this isn't news, but pulp fiction is a really fantastic movie. the best thing about it might be the way its characters are so articulate. everyone is working class in the most barbaric sense, but they've got this hard, clear, brilliant speech. "the motherfucker's tip top"; "is there a sign that says dead nigger storage?"; "I'm gonna get medieval on your ass." The seriousness and professionalism of the characters too; that Jules and Vincent arrive at that door at 7:30AM transforms your impression of them.
Jules' sermons! The drug dealer with his madman at friend prices! Vincent appreciating the five dollar milkshake! Butch's terms of endearment! Butch's pop tarts! And poor Marvin in the wake of Jules' miracle is sublimely vulgar; that is the best thing I have ever seen.
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