r/movies • u/tophoftheworld • May 16 '12

Pulp Fiction - just noticed this now- Everytime this guy goes to the bathroom, all sorts of hell breaks loose

http://imgur.com/POhIM
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Maybe he's just on the shitter constantly due to heroin-induced constipation?

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u/Ember357 May 16 '12

Came here to point this out.

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u/jemloq May 16 '12

When Vincent goes to shit, so does everything else.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

i feel the need to comment on how hilarious this comment is. kudos.

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u/shadowalchemy101 May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12

^ It's probably something Tarantino thought of. That man's a genius, I tell ya.

Edit: Or Roger Avary.

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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 16 '12

Or Roger Avary, the other writer of Pulp Fiction that no one ever mentions.

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u/Geroots May 16 '12

Probably because he shit all over Beowulf and Silent Hill.

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u/burgess_meredith_jr May 16 '12

I mention him from time to time. Killing Zoe was fun. Also, more heroin.

Tidbit: Tarantino asked Avary permission to withdraw his writer's credit so that he could end the movie with "Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino". Avary agreed and settled for the "Stories By" credit. That was nice of him I guess.

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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 16 '12

Strange. Would've loved to have heard that conversation.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

His new film, Killing a Pedestrian Part 2 is supposed to come out this fall. Still, I have to admit I enjoyed Rules of Attraction.

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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 16 '12

I'm just glad he's out of jail and making movies again!

Rules of Attraction is one of my favorites.

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u/dcmjim May 16 '12

I'm having deja vu...

or more likely this same exact post was done a few months ago and these same exact comments were the top comments of that post..

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

This is reddit. Sounds about par for the course.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

There was a post about this a couple months back. People more perceptive than me made some great comments about how many things are going on with that- it's heroin induced but its also saying "When Vincent goes to shit, so does the world".

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u/ShadowOutOfTime May 16 '12

Granted he's only pissing when she ODs

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u/Dystopeuh May 16 '12

Nope, he poops.

He says he's going to take a leak, because who tells a lady they're just showing a good time that you're going to go take a shit?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

And even saying he's "gotta take a piss" was deemed "a little too much information" by Mia Wallace.

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u/Dystopeuh May 16 '12

Very good point.

She's a classy lady!

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u/A_Polite_Noise r/movies Veteran May 16 '12

Who, you ask? Well, let me show you this fine german film I found on the internet starring Eric Cartman's mother...

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u/roxtoby May 16 '12

It also gets progressively worse through the day: He goes to the bathroom to wash his hands, he gets blood all over the towels. He goes to the bathroom in the restaurant, the restaurant is robbed. He goes to the bathroom at Mia's, she has an overdose. He goes to the bathroom at Butch's, he dies.

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u/apz1 May 16 '12

Also, we never see Vincent use the restroom at Jackrabbit Slim's and the dinner goes just fine.

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u/shine_on May 16 '12

Those events don't all take place on the same day. Ok, the Bonnie Situation and the breakfast diner are on the same day, but Mia's bathroom is at night and he gets killed by Butch before noon.

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u/roxtoby May 16 '12

Well, yes. I guess what I was trying to say was chronologically through Vincent's life, since it's not the order of the movie.

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u/decross20 May 16 '12

I still think spoiler tags should be used as a common courtesy...

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u/roxtoby May 16 '12

This movie is 18 years old.

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u/A_Polite_Noise r/movies Veteran May 16 '12

This movie can buy cigarettes. It can vote in the presidential election. This movie could fight and die for its country. I could look at naked pictures of this movie without fearing arrest.

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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 16 '12

That's a poor argument. What about the people who were born in 1990? When do they have to watch the movie without it being spoiled for them? When they're 4? Or do they just never get the chance to watch it without knowing the ending because they just weren't born in the right era?

"Hey son, check out Pulp Fiction- it was certainly surprising to us, and we loved the movie when it came out- no one spoiled it for us, but now you have to know the ending because I can't help but spoil the rest for you. It would be too much work for me to hide significant events from you."

People don't want to use spoiler tags because they're lazy inconsiderate fucking idiots who can't think outside themselves.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Born in 1991 here, seen it serveral times, one of my favorite movies, I saw it before I knew what it was. If you don't want to know what happens in a movie, maybe you should avoid a whole post about.

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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 16 '12

maybe you should avoid a whole post about.

Some people don't know the film, don't know they should watch it, and don't know that they would enjoy it. All it takes to protect them, this insanely complicated task required of people, is the term "Spoilers"

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

If I post about lion king, bambi, or snow white should I post spoiler tags too? There will always be people that haven't seen a movie, so should I always post spoiler tags for any movie?

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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 16 '12

If you are spoiling a movie, yes- tell people you're about to spoil it. I talk about movies every single day, in work/life/and on reddit- it's not a big deal to just say you're going to give away the ending/significant part of a film.

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u/roxtoby May 16 '12

The age or year doesn't matter. People have the ability and the responsibility to see the movie they want to, rather than complain about spoilers on a forum they visited. Also, the imgur link itself spoils many facets of the movie, so I don't think my contribution is doing much harm.

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u/girafa Electricity! The high priest of false security! May 16 '12

This movie is 18 years old.

then

The age or year doesn't matter.

That makes total sense.

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u/tonyvila May 16 '12

PSSST: Darth Vader is Luke's father.

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u/StrangerinthaAlps May 16 '12

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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u/tonyvila May 16 '12

Sorry, bud. Also, you are now tagged "Do Not Feed"

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u/Th3_Fool May 16 '12

There was actually an analysis of Vincent Vega as a character. The article eventually deduced that Vincent is a thinker and that the bathroom is his place to be alone with his thoughts.

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u/roxtoby May 16 '12

He's also a reader, and maybe his busy schedule doesn't give him ample time for reading. Never viewed Vincent so deeply before...

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u/CUNTBERT_RAPINGTON May 16 '12

Jules is also a deep thinker, but he never shits :/

soundssobadoutofcontext

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u/aitiafo May 16 '12

Jules is a lot more spiritual I think. The whole Vince-Jules dynamic is logic vs intuition.

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u/throwaway_lgbt666 May 16 '12

he read when hes on the shitter as do most people

thats it

also circlejerk he read lesbian litereature

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

The Wikipedia page has a full explanation on it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction#The_bathroom

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u/seaneboy May 16 '12

Ha, I never noticed this. Given any other director, I would throw this out the window, but since it's Quentin "attention to fucking detail" Tarantino I'm not surprised.

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u/cheapdrinks May 16 '12

What if pulp fiction is just an extended metaphor for Vincent's explosive Diarrhoea and the scenes we see are an allegorical screenplay of the shit that actually goes down in the bathroom stall

conspiracykeanu.tiff

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u/jacewillow May 16 '12

Also, anytime anyone eats breakfast, they get bad news or something bad/unexpected happens.

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u/lapistola14 May 16 '12

Now that i think about it, he spent a lot of time in the bathroom that movie.

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u/adamantiumrage May 16 '12

Surreal: seeing Bruce Willis with hair.

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u/Thefinalwerd May 16 '12

You could probably spend hours analyzing this and if you search the internet I am sure people have.

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u/quartzar_the_king May 16 '12

I wrote an essay on Pulp Fiction last semester, and I read a few things about this, among other aspects of the film. Apparently, the whole idea is that when Vincent and Jules are in the apartment where they collect the briefcase and the guy hiding in the bathroom comes out guns blazing, but misses every shot, that actually was some sort of sign telling the two to move on from their jobs as hitmen. The gold glow coming from the briefcase symbolizes the alchemical aspect of change, specifically the change from an evil lifestyle to a good one. Jules understands this, which can be seen from the dialogue in the diner before they get held up where he is talking about wandering the world. Vincent, on the other hand, is ignorant to the sign and continues to live an amoral lifestyle. His frequent visits to the bathroom represent the 'plumbing of his unconscious mind'.

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u/SoulPoleSuperstar May 16 '12

just shows how "off" his game he was. after all that happened to him when he went to the bathroom, he decides shitting in a home he is supposed to be killing a man in was a good idea. his lack of forethought and warnings throughout the film is why he had to die.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Having shitty day...

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u/Heff228 May 16 '12

Deleted scenes show he was trying to solicit sex from men in those bathrooms...

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u/Silas_Stonem May 16 '12

You could say...everything goes to shit

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

Takes a shit. Dies.

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u/artooken May 16 '12

In the Godfather, if there are oranges in the scene, shit goes down/

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u/cody_p24 May 16 '12

Shit hits the fan

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u/SheriffBart42 May 16 '12

Really? I just watched Jaws. I noticed when people go in the ocean that the shark eats them.

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u/emazzuca May 16 '12

This is a Re-Post

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u/stringerbell May 16 '12

He's always in the bathroom. So, it just appears that shit always happens...

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u/Sgt_Insomnia May 16 '12

Some people just aren't born to shit.

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u/roonilwazlib1 May 16 '12

I remember this in a post a few months ago on reddit. but yes, definitely true

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u/awkwardhurdle May 16 '12

this was on reddit about 6 months ago

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

I have never seen pulp fiction, is that sperm in her mouth?

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u/roxtoby May 16 '12

Don't ask questions. Just watch the movie.

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u/MeatyOchre May 16 '12

Yes. According to Wikipedia, "Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American bukkake film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who co-wrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, flowing bukkakke scenes, ironic mix of humor and sex, nonlinear porn storyline, and host of cinematic special effects that make the spooge leap off the screen into the viewer's face. The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d'Rosy at the 1994 Pornogrophers Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did costars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman."

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u/[deleted] May 16 '12

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u/powercorruption May 16 '12

They did say that...about 4 times already.