The following post contains SPOILERS for Pulp Fiction.
Samuel L. Jackson revealed pulp Fiction almost had a much more violent ending.
By Quentin Tarantino The 1994 film ends after gangster Jules (Jackson) manages to convince Pumpkin (Tim Roth) and Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer) to peacefully end their restaurant heist by reciting the fictional Bible passage Ezekiel 25:17, but the 75-year-old actor has now shared that the film almost ended with a scarier sequence.
During a video uploaded to GQ’on the YouTube channel where Jackson reflected on his Hollywood career, he said: “In pulp Fiction — in the original script — in the restaurant, when Tim first comes in and asks about the briefcase, he opens it. And when he opens it, I shoot Honey Bunny from the bar. And then I shoot his a— and kill him.”
“They make a cut and I open my eyes, and that’s what I would have done before I had the vision in the house of ‘don’t kill anyone.’ He’s still standing there. So it’s not there.”
While the Marvel actor was fond of the original ending to the film — which also starred Uma Thurman and Bruce Willis — Jackson has previously insisted that his all-time favorite movie moment was the film’s diner scene, where his character decides to leave his hitman past behind in a quest for redemption, as his associate Vincent Vega (John Travolta) watches in amazement.
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He said Squire: “Everybody loved the kill scenes, but the restaurant scene (is the best), just because there’s so much going on when John and I are sitting there having that conversation before it happens, and the bullets aren’t killing us, and he’s making this decision to walk the Earth just to see what’s going on.”
THE Django Unchained star added at that point in the image, the speech became “the biggest threat you’ve ever heard.”
He explained: “So when Tim gets there and I have the opportunity to give that speech again, the same speech that I’ve been killing people with, and make it make sense in a whole different way, and first, it’s just the biggest threat you’ve ever heard in your life. And the next, the guy’s sitting there making a revelation about who he is and what his place in the world is, and who he really is.”
“He said, ‘I’d love to be the pastor, and that would be great.’ They said they didn’t know how the movie was supposed to end until I did that scene. But they had no idea that’s what all that s— meant until I did it.”
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