationals: two British persons discussing other immigrants in America (Vietnamese, Koreans) “If it’s not the gooks it’s the fucking jews.” The movie’s second scene involves an American’s discoveries abroad…
White/ Black
Bonnie apparently African American; Jules and Vincent another clear Black/ White correspondence; Vince doesn’t deal well with Butch, a white polish person to his white Italian person, but Vince enjoyed Amsterdam… The wife of Marsellus is white. Vincent and Jules are black and white; Marsellus and Butch are black and white; Marsellus and Mia are black and white; Jimmie and Bonnie are black and white… Winston, Brett, the drug dealers, Maynard and Zed, and the store robbers, are white. [See also.]
Sequence of Events
(but have to check this)
first, J&V go to get the brief case; second, the bonnie situation & marvin incident; third, the attempted coffee shop heist; fourth, the bar where they see butch; fifth, the night out of mia and Vincent; sixth, the boxing match; seventh, death of Vincent & escape of Butch.
Automobiles
Vince’s car (a Malibu?) has been “fucked with” (keyed), we see him high on heroin driving his car, we see him with Mia seated at a dining table shaped like an automobile, we see him driving his car recklessly into trash cans (outside of the drug dealer’s); Mr. Wolf drives an Acura; the Nova, which has been messed up through gangster activity, is remade with the blankets, quilts of the suburbs; “I’m sorry baby I had to crash that honda,” (Butch crashes Fabienne’s Honda); Zed’s bike; Esmerelda’s taxi…
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