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I said GOD DAMN!

Hi everyone! This is my FIRST TUMBLR POST EVER. That’s right, I don’t know what I’m doing! I decided to go through one of my favorite movies, Pulp Fiction, because it has some really iconic scenes, but also…some looks that got lost! Luckily for you, I found them. I’m operating under the assumption that you’ve seen the movie or read the plot summary and know what happens, or at least the parts that everyone knows, like when Samuel L. Johnson yells at a guy before shooting him. If you haven’t, or maybe just for fun if you have, you can watch it and notice all of these things and feel very observant! Anyway, here goes nothing!

Ah yes, this is exactly how an Australian trying to blend in among Californians dresses. Maybe I don’t look at enough Hawaiian shirts, but I don’t think they usually have people doing tropical stuff on them. Neat!

This is a cute little necklace! Yolanda might not know how to cut her own hair, but she is good at accessorizing.

I just like this font, those As are groovy.

This is more for my reference/curiosity than anything, but since this is a costume-focused blog project I’ll include it here. Betsy Heimann is best known for this, Reservoir Dogs, and Almost Famous. She got her start in 1981 and is still currently doing costume design work for film and television. Googling her brought up this short video about her creative process, if you’re into that.

Vincent what did you do to that suit CAN’T YOU AFFORD DRY CLEANING

You can’t hear it, but they’re talking about the finer details of foot massage. They stopped in front of the target’s door just beyond where they are in the previous still, decided to give it a few minutes, and left the camera at the door. Their volume decreased! The camera guy is just standing there waiting for them to come back over! It’s cooler to actually watch.

There’s nothing super interesting here, mostly just Vincent opening the Magic Briefcase, but I want to note that these guys living in this apartment are OBVIOUSLY very good at…cooking with wine.

This wonderful lady, Jodie, is “just” the cocaine guy’s wife, but she gives a good lecture about why you should never get anything pierced with a gun. And she has a TINY SASSY DEVIL NECK TATTOO. AND SWORD EARRINGS.

Here we have what is possibly my favorite bit of set design ever. Just some groovy giant shoes on baroque-ass tiny shelves. BAM, decorated. The crack dealer is lucky to have Jodie around to spruce the place up.

Here you can see that the shoe thing also happens on the opposite wall, and judge John Travolta’s attempt at a Fox Mulder cosplay. Also notable: the bolo tie.

Here we’ve got the walkway to the Wallace residence, as Vincent is going to pick up Mia for their “date” thing. This is pretty and it happens again later in a different context.

I’m including this screenshot mostly for impeccable pause timing (since the diner dinner is one of the best-known scenes of the film so other people can tell you about it) but also: good earrings. I like whatever kind of metallic jacket thing the rightmost lady has got going on too.

If you squint, this could be a Renaissance painting. She’s got a doorway-halo and everything. And a cute bra! Skipping forward a bit to Butch (Bruce Willis) hustling to skip town…

Bruce Willis in his underoos (Norman Rockwell, oil on canvas, 1994.)

And here’s the second appearance of a lush entryway. Vincent is still around, but this time, Butch is going to meet him and they are NOT going on a dinner date.

This poor dude gets caught with his pants down as time skips backwards to Vincent and Jules shooting his roommates and retrieving the briefcase.

AAAAAAA this is *chef finger kiss* magnifique. I want to take a second here to point out that this movie has a jumbled aesthetic, in terms of its time period and actual setting. The costumes are firmly in the seventies apart from the skinny ties, there’s a fifties diner, but they’re using smallish cell phones and someone drives a 1992 car. It came out in 1994, so we can assume it was intended to be “present day”. And now in 2017, this look feels very on-trend. Marcellus Wallace is trying to do crimes, but he keeps getting stopped by street style photographers and having to shoot them.

Who the heck is THIS random woman at the party in The Wolf’s house WHAT

CAT PILLOW ALERT

Plaid, puppies, and a coupla dorks. What more could you possibly want?